Just because a technical solution (may) exist doesn't mean we should solve a problem that way. Instead of laws against homicide, we could all just never leave our homes, or wear armor when we do. While this might seem empowering, it would make life suck.
I don't think you understand the power of data mining. Humans are very, very bad at performing inference on many variables. Computers are very, very good at it. It's true that people have a responsibility to safeguard their own privacy, but that's no reason we should have artificial intelligence programs scanning people's every online move to infer as much as possible about them. That's fucking scary, and it's scary that you don't think it's scary.
You make sure the children who could get sick are forced into a living condition where they will get sick.
First, getting immunized is trivial -- it's not like they're being told they need to dig a hundred-mile ditch in order to keep their tax benefits. Second, it is provably beneficial to society that all people be immunized. There is no rational reason anybody should refuse to do it. This tactic ensures that even the irrational will have incentive. If they still will not, their children will suffer because of their parents rationality, not some perfectly reasonable request on the part of the rest of society.
Why would you need broadband data rates to communicate a few bits of information once a day? The B in BPL stands for broadband. If you can't transmit ten or twenty bits per day without causing interference you are doing something wrong.
I work for a company that provides services to governments. We discovered a bug on a single line of code which caused us to have to release three new builds of the software. Simple bug, simple fix, time it takes to get it from understanding the bug to releasing the new code was about 80 hours, involving 10 people. It sucks that the end product was apparently really crappy, but that sounds like failure to vet.
If you are replacing a text file with a binary file then you need to provide equivalent functionality to all of these.
No, I just need to provide a bin2txt program. The UNIX philosophy, I think you missed it. It's based on simple, self-contained, modular components, not some "everything is just text!" fantasy.
$96000 / $150 per hour = 640 hours, 640 hours = 16 man-weeks. You have a team of four people working on it for four weeks, you rack up about that much cost. And $150 an hour billed to the government is cheap.
If a package depends on another, one could be considered predator, and the other prey. If development slows on that which is depended on, then the predator must find new prey or face lower numbers and/or extinction.
Dammit, this other package my package depends on is just too fucking stable! It never changes! Every day it's just the same damn thing again! I need to base my package on something that's more of a moving target. Otherwise I run the risk of my own software becoming... (shudder) STABLE.
It doesn't prevent spoofing of log messages. However, before a log message can be spoofed, the attacker must somehow gain access to the system -- hopefully, this initial access will be logged to paper BEFORE the attacker begins to try to falsify logs.
Did you ever get that OCD treated, or are you still suffering?
That's right, every night I'd get into some cozy pajamas, maybe make a fire, cuppa tea, and sit back in a recliner for a stint of light reading. I tell you, last night's series of 404s by the guy who kept mistyping the URL to my "About Me" page were especially riveting.
Back in the late 90's when I first started connecting my home Linux systems to the Internet 24/7, I logged everything imaginable. To prevent tampering/falsification of the logs, I simply printed the log on a continuous-sheet dot matrix printer. Good luck tampering with the printout in my office.
After a while I got to be able to recognize certain types of activity, such as a web user browsing to/index.html, based on the sounds the printer made.
Why not use a rolling window of encryption keys, and publish the keys after 24 hours or so? That way, criminals can't make use of real time updates on police status, but the police are still required to keep their asses clean on the radio?
To this day Windows suffers from the application processing the window frame controls. An application that takes a few seconds processing will sieze up and become unmovable.
I don't see anything wrong with that. A GUI application that doesn't pump its message loop on a timely basis is a buggy program. The fact that the window decoration is drawn by the default wndproc and thus occurs within the client message loop is just a way to make this bug in your program REALLY stand out. Would you rather not have complete control within the application over its own window?
While it obviously sucks that people continue using old software on crappy systems because they can't afford to switch to something else, that's just the way it goes. Oracle, do you really think that if you sue HP/Intel and break up their business relationship, the resulting guys who are left out in the cold will switch over to, of all providers, the provider that resulted in them getting fucked over? Seriously?
actually, it's exactly what it means : "a right according to natural law, a right that cannot be taken away, denied, or transferred". So he is correct. His version would mean that you can have access to the internet if you so choose, but that right cannot be taken away by the government at their leisure.
