I'd cream my jeans if all those one-hit-per-cd musicians went down in flames. I'll still get every last track off every damn Radiohead album ever released. EPs included. Same for Pulp. Same for Blur. Same for Sublime. Totally worth my $1.
Some rockstars care about the quality of their product.
Here in San Francisco, T-Mobile and Cingular use different routing, but the same towers. So reception is equally crappy on both of them. AT&T is, however, much much better. Still not as good as AT&T's TDMA network, of course.
My vote goes for Verizon's network. Much better reception than any GSM network, and CDMA quality everywhere. Of course, then you're restricted to CDMA phones, with their gi-huge-ic antennae and antiquated feature set. Still, they're the best phones.
An anonymous slashdot post was the first good description of this whole rumor. No one thought it was reliable, but the fact that it didn't sound like it was written by a two year old helped its credibility.
I'm just waiting for some electronic music distributor to realize that they'll make more money if they distribute MP3s and use social pressures to discourage piracy. If an album cost $4 online, and they'll let you do whatever you like with the music, why would you steal?
Re:Yay for biases? +1 for an article, though.
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Most linux distros I've used ask for a root password, and then the name/password for a regular user all in the course of installation. Then you're supposed to log in with the name/password for that regular user.
Yes, it's different. It's an issue. Are you trolling? Many unix types consider running as admin to be a security risk, whether or not you know the admin password. When you run some shareware app you downloaded, it has access to the entire computer. Trojan horses are a serious risk. If you are running as a limited user, the trojan horse cannot infect other binaries, cannot install kernel modifications, etc.
Agreed, however, that the reviewer may have been biased. I'm just picking nits.
If the head of IT makes this sort of mistake frequently, or allows it to happen, then he's doing a terrible job.
Of course, at my company, it happens plenty of the time too, and the IT manager has no choice: These changes are pushed down from higher up the food chain. Our users usually understand the politics of these events better than anyone in IT, so they seem surprisingly understanding.
I'd be pissed as hell.
The only things we work on "fixing" are things that should be cheaper, or things that don't work/aren't reliable. Very few traps to fall in.
Common sense also tells you that these mesh networks will most likely be deployed in universities, businesses, and homes with broadband. So the number of wired nodes might be quite high. It seems like wherever there would be a lot of users, there would be a lot of wired bandwidth.
Some poor sod on the min cut may have to prioritize his own requests going out to the internet side of the graph. It'd be a problem if he were on a battery. Hopefully, also along the min cut, would be a few machines dedicated to mesh routing.
Also, the P2P craze might not be quite as huge among software programmers. I'd suggest that there are still a huge number of people working on it, but the "craze" definitely has not subsided among computer users. It's not a craze, it's just one of the most desireable uses of their computers. If mesh networking becomes nearly as useful to end users as P2P file sharing, it'll have to be illegalized to go away. Wait a second...
kinda like Sun claiming that Mitnick costed them 3 billion dollars, or whatever they claimed.
Just to nitpick, Sun didn't necessarily want to claim that Mitnick cost them that astronomical amount. The prosecutors gave all the victims very explicit instructions for calculating the monetary "damages." Not only did they include potential lost sales, but also their entire development cost.
In both cases, the figures are so far removed from reality, that I feel it is a mar on our justice system. People that testify with such abjectly false numbers should be prosecuted for perjury, and lawyers that solicit this sort of perjury should be disbarred. It is out of hand.
Jiminy Jesus Christ. Speak for yourself. I get plenty absorbed in my craft. If I'm in public, however, I don't stink.
Hygiene becomes a problem if it's causing you to not get laid. That is, afaik, way way before illness. As interested as I am in programming... sex comes first.
Installing obscure libs and new versions of perl can be done in ~/lib and ~/bin. It can also be done for a whole group in ~/../groupname/lib or ~/../groupname/bin if you've set up your home accounts as/home/groupname/username with a group writable directory at/home/groupname/groupname.
Set your system-wide bash/login scripts to properly reference these paths, and not only do you no longer need to su for these problems, but you don't even need to sudo. Users can do this for themselves. Its a booteeful thing.
You can run unix machine for a long time with the root password in a vault, if you really lay things out correctly.
I think this is the first time they've called it "AltiVec(R)". Previously they were refering to it as a vector processing unit, or something of that nature.
When it's called the "Velocity Engine" and has smooth white plastic around it, then I'll accept that it is definitely Apple's next chip.
