(probably) my old cell plan had texting for 1 cent a pop, and the price of the call was 3 cents per 6 seconds. me and my wife used to text all the time, so we could pass groceries lists, to-do things, etc. in no circumstances we could convey in 6 seconds the equivalent of 1/2 kbyte of chars.
I believe (after a preliminary analysis) that a great deal of the network stack in Linux is a derivative work on iptables... if that is really the case, to yank iptables you would have to have a network-less Linux... which is _not_ very useful for some purposes. YMMV.
In Brasil, they can't. The competence of jury trials here is exclusive over the "(purposeful) crimes against life" Penal Code chapters. And jury trial cannot be waived, either. You will be tried by jury for a murder (or murder attempt), for instance, but not for manslaughter nor assault.
is to whack the mom-and-pop ISPs, that won't have the resources to do the logging/monitoring that the law wants. If this bill passes into law, and I was in the ISP business still, I would make a random net traffic generator and saturate the logs with so much trash that every single costumer would appear as using Tor or something. That's what I would do if I lived in the US, with their "data retention" policies, also.
purposeful crimes against life (murder, murder attempt etc). All other crimes are judged by single judges, based on technical merits only. And a jury trial can be retried twice.
is so nonsensical that it will never pass into law. And, if it passes, it will never be enforced. But the bright side is, if it passes _and_ the government will try to enforce it, I see a string of high-paying tech jobs in the cyberpolice coming...
I have to post about "how do you watch the machines?". That's how it's done down here, and I have a fairly high confidence in our system:
1. The machines are sent two or three months in advance to each of the tens of thousands election's zone Electoral Judges. 1.a. Judges here are not elected officials; they are tenured, and they are put in office thru a series of exams. 1.b. All Judges' actions are oversaw by a District Attorney. 2. His/Her Honor has the obligation of checking if the machines are working properly. What (s)he does is: 2.a. turn on some (>30%) of the machines in his office, set the clock to the 7:30 at elections day. 2.b. spend the whole day submitting fake votes, keeping tabs on what is being done (Judge can delegate this task to a Justice employee (s)he trusts). They are oriented to use 80%+ of the votes regiters to put the votes on the machine. 2.c. get the results from the machine, check if there is no bias. 2.d. rinse, repeat; some of the machines are checked in the day before the election; 2.e. it's His/Her Honor the responsability that the machines are properly locked and with their seals intact, all the time. 3. You can bet that any anomalies detected would be cried out loud.
This is a highly-distributed process; after election day, partials per-machine are posted in the door of the electoral zones and distributed to the press, so local and national press representatives can do the tabulation themselves and detect anomalies. As we have a single system nationwide, we can tabulate our hundred million votes in less than one day -- and worry less about fraud. And at least once, we elected the "opposing" candidate (with a large margin) to prove it.
So, yes, we reelected the same asshole yesterday, but no, it's not because he frauded the election, but because we have many moron voters. And because the other candidate was a larger asshole. But that is another problem, unreleated to the "unfraudability" of our e-ballotboxes.
How, exactly? If you use non-blocking IO, then in many frameworks you'll end up being called back in a different thread
Or, an event will be fired to you indicating completion of a certain AIO. You'll pick up the event in your queue (all in _your_ pace) and indicate to the UI the completion of the IO, or to proceed with the computations. It's all a matter of having a really well-lubricated finite state machine....
Writing code using asynchronous IO is far harder than writing it using blocking calls - and harder, IMO, than writing a multi-threaded app using blocking calls.
Well, that's why they invented multithreading to start... but in some situations, you really simply can't have another thread.:-) Seriously, this has been done a lot of times, with success. In your others points, well, I agree with you.
Besides, *everyone* is guilty of being descended from people who displaced *somebody*. In England, chances are very good that your Saxon ancestors displaced the previous Brythonic inhabitants. In Scotland, chances are very good that your Pictish ancestors did so. In Spain, that your Moorish or Visigothic or Roman ancestors displaced Celtiberian inhabitants. And don't get me started on Romania (which one of those Brythonic monarchs made a great point of thrashing a Roman ambassador over nearly 2000 years ago). The difference in America is that the displacement (and frankly, genocide) was recent, and in a culture where literacy was nearly universal. Fortunately, it also was less complete than those earlier displacements. That said, unless you have seen your ancestors' naturalization papers, do not assume that your ancestors came to America legally.
Actually, as a native-american + african + white Portuguese + white Italian person, I can say that my ancestors were probably those who where displaced from time to time.:-) But you have a point, and a wonderfully well-worded one. Kudos.
Our ancestors came here legally and created a melting pot.
Legally? Not from the POV of the indians (native-americans, if you will) that were the rightful owners of the land, just like the USofAns consider themselves the rightful owners of the land nowadays.
The meaning of "arms" has also changed: at the time, it was understood to mean the sort of weapon carried by an infantryman. Heavier weapons would be refered to as "cannon"; so Amendment II doesn't mean you have a right to a howitzer on your front lawn.
That would also bring handguns into question, especialy concealed ones. And what about RPGs?
