AFAIK, the Finns and Swedes are not at all related. They just happen to have turned out neighbors. Linguistically, at least, the Finn's language is not at all related to any other European language. The exact orgins of the Finn's was, at least as I can remember, unknown.
On the subject of the Finnish...our favorite Finn is actually of the Swedish ethnicity, and just happened to be living in Finland.
Please excuse my ignorance and stereotypes, but as far as I know, India tends to look the other way when it comes to the sex trade, especially in Mumbai. I have read that the city has hundreds of brothels.
I think that really the government is only doing this for two reasons:
They don't mind brothels out of sight, but very public internet sex is an embarassment to them.
This is really a sneaky way to keep track on people's political beliefs.
Hey, who needs those damn Steroids? Get a 4 ounce bottle of cough syrup, and it will be very hard for anyone to hurt you. Of course, they can always win the fight by pointing out how that one cloud looks just like a dolphin, and let you mull over that for the next 4 hours.
For some reason, this reminds me of what happens when a martial artist trains for 5 or 6 years, going through over a thousand practice fights and then gets jumped on the street. The first time they hit someone and actually see that person go down, it is always a little bit of a surprise.
Even though everyone who has used Linux , or worked on Linux, knows how great it is, when we all realize that our little pet OS can really knock out the people way bigger then us, we are always a little surprised...
Of course, since my experiences both with getting jumped and trying to use Linux are both slightly unsuccesful, maybe I shouldn't be the one to comment...;)
Representative David Wu, the congressman for certain areas of Portland, OR, and outlying areas, has a reputation for being techincally minded. He was put on the congressional comittee on science and technology during his first term.
On the other hand, I have never heard him make a statement on any type of particular technology. Maybe people just assume he is scientifically minded because he is Asian (and no, that is not a flame...)
Well, your entertaining metaphors aside, what exactly are you losing out of some developers trying to resurrect the Amiga?
If some people want to do something, no matter how stupid, it is no skin off of your nose, right? Unless you fear that Amiga will be the monopoly OS of the next couple decades, which doesn't look likely.
And also, how do you know that the Amiga wants to die? Did it look into your eyes with a look of longing for release from the life support unit is attached to? I would argue that any OS advanced enough to have and express emotions about its own destiny definitly deserves to be kept in development;)
How did everyone get so politically backwards from one century to the next?
In the 60's, Star Trek had a very forward looking way of life for the time, but by todays standards the social structure in TOS is very reminscent of, well, 1960's America.
So in the 90's, they move it forward a century, and it makes more sense why things would be more inclusive and progressive.
But if this series continues the trend of making Star Trek more socially progessive with each new series, how are they going to explain how things are so much more progressive 100 years before Captain James T "good ol farm boy" Kirk?
Everyone should read this post to see that it is possible to answer a question, even a dumb one, without insulting someone. Thank you for answering my question, your answer makes sense.
You have no idea what you're talking about, do you?
Thus the question mark in my post's title.
And, yes, the technicalities of TCP\IP are not something I eat breathe and sleep.
TCP\IP sounds better, but more accuratly, it should be IP\TCP, since TCP is a protocol that goes on top of IP. Of course, I wasn't consistent with this or the direction of my slases.
And yes, the purpose of TCP is to make unreliable connections more reliable. A person does not use TCP to handle serial ports in the back of her computer. TCP is used to make a physically (or otherwise) unreliable network theoretically more reliable. It would not seem that someone would design a remotely controlled pacemaker to run over the same phone, or wireless lines, as a normal internet client would, and therefore it is not going to have to use TCP the same way. Instead of making sure that those packets won't get lost in the shuffle, it would make more sense just to escape the shuffle altogether.
And yes, TCP\IP can run over any physical layer it wants to. Including, as was shown recently, carrier pigeons. I suppose someone could design a Internet Pacemaker over Avian Carriers, but it would seem that it would make more sense to use a physical layer designed specifcally for this purpose. Of course, someone could later run TCP\IP over this physical layer, but again, why would they want to?
What is the purpose of this device using the Internet (which I assume means it uses IP/TCP)? IP is for one main purpose, and that is to have a device have a unique identity that can be reached by any other device with ip. The purpose of TCP is so that devices with unreliable connections can talk with each other.