Boy, this is frustrating. Not because of your comment, but because of the other respondent. I hate having idiots agree with me. Don't let it fool you. My points are not derived from idiocy.
A progressive tax scheme need not discourage higher incomes. Every single time I have heard our current tax plan explained to me, it has been entirely different from what you describe: In an old, lower paying job, when I worked overtime some weeks, it put me in a higher tax bracket for that week. My payroll deductions went up. I get the difference back, because overall I was not in that higher bracket.
However. My overtime paychecks were still higher. If my entire income were taxed at the higher rate, then those overtime paychecks would have been lower than my usual paychecks.
Sure, the reward that I get for working harder/longer is smaller than the reward I get for showing up at all. I am still rewarded. Working harder remains better for me.
I would submit that no liberal (Parsec, Squant0 included) has ever suggested that someone paid more by their company should receive a smaller post-tax income than someone paid less. Given that this is the case, your example for Kobe Bryant makes absolutely no sense.
I feel that a progressive tax scheme is fair. When I was poor, I was able to afford to take care of myself due to low taxes. While I remain rich, I will expect to pay higher taxes, and still be able to afford to take care of myself. In that regard, everyone is treated equally.
I'm mildly offtopic: My favorite way to deal with this problem is to write science fiction about the past. That way, you are guaranteed to understand the anachronism that will be in your writing, because you will have put it there.
That's what Pynchon did in Vineland (written in the early nineties, and set in 1982 or so) and that's what Gibson has done with Pattern Recognition. Everyone keeps saying that its set in the present day, but it isn't. It's frozen in time, about four months ago. Like a time capsule. Certain parts of the book were built to go out of date.
I guess Niven is a different brand of Sci Fi. And yes, I insist that Vineland is Sci Fi. Call me crazy.
I'm sorry, but I support a progressive tax plan. I do not feel that heavily taxing rich people discourages success. Your dad's story about getting a raise that amounted to a pay cut due to taxes doesn't make any sense. Perhaps I totally misunderstand the tax system, but the higher tax rate on higher income bracket earners is only paid on the income in that bracket. As far as I understand, your dad would only be paying higher taxes on the 5% raise. If that isn't the system, then the system is braindead. That does not invalidate the general goal of a progressive tax system.
I don't know any rich people saying, "Boy, it sure sucks to be rich." I also don't know any poor people saying, "Boy, I'd be rich, but they pay too much taxes. No money for me, thanks." Decreasing taxes does not amount to a reward. Decreasing payroll taxes will encourage no one to be poor.
Your argument might apply better to a discussion of social welfare. I, as a liberal, will be happy to begin discussing the removal of the social safety net after corporate welfare is long, long gone. Then it might make some sense to me. Right now, it only seems vindictive.
You've directed your fans to this comment, and disabled comments in your journal. I'll post here. Mods, have fun.
Grandparent post made you awful mad. This has lead you to use hyperbole where it doesn't belong. Some of grandparent's post was absolutely accurate.
His numbers were fine, given the context: Many people think they are in a higher income group than they actually are.
A decrease in payroll taxes would help the economy. This is a truism.
Keep in mind that much of corporate welfare is money that never enters the budget. You cannot count its size simply by adding up every subsidy. If corporate taxes are too high, lower them across the board. Corporate welfare is crony capitalism in the worst way. What were you saying about not punishing success?
And then you started in with Randian morality. I don't really want to get into a religious argument right now, so I'll just skip that. It seemed a nonsequitor (as did your stories about your dad), given Parsec's comment. Go after Squant0 with that, if you insist.
I agree that the double taxation on capital gains made no sense. The recent changes will lead to an improvement in the system. We will be better able to identify money lost to corporate welfare. Companies will be more likely to pay out profits and less likely to spend them badly. That said, I do not believe that it will help our economy immediately. Our economy's immediate problem is that of oversupply. If we already have too many widget factories, improving investor ROI doesn't mean we're going to build more factories. We need higher demand.
Parsec's point about payroll taxes makes sense, because higher demand could be achieved by putting cash in the hands of poor people. For the immediate future, trickle up economics might do the most good. He didn't say it was the most ethical, he was simply suggesting that it would be effective. You leap to conclusions about his morality.
Anyway. Yes, capital gains taxation was a bad plan. We need more responsible ways to generate tax revenue. No, I don't think that means a 20% sales tax.
