People need to not listen to them. Any good poli-sci professor will tell you
straight off the bat the polls lie. More accurately, they reflect the public
response to the specific wording of the pollster's question. If I ask 1000
people "Should arabs be forced to carry special id and check in specially at
airports in order to minimize the terrorist potential in America?" i'd prolly
get 70% yes. If I asked "Do you consider it innapropriate to require people
of arab descent to be forced to carry special identification and be subject to
additional searches?" i'd probly also get a majority yes. Point being,
people, en masse, will respond more to the tone of the question than the heart
of the issue. Any poll that can be conducted can be trivially reworded,
without affecting the true issue being questioned, and get the exact opposite
result. Keep this in mind as the polls start flying in favor of decreased
civil liberties and criminalization of certain forms of encryption.
You never paid for that box, so you don't get to keep it.
I am a telocity customer and I don't recall ever being confused about the ownership of the gateway. I think the company made it rather clear that the equipment would have to be returned upon termination of service.
I know this sucks for you guys, but it doesn't take much effort to know the facts. It wasn't even in fine print...
Oh! Perhaps it's that Apple's a big fucking company with a cadre of frothy-mouthed pit-bull lawyers of their own who'd likely tell iPIX to fuck off in 15 pages of legalese, unless they were having a bad day in which case they'd bend 'em over and well, i'll leave off there.
Not to protect us, b/c theres little likelihood of dangerous life (or any life, really) on mars, but rather to preserve the samples from contamination by us. This way if biologicals are found on the samples, we're that much more positive they're actually Martian...
I find it hilarious that a site like this which is notably linux (and thus unix) oriented is so fucking obsessed with this convergence thing... it's a concept totally at odds with the unix philosophy. I read the Unix in a nutshell book many years agao (edition 2 maybe) and I recall being totally drawn to the design philosophy of many small programs that do just one thing well but and interact in an intelligent way so they can be joined simply to do complex things. That's the beauty of the system... I don't need one program to do everything... i just run this file through this filter or that and pipe it over here and it does what i want.
I look for hardware to be the same way, which is why i like the visor and it's springboard system so much (not that i own one, i'm speaking conceptually)... by itself it doesn't do terribly much more than any old leather bound DayRunner, but if i want it to be gps, i pop in a little card (via an intelligent interface) and i have a gps. cell phone? same deal, different card. mp3 player? no problem... why would i want one device which does everything and if one part breaks i'm fucked. and i can't upgrade any parts if say, somone beats mp3, i have to replace the whole device instead of just the mp3 module...
1 general device with a well known interface. many little addons which do One thing adn do it well. this is the way it should be and I'm surprised more unix types don't say so more often.
bellsouth is satan. i hate them with a passion that burns hotter than the sun. may their assets turn to dust and their board of directors be banished back to the pit from whence they came...
honestly, i'm not joking... a bunch of filty fucks, all of them.
Sweet jeebus/.ers love to whine. I'm sorry, y'all. I can be as hardcore a free software advocate as you'll find and in general I think patents and trademarks are bad things. In this case, though, it's not like he's threatening to try and revoke all licencing privledges to any ssh related code (which of course, he can't, but stuipider things have been done by big corporations). He wants a name change so that, god forbid, he *may* make some money.
Oh, the inconveniece of typing once "ln -s/bin/newname/bin/ssh". I just can't take it. Most of us probly have 19 shell scripts on our boxen whose sole purpose it is to save us from typing out full commands (i.e. "sc.sh" which reads "cd/windows/games/Starcraft;sudo wine starcraft.exe").
I seem to be alone on this among fellow/. fanatics, but I say fucking relax and let a man have a few bucks for a product which everyone with a brain uses and loves.
Because ignoring the problems that affect you is the best way to make them go away.
Life's not always peachy, but I'd rather be depressed every so often and know who my enemies are than to wake up happy every day in a cloud of self chosen oblivion...
Read. Learn. Fight, if you care enough. But at least be informed.
