What's wrong with labels, then? You're acting like they're something bad, but you're not actually explaining why. Certain labels just happen to help with knowing how to treat a person in some situations, like e.g. my ex is highly dyslexic and therefore has trouble with written content; if you're communicating with her but don't know about her "label" -- as you so eloquently put -- you'd think she's either retarded or doesn't bother to follow the communication because she keeps misinterpreting what's being said or reading it completely wrong. On the other hand, if you know about her "label" you'll know to write your sentences slightly different so they may be easier to interpret and if she still misreads what's being said you can just ask her to re-read the thing.
Personally I feel there's nothing wrong with most labels, it just seems fashionable to complain about them.
and was told flatly by school officials that they didn't recognize Dyslexia as a condition. That their diagnosis (a school giving a medical diagnosis? never mind...) was that she was hyperactive and had a problem with authority. They suggested Ritalin. I pointed out that an independent psychologist hadn't found any signs of hyperactivity. They stuck to their guns.
Wow, that's...fucked up. I hope you got her transferred to some other school or worked out the whole thing. Luckily here in Finland dyslexia is actually recognized as a medical condition and kids who get diagnosed as dyslexic get help with that -- no Ritalin, not treated like retards, no claims of hyperactivity.
Ambition: These network admins need some. I'm still waiting for one of these sites to update their DNS to include every IP address on the internet with an 'A' record in their domain, then create a web page for their crawler that sequentially lists them all. The entire UK wakes up tomorrow with no internet.
That's exactly the same thought I've had rumbling around in my head for a while now, though if I were running one of these blocked sites I'd probably include all the government sites and such there, but leave all the questionable content - offering sites out of there just to mess with people even more. On that note I'm fully expecting someone to blanket a whole range of IP-addresses like this and watching Cameron burn. Too bad that I don't like popcorn.
Why run a WWW server at home, when you can use a hosting service for as little as $4 per month?
That can just as well be turned into "Why pay $4 a month for a hosting service when you can use any old machine at home and host it yourself for free?" On that same note, this website may very well be connected to other services that you're offering and you may not want to hand all the precious data to a 3rd party that may or may not be trust-worthy.
He probably meant SDL v1.2 which was licensed under the LGPL.
LGPL still does allow linking against proprietary code, so I don't see the problem there, either. There are plenty of commercial, proprietary games that use SDL for one or another thing.
Here's the problem with Runbox: They email your username and password when you set up your account
They didn't mail me that. I did get mail for the *support account* with the username and password, but not for the actual Runbox-account.
plus they send your password to your recovery email address if you ever use the 'forgot password' function at login. Not a password reset link, or a temporary password to be reset. Your password, in plain text. Go on, try it yourself right now since you are using their service.
Nope. I just tried it, it's a link to reset the password. At no point was my original password mentioned anywhere. I have no idea where you've gotten your misinformation from, but it's clearly incorrect.
I am using www.runbox.com myself: it's a service based in Norway, it's pretty cheap considering, they do not have any NSA-ties or the likes. I dunno what else to say about it, really, so I'll just copypaste this from their site:
Email Privacy in Norway
Some countries, especially in Europe, have a constitutional guarantee of secrecy of correspondence, wherein email is equated with letters and therefore protected from all types of screening and surveillance. In electronic communication, this principle protects not only the message contents but also the logs of when and from/to whom messages have been sent.
In Norway, freedom of expression and privacy of correspondence is governed by Article 100 and 102 of the Constitution and the implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights in the Norwegian Human Rights Act, especially Article 8: Right to respect for private and family life.
Additionally, the Personal Data Act as set forth by the Norwegian Data Inspectorate regulates collection, storage, and processing of personal data.
The Data Inspectorate was established January 1, 1980 and was among the first agencies in the world to facilitate the protection of individuals from violation of their right to privacy through processing of their personal data.
Central principles of the Norwegian data privacy regulations are:
Personal data must only be collected by private entities when consent from the user has been obtained.
Personal data must not be used for purposes inconsistent with the initial purpose of collection except with consent from the user.
Personal data must not be stored longer than required by the purpose of collection.
Personal data must be kept confidential unless required by law or court order.
Finally, the coming Data Retention Directive will soon be implemented in Norway but will only regulate electronic infrastructure providers, which Runbox is not.
Doesn't this therefore render the copier as "unfit for purpose" and you can get a refund?