Do you think your "well-regulated militia" really stands a chance if the US Armed Forces can be turned on its citizens? (IOW, the real safeguard of your liberties comes from the Armed Forces siding with the people in such an event, not with an independent militia.)
If the US Armed Forces were a group of well trained independent militias, then we would not have that problem at all. If all the money spent on the military were spent by militia members on whatever arms they desired, we would be awful difficult for anyone to invade.
We would also lose the ability to impose our will on other nations militarily. Oh... dear.
Perhaps you think the idea is hairbrained. It might be. But that's what the gun nuts often mean when they talk about the initial goal of the second amendment. It's not the *worst* idea I've ever heard.
The prize goes to the robot that can convince a human to do something not otherwise in its best interest.
"Go call your girlfriend dirty names." "No." "I'll give you a candy bar..." "Um... No." "Jennifer Anniston is right here. She'd think it was really funny." "Um..." "Hehe. She's laughing already." "Iduno..."
The real test in my book, isn't when a robot can beat a human 50% of the time. I mean, that would be interesting, certainly. That would indicate that AI can properly imitate morons. The scary thing is that eventually, if AI could model the tester's intuitions, the AI might eventually win 75%... 80%... 90% of the time. We could build something that seems more human than a human. Rob Zombie would piss his pants.
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At the end of the day, all we should conclude is that wealth has turned the guys who run Google into the same sort of offensive facists who run most other corporations.
Your comment is insightful like a brick. They are dealing with this in exactly the correct manner, whether or not this is an infringing use of the trademark. They have simply asked this guy to note that Google is a trademark of Google corporation. They did not say, "You cannot call Google a verb." They are not suing. They did not threaten to sue.
Project Builder and Vi/Emacs are priced at $0. They are widely accepted by the mac dev community. Mac based web developers, on the other hand, all need the workflow, ease of use, and power of BBEdit.
A cheaper HTML BBEdit would cannibalize their sales. Most of the price conscious developers have already switched to emacs, vi, and project builder. This may stem the tide a bit, or even draw back some folks that prefer the BBEdit interface.
What do I know? I code VB for a living, so: Nothing.
But previously if you learned of a BIND vulnerability, you could hijack ALL of the root servers, redirecting 100% of requests to your site.
I'm not sure that is exactly the attack everyone is concerned about. More likely they'd point the firehose at, you know, someone else's site... I'll leave it to the trolls to suggest which sites.
Hopefully they'll incorporate some type of authentication with a pre-registration required, even if it is free, just to create a sense (even if it ends up being false) of accountability.
The internet provides no accountability in any case. The caught number of hackers is dwarfed by the uncaught. Providing poor people with anonymous internet access is probably safer than providing it to the idle rich (college students).
If you're insecure, you can't rely on every ISP in the world to be helpful or vigilant. Not because they shouldn't be, but because they are not.
Most teenagers I know can type quicker on their phones than they can on a keyboard.
Apparently there are kids in Japan that can key in 200 wpm. That's faster than they talk. Text messages can, in some cases, work as a better communications medium than speech. When you're standing in the same room.
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You knew what I meant.
I'd cream my jeans if all those one-hit-per-cd musicians went down in flames. I'll still get every last track off every damn Radiohead album ever released. EPs included. Same for Pulp. Same for Blur. Same for Sublime. Totally worth my $1.
Some rockstars care about the quality of their product.
Here in San Francisco, T-Mobile and Cingular use different routing, but the same towers. So reception is equally crappy on both of them. AT&T is, however, much much better. Still not as good as AT&T's TDMA network, of course.
My vote goes for Verizon's network. Much better reception than any GSM network, and CDMA quality everywhere. Of course, then you're restricted to CDMA phones, with their gi-huge-ic antennae and antiquated feature set. Still, they're the best phones.
An anonymous slashdot post was the first good description of this whole rumor. No one thought it was reliable, but the fact that it didn't sound like it was written by a two year old helped its credibility.
I'm just waiting for some electronic music distributor to realize that they'll make more money if they distribute MP3s and use social pressures to discourage piracy. If an album cost $4 online, and they'll let you do whatever you like with the music, why would you steal?
IIRC, Sun used the same thing Apple does now: OpenFirmware. Dunno if Sun still uses OF, but it's really slick on current macs.
Um... no.