An inalienable right cannot be removed, and it cannot be granted either. Like you just said, according to "natural law" -- that means the right exists in the universe regardless of your ability to recognize it. Human beings, obviously, cannot create these kinds of rights, they exist inherently. So, if Internet access is an "inalienable right" it can only be so by descending from some other right that is already regarded as inalienable. It may very well do so, but you don't get to declare new "inalienable rights."
Stallman is anti-personal freedom. If I create a piece of software and I want to keep the source code private, that is my right. I'm willing concede a hell of a lot to reform the intellectual property situation. I'm willing to give up long copyright terms. I'm willing to get rid of anti-reverse engineering laws so that if others really want to have an open source implementation of my stuff, they can put in the effort and eventually have it. But I will do none of these things if it comes along with a heaping dose of fascism in the form of FORCING me to release the code for anything. Stallman would pass a law forcing pretty girls to walk around naked, if he could.
TIFF used to be this way, where TIFF actually means it can be compressed like ten different ways and support was very mixed.
TIFFs still are this way, it just seems like everything is "all better" because people throw up their hands and use libtiff, which actually handles a large fraction of the weird shit that's out there. If there were not a peculiar group of masochists who decided this was something worth tackling things would seem quite different. If you wanted to sit down and write a TIFF library yourself that was actually capable of loading a majority of TIFF files out there, you'd spend years doing it.
If you don't believe me, look inside libtiff. "Initialize Thunderscan! To the turrets!"
The "time stands still" experience you get from near death experiences is because later you can consciously remember far more than normal.
So, what makes your brain kick into that mode? Just adrenaline? Can we reduce this to pill form, so I can take it during meetings to help pay attention?
You can think multiple things at once providing they don't need to make simultaneous use of the same structures.
That's seems like an assumption to me. Why couldn't two patterns of neural activity coexist in the same neurons (like superpositions of waves, and no I don't mean quantum mechanics)?
Right, I'm sure the economic troubles affecting millions of Americans have not caused a SINGLE death. Get real. All it takes is 3,500 deaths due to inability to get proper healthcare, and we're up to par.
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Why is a revolution necessary? A large number of people do not work on weekends, but I don't see any weekend revolutions.
Just because a technical solution (may) exist doesn't mean we should solve a problem that way. Instead of laws against homicide, we could all just never leave our homes, or wear armor when we do. While this might seem empowering, it would make life suck.
Nope, that is why we have free speech.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! Hahahahaha! That's killer dude, killer.
It's yuh-CEE, ya see?
What happens when automation removes all the jobs?
The biggest party in human history? Seriously, what the hell kind of question is that?
Securing their data is the duty of the users.
I don't think you understand the power of data mining. Humans are very, very bad at performing inference on many variables. Computers are very, very good at it. It's true that people have a responsibility to safeguard their own privacy, but that's no reason we should have artificial intelligence programs scanning people's every online move to infer as much as possible about them. That's fucking scary, and it's scary that you don't think it's scary.
You make sure the children who could get sick are forced into a living condition where they will get sick.
First, getting immunized is trivial -- it's not like they're being told they need to dig a hundred-mile ditch in order to keep their tax benefits. Second, it is provably beneficial to society that all people be immunized. There is no rational reason anybody should refuse to do it. This tactic ensures that even the irrational will have incentive. If they still will not, their children will suffer because of their parents rationality, not some perfectly reasonable request on the part of the rest of society.
Why would you need broadband data rates to communicate a few bits of information once a day? The B in BPL stands for broadband. If you can't transmit ten or twenty bits per day without causing interference you are doing something wrong.
I work for a company that provides services to governments. We discovered a bug on a single line of code which caused us to have to release three new builds of the software. Simple bug, simple fix, time it takes to get it from understanding the bug to releasing the new code was about 80 hours, involving 10 people. It sucks that the end product was apparently really crappy, but that sounds like failure to vet.
If you are replacing a text file with a binary file then you need to provide equivalent functionality to all of these.
No, I just need to provide a bin2txt program. The UNIX philosophy, I think you missed it. It's based on simple, self-contained, modular components, not some "everything is just text!" fantasy.
$96000 / $150 per hour = 640 hours, 640 hours = 16 man-weeks. You have a team of four people working on it for four weeks, you rack up about that much cost. And $150 an hour billed to the government is cheap.
If a package depends on another, one could be considered predator, and the other prey. If development slows on that which is depended on, then the predator must find new prey or face lower numbers and/or extinction.