I doubt it as the work-around is so easy: just change quality-settings from normal to high and the problem disappears. The factory default settings are obviously bad, but since the settings can be changed so easily I don't think it qualifies for the "unfit for purpose" - claim.
People are retrieving documents from the copier storage.
Oh, I know. Industry spies and hackers often try to acquire used copiers exactly with the hopes that the seller forgot to empty the storage medium. The documents stored can be worth tens of thousands of bucks in the right hands. Alas, that's a completely separate issue from what the OP was complaining about.
Am I the only one who finds this truly frightning; that the photocopier has a bug in a sub system that is basically reading the content of the documents being photocopied?
Lose the tinfoil. The copier isn't "reading" the document, it's simply compressing the document and storing it. The compression-method works by splitting the document into lots of smaller rectangles, then trying to find rectangles that look similar and then only storing the one, single rectangle and just copying that to the other areas when decompressing.
Yes, he did. If you'd care to read the story you would've known the answer without having to ask here and then complain about something that's not even applicable here.
Incorrect. The way these Xerox - machines work is that they first scan the document, then compress it and store it on the storage medium, and then use that compressed file to print out the copy from. It's braindead.
If you'd care to read TFA you'd notice that they aren't grinding up the whole thing, they are just grinding up the board, ie. non-metallic components. The metallic components are retrieved and recycled. As such your rant is completely misplaced.
and killing offspring is directly opposed to the core of evolutionary theory, which rewards the widest possible range of mates to guarantee diverse genetic combinations and the maximum chances for survival and spread of strong genes.
This may come as a complete surprise to you, but there do exist plenty of creatures out there that do kill the offspring and still haven't become extinct and there do exist plenty of creatures out there that do not kill their offspring and only mate with one or very few partners and still haven't managed to become extinct. Hell, there exists atleast one specific one that doesn't mate at all and produces only perfect clones of themselves, and still haven't become extinct. The point is, you cannot just lump different survival-strategies together like that and deny the existence or even the possibility for anything other than your one chosen one; what works for one type of a creature may not work for another, and the nature has the tendency of throwing all sorts of types of stuff on the wall and seeing what sticks.
Anyone can log in and make a proposal, even a complete newbie and layman, but as I said the system is not a wiki: only the people who create a proposal can edit it. Anyone can suggest additions and fixes to an existing proposal they didn't create, but obviously it's the people who created it in the first place who decide whether to do anything with those suggestions.
If you take a downloaded copy of HotSummerBlockbuster 3.0 and burn it to a DVD, that DVD is still covered by copyright.
No, the DVD doesn't become "copyrighted" like that. It's content will be, yes, but the entirety isn't.
Similarly, you couldn't download a copyrighted song, have vinyl plates cut from it, press records, and sell those.
Of course, the songs as presented are copyrighted. But you're comparing apples and oranges here: the CAD-files used to create 3D-objects are similar to notes used to create songs -- the creator of the notes does not own copyrights to the actual recordings made from those notes.
Can anyone from Finland chime in and let us know if this is likely to go ahead untarnished by the political process, or will it be a given lip service and normal politics resumed ASAP?
Given the cynicist that I am I expect them to briefly glance at it, pretend to care about the issue, then reject the proposal while pocketing some "gifts" from "friendly parties" behind the scenes.
It would be really surprising if there are no "eastereggs" written by lobbying lawyers in there...
The proposal in its entirety is fully-accessible online and can be read by anyone. Also, it's not editable by everyone, it's not a wiki -- lobbyists can't just pop in there and add or edit stuff as they please.
Frankly, I do not know. I'm no expert here. But now that the thing is in place such tasks can actually be benchmarked and tested, and I would expect such benchmarks quite soon.
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What's wrong with labels, then? You're acting like they're something bad, but you're not actually explaining why. Certain labels just happen to help with knowing how to treat a person in some situations, like e.g. my ex is highly dyslexic and therefore has trouble with written content; if you're communicating with her but don't know about her "label" -- as you so eloquently put -- you'd think she's either retarded or doesn't bother to follow the communication because she keeps misinterpreting what's being said or reading it completely wrong. On the other hand, if you know about her "label" you'll know to write your sentences slightly different so they may be easier to interpret and if she still misreads what's being said you can just ask her to re-read the thing.