And I asked, as an honest question: WTF is an RPG, in the context of weapons?? Can anyone enlighten me, please?
the FSF-Eben Moglen relationship is post-GPLv2. Even if he studied its consequences, the v2-wording is not his wording... which is good, because the GPLv2 contains some ugly wording in some places (I always pick the nit at section 0, "...[A], that is to say,...[B]" where A != B -- which, incidentally, was yanked from v3-draft.)
by definition. The commandment is "thou shall not steal" and not "thou shall not sing the song you heard yesterday at the pub" nor "thou shall not make a digital copy of the song you heard yesterday at the pub". There is NO Intellectual Property. And I am going to patent posting to/. saying that there is no intellectual property, but I am offering a limited-time R$ 1000 a-pop license.
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my old cell plan had texting for 1 cent a pop, and the price of the call was 3 cents per 6 seconds. me and my wife used to text all the time, so we could pass groceries lists, to-do things, etc. in no circumstances we could convey in 6 seconds the equivalent of 1/2 kbyte of chars.
I believe (after a preliminary analysis) that a great deal of the network stack in Linux is a derivative work on iptables... if that is really the case, to yank iptables you would have to have a network-less Linux... which is _not_ very useful for some purposes.
YMMV.
THAT is a wonderful phrase... ;-)
is to whack the mom-and-pop ISPs, that won't have the resources to do the logging/monitoring that the law wants. If this bill passes into law, and I was in the ISP business still, I would make a random net traffic generator and saturate the logs with so much trash that every single costumer would appear as using Tor or something. That's what I would do if I lived in the US, with their "data retention" policies, also.
purposeful crimes against life (murder, murder attempt etc). All other crimes are judged by single judges, based on technical merits only. And a jury trial can be retried twice.
is so nonsensical that it will never pass into law. And, if it passes, it will never be enforced. But the bright side is, if it passes _and_ the government will try to enforce it, I see a string of high-paying tech jobs in the cyberpolice coming...
This bill will never pass in its current form
Man, are you paying 200 per fuck? Maybe it's time I leave Brasil and go back to Europe....
my wife's shoe pair count is around 150 ...
I have to post about "how do you watch the machines?". That's how it's done down here, and I have a fairly high confidence in our system:
1. The machines are sent two or three months in advance to each of the tens of thousands election's zone Electoral Judges.
1.a. Judges here are not elected officials; they are tenured, and they are put in office thru a series of exams.
1.b. All Judges' actions are oversaw by a District Attorney.
2. His/Her Honor has the obligation of checking if the machines are working properly. What (s)he does is:
2.a. turn on some (>30%) of the machines in his office, set the clock to the 7:30 at elections day.
2.b. spend the whole day submitting fake votes, keeping tabs on what is being done (Judge can delegate this task to a Justice employee (s)he trusts). They are oriented to use 80%+ of the votes regiters to put the votes on the machine.
2.c. get the results from the machine, check if there is no bias.
2.d. rinse, repeat; some of the machines are checked in the day before the election;
2.e. it's His/Her Honor the responsability that the machines are properly locked and with their seals intact, all the time.
3. You can bet that any anomalies detected would be cried out loud.
This is a highly-distributed process; after election day, partials per-machine are posted in the door of the electoral zones and distributed to the press, so local and national press representatives can do the tabulation themselves and detect anomalies. As we have a single system nationwide, we can tabulate our hundred million votes in less than one day -- and worry less about fraud. And at least once, we elected the "opposing" candidate (with a large margin) to prove it.
So, yes, we reelected the same asshole yesterday, but no, it's not because he frauded the election, but because we have many moron voters. And because the other candidate was a larger asshole. But that is another problem, unreleated to the "unfraudability" of our e-ballotboxes.
Well, that's why they invented multithreading to start... but in some situations, you really simply can't have another thread.
Seriously, this has been done a lot of times, with success.
In your others points, well, I agree with you.
It's easy to do anything withou making a blocking call.
Actually, as a native-american + african + white Portuguese + white Italian person, I can say that my ancestors were probably those who where displaced from time to time.
just lazy. ;-)
Hope that Oracle gives a TiVo-ized version of Linux in a closed, non-hackable server appliance. That would be funny.
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Man, this is a site that, while obviously pro-linux, is not blind. But yeah, Windows sucks and Linux sucks. Only linux sucks far less.
the FSF-Eben Moglen relationship is post-GPLv2. Even if he studied its consequences, the v2-wording is not his wording... which is good, because the GPLv2 contains some ugly wording in some places (I always pick the nit at section 0, "...[A], that is to say, ...[B]" where A != B -- which, incidentally, was yanked from v3-draft.)
huh? Robert Picardo Generations?
by definition. The commandment is "thou shall not steal" and not "thou shall not sing the song you heard yesterday at the pub" nor "thou shall not make a digital copy of the song you heard yesterday at the pub". There is NO Intellectual Property. And I am going to patent posting to /. saying that there is no intellectual property, but I am offering a limited-time R$ 1000 a-pop license.
but I clicked the wrong button.
Continuing...
No exceptions are made for self-defense, war, euthanasia, suicide, or any other lame excuse. Thou Shall Not Kill and period.