Most linux distros I've used ask for a root password, and then the name/password for a regular user all in the course of installation. Then you're supposed to log in with the name/password for that regular user.
Yes, it's different. It's an issue. Are you trolling? Many unix types consider running as admin to be a security risk, whether or not you know the admin password. When you run some shareware app you downloaded, it has access to the entire computer. Trojan horses are a serious risk. If you are running as a limited user, the trojan horse cannot infect other binaries, cannot install kernel modifications, etc.
Agreed, however, that the reviewer may have been biased. I'm just picking nits.
If the head of IT makes this sort of mistake frequently, or allows it to happen, then he's doing a terrible job.
Of course, at my company, it happens plenty of the time too, and the IT manager has no choice: These changes are pushed down from higher up the food chain. Our users usually understand the politics of these events better than anyone in IT, so they seem surprisingly understanding.
I'd be pissed as hell.
The only things we work on "fixing" are things that should be cheaper, or things that don't work/aren't reliable. Very few traps to fall in.
Common sense also tells you that these mesh networks will most likely be deployed in universities, businesses, and homes with broadband. So the number of wired nodes might be quite high. It seems like wherever there would be a lot of users, there would be a lot of wired bandwidth.
Some poor sod on the min cut may have to prioritize his own requests going out to the internet side of the graph. It'd be a problem if he were on a battery. Hopefully, also along the min cut, would be a few machines dedicated to mesh routing.
Also, the P2P craze might not be quite as huge among software programmers. I'd suggest that there are still a huge number of people working on it, but the "craze" definitely has not subsided among computer users. It's not a craze, it's just one of the most desireable uses of their computers. If mesh networking becomes nearly as useful to end users as P2P file sharing, it'll have to be illegalized to go away. Wait a second...
kinda like Sun claiming that Mitnick costed them 3 billion dollars, or whatever they claimed.
Just to nitpick, Sun didn't necessarily want to claim that Mitnick cost them that astronomical amount. The prosecutors gave all the victims very explicit instructions for calculating the monetary "damages." Not only did they include potential lost sales, but also their entire development cost.
In both cases, the figures are so far removed from reality, that I feel it is a mar on our justice system. People that testify with such abjectly false numbers should be prosecuted for perjury, and lawyers that solicit this sort of perjury should be disbarred. It is out of hand.
Med school would take away from my sex time. I'm not willing to delay gratification that long.
Being a geek works very well for a certain class of (attractive) girls. Good point though: I should bartend on weekends.
And nevermind. Sounded like you'd spent a lot of thought defending yourself about other people's comments about your smell. Aparently I was wrong.
Jiminy Jesus Christ. Speak for yourself. I get plenty absorbed in my craft. If I'm in public, however, I don't stink.
Hygiene becomes a problem if it's causing you to not get laid. That is, afaik, way way before illness. As interested as I am in programming... sex comes first.
Installing obscure libs and new versions of perl can be done in ~/lib and ~/bin. It can also be done for a whole group in ~/../groupname/lib or ~/../groupname/bin if you've set up your home accounts as /home/groupname/username with a group writable directory at /home/groupname/groupname.
Set your system-wide bash/login scripts to properly reference these paths, and not only do you no longer need to su for these problems, but you don't even need to sudo. Users can do this for themselves. Its a booteeful thing.
You can run unix machine for a long time with the root password in a vault, if you really lay things out correctly.
I think this is the first time they've called it "AltiVec(R)". Previously they were refering to it as a vector processing unit, or something of that nature.
When it's called the "Velocity Engine" and has smooth white plastic around it, then I'll accept that it is definitely Apple's next chip.
Boy, this is frustrating. Not because of your comment, but because of the other respondent. I hate having idiots agree with me. Don't let it fool you. My points are not derived from idiocy.
A progressive tax scheme need not discourage higher incomes. Every single time I have heard our current tax plan explained to me, it has been entirely different from what you describe: In an old, lower paying job, when I worked overtime some weeks, it put me in a higher tax bracket for that week. My payroll deductions went up. I get the difference back, because overall I was not in that higher bracket.
However. My overtime paychecks were still higher. If my entire income were taxed at the higher rate, then those overtime paychecks would have been lower than my usual paychecks.
Sure, the reward that I get for working harder/longer is smaller than the reward I get for showing up at all. I am still rewarded. Working harder remains better for me.
