Only if you take into account plain suburban villettas. Once you start taking all that encompasses civil engineering (bridges, airports, sewer, hydro, dams... etc) your argument breaks down.
Over here in Italy a "geometra" (some kind of undergraduate technical school oriented towards construction, mostly for rank & file bureaucrat training) can design up to 3 storey buildings but as long as he can lookup tables it'll do fine. The thing is... there are tables to lookup
Once you begin work on anything as simple as a bridge, or designing prebuilt bridge segments, there's a heap of best practices, design guides, normative calculations, specification requirements and field implementation guidelines to follow; each design is more or less unique but the process has been very thoroughly ironed out so as to look simplistic, but it's not.
Oh come on, please don't stare blankly at the finger! The guy in question is an average joe on vacation who grabbed some stuff and expected it to work on his own equipment. The same would happen had he been in any other asian country or even Europe for that matter. The point is, the kid was very dissapointed when the corporations broke his expensive little toy and expected some way to wipe out the DRM. Hadn't there been deCSS, he'd be very annoyed; don't expect any ridiculous DRM to get past this (prevalent) kind of consumer... they want to copy stuff, rip some of it off if it's too expensive, do stuff at their conditions. I wonder if all those that used to rip off SKY are buying all the expensive subscriptions now that it's changing the encryption system. My bet is blockbuster DVD is making good business, especially now that anyone with a computer can make "backups" with relative ease;-)
Oh no, the average consumer does care for DRM. The other day some guy was complaining a DVD he bought in Nepal wouldn't work on his Home Cinema Player. He was miffed while I expounded the evil of Region Coding and DeCSS status as illegal software; just waiting for the end of the preach to ask: "Ok you're the smart guy here, can you please rip it on a blank without this pesky shtuff in it?" So the avg consumer does care about DRM... once they're bitten in the ass...
Isn't the exponent of the gaussian density squared? Percentiles are the integral of the density and omitting the square law makes a hell of a difference on definition range, mean, variance and even the existence of a definite integral... Check your numbers before deluding countless/.ers...;-)
I'm sorry to hear that... but seen from down here (Italy) Norway has huge karma among the laymen. All of Scandinavia is considered as advanced as you can get in terms of social & political organization; Eg: we were quite incredulous when the swede Foreign Minister Lindh was killed.
It seems that the rehabilitation part of the sentence isn't being carried out properly;-) I'm not a psychologist but putting some perspective into an asshole's head by having him wake @ 5:00 AM and do something useful for the community would make wonders on his inflated ego... (which is, IMHO, the root cause of many un-social and criminal activity).
I'm italian, we still live by an amended fascist criminal prosecution code (Codice Rocco)... this christmas another 'cammorrista' (member of the neapolitan mob) was killed in a busy street in Naples. The death count is somewhere between 100 and 110... it doesn't work the other way either...
Ok but as I said about another guy getting buried in jail for stealing CC off a WiFi network: there's a limit to the cumulability of certain crimes; you can't transform a relatively minor crime in a life sentence by stodgily adding up jail time per act * number of violations. If anything it should have a Log progression and in any case a cap; nothing less severe than loss of life / pain should be punished with more than 10 years. Corp Excecutives get away anyway so being tough of little guys is maximally unfair... On the other hand, a sentence to some socially useful job is way more effective towards social rehabilitation / damage repair.