... assuming that you know who you're paying and when. Do I want my credit card number embedded in my brower to get sent off everytime it's requested? Hell no, of course not. But if, say, a gpg signed authorization key was embedded in my browser which was sent, after I ok'd the transfer, to a site author for him to collect money from a micropayment broker (not really any different from a credt card authorization company), then yeah, I'd do that.
This is how cookies work in good browsers. For all it's problems, KDE's Konqueror has excellent cookie handling -- as soon as a request is noted it asks if I should accept or deny this cookie, all cookies from this domain, and then remmebers. Why not the same facility for micropayments. "Do you wish to pay this site $0.50 a month for access?
[yes] (no)
[this month only] (always)"
And if you change your mind, change your setting in the browser preferences.
Clean and simple. Banner ads suck. The web is NOT tv.
-krb
is a big problem here. I think it's been mentioned before that open source client-server games rely on a certain trust model which can be exploited rather trivially (for a coder of moderate skill) to make your client advantaged over the rest of the pack. Something tells me that this game will not be fun to play, bacause the less C proficient kids will get housed.
On the other hand, maybe this is a good thing... encourage kids to know how to program, and well at that. Market it as "A MMORPG which tests not only your patience (like, oh, i dunno, EQ) but your coding skill! Modify yourself and school your friends like the wusses they are!"
Hey, i have an idea! Let's endanger all life on earth at present and spend a whole bunch of
money so that people (or whatever the fuck has evolved by then) a billion years from now won't
fry. Brilliant. Or, you know, we _could_ divert that money to things that are RELEVANT, like,
um, world hunger? or, Space exploration? or, oh, i don't know, ANYTHING ELSE!
It's not the lack of privacy per se that's outrageous -- it's the way the information is used. I understand that anyone who's moderately determined can find out a great deal about me, and I've come to accept that as a trade off for all the positive uses of technology both for myself and society at large. The nasty part of this article is that it shows us just how our data gets used -- indiscriminantly and without any sense of relativity. This assumes you believe these folks, but I don't have touble there. Should a misdemeanor when you were 16 (and IIRC ALL your records should be sealed as a minor anyway) affect ANYTHING in your later life? Doesn't seem right to me. Certainly not when it denies you access to important things like loans and insurance. If you have kids, better tell them now -- don't litter, hon, someday you'll be denied a job for that.
It's out of hand and needs to be fixed. Either by taking back our privacy or finding ways to regulate how information is used (in a way which actually gives us power to effect change, unlike the current system) something's gotta be done.
Preaching to the choir, i guess, but it's a statement I felt i had to make.
diamonds will be "free with a can of motor oil" 10 years from now because the technology this guy is describing _will_ increase supply. Theoretically quite substantially so. That's assuming that these researchers can find processes to grow diamonds quickly enough to keep up with the demand, but if so -- well, like the guy says, jewelers are in trouble...
-k
good points, esp. about jessica. they made her weak and that sucks. one could argue that the Dune books are more about the Bene Gesserit than anything else, and it's too bad no one focuses on that.
one thing though, i think the word is "Fedaykin", which I always pronounced as fee/-day-kin. the slash there is the best way I could indicate emphasis...
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People need to not listen to them. Any good poli-sci professor will tell you
straight off the bat the polls lie. More accurately, they reflect the public
response to the specific wording of the pollster's question. If I ask 1000
people "Should arabs be forced to carry special id and check in specially at
airports in order to minimize the terrorist potential in America?" i'd prolly
get 70% yes. If I asked "Do you consider it innapropriate to require people
of arab descent to be forced to carry special identification and be subject to
additional searches?" i'd probly also get a majority yes. Point being,
people, en masse, will respond more to the tone of the question than the heart
of the issue. Any poll that can be conducted can be trivially reworded,
without affecting the true issue being questioned, and get the exact opposite
result. Keep this in mind as the polls start flying in favor of decreased
civil liberties and criminalization of certain forms of encryption.
-k
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You never paid for that box, so you don't get to keep it.
I am a telocity customer and I don't recall ever being confused about the ownership of the gateway. I think the company made it rather clear that the equipment would have to be returned upon termination of service.
