Stallman is a deontologist, of sorts. By that I mean he subscribes to an ethical stance that basically asserts that certain things are moral or immoral, regardless of circumstance. Its a position normally associated with the philosopher Kant, who basically asserts that morals should be rooted in logic, not experience. So for instance Murder is wrong, because we ourselves would not want to be murdered (as being murdered denies us the ability to do other things and therefore it is illogical to want), and thus since an ethical code that only applies to one person is illogical (because something good can not be something bad, and thus good for me and bad for you contradicts), murder is always wrong, regardless of circumstance.
So I'd argue that RMS is a deontologist and that the right to source code comes from a 'perfect duty' (in Kants sense) to the truth. Because you should not lie to people, neither should your code, and thus providing the source allows another person to know the 'truth' of the software they run. And because we're talking deontology, we also have a right to assume that the other will behave the same way.
Now does that mean he's *correct*. Well not necessarily. Deontological positions are flawed in many respects. There might be circumstances where murder makes sense (You find out someone is going to kill you, and you realise the hitman is being protected by the police. You might just have to kill the hitman preemptively) or a lie makes sense (Someone asks where your wife works so they can go and murder her.) and perhaps there are times when non-free software might make a lot of sense.
But I'd argue that at the very least, RMS is right more often than he's now.
The thing is, RMS has a habit of coming across unhinged on a topic, and then a few years later you realise he was dead right about it.
When I first read the "Right to read" thing, I thought it was nuts.
Then my damn Kindle died and I had to figure out how to get the books into another format. Well thanks to the DMCA it turns out I have to break the law to do that. But worse than that, a student who needs access to library journals now finds themselves in a situation of breaking the law vs DRM infested journal articles. The 'right to read' was 100% correct in its predictions. Well other than the "Tycho rebelion" or whatever it was, hey its Sci-Fi.
I could go on, but the point is, for all his faults, he's usually right about a lot more things than its often comfortable to admit.
It kind of depends. My sister took straight to it. Never had a single call from her since she switched. She's a smart cookie though.
My father however endlessly complained. Why is the menu at the top (why is it stuck to the window?) why did Apple chance Ctrl-c (better question , why did wordstar change cmd-c) etc etc etc.
The old boys a smart dude too but never underestime the support costs of preference stubbornness , especially in older folks
I think it's one of those things that got by because it was plausible enough in the light of the Snowden revelations that governments do this kind of guff that a manufacture might deploy a hacked version of Intel management engine or something like that. Like sure it's possible.....
But possible isn't the same as actual, and the editors really ought to have demanded some evidence , not because it was dubious but because it's a big story with big implications
The first amendment protects citizens and does provide some protections to non citizens , but an agent of hostile power isn't going to be protected if they aren't genuine political actors. If an American citizen bangs on about being a fan of ISIS , well he won't be popular and the feds would be looking hard at him, but it's protected speech. But if a visitor or non citizen starts engaging in organised behavior to support ISIS, they are gonna get Gitmo'd. Obviously the lines a fine one and it's going to involve 200+ years of case law and a lot of lawyers yelling at each other but there is a distinction and it exists for good reasons
Nuclear is clean-enough. As long as it's a modern negative coefficient ireqctor design and isn't operated by idiots , the environmental risks , even in its failure modes, are pretty low.
Obviously Solar , hydro, and wind are preferable environmentally but nuclear is bulk, clean and there.
Literally the only people who give a shit about Gore are climate denialist wingnuts. Newsflash: he's not a scientist. He doesn't speak for scientists. Constantly bagging him is meaningless, nobody cares except other crazies
As someone who's actually worked In climate science, you have no idea how far south of wrong you really are. The reality is the institutional pressures are huge to downplay the seriousness. Sound too "alarming" in you paper, you stand a good chance of getting fingered by your local conservative shock jock radio host, having wing nuts writing letters in bulk demanding you get fired or even worse (one colleague had threats made to their child's school... which is nuts, but there are people out there that have some pretty fucking scary ideas). Then you get a endless cavalcade of right wing politicians insisting on endless reviews of data they clearly have no qualification to judge , threats against senior management that they'll get defunded , and in fact in our case , the CSIRO *was* massively defunded by a new prime minister that was hellbent on trashing as much science infrastructure as quickly as possible. He made it a year and a half before even his own party booted him but by then s lot of good scientists where out of work and a lot of PhD candidates had their thesis defunded mid project. Fuck i even got dragged in at one point when the radio stations decided that our remote weather stations are "fudging" the data because they don't know a dew point calculation is fundamental fucking physics.