Of course not... but I'm sick of this "bad apple" tripe. While it's not representative of the US's population as a whole (not YOU or your dear nanny and her apple pie), the US Govt. has, throughout the last century thoroughly fucked up anyone's life it pleased. Wikipaedia or any random googling will route you to South America's unlucky fate as US neighbour and playground (banana republic, Chile, Allende, Argentina, Contra, Colombia... hell even Cuba) The US quite simply murdered or substantially helped psycotic dictators more than willing to do so, anyone that got in their business' way. And went on ranting away at Communist threat; which was nothing but exasperated farmers, shit poor bastards that just wished to improve their living standards to humane levels and shrug some robber barons off their back. Jeez, you could have helped them out like you did with Europe; tilt the balance towards socialdemocratic friendly systems but no, you had to go the Rummy way and get the swats in... No, I'm not US phobic; actually I sympathise with 49% you you folks;-)
Ok fine, as long as you don't become a problem for the system you're (more or less) left alone... it's called jus murmurandi. Any non liberal political system is very lax in applying such repression so not to alienate the majority of the subdued masses; which are pretty condescending as long as their primary needs are satisfied. But don't worry, the moment you become a threat, you're quite certain there's some obscure, anal retentive prohibition, you'll get fucked over with. It's like having a dog on the leash, as long as it's not pulling you have no reason to strangle the poor sap (unless you're a loony bastard, like Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, etc...)
I mean come on! Paper receipts are just handy printouts of data transactions happening in some datacenter... the transaction was electronic in the first place, the receipt is just a convenience as opposed to lugging around a networked PC while shopping. Jeez, argumenting against this crap feels like feeding an über troll... bah!
Because you have a large music collection and don't want to manage it yourself? In early days of my Mac I ftpd my Linux $HOME to it and imported all the mp3s into iTunes and some had ID3, some not, some were plain wrong, etc... XMMS/Winamp is OK when you have very little music or a lot of patience keeping the stuff organized by hand. iTunes shines as it takes the burden off the user and places it on the CPU. I know a lot of people that don't own an iPod but happily dump all their stuff into iTunes so it's basically becoming a standard as IE or bash.
What's wrong with you guys?! Why on earth do you ALWAYS have to wear bloody snickers all the time! A good pair of red leather high heels would've done a world of difference to that chick (she is a bit heavy on the thigh and heels do wonders on womens' legs) sheesh!
Even according to an "eye for eye" meter, frauding CC accounts isn't the same as pulling the trigger against someone staring in your eyes begging for mercy or pummeling a desperate chick amidst piercing screams... these are more akin to crimes against the humanity embodied in the victim. CC frauds are a burden to the system, involves added costs and generally make good business for damn insurance companies so, don't you think you're getting too touchy? Jail good for these guys? Shure. 9 years? It sounds like a bloody lot of time... perhaps too much unless they can get parole in at most 2~3 and assigned to some social assistance to recoup the cost they woul've been to society. (and in some low risk detention center; no need to add torture to punishment slamming them together with deranged people)
In medieval times the professors used to get the money staright from students at the end of class... if these weren't amused by the asshole's intemperance they would often beat the man with a cluestick... I can't tell how many times I wished I could've done that!
I once found this quote in some guy's signature, which I've added to the list of mine:
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Think of the Linux community as a niche economy isolated by its beliefs. Kind of like the Amish, except that our religion requires us to use _higher_ technology than everyone else
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Half your post is a bad troll, but let's concentrate on le last sentence. First of all, there aren't million of addicts, not the heavy bad stuff anyway.
Heroin has dropped and most of the consumers are old timers. Cocaine is on the rise, it's considered recreational, unlike the former that's perceived as a minkfuck. Trouble is, coco is part of an '80s revival glamish fashion and it's price has dropped to the point that's is not an elite drug anymore. For the price of a couple drinks you get enough stuff to snuffle throughout the night. This is a dangerous trend, but you can't possibly abandon otherwise fine & productive citizens to jail or maginalization. These idiots are quite a lot, but except for this habit they're fine people, students, workers, consumers you can't possibly throw in jail or criminalize into a margin of society; they belong infact to the core of italian middle class.
Light stuff like weed and resin are a non issue. Over here, practically half on the population has smoked some at some stage and is either going on with little or no social consequence or quitted out of pure boredom (actually it's easier than quitting cigs). Any reasonable policy maker would dismiss is as a non issue and if unwilling to go the dutch way, at least turn a healthy blind eye. Unfortunately we (Italy) are governed by a hacked together rightwing coalition (Berlusconi... the man that sought office to pursue his personal interests) and the post fascists (Fini, leader of the AN, National Alliance party) got their way into criminalizing this too beyond reason.
