The science that humans can do that robots can't is real, vital, and we should be doing it NOW.
Maybe you should give Weinstein a call, because you seem to know something he doesn't.
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Earth is a single point of failure for the human race. It only takes one catastrophic event to completely wipe us out. Unless we put a hell of a lot of effort into setting up self-sufficient colonies, we are gambling with the future of humanity, plain and simple.
I think you should kiss the future of humanity goodbye anyway. And not because of some Hollywood scenario of an asteroid hitting Earth. Isn't it obvious that robots will take over in a couple hundred years? With every generation they get smarter, while we stay at our pityful average IQ 100. At best, humans will become irrelevant, like dolphins are irrelevant today. Evolution continues.
Price discrimination based on location, business relationships, contracts, etc. is not.
It is in fact illegal both in the US and in Europe if it is used to leverage an existing monopoly to gain an advantage in another market. And that's what we were discussing.
Personally, I hate the United Nations. I see the UN as a driect threat to the sovereignty of the US
Yet the UN was created on initiative of the US, all its basic rules were dictated by the US, and it has never been able to make a single important decision against the veto of the US.
Indeed, Wikipedia would never say that open source software is shit, because while the majority may believe that statement, it is also false. Wikipedia will happily report the false beliefs of the majority, but won't report those falsehoods as fact.
I know that at least in Germany you need permission to photograph a person who is not a prominent member of public life. Same for recording spoken words.
Best bet: Get a firewall and not one running the stupid OS you're trying to shield from the outside.
The best firewall doesn't protect you if you have a stupid OS sitting behind it. The most common exploits nowadays attack javascript/activeX/VBasic in IE and Outlook. Your firewall doesn't help against a remote controlled machine inside your network.
Indeed the 2.0 and 2.2 kernels are being maintained, and security patches are being applied regularly. Not by Linus though. I don't know nor care what RedHat does.
Another important difference between Wikipedia and Everything2 are copyrights.
The material on E2 is copyrighted by their authors and normally cannot be reused, copied or modified by anyone. No teacher can legally pass out copies of an E2 article to her students. If E2 goes bankrupt, the material is lost.
By contrast, Wikipedia's license ensures that the material will stay freely available and modifiable forever.
Where did this weird-ish close proximity come from?
Largely from the RedHat IPO, one of the biggest scams at the height of the Internet bubble. They actually spammed all contributors to Linux, trying to sell their worthless shares.
Trust is not a function of procedures, policies or diplomas -- it is first and foremost a function of past experiences.
If you have seen lots of shoddy Wikipedia articles contradicted by known facts, then you certainly shouldn't trust Wikipedia.
I have worked for a while on Wikipedia now, and I certainly trust the average Encyclopedia Britannica article more than the average Wikipedia article. But over time, you get to know the Wikipedia contributors, and some of them I trust blindly. By looking at an article's history, it is always easy to tell who wrote what.
Now, Wikipedia is barely two years old. How much trust did EB have when it was two years old? I can vouch for the fact that over the last year, my trust for Wikipedia has increased considerably, while my trust for EB has decreased. We'll talk in 20 years.
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I'd start with Article 2, sentences 3 and 4, of the Charter of the United Nations (the exception of Article 51 clearly does not apply).
You know the UN? That little organization established on initiative of the US, with rules largely dictated by the US?
Maybe you should give Weinstein a call, because you seem to know something he doesn't.
I think you should kiss the future of humanity goodbye anyway. And not because of some Hollywood scenario of an asteroid hitting Earth. Isn't it obvious that robots will take over in a couple hundred years? With every generation they get smarter, while we stay at our pityful average IQ 100. At best, humans will become irrelevant, like dolphins are irrelevant today. Evolution continues.
It is in fact illegal both in the US and in Europe if it is used to leverage an existing monopoly to gain an advantage in another market. And that's what we were discussing.
Yet the UN was created on initiative of the US, all its basic rules were dictated by the US, and it has never been able to make a single important decision against the veto of the US.
Parent asked for coroporations successfully moving to Linux, and an example was given. Windows wasn't even mentioned.
Right, and that supports his argument: once a "good enough" open source solution exists, the market is dead.
It would comfortably fit on a floppy disk (tomsrtbt).
So now paedophiles can only watch but cannot record? That means they have to come back every afternoon.
Well, at the very least we have established that Linux is able to tolerate his hardware brokenness, should it exist, while XP is not.
I very much doubt that it is legal to carry guns on the Harvard campus.
Indeed, Wikipedia would never say that open source software is shit, because while the majority may believe that statement, it is also false. Wikipedia will happily report the false beliefs of the majority, but won't report those falsehoods as fact.
I know that at least in Germany you need permission to photograph a person who is not a prominent member of public life. Same for recording spoken words.
This is important information; you should write it up for Wikipedia.
Excepting, of course, the well-written free software. And sometimes you pay twice, namely for poorly written payware.
The best firewall doesn't protect you if you have a stupid OS sitting behind it. The most common exploits nowadays attack javascript/activeX/VBasic in IE and Outlook. Your firewall doesn't help against a remote controlled machine inside your network.
Indeed the 2.0 and 2.2 kernels are being maintained, and security patches are being applied regularly. Not by Linus though. I don't know nor care what RedHat does.
But 2.6 includes coprocessor emulation. Would be interesting to check if 2.6 runs faster or slower on your hardware.
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Well, anyone who looks at the situation on Earth objectively and dispassionately will agree that this is precisely what ought to happen, and fast.
The material on E2 is copyrighted by their authors and normally cannot be reused, copied or modified by anyone. No teacher can legally pass out copies of an E2 article to her students. If E2 goes bankrupt, the material is lost.
By contrast, Wikipedia's license ensures that the material will stay freely available and modifiable forever.
Largely from the RedHat IPO, one of the biggest scams at the height of the Internet bubble. They actually spammed all contributors to Linux, trying to sell their worthless shares.
The free speech guarantee of the First Amendment does not extend to commercial speech such as begging or advertising.
If you have seen lots of shoddy Wikipedia articles contradicted by known facts, then you certainly shouldn't trust Wikipedia.
I have worked for a while on Wikipedia now, and I certainly trust the average Encyclopedia Britannica article more than the average Wikipedia article. But over time, you get to know the Wikipedia contributors, and some of them I trust blindly. By looking at an article's history, it is always easy to tell who wrote what.
Now, Wikipedia is barely two years old. How much trust did EB have when it was two years old? I can vouch for the fact that over the last year, my trust for Wikipedia has increased considerably, while my trust for EB has decreased. We'll talk in 20 years.
Tell that the Red Cross.