It seems to me that a pacemaker, if it were to communicate, does not need to be public, and shouldn't be travelling over the same insecure communication pathways as other devices. For that matter, even at the physical level, I wouldn't suppose a pacemaker would be travelling over the same physical links that TCP\IP usually uses. In other words, if they want to make a pacemaker remotely monitorable, it would seem the best way to do it would be to build it from the physical layer up with it's own protocols.
Of course, by the time we have that much bandwidth, we will probably have computers running at 20 GigaHertz (if that is physically possible, and then again, probably if it is impossible, too). So their is a good chance we won't need to export processes to Brazil across 12 foot wide optical cables.
If you aren't looking for someone who is a legal expert as such, it would make a lot of sense to find one of the many artists who have come out in favor of Napster.
(Slightly offtopic)
It doesn't surprise me that Americans work more hours then any other industrialized nations. Or that, as an addendum to this, that the majority of Americans are probably sleep deprived.
It seems to be that many Americans, even those in the medical field, don't realize how serious sleep deprivation is. Do you think that we, as a society, would think that about half of our citizens going hungry most of the time would be acceptable? Probably not. Yet when that many Americans lose sleep regularly, no one sees it as a bad thing.
Take this for example: a college junior goes around bragging to her friends and family about how she hasn't eaten anything but water and carrots for the past two weeks. Would people think this was a sign of maschismo? Or would they think this was a person who was endagering themselves, and needed medical attention? Now, take the same college junior and say that she has been going around bragging about how she has been pulling all nighters and has averaged 4 hours of sleep for the past two weeks. For a lot of people, this would be a normal sign of collegeiate bravado.
The point of all of this is, is that many people, including doctors (who have to go through their own intiatory period of losing sleep, but that is another subject) don't seem to realize that a wealthy society where the majority of the people don't sleep enoug is just as ludicrous as an industrial society where people don't eat enough.
One quick point:
The term "meta-ethics" (AFAIK) does not refer to applying ethical standards to entities other then humans. It refers to trying to define what is good. Normal ethics is the study of how best to achieve that good.
Anyway, as for the rest of it, you must remember to deKatzify the entire thing. Where Jon Katz would say "moral responsibility", most people would probably just say "responsible business practices" or "professional code of conduct". All professionals should act by certain codes of conducts that lay somewhere between moral codes and somewhere between utilitarian operating procedures.
On 2nd thought, this post leaves out one of the key casualties of the entire tech support world: The Workers (and on May Day, too).
A lot of people who have contact with tech support workers will say that tech support workers don't deserve mention, since they are weasally liars who don't care about one caller to the next. And in some, cases, that would be correct.
But before you look down on someone who is answering the phone for ripping through a script, lying, and then hanging up on you, keep these things in mind:
If a tech support worker skips a part of their script, even a part that they and the customer knows is totally ridiculous and inappropriate for the question at hand, they can be reprimanded, punished or fired. Most tech support workers know that what they say is ridiculous, but they must stick to the script.
If you are feeling rushed, you probably are. Most tech support workers are held to arbitrary time average call times, which are usually in the 10 minutes or slightly higher range. And the way that the outsourcing (almost all tech support is outsourced) contracts work, techs are taught that it is better to make a customer make 4 or 5 10 minute phone calls throughout the day, rather then one 15 minute call at once...even if the 15 minute phone call takes place during a time when there is no calls on queue, and the 4 or 5 calls might take place during a time when there is a half hour wait to get a tech. Do good techs know how ridiculous this is and try to take care of each call as needed? Yes, but then they can get fired for it, leaving only the bad techs behind.
Are technical support workers inexperienced and ignorant of the programs that they are supposed to be supporting? Yes they are, and the reason for this, is, that many major tech support firms, at least for consumer level call center workers, will hire people "off the street" with no computer experience. They then put them through 1-6 weeks of training and put them on the phone. This can't always be avoided, however, since expereinced computer workers, even at low levels of knowledge, will probably be making $15 an hour or more, and most tech support positions start around $10. If people want to be able to call tech support, they will have to either pay for it or talk to someone who does not have a lot of training.
So, there is a May Day lesson on what tech support workers go through, and why they are the way they are.
When I first started the SID in my.sig, I asked why Slashdot never seemed to bring up the unglamorous underbelly of tech support. Well, finally someone thought of the dirty, unrewarding, bizarre world of tech support, and of course it was Jon Katz, who is always looking out for the little guy.