Personally I feel there's nothing wrong with most labels, it just seems fashionable to complain about them.
and was told flatly by school officials that they didn't recognize Dyslexia as a condition. That their diagnosis (a school giving a medical diagnosis? never mind...) was that she was hyperactive and had a problem with authority. They suggested Ritalin. I pointed out that an independent psychologist hadn't found any signs of hyperactivity. They stuck to their guns.
Wow, that's...fucked up. I hope you got her transferred to some other school or worked out the whole thing. Luckily here in Finland dyslexia is actually recognized as a medical condition and kids who get diagnosed as dyslexic get help with that -- no Ritalin, not treated like retards, no claims of hyperactivity.
Ambition: These network admins need some. I'm still waiting for one of these sites to update their DNS to include every IP address on the internet with an 'A' record in their domain, then create a web page for their crawler that sequentially lists them all. The entire UK wakes up tomorrow with no internet.
That's exactly the same thought I've had rumbling around in my head for a while now, though if I were running one of these blocked sites I'd probably include all the government sites and such there, but leave all the questionable content - offering sites out of there just to mess with people even more. On that note I'm fully expecting someone to blanket a whole range of IP-addresses like this and watching Cameron burn. Too bad that I don't like popcorn.
Why run a WWW server at home, when you can use a hosting service for as little as $4 per month?
That can just as well be turned into "Why pay $4 a month for a hosting service when you can use any old machine at home and host it yourself for free?" On that same note, this website may very well be connected to other services that you're offering and you may not want to hand all the precious data to a 3rd party that may or may not be trust-worthy.
Well, thanks for clarifying that bit.
He probably meant SDL v1.2 which was licensed under the LGPL.
LGPL still does allow linking against proprietary code, so I don't see the problem there, either. There are plenty of commercial, proprietary games that use SDL for one or another thing.
The (weak) copyleft license of SDL also meant that games couldn't be recompiled for distribution on game consoles.
Uh, what? It's licensed under the zlib - license ( http://www.gzip.org/zlib/zlib_license.html ), how does that preclude game consoles?
Here's the problem with Runbox: They email your username and password when you set up your account
They didn't mail me that. I did get mail for the *support account* with the username and password, but not for the actual Runbox-account.
plus they send your password to your recovery email address if you ever use the 'forgot password' function at login. Not a password reset link, or a temporary password to be reset. Your password, in plain text. Go on, try it yourself right now since you are using their service.
Nope. I just tried it, it's a link to reset the password. At no point was my original password mentioned anywhere. I have no idea where you've gotten your misinformation from, but it's clearly incorrect.
I am using www.runbox.com myself: it's a service based in Norway, it's pretty cheap considering, they do not have any NSA-ties or the likes. I dunno what else to say about it, really, so I'll just copypaste this from their site:
Email Privacy in Norway
Some countries, especially in Europe, have a constitutional guarantee of secrecy of correspondence, wherein email is equated with letters and therefore protected from all types of screening and surveillance. In electronic communication, this principle protects not only the message contents but also the logs of when and from/to whom messages have been sent.
In Norway, freedom of expression and privacy of correspondence is governed by Article 100 and 102 of the Constitution and the implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights in the Norwegian Human Rights Act, especially Article 8: Right to respect for private and family life.
Additionally, the Personal Data Act as set forth by the Norwegian Data Inspectorate regulates collection, storage, and processing of personal data.
The Data Inspectorate was established January 1, 1980 and was among the first agencies in the world to facilitate the protection of individuals from violation of their right to privacy through processing of their personal data.
Central principles of the Norwegian data privacy regulations are:
Personal data must only be collected by private entities when consent from the user has been obtained.
Personal data must not be used for purposes inconsistent with the initial purpose of collection except with consent from the user.
Personal data must not be stored longer than required by the purpose of collection.
Personal data must be kept confidential unless required by law or court order.
Finally, the coming Data Retention Directive will soon be implemented in Norway but will only regulate electronic infrastructure providers, which Runbox is not.
Do you work, or have you worked, directly for Xerox on these sorts of products?
No, but I do possess a skill most people in this modern world seem not to possess: I can read stuff.
If you have not, how did you come upon this information? Is it based on actual specifications or design documents? Or is it based on speculation?
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/08/confused-photocopiers-randomly-rewriting-scanned-documents/
Doesn't this therefore render the copier as "unfit for purpose" and you can get a refund?