Dammit, this other package my package depends on is just too fucking stable! It never changes! Every day it's just the same damn thing again! I need to base my package on something that's more of a moving target. Otherwise I run the risk of my own software becoming... (shudder) STABLE.
It doesn't prevent spoofing of log messages. However, before a log message can be spoofed, the attacker must somehow gain access to the system -- hopefully, this initial access will be logged to paper BEFORE the attacker begins to try to falsify logs.
Did you ever get that OCD treated, or are you still suffering?
That's right, every night I'd get into some cozy pajamas, maybe make a fire, cuppa tea, and sit back in a recliner for a stint of light reading. I tell you, last night's series of 404s by the guy who kept mistyping the URL to my "About Me" page were especially riveting.
Back in the late 90's when I first started connecting my home Linux systems to the Internet 24/7, I logged everything imaginable. To prevent tampering/falsification of the logs, I simply printed the log on a continuous-sheet dot matrix printer. Good luck tampering with the printout in my office.
After a while I got to be able to recognize certain types of activity, such as a web user browsing to /index.html, based on the sounds the printer made.
Why not use a rolling window of encryption keys, and publish the keys after 24 hours or so? That way, criminals can't make use of real time updates on police status, but the police are still required to keep their asses clean on the radio?
To this day Windows suffers from the application processing the window frame controls. An application that takes a few seconds processing will sieze up and become unmovable.
I don't see anything wrong with that. A GUI application that doesn't pump its message loop on a timely basis is a buggy program. The fact that the window decoration is drawn by the default wndproc and thus occurs within the client message loop is just a way to make this bug in your program REALLY stand out. Would you rather not have complete control within the application over its own window?
While it obviously sucks that people continue using old software on crappy systems because they can't afford to switch to something else, that's just the way it goes. Oracle, do you really think that if you sue HP/Intel and break up their business relationship, the resulting guys who are left out in the cold will switch over to, of all providers, the provider that resulted in them getting fucked over? Seriously?
actually, it's exactly what it means : "a right according to natural law, a right that cannot be taken away, denied, or transferred". So he is correct. His version would mean that you can have access to the internet if you so choose, but that right cannot be taken away by the government at their leisure.
An inalienable right cannot be removed, and it cannot be granted either. Like you just said, according to "natural law" -- that means the right exists in the universe regardless of your ability to recognize it. Human beings, obviously, cannot create these kinds of rights, they exist inherently. So, if Internet access is an "inalienable right" it can only be so by descending from some other right that is already regarded as inalienable. It may very well do so, but you don't get to declare new "inalienable rights."
Stallman is anti-personal freedom. If I create a piece of software and I want to keep the source code private, that is my right. I'm willing concede a hell of a lot to reform the intellectual property situation. I'm willing to give up long copyright terms. I'm willing to get rid of anti-reverse engineering laws so that if others really want to have an open source implementation of my stuff, they can put in the effort and eventually have it. But I will do none of these things if it comes along with a heaping dose of fascism in the form of FORCING me to release the code for anything. Stallman would pass a law forcing pretty girls to walk around naked, if he could.
TIFF used to be this way, where TIFF actually means it can be compressed like ten different ways and support was very mixed.
TIFFs still are this way, it just seems like everything is "all better" because people throw up their hands and use libtiff, which actually handles a large fraction of the weird shit that's out there. If there were not a peculiar group of masochists who decided this was something worth tackling things would seem quite different. If you wanted to sit down and write a TIFF library yourself that was actually capable of loading a majority of TIFF files out there, you'd spend years doing it.
If you don't believe me, look inside libtiff. "Initialize Thunderscan! To the turrets!"
The "time stands still" experience you get from near death experiences is because later you can consciously remember far more than normal.
So, what makes your brain kick into that mode? Just adrenaline? Can we reduce this to pill form, so I can take it during meetings to help pay attention?
You can think multiple things at once providing they don't need to make simultaneous use of the same structures.
That's seems like an assumption to me. Why couldn't two patterns of neural activity coexist in the same neurons (like superpositions of waves, and no I don't mean quantum mechanics)?
Right, I'm sure the economic troubles affecting millions of Americans have not caused a SINGLE death. Get real. All it takes is 3,500 deaths due to inability to get proper healthcare, and we're up to par.
Doesn't explain why some of the structures have heavy bomb damage.
It's a reasonable expectation that they would want to test how well their calibration devices work even if the enemy drops bombs on them.