They tried to run Hotmail on Windows NT, and to some extant succeded. Their was a series of/. articles on this, but I don't know the final word.I think they tried to migrate from BSD to Windows, but couldn't totally make the switch.
Let's not find out. Even though I have just made two posts mentioning inner workings of Qwest.net, let's not assume it has anything to do with a certain outsourcing company mentioned in my.sig
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Maybe he needs a chip in his ass to check his grammar?
Although he is best known for his works in the C language...
Ooops, should have chosen my words more carefully. Not related to any Indo-European language would be techincally correct.
AFAIK, the Finns and Swedes are not at all related. They just happen to have turned out neighbors. Linguistically, at least, the Finn's language is not at all related to any other European language. The exact orgins of the Finn's was, at least as I can remember, unknown.
On the subject of the Finnish...our favorite Finn is actually of the Swedish ethnicity, and just happened to be living in Finland.
Please excuse my ignorance and stereotypes, but as far as I know, India tends to look the other way when it comes to the sex trade, especially in Mumbai. I have read that the city has hundreds of brothels.
I think that really the government is only doing this for two reasons:
Hey, who needs those damn Steroids? Get a 4 ounce bottle of cough syrup, and it will be very hard for anyone to hurt you. Of course, they can always win the fight by pointing out how that one cloud looks just like a dolphin, and let you mull over that for the next 4 hours.
For some reason, this reminds me of what happens when a martial artist trains for 5 or 6 years, going through over a thousand practice fights and then gets jumped on the street. The first time they hit someone and actually see that person go down, it is always a little bit of a surprise.
Even though everyone who has used Linux , or worked on Linux, knows how great it is, when we all realize that our little pet OS can really knock out the people way bigger then us, we are always a little surprised...
Of course, since my experiences both with getting jumped and trying to use Linux are both slightly unsuccesful, maybe I shouldn't be the one to comment... ;)
Representative David Wu, the congressman for certain areas of Portland, OR, and outlying areas, has a reputation for being techincally minded. He was put on the congressional comittee on science and technology during his first term.
On the other hand, I have never heard him make a statement on any type of particular technology. Maybe people just assume he is scientifically minded because he is Asian (and no, that is not a flame...)
Well, your entertaining metaphors aside, what exactly are you losing out of some developers trying to resurrect the Amiga?
If some people want to do something, no matter how stupid, it is no skin off of your nose, right? Unless you fear that Amiga will be the monopoly OS of the next couple decades, which doesn't look likely.
And also, how do you know that the Amiga wants to die? Did it look into your eyes with a look of longing for release from the life support unit is attached to? I would argue that any OS advanced enough to have and express emotions about its own destiny definitly deserves to be kept in development ;)
How did everyone get so politically backwards from one century to the next?
In the 60's, Star Trek had a very forward looking way of life for the time, but by todays standards the social structure in TOS is very reminscent of, well, 1960's America.
So in the 90's, they move it forward a century, and it makes more sense why things would be more inclusive and progressive.
But if this series continues the trend of making Star Trek more socially progessive with each new series, how are they going to explain how things are so much more progressive 100 years before Captain James T "good ol farm boy" Kirk?
23 licenses to choose from? further proof that the open source movement is nothing but a front for those anarchist, anti-American Discordian bastards.
PS---this is not a troll. It is an ogre.
I don't know if you can vote on a poll on which you are the option. It's like modding on a story you submitted.
That reminds me, is the polling system actually included in Slashcode?
Which one of these people is most responsible for the new SlashCode?
Everyone should read this post to see that it is possible to answer a question, even a dumb one, without insulting someone. Thank you for answering my question, your answer makes sense.
You have no idea what you're talking about, do you?
Thus the question mark in my post's title. And, yes, the technicalities of TCP\IP are not something I eat breathe and sleep.
TCP\IP sounds better, but more accuratly, it should be IP\TCP, since TCP is a protocol that goes on top of IP. Of course, I wasn't consistent with this or the direction of my slases.
And yes, the purpose of TCP is to make unreliable connections more reliable. A person does not use TCP to handle serial ports in the back of her computer. TCP is used to make a physically (or otherwise) unreliable network theoretically more reliable. It would not seem that someone would design a remotely controlled pacemaker to run over the same phone, or wireless lines, as a normal internet client would, and therefore it is not going to have to use TCP the same way. Instead of making sure that those packets won't get lost in the shuffle, it would make more sense just to escape the shuffle altogether.