I doubt it as the work-around is so easy: just change quality-settings from normal to high and the problem disappears. The factory default settings are obviously bad, but since the settings can be changed so easily I don't think it qualifies for the "unfit for purpose" - claim.
People are retrieving documents from the copier storage.
Oh, I know. Industry spies and hackers often try to acquire used copiers exactly with the hopes that the seller forgot to empty the storage medium. The documents stored can be worth tens of thousands of bucks in the right hands. Alas, that's a completely separate issue from what the OP was complaining about.
If it isn't reading the document, how do you think it can detect that you are copying money and stop you?
Pattern recognition.
Am I the only one who finds this truly frightning; that the photocopier has a bug in a sub system that is basically reading the content of the documents being photocopied?
Lose the tinfoil. The copier isn't "reading" the document, it's simply compressing the document and storing it. The compression-method works by splitting the document into lots of smaller rectangles, then trying to find rectangles that look similar and then only storing the one, single rectangle and just copying that to the other areas when decompressing.
Yes, he did. If you'd care to read the story you would've known the answer without having to ask here and then complain about something that's not even applicable here.
Copying is still high quality.
Incorrect. The way these Xerox - machines work is that they first scan the document, then compress it and store it on the storage medium, and then use that compressed file to print out the copy from. It's braindead.
If you'd care to read TFA you'd notice that they aren't grinding up the whole thing, they are just grinding up the board, ie. non-metallic components. The metallic components are retrieved and recycled. As such your rant is completely misplaced.
Hell, there exists atleast one specific one that doesn't mate at all and produces only perfect clones of themselves, and still haven't become extinct.
In case you don't know the specific term for this (and how widespread it is): Parthenogenesis.
Aye, I was looking for the word. Thanks! :)
and killing offspring is directly opposed to the core of evolutionary theory, which rewards the widest possible range of mates to guarantee diverse genetic combinations and the maximum chances for survival and spread of strong genes.
This may come as a complete surprise to you, but there do exist plenty of creatures out there that do kill the offspring and still haven't become extinct and there do exist plenty of creatures out there that do not kill their offspring and only mate with one or very few partners and still haven't managed to become extinct. Hell, there exists atleast one specific one that doesn't mate at all and produces only perfect clones of themselves, and still haven't become extinct. The point is, you cannot just lump different survival-strategies together like that and deny the existence or even the possibility for anything other than your one chosen one; what works for one type of a creature may not work for another, and the nature has the tendency of throwing all sorts of types of stuff on the wall and seeing what sticks.
What does it being readable on line have to do with who wrote it?
1) You can see who wrote it. 2) You can see if there are any "easter eggs" -- as the OP so eloquently put it -- there.
Anyone can log in and make a proposal, even a complete newbie and layman, but as I said the system is not a wiki: only the people who create a proposal can edit it. Anyone can suggest additions and fixes to an existing proposal they didn't create, but obviously it's the people who created it in the first place who decide whether to do anything with those suggestions.
If you take a downloaded copy of HotSummerBlockbuster 3.0 and burn it to a DVD, that DVD is still covered by copyright.
No, the DVD doesn't become "copyrighted" like that. It's content will be, yes, but the entirety isn't.
Similarly, you couldn't download a copyrighted song, have vinyl plates cut from it, press records, and sell those.
Of course, the songs as presented are copyrighted. But you're comparing apples and oranges here: the CAD-files used to create 3D-objects are similar to notes used to create songs -- the creator of the notes does not own copyrights to the actual recordings made from those notes.
Can anyone from Finland chime in and let us know if this is likely to go ahead untarnished by the political process, or will it be a given lip service and normal politics resumed ASAP?
Given the cynicist that I am I expect them to briefly glance at it, pretend to care about the issue, then reject the proposal while pocketing some "gifts" from "friendly parties" behind the scenes.
It would be really surprising if there are no "eastereggs" written by lobbying lawyers in there...
The proposal in its entirety is fully-accessible online and can be read by anyone. Also, it's not editable by everyone, it's not a wiki -- lobbyists can't just pop in there and add or edit stuff as they please.
But isn't it even worse with Gallium?
Frankly, I do not know. I'm no expert here. But now that the thing is in place such tasks can actually be benchmarked and tested, and I would expect such benchmarks quite soon.