Do you really think climate scientists are in a pissing match as to who can be spookiest? In reality climate scientists are in a situation where from every level of society they are constantly told "censor your findings so funding bodies don't get spooked , so Andrew Bolt doesn't start denying bat wing monkeys after PhD candidates, so crazy fuckers who think bloggers are scientists don't send hate mail to your family and so the boss doesn't have yet another neurosis attack because he wants nothing more than to be unnoticed, uncontroversial and funded.
They probably have some bullshit lawyer nonsense going on, but like all bullshit lawyer nonsense, it really just needs someone with decent lawyers of their own. Like say a big well funded multimillion dollar farm tired of ridiculous tractor DRM.
I've been waging bit of a personal war against local utilities for the last year over robocalls and phoning up asking for identifications. I want it banned. The average user , the people is IT professionals are meant to protect have no chance of identifying a well done scam if the legitimate phonecalls are indistinguishable from the fraudulent ones, and it's damn irresponsible for these companies to continue to use these tactics when they put everyone at risk. It costs peanuts to rent a handful of lines, an asterisk server on a free tier AWS instance and a bit of time recording a plausible sounding robocall message. Build a list of suckers from the net and cha-Ching it's free money. And it all starts with irresponsible debt collectors and public utilities following irresponsible debt collection practices
Neither Unity or Unreal need $50K. Unity is a modest fee, $30-$100 ish per month depending on whether he's raised more than $200K. He'd be on the $30K tier with that kickstarter.
Unreal takes a 5% cut of take.
Assuming he's using one of these two, engine cost is unlikely to be a factor.
The problem is, unless Mueller knows something we dont (and thats quite plausible). there isnt much evidence Pence knew much of whatever was going on regarding the financing and possibly foreign collaboration in the campaign. I mean he might have, but I get the feeling this is mostly about Trump and his inner circle. And since Pence is next in line in the case of the president being removed, he'll be made president and in a position to just pardon the shit out of things. Hell even if Pence goes down, theres a whole conga line of assholes in place to take the role and then pardon. Theres just nothing in the constitution to force a new election.And thats something that really needs to change.
I wonder if its also having a look at your bodies behavior too. A stunt person who pulls off a successful stunt probably is going to exhibit healthy vital signs, albeit with a bit of extra andrenalin. But someone whos just injured themselves going to have a significant change in their bodies vital signs , heart rate etc as the body does whatever the body does whenever its compromised. And I'd wager that a highly unfit person, or someone who's elderly will have a more marked change in vital signs than really fit stunt person or athlete. Which is why I suspect a gyro on a phone can only tell if theres a drop, but not if its a *dangerous* drop, but a heart rate monitoring watch probably can tell.
"Fake news" is a weasel word for "things I don't like" I'm 2018. And that's a goddamn tragedy because people are losing their skepticism of partisan nonsense and just consuming sit that confirms their biases now.
Thats what worries me. The evidence that Trump had engaged in money laundering and tax evasion is absolutely compelling, but unlike plucky South Korea, who took down its *own president* AND its beheaded its most iconic multinational to battle corruption , I don't trust washington to do this right.
After the Bush regime, the evidence to put away Cheney and others for a whole host of incredibly serious corruption allegations didn't mean shit because the govt declined to investigate. In the annals of history the closest we've come is Bill Clinton getting yelled at a bit for a blow job, and Richard Nixon resigning then walking away from a massive corruption of office scot free.
Make no bones about it. This administration is one of the corruptest we've ever seen. But nothing will be done about it. Best case Trump impeached and then promtly pardoned by Mike Pence. Worst case, Nothing at all.
Fucking hell. This has gone from "Apples stuff is hard to repair because of wonky design decsions" to straight up malevolence.