Bad stuff like pills and excstasy used to be very big but the media got bored and it's consumption belongs to a kind of club culture that isn't fashionable any more. Other countries handled the issue like I said in previous posts, we didn't really do anything about it: cry foul on TV when some random kid died, capturing some stuff in police operations and basta. Nothing beyond the useless: "It's bad, don't do it!" which we all know is the last thing to say to a rebellious tewnty-something.
Other stuff like crack isn't common here; it's ghetto crap and over here, heroin is queen for this group.
Treating thousands of addicts isn't very expensive, all it requires is the correct mass deployment of psyc counselors (useful for other pathologies too like depression, abuse trauma, etc...) and some substitutive drug to chill the abstinence. Treating survivors is expensive instead; for one thing it isn't fair on them to suffer, but let's not limit to homicides. Drugs is the strongest drive to small/mid criminal offence; extortion, vehicle theft, mugging. Repressing there crimes requires very strong surveillance (a quasi militarization) and that's very expensive; regulate drug abuse and you've defused an issue that holds captive whole uderdeveloped suburban regions.
The criminal violence related to drugs isn't only the stoned idiot breaking in and raping grandma; it's the mafia reinvesting the millions in contractor business (polluting it), political greasing and general entrenching of it's noxious influence in society... now if that isn't a cost?
Thirdly, even if you were referring to fusion as requiring 100 million degrees to occur, and not fission, you'd still be wrong. Fusion can occur at much lower temperatures. The surface of the sun, for example, is "only" about 6,000 degrees Kelvin, yet is one giant, sustained fusion reaction. Of course, that would still be far too hot for any materials known to man to contain, but it is a far cry from your claimed "100 million degrees."
but there's no fusion happening on the sun's surface. If you whip up an undergrad science picture book you'd recall that the sun's surface is simply the bubbling top of a large plasma gas convection system. For some reason I don't recall, like radiation pressure or plain exitation/emission the corona is up to 10^6 K while obviously the inner nucleus is back to the 10^7-10^8 range by virtue of the intense pressure, and fusion occours.
MODs, are you on crack? This is a troll... it's arguing that since nuclear power plants aren't made by people smashing atoms with big mallets "nuclear fission" is a misnomer... +3 Insightful? my ass...
All it will take is a few more Argentinas. ..
Italy next in line...
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I hope you're trying, unsuccesfully, to be funny. In any case it is cheaper: for one you don't have to militarize everyone's existence, there's your first expense cut. Secondly, it dramatically reduces the risks of having innocent people killed or permanently injured because of criminal activity; lots of expensive therapy and psicological assistance for the survivors saved. Thirdly you might even recoup individuals to productive workforce. Fourthly, how 'bout having that warm fuzzy feeling christians call charity? I'm agnostic but I recognize the value in helping out a human being's existence; it's a good investment and our species' success is a testament to that survival strategy called mutual assistence... if you don't agree fine... enjoy your personal paranoid hell.
Well, libraries have version numbers and you can have as many as you wish on the same machine. It becomes problematic when incompatible API changes slip into a minor revision number or when there are many separate libraries offering closely related services. Some programs like, say mplayer depend on a myriad different libs, one for ogg, another for id tags, another for this codec family, yet another for this codec, and that other codec, etc... it quickly gets out of hand when you need to update or install aside the old not one but, say, 10 different libs. In these cases an effort should be done to build an umbrella framework that encompasses all these funcionalities, a la quicktime. It's like formatting a disk with 512b sectors; it saves space but beyond a certain limit it's cumbersome.