I know this sucks for you guys, but it doesn't take much effort to know the facts. It wasn't even in fine print...
-k
I notice they haven't sued Apple for QTVR yet?
Those are 3d panoramic images, eh?
I wonder why? Hmmm.... a mystery.
Oh! Perhaps it's that Apple's a big fucking company with a cadre of frothy-mouthed pit-bull lawyers of their own who'd likely tell iPIX to fuck off in 15 pages of legalese, unless they were having a bad day in which case they'd bend 'em over and well, i'll leave off there.
Stupid patent office. God i hate those fuckers.
-krb-
Not to protect us, b/c theres little likelihood of dangerous life (or any life, really) on mars, but rather to preserve the samples from contamination by us. This way if biologicals are found on the samples, we're that much more positive they're actually Martian...
-k
Because that's useful.
-k
If you're that paranoid coat the inside of your room with foil... nice big faraday cage. No EM fields can penetrate. have a nice day.
-k
"This is a market where Linux is absolutely perfect," says Linus Torvalds, the Finnish programmer credited with starting the Linux movement.
like maybe because he WROTE it.
-k
I find it hilarious that a site like this which is notably linux (and thus unix) oriented is so fucking obsessed with this convergence thing... it's a concept totally at odds with the unix philosophy. I read the Unix in a nutshell book many years agao (edition 2 maybe) and I recall being totally drawn to the design philosophy of many small programs that do just one thing well but and interact in an intelligent way so they can be joined simply to do complex things. That's the beauty of the system... I don't need one program to do everything... i just run this file through this filter or that and pipe it over here and it does what i want.
I look for hardware to be the same way, which is why i like the visor and it's springboard system so much (not that i own one, i'm speaking conceptually)... by itself it doesn't do terribly much more than any old leather bound DayRunner, but if i want it to be gps, i pop in a little card (via an intelligent interface) and i have a gps. cell phone? same deal, different card. mp3 player? no problem... why would i want one device which does everything and if one part breaks i'm fucked. and i can't upgrade any parts if say, somone beats mp3, i have to replace the whole device instead of just the mp3 module...
1 general device with a well known interface. many little addons which do One thing adn do it well. this is the way it should be and I'm surprised more unix types don't say so more often.
my $3.50 or whatever...
-k
because thats a fucking good idea.
we *need* weapons more powerful than a thermonuclear warhead... not until we can explode an entire planet in one shot will we be ready...
oh wait, no, we should find a way to induce supernovae, eyah, then we can destroy whol solar systems at a time! Humans shall rule the galaxy!
goddamn i hate people.
-k-
hear hear.
bellsouth is satan. i hate them with a passion that burns hotter than the sun. may their assets turn to dust and their board of directors be banished back to the pit from whence they came...
honestly, i'm not joking... a bunch of filty fucks, all of them.
my $0.25
-k
nice april fools joke timothy.
anyone download this shite? the install.sh script is especially cool...
word.
-k
Sweet jeebus /.ers love to whine. I'm sorry, y'all. I can be as hardcore a free software advocate as you'll find and in general I think patents and trademarks are bad things. In this case, though, it's not like he's threatening to try and revoke all licencing privledges to any ssh related code (which of course, he can't, but stuipider things have been done by big corporations). He wants a name change so that, god forbid, he *may* make some money.
/bin/newname /bin/ssh". I just can't take it. Most of us probly have 19 shell scripts on our boxen whose sole purpose it is to save us from typing out full commands (i.e. "sc.sh" which reads "cd /windows/games/Starcraft;sudo wine starcraft.exe").
/. fanatics, but I say fucking relax and let a man have a few bucks for a product which everyone with a brain uses and loves.
Oh, the inconveniece of typing once "ln -s
I seem to be alone on this among fellow
-k
Because ignoring the problems that affect you is the best way to make them go away.
Life's not always peachy, but I'd rather be depressed every so often and know who my enemies are than to wake up happy every day in a cloud of self chosen oblivion...
Read. Learn. Fight, if you care enough. But at least be informed.