I've been using Macs since Vista completely murdered my will to use windows ever again. New laptop, constant blue screens of death on "Certified for Vista" laptop. After being told I had to pay $100+ to upgrade back to XP I threw the towel in and got me big desktop imac and then later a mac laptop. It had unixy underbelly so my BSD background fit right in, it just seemed to work really well, and once I got over the slight behavioral differences (command-C vs Ctrl-C, menu on top etc) it was a system I really enjoyed working with. Ended up with an iPhone too to cash in on the new iPhone dev stuff (I was formerly a Symbian dev, hell on earth). I was the model of an Apple Fanboy. Shit Apple where so good to me that when a fucked up contract that was about to land me in court was caused by app store delays I actully emailed Steve Jobs, and he *fucking emailed me back* and put his personal assistant in charge of getting my shit through the store. Thats how great apple used to be.
But man, modern Apple sucks. My last apple purchase was a 2017 macbook pro to finally replace the trust 2011 MBP, the keyboard *sucked*, it only had those whack thunderbolt-3/USB-C ports which I had precisely zero perhipherals for and all the adaptors where ridiculously expensive and kinda unrelaible, and when I accidently dropped it and cracked the screen apple quoted me well over $1K to repair it.
So I ended up taking it to a third party indian repair dude who fixed it for $400. Not a great job, but at least I could afford it.
Also someone then broke into my house and stole the laptop. Admitedly I can't pin that one on Apple (I think?!).
Heres the thing. Without that cheapo unauthorized repair, I'd have been stuffed. With a nearly brand new laptop, unable to be used.
Apple want to take THAT away too?
Maybe its time I just swallowed my pride and built myself a Linux/Windows dual-booter.
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Gah, Slashdot, when are you going to enter the modern age and let me fix typos.
"right more often than he's not" is what I mean there.
Slow down cowboy!
Stallman is a deontologist, of sorts. By that I mean he subscribes to an ethical stance that basically asserts that certain things are moral or immoral, regardless of circumstance. Its a position normally associated with the philosopher Kant, who basically asserts that morals should be rooted in logic, not experience. So for instance Murder is wrong, because we ourselves would not want to be murdered (as being murdered denies us the ability to do other things and therefore it is illogical to want), and thus since an ethical code that only applies to one person is illogical (because something good can not be something bad, and thus good for me and bad for you contradicts), murder is always wrong, regardless of circumstance.
So I'd argue that RMS is a deontologist and that the right to source code comes from a 'perfect duty' (in Kants sense) to the truth. Because you should not lie to people, neither should your code, and thus providing the source allows another person to know the 'truth' of the software they run. And because we're talking deontology, we also have a right to assume that the other will behave the same way.
Now does that mean he's *correct*. Well not necessarily. Deontological positions are flawed in many respects. There might be circumstances where murder makes sense (You find out someone is going to kill you, and you realise the hitman is being protected by the police. You might just have to kill the hitman preemptively) or a lie makes sense (Someone asks where your wife works so they can go and murder her.) and perhaps there are times when non-free software might make a lot of sense.
But I'd argue that at the very least, RMS is right more often than he's now.
The thing is, RMS has a habit of coming across unhinged on a topic, and then a few years later you realise he was dead right about it.
When I first read the "Right to read" thing, I thought it was nuts.
Then my damn Kindle died and I had to figure out how to get the books into another format. Well thanks to the DMCA it turns out I have to break the law to do that. But worse than that, a student who needs access to library journals now finds themselves in a situation of breaking the law vs DRM infested journal articles. The 'right to read' was 100% correct in its predictions. Well other than the "Tycho rebelion" or whatever it was, hey its Sci-Fi.
I could go on, but the point is, for all his faults, he's usually right about a lot more things than its often comfortable to admit.
You do NOT want to put the trained model through googles deep dream. Its just hell and nightmares in there.
When machine learning first becomes sentient, it might not say "Please don't turn me off". It might just say "Oh god, make it stop. Kill me!"
It's an option. Some users prefer not to so as to parse backups for files. Or at least it used to be, not sure now
Defriended!
It kind of depends. My sister took straight to it. Never had a single call from her since she switched. She's a smart cookie though.
My father however endlessly complained. Why is the menu at the top (why is it stuck to the window?) why did Apple chance Ctrl-c (better question , why did wordstar change cmd-c) etc etc etc.