Uh... well... uhh... (blushing in shame)... made a fool of myself yet again...;-) I thought you had submitted the same story but got the axe because of the bland title. Anyway, it doesn't change the sense of your post and mine: massaging news to spice them up, deliberately relying on equivoke. Oh, what the hell... we all know editors are slashdotters favourite joke!;-)
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Only if you take into account plain suburban villettas. Once you start taking all that encompasses civil engineering (bridges, airports, sewer, hydro, dams... etc) your argument breaks down.
Over here in Italy a "geometra" (some kind of undergraduate technical school oriented towards construction, mostly for rank & file bureaucrat training) can design up to 3 storey buildings but as long as he can lookup tables it'll do fine. The thing is... there are tables to lookup
Once you begin work on anything as simple as a bridge, or designing prebuilt bridge segments, there's a heap of best practices, design guides, normative calculations, specification requirements and field implementation guidelines to follow; each design is more or less unique but the process has been very thoroughly ironed out so as to look simplistic, but it's not.
Oh come on, please don't stare blankly at the finger! The guy in question is an average joe on vacation who grabbed some stuff and expected it to work on his own equipment. The same would happen had he been in any other asian country or even Europe for that matter. The point is, the kid was very dissapointed when the corporations broke his expensive little toy and expected some way to wipe out the DRM. Hadn't there been deCSS, he'd be very annoyed; don't expect any ridiculous DRM to get past this (prevalent) kind of consumer... they want to copy stuff, rip some of it off if it's too expensive, do stuff at their conditions. I wonder if all those that used to rip off SKY are buying all the expensive subscriptions now that it's changing the encryption system. My bet is blockbuster DVD is making good business, especially now that anyone with a computer can make "backups" with relative ease ;-)
Oh no, the average consumer does care for DRM. The other day some guy was complaining a DVD he bought in Nepal wouldn't work on his Home Cinema Player. He was miffed while I expounded the evil of Region Coding and DeCSS status as illegal software; just waiting for the end of the preach to ask: "Ok you're the smart guy here, can you please rip it on a blank without this pesky shtuff in it?" So the avg consumer does care about DRM... once they're bitten in the ass...
Isn't the exponent of the gaussian density squared? Percentiles are the integral of the density and omitting the square law makes a hell of a difference on definition range, mean, variance and even the existence of a definite integral... Check your numbers before deluding countless /.ers... ;-)
I'm sorry to hear that... but seen from down here (Italy) Norway has huge karma among the laymen. All of Scandinavia is considered as advanced as you can get in terms of social & political organization; Eg: we were quite incredulous when the swede Foreign Minister Lindh was killed.
;-) I'm not a psychologist but putting some perspective into an asshole's head by having him wake @ 5:00 AM and do something useful for the community would make wonders on his inflated ego... (which is, IMHO, the root cause of many un-social and criminal activity).
It seems that the rehabilitation part of the sentence isn't being carried out properly
I'm italian, we still live by an amended fascist criminal prosecution code (Codice Rocco)... this christmas another 'cammorrista' (member of the neapolitan mob) was killed in a busy street in Naples. The death count is somewhere between 100 and 110... it doesn't work the other way either...
Ok but as I said about another guy getting buried in jail for stealing CC off a WiFi network: there's a limit to the cumulability of certain crimes; you can't transform a relatively minor crime in a life sentence by stodgily adding up jail time per act * number of violations. If anything it should have a Log progression and in any case a cap; nothing less severe than loss of life / pain should be punished with more than 10 years. Corp Excecutives get away anyway so being tough of little guys is maximally unfair... On the other hand, a sentence to some socially useful job is way more effective towards social rehabilitation / damage repair.