And yes, TCP\IP can run over any physical layer it wants to. Including, as was shown recently, carrier pigeons. I suppose someone could design a Internet Pacemaker over Avian Carriers, but it would seem that it would make more sense to use a physical layer designed specifcally for this purpose. Of course, someone could later run TCP\IP over this physical layer, but again, why would they want to?
What is the purpose of this device using the Internet (which I assume means it uses IP/TCP)? IP is for one main purpose, and that is to have a device have a unique identity that can be reached by any other device with ip. The purpose of TCP is so that devices with unreliable connections can talk with each other.
It seems to me that a pacemaker, if it were to communicate, does not need to be public, and shouldn't be travelling over the same insecure communication pathways as other devices. For that matter, even at the physical level, I wouldn't suppose a pacemaker would be travelling over the same physical links that TCP\IP usually uses. In other words, if they want to make a pacemaker remotely monitorable, it would seem the best way to do it would be to build it from the physical layer up with it's own protocols.
Of course, by the time we have that much bandwidth, we will probably have computers running at 20 GigaHertz (if that is physically possible, and then again, probably if it is impossible, too). So their is a good chance we won't need to export processes to Brazil across 12 foot wide optical cables.
If you aren't looking for someone who is a legal expert as such, it would make a lot of sense to find one of the many artists who have come out in favor of Napster.
Chuck D comes to mind.
(Slightly offtopic)
It doesn't surprise me that Americans work more hours then any other industrialized nations. Or that, as an addendum to this, that the majority of Americans are probably sleep deprived.
It seems to be that many Americans, even those in the medical field, don't realize how serious sleep deprivation is. Do you think that we, as a society, would think that about half of our citizens going hungry most of the time would be acceptable? Probably not. Yet when that many Americans lose sleep regularly, no one sees it as a bad thing.
Take this for example: a college junior goes around bragging to her friends and family about how she hasn't eaten anything but water and carrots for the past two weeks. Would people think this was a sign of maschismo? Or would they think this was a person who was endagering themselves, and needed medical attention? Now, take the same college junior and say that she has been going around bragging about how she has been pulling all nighters and has averaged 4 hours of sleep for the past two weeks. For a lot of people, this would be a normal sign of collegeiate bravado.
The point of all of this is, is that many people, including doctors (who have to go through their own intiatory period of losing sleep, but that is another subject) don't seem to realize that a wealthy society where the majority of the people don't sleep enoug is just as ludicrous as an industrial society where people don't eat enough.
So you are denying that there is a combined (outsourced) Qwest ISP\DSL technical team?
One quick point:
The term "meta-ethics" (AFAIK) does not refer to applying ethical standards to entities other then humans. It refers to trying to define what is good. Normal ethics is the study of how best to achieve that good.
Anyway, as for the rest of it, you must remember to deKatzify the entire thing. Where Jon Katz would say "moral responsibility", most people would probably just say "responsible business practices" or "professional code of conduct". All professionals should act by certain codes of conducts that lay somewhere between moral codes and somewhere between utilitarian operating procedures.
On 2nd thought, this post leaves out one of the key casualties of the entire tech support world: The Workers (and on May Day, too).
A lot of people who have contact with tech support workers will say that tech support workers don't deserve mention, since they are weasally liars who don't care about one caller to the next. And in some, cases, that would be correct.
But before you look down on someone who is answering the phone for ripping through a script, lying, and then hanging up on you, keep these things in mind:
So, there is a May Day lesson on what tech support workers go through, and why they are the way they are.
When I first started the SID in my .sig, I asked why Slashdot never seemed to bring up the unglamorous underbelly of tech support. Well, finally someone thought of the dirty, unrewarding, bizarre world of tech support, and of course it was Jon Katz, who is always looking out for the little guy.
They tried to run Hotmail on Windows NT, and to some extant succeded. Their was a series of /. articles on this, but I don't know the final word.I think they tried to migrate from BSD to Windows, but couldn't totally make the switch.
Let's not find out. Even though I have just made two posts mentioning inner workings of Qwest.net, let's not assume it has anything to do with a certain outsourcing company mentioned in my .sig