-k
... assuming that you know who you're paying and when. Do I want my credit card number embedded in my brower to get sent off everytime it's requested? Hell no, of course not. But if, say, a gpg signed authorization key was embedded in my browser which was sent, after I ok'd the transfer, to a site author for him to collect money from a micropayment broker (not really any different from a credt card authorization company), then yeah, I'd do that.
This is how cookies work in good browsers. For all it's problems, KDE's Konqueror has excellent cookie handling -- as soon as a request is noted it asks if I should accept or deny this cookie, all cookies from this domain, and then remmebers. Why not the same facility for micropayments. "Do you wish to pay this site $0.50 a month for access?
[yes] (no)
[this month only] (always)"
And if you change your mind, change your setting in the browser preferences.
Clean and simple. Banner ads suck. The web is NOT tv.
-krb
>It's not a replacement for RPMs or Debs, it's a replacement for things like dselect.
And thank god for that!!! Filthy, filthy, dselect.
is a big problem here. I think it's been mentioned before that open source client-server games rely on a certain trust model which can be exploited rather trivially (for a coder of moderate skill) to make your client advantaged over the rest of the pack. Something tells me that this game will not be fun to play, bacause the less C proficient kids will get housed.
On the other hand, maybe this is a good thing... encourage kids to know how to program, and well at that. Market it as "A MMORPG which tests not only your patience (like, oh, i dunno, EQ) but your coding skill! Modify yourself and school your friends like the wusses they are!"
My 2 cents.
-krb-
Hey, i have an idea! Let's endanger all life on earth at present and spend a whole bunch of
money so that people (or whatever the fuck has evolved by then) a billion years from now won't
fry. Brilliant. Or, you know, we _could_ divert that money to things that are RELEVANT, like,
um, world hunger? or, Space exploration? or, oh, i don't know, ANYTHING ELSE!
Ridiculous.
It's not the lack of privacy per se that's outrageous -- it's the way the information is used. I understand that anyone who's moderately determined can find out a great deal about me, and I've come to accept that as a trade off for all the positive uses of technology both for myself and society at large. The nasty part of this article is that it shows us just how our data gets used -- indiscriminantly and without any sense of relativity. This assumes you believe these folks, but I don't have touble there. Should a misdemeanor when you were 16 (and IIRC ALL your records should be sealed as a minor anyway) affect ANYTHING in your later life? Doesn't seem right to me. Certainly not when it denies you access to important things like loans and insurance. If you have kids, better tell them now -- don't litter, hon, someday you'll be denied a job for that.
It's out of hand and needs to be fixed. Either by taking back our privacy or finding ways to regulate how information is used (in a way which actually gives us power to effect change, unlike the current system) something's gotta be done.
Preaching to the choir, i guess, but it's a statement I felt i had to make.
-k
diamonds will be "free with a can of motor oil" 10 years from now because the technology this guy is describing _will_ increase supply. Theoretically quite substantially so. That's assuming that these researchers can find processes to grow diamonds quickly enough to keep up with the demand, but if so -- well, like the guy says, jewelers are in trouble...
-k
Many won't because their older macs wont run os X, such as my own. Owners of newer macs probly will.
-k
nevermind -- my misunderstanding. He's still wrong about the width of a human hair, but entire MEMS would very well get that big...
-k
It's always been this way -- just depends on what your focus is... I'd say the ISS is focusing on big.
And here's a dose of irony -- The Large Hadron Collider and other such particle smashers : Really Big Things built to look at Really Small Things...
Ask an Astronomer about focusing on small things and he'll point you across the hall to the particle physicist he works with.
-k
apparently the author isn't smart...
i believe that should be 1-10 micrometers.
hence the name microelectromechanical.
-k
Wired had an article about this a few months back too... cool tech. Search the online archive.
-k
good points, esp. about jessica. they made her weak and that sucks. one could argue that the Dune books are more about the Bene Gesserit than anything else, and it's too bad no one focuses on that.
one thing though, i think the word is "Fedaykin", which I always pronounced as fee/-day-kin. the slash there is the best way I could indicate emphasis...
-k