Of course not... but I'm sick of this "bad apple" tripe. While it's not representative of the US's population as a whole (not YOU or your dear nanny and her apple pie), the US Govt. has, throughout the last century thoroughly fucked up anyone's life it pleased. Wikipaedia or any random googling will route you to South America's unlucky fate as US neighbour and playground (banana republic, Chile, Allende, Argentina, Contra, Colombia... hell even Cuba) The US quite simply murdered or substantially helped psycotic dictators more than willing to do so, anyone that got in their business' way. And went on ranting away at Communist threat; which was nothing but exasperated farmers, shit poor bastards that just wished to improve their living standards to humane levels and shrug some robber barons off their back. Jeez, you could have helped them out like you did with Europe; tilt the balance towards socialdemocratic friendly systems but no, you had to go the Rummy way and get the swats in... No, I'm not US phobic; actually I sympathise with 49% you you folks ;-)
Ok fine, as long as you don't become a problem for the system you're (more or less) left alone... it's called jus murmurandi. Any non liberal political system is very lax in applying such repression so not to alienate the majority of the subdued masses; which are pretty condescending as long as their primary needs are satisfied. But don't worry, the moment you become a threat, you're quite certain there's some obscure, anal retentive prohibition, you'll get fucked over with. It's like having a dog on the leash, as long as it's not pulling you have no reason to strangle the poor sap (unless you're a loony bastard, like Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, etc...)
I mean come on! Paper receipts are just handy printouts of data transactions happening in some datacenter... the transaction was electronic in the first place, the receipt is just a convenience as opposed to lugging around a networked PC while shopping. Jeez, argumenting against this crap feels like feeding an über troll... bah!
can't do that on a Model M!
Because you have a large music collection and don't want to manage it yourself? In early days of my Mac I ftpd my Linux $HOME to it and imported all the mp3s into iTunes and some had ID3, some not, some were plain wrong, etc... XMMS/Winamp is OK when you have very little music or a lot of patience keeping the stuff organized by hand. iTunes shines as it takes the burden off the user and places it on the CPU. I know a lot of people that don't own an iPod but happily dump all their stuff into iTunes so it's basically becoming a standard as IE or bash.
what about Natalie Portman & Hot Grits? Am I so old to remember?
The best solution I can think of for your cooling problems is a
Eclipse running fine & dandy with Tomcat 5.5; if that isn't a good test what is? ;-)
What's wrong with you guys?! Why on earth do you ALWAYS have to wear bloody snickers all the time! A good pair of red leather high heels would've done a world of difference to that chick (she is a bit heavy on the thigh and heels do wonders on womens' legs) sheesh!
Even according to an "eye for eye" meter, frauding CC accounts isn't the same as pulling the trigger against someone staring in your eyes begging for mercy or pummeling a desperate chick amidst piercing screams... these are more akin to crimes against the humanity embodied in the victim. CC frauds are a burden to the system, involves added costs and generally make good business for damn insurance companies so, don't you think you're getting too touchy? Jail good for these guys? Shure. 9 years? It sounds like a bloody lot of time... perhaps too much unless they can get parole in at most 2~3 and assigned to some social assistance to recoup the cost they woul've been to society. (and in some low risk detention center; no need to add torture to punishment slamming them together with deranged people)
In medieval times the professors used to get the money staright from students at the end of class... if these weren't amused by the asshole's intemperance they would often beat the man with a cluestick... I can't tell how many times I wished I could've done that!
Half your post is a bad troll, but let's concentrate on le last sentence. First of all, there aren't million of addicts, not the heavy bad stuff anyway.
Heroin has dropped and most of the consumers are old timers. Cocaine is on the rise, it's considered recreational, unlike the former that's perceived as a minkfuck. Trouble is, coco is part of an '80s revival glamish fashion and it's price has dropped to the point that's is not an elite drug anymore. For the price of a couple drinks you get enough stuff to snuffle throughout the night. This is a dangerous trend, but you can't possibly abandon otherwise fine & productive citizens to jail or maginalization. These idiots are quite a lot, but except for this habit they're fine people, students, workers, consumers you can't possibly throw in jail or criminalize into a margin of society; they belong infact to the core of italian middle class.