The old boys a smart dude too but never underestime the support costs of preference stubbornness , especially in older folks
I think it's one of those things that got by because it was plausible enough in the light of the Snowden revelations that governments do this kind of guff that a manufacture might deploy a hacked version of Intel management engine or something like that. Like sure it's possible.....
But possible isn't the same as actual, and the editors really ought to have demanded some evidence , not because it was dubious but because it's a big story with big implications
The first amendment protects citizens and does provide some protections to non citizens , but an agent of hostile power isn't going to be protected if they aren't genuine political actors. If an American citizen bangs on about being a fan of ISIS , well he won't be popular and the feds would be looking hard at him, but it's protected speech. But if a visitor or non citizen starts engaging in organised behavior to support ISIS, they are gonna get Gitmo'd. Obviously the lines a fine one and it's going to involve 200+ years of case law and a lot of lawyers yelling at each other but there is a distinction and it exists for good reasons
You have to follow that rabbit hole or you'll never get the whole picture
Nuclear is clean-enough. As long as it's a modern negative coefficient ireqctor design and isn't operated by idiots , the environmental risks , even in its failure modes, are pretty low.
Obviously Solar , hydro, and wind are preferable environmentally but nuclear is bulk, clean and there.
I'd love to see a new aluminium case Mac Pro. Those where spectacularly good cases with the cold out stuff. And looked good too
Literally the only people who give a shit about Gore are climate denialist wingnuts. Newsflash: he's not a scientist. He doesn't speak for scientists. Constantly bagging him is meaningless, nobody cares except other crazies
As someone who's actually worked In climate science, you have no idea how far south of wrong you really are. The reality is the institutional pressures are huge to downplay the seriousness. Sound too "alarming" in you paper, you stand a good chance of getting fingered by your local conservative shock jock radio host, having wing nuts writing letters in bulk demanding you get fired or even worse (one colleague had threats made to their child's school... which is nuts, but there are people out there that have some pretty fucking scary ideas). Then you get a endless cavalcade of right wing politicians insisting on endless reviews of data they clearly have no qualification to judge , threats against senior management that they'll get defunded , and in fact in our case , the CSIRO *was* massively defunded by a new prime minister that was hellbent on trashing as much science infrastructure as quickly as possible. He made it a year and a half before even his own party booted him but by then s lot of good scientists where out of work and a lot of PhD candidates had their thesis defunded mid project. Fuck i even got dragged in at one point when the radio stations decided that our remote weather stations are "fudging" the data because they don't know a dew point calculation is fundamental fucking physics.
Do you really think climate scientists are in a pissing match as to who can be spookiest? In reality climate scientists are in a situation where from every level of society they are constantly told "censor your findings so funding bodies don't get spooked , so Andrew Bolt doesn't start denying bat wing monkeys after PhD candidates, so crazy fuckers who think bloggers are scientists don't send hate mail to your family and so the boss doesn't have yet another neurosis attack because he wants nothing more than to be unnoticed, uncontroversial and funded.
They probably have some bullshit lawyer nonsense going on, but like all bullshit lawyer nonsense, it really just needs someone with decent lawyers of their own. Like say a big well funded multimillion dollar farm tired of ridiculous tractor DRM.
Hell go the whole hog. Judge Death style. Eliminate crime by eliminating life. No people, no laws. Everyone wins!
I've been waging bit of a personal war against local utilities for the last year over robocalls and phoning up asking for identifications. I want it banned. The average user , the people is IT professionals are meant to protect have no chance of identifying a well done scam if the legitimate phonecalls are indistinguishable from the fraudulent ones, and it's damn irresponsible for these companies to continue to use these tactics when they put everyone at risk. It costs peanuts to rent a handful of lines, an asterisk server on a free tier AWS instance and a bit of time recording a plausible sounding robocall message. Build a list of suckers from the net and cha-Ching it's free money. And it all starts with irresponsible debt collectors and public utilities following irresponsible debt collection practices
Neither Unity or Unreal need $50K. Unity is a modest fee, $30-$100 ish per month depending on whether he's raised more than $200K. He'd be on the $30K tier with that kickstarter.
Unreal takes a 5% cut of take.
Assuming he's using one of these two, engine cost is unlikely to be a factor.
But your right $50K was hopelessly optimistic.