Light stuff like weed and resin are a non issue. Over here, practically half on the population has smoked some at some stage and is either going on with little or no social consequence or quitted out of pure boredom (actually it's easier than quitting cigs). Any reasonable policy maker would dismiss is as a non issue and if unwilling to go the dutch way, at least turn a healthy blind eye. Unfortunately we (Italy) are governed by a hacked together rightwing coalition (Berlusconi... the man that sought office to pursue his personal interests) and the post fascists (Fini, leader of the AN, National Alliance party) got their way into criminalizing this too beyond reason.
Bad stuff like pills and excstasy used to be very big but the media got bored and it's consumption belongs to a kind of club culture that isn't fashionable any more. Other countries handled the issue like I said in previous posts, we didn't really do anything about it: cry foul on TV when some random kid died, capturing some stuff in police operations and basta. Nothing beyond the useless: "It's bad, don't do it!" which we all know is the last thing to say to a rebellious tewnty-something.
Other stuff like crack isn't common here; it's ghetto crap and over here, heroin is queen for this group.
Treating thousands of addicts isn't very expensive, all it requires is the correct mass deployment of psyc counselors (useful for other pathologies too like depression, abuse trauma, etc...) and some substitutive drug to chill the abstinence. Treating survivors is expensive instead; for one thing it isn't fair on them to suffer, but let's not limit to homicides. Drugs is the strongest drive to small/mid criminal offence; extortion, vehicle theft, mugging. Repressing there crimes requires very strong surveillance (a quasi militarization) and that's very expensive; regulate drug abuse and you've defused an issue that holds captive whole uderdeveloped suburban regions.
The criminal violence related to drugs isn't only the stoned idiot breaking in and raping grandma; it's the mafia reinvesting the millions in contractor business (polluting it), political greasing and general entrenching of it's noxious influence in society... now if that isn't a cost?
but there's no fusion happening on the sun's surface. If you whip up an undergrad science picture book you'd recall that the sun's surface is simply the bubbling top of a large plasma gas convection system. For some reason I don't recall, like radiation pressure or plain exitation/emission the corona is up to 10^6 K while obviously the inner nucleus is back to the 10^7-10^8 range by virtue of the intense pressure, and fusion occours.
MODs, are you on crack? This is a troll... it's arguing that since nuclear power plants aren't made by people smashing atoms with big mallets "nuclear fission" is a misnomer... +3 Insightful? my ass...
All it will take is a few more Argentinas. . .
Italy next in line...
I hope you're trying, unsuccesfully, to be funny. In any case it is cheaper: for one you don't have to militarize everyone's existence, there's your first expense cut. Secondly, it dramatically reduces the risks of having innocent people killed or permanently injured because of criminal activity; lots of expensive therapy and psicological assistance for the survivors saved. Thirdly you might even recoup individuals to productive workforce. Fourthly, how 'bout having that warm fuzzy feeling christians call charity? I'm agnostic but I recognize the value in helping out a human being's existence; it's a good investment and our species' success is a testament to that survival strategy called mutual assistence... if you don't agree fine... enjoy your personal paranoid hell.
Well, libraries have version numbers and you can have as many as you wish on the same machine. It becomes problematic when incompatible API changes slip into a minor revision number or when there are many separate libraries offering closely related services. Some programs like, say mplayer depend on a myriad different libs, one for ogg, another for id tags, another for this codec family, yet another for this codec, and that other codec, etc... it quickly gets out of hand when you need to update or install aside the old not one but, say, 10 different libs. In these cases an effort should be done to build an umbrella framework that encompasses all these funcionalities, a la quicktime. It's like formatting a disk with 512b sectors; it saves space but beyond a certain limit it's cumbersome.
Uh... well... uhh... (blushing in shame)... made a fool of myself yet again... ;-) I thought you had submitted the same story but got the axe because of the bland title. Anyway, it doesn't change the sense of your post and mine: massaging news to spice them up, deliberately relying on equivoke. Oh, what the hell... we all know editors are slashdotters favourite joke! ;-)