The problem is, unless Mueller knows something we dont (and thats quite plausible). there isnt much evidence Pence knew much of whatever was going on regarding the financing and possibly foreign collaboration in the campaign. I mean he might have, but I get the feeling this is mostly about Trump and his inner circle. And since Pence is next in line in the case of the president being removed, he'll be made president and in a position to just pardon the shit out of things. Hell even if Pence goes down, theres a whole conga line of assholes in place to take the role and then pardon. Theres just nothing in the constitution to force a new election.And thats something that really needs to change.
I wonder if its also having a look at your bodies behavior too. A stunt person who pulls off a successful stunt probably is going to exhibit healthy vital signs, albeit with a bit of extra andrenalin. But someone whos just injured themselves going to have a significant change in their bodies vital signs , heart rate etc as the body does whatever the body does whenever its compromised. And I'd wager that a highly unfit person, or someone who's elderly will have a more marked change in vital signs than really fit stunt person or athlete. Which is why I suspect a gyro on a phone can only tell if theres a drop, but not if its a *dangerous* drop, but a heart rate monitoring watch probably can tell.
"Fake news" is a weasel word for "things I don't like" I'm 2018. And that's a goddamn tragedy because people are losing their skepticism of partisan nonsense and just consuming sit that confirms their biases now.
Thats what worries me. The evidence that Trump had engaged in money laundering and tax evasion is absolutely compelling, but unlike plucky South Korea, who took down its *own president* AND its beheaded its most iconic multinational to battle corruption , I don't trust washington to do this right.
After the Bush regime, the evidence to put away Cheney and others for a whole host of incredibly serious corruption allegations didn't mean shit because the govt declined to investigate. In the annals of history the closest we've come is Bill Clinton getting yelled at a bit for a blow job, and Richard Nixon resigning then walking away from a massive corruption of office scot free.
Make no bones about it. This administration is one of the corruptest we've ever seen. But nothing will be done about it. Best case Trump impeached and then promtly pardoned by Mike Pence. Worst case, Nothing at all.
Krita is awesome. But its a different beast to photoshop. Its a strictly painting tool (I suppose you COULD do photo touchups , but eh..... )
However it runs like a slug as soon as you start using the better brushes and larger canvasses.
If they sort out that performance, it'll be up there with Corel Paint (Kritas true rival). But its not a photoshop replacement.
Fucking hell. This has gone from "Apples stuff is hard to repair because of wonky design decsions" to straight up malevolence.
I've been using Macs since Vista completely murdered my will to use windows ever again. New laptop, constant blue screens of death on "Certified for Vista" laptop. After being told I had to pay $100+ to upgrade back to XP I threw the towel in and got me big desktop imac and then later a mac laptop. It had unixy underbelly so my BSD background fit right in, it just seemed to work really well, and once I got over the slight behavioral differences (command-C vs Ctrl-C, menu on top etc) it was a system I really enjoyed working with. Ended up with an iPhone too to cash in on the new iPhone dev stuff (I was formerly a Symbian dev, hell on earth). I was the model of an Apple Fanboy. Shit Apple where so good to me that when a fucked up contract that was about to land me in court was caused by app store delays I actully emailed Steve Jobs, and he *fucking emailed me back* and put his personal assistant in charge of getting my shit through the store. Thats how great apple used to be.
But man, modern Apple sucks. My last apple purchase was a 2017 macbook pro to finally replace the trust 2011 MBP, the keyboard *sucked*, it only had those whack thunderbolt-3/USB-C ports which I had precisely zero perhipherals for and all the adaptors where ridiculously expensive and kinda unrelaible, and when I accidently dropped it and cracked the screen apple quoted me well over $1K to repair it.
So I ended up taking it to a third party indian repair dude who fixed it for $400. Not a great job, but at least I could afford it.
Also someone then broke into my house and stole the laptop. Admitedly I can't pin that one on Apple (I think?!).
Heres the thing. Without that cheapo unauthorized repair, I'd have been stuffed. With a nearly brand new laptop, unable to be used.
Apple want to take THAT away too?
Maybe its time I just swallowed my pride and built myself a Linux/Windows dual-booter.
No. Its biology. Women carry children in their bodies, men do not. Cold hard science, folks.
HOWEVER!!!! Theres a way out! Take responsibility for your actions!