I would submit that no liberal (Parsec, Squant0 included) has ever suggested that someone paid more by their company should receive a smaller post-tax income than someone paid less. Given that this is the case, your example for Kobe Bryant makes absolutely no sense.
I feel that a progressive tax scheme is fair. When I was poor, I was able to afford to take care of myself due to low taxes. While I remain rich, I will expect to pay higher taxes, and still be able to afford to take care of myself. In that regard, everyone is treated equally.
I'm mildly offtopic: My favorite way to deal with this problem is to write science fiction about the past. That way, you are guaranteed to understand the anachronism that will be in your writing, because you will have put it there.
That's what Pynchon did in Vineland (written in the early nineties, and set in 1982 or so) and that's what Gibson has done with Pattern Recognition. Everyone keeps saying that its set in the present day, but it isn't. It's frozen in time, about four months ago. Like a time capsule. Certain parts of the book were built to go out of date.
I guess Niven is a different brand of Sci Fi. And yes, I insist that Vineland is Sci Fi. Call me crazy.
I'm sorry, but I support a progressive tax plan. I do not feel that heavily taxing rich people discourages success. Your dad's story about getting a raise that amounted to a pay cut due to taxes doesn't make any sense. Perhaps I totally misunderstand the tax system, but the higher tax rate on higher income bracket earners is only paid on the income in that bracket. As far as I understand, your dad would only be paying higher taxes on the 5% raise. If that isn't the system, then the system is braindead. That does not invalidate the general goal of a progressive tax system.
I don't know any rich people saying, "Boy, it sure sucks to be rich." I also don't know any poor people saying, "Boy, I'd be rich, but they pay too much taxes. No money for me, thanks." Decreasing taxes does not amount to a reward. Decreasing payroll taxes will encourage no one to be poor.
Your argument might apply better to a discussion of social welfare. I, as a liberal, will be happy to begin discussing the removal of the social safety net after corporate welfare is long, long gone. Then it might make some sense to me. Right now, it only seems vindictive.
Grandparent post made you awful mad. This has lead you to use hyperbole where it doesn't belong. Some of grandparent's post was absolutely accurate.
His numbers were fine, given the context: Many people think they are in a higher income group than they actually are.
A decrease in payroll taxes would help the economy. This is a truism.
Keep in mind that much of corporate welfare is money that never enters the budget. You cannot count its size simply by adding up every subsidy. If corporate taxes are too high, lower them across the board. Corporate welfare is crony capitalism in the worst way. What were you saying about not punishing success?
And then you started in with Randian morality. I don't really want to get into a religious argument right now, so I'll just skip that. It seemed a nonsequitor (as did your stories about your dad), given Parsec's comment. Go after Squant0 with that, if you insist.
I agree that the double taxation on capital gains made no sense. The recent changes will lead to an improvement in the system. We will be better able to identify money lost to corporate welfare. Companies will be more likely to pay out profits and less likely to spend them badly. That said, I do not believe that it will help our economy immediately. Our economy's immediate problem is that of oversupply. If we already have too many widget factories, improving investor ROI doesn't mean we're going to build more factories. We need higher demand.
Parsec's point about payroll taxes makes sense, because higher demand could be achieved by putting cash in the hands of poor people. For the immediate future, trickle up economics might do the most good. He didn't say it was the most ethical, he was simply suggesting that it would be effective. You leap to conclusions about his morality.
Anyway. Yes, capital gains taxation was a bad plan. We need more responsible ways to generate tax revenue. No, I don't think that means a 20% sales tax.
Do you think your "well-regulated militia" really stands a chance if the US Armed Forces can be turned on its citizens? (IOW, the real safeguard of your liberties comes from the Armed Forces siding with the people in such an event, not with an independent militia.)
If the US Armed Forces were a group of well trained independent militias, then we would not have that problem at all. If all the money spent on the military were spent by militia members on whatever arms they desired, we would be awful difficult for anyone to invade.
We would also lose the ability to impose our will on other nations militarily. Oh... dear.
Perhaps you think the idea is hairbrained. It might be. But that's what the gun nuts often mean when they talk about the initial goal of the second amendment. It's not the *worst* idea I've ever heard.
The prize goes to the robot that can convince a human to do something not otherwise in its best interest.
"Go call your girlfriend dirty names."
"No."
"I'll give you a candy bar..."
"Um... No."
"Jennifer Anniston is right here. She'd think it was really funny."
"Um..."
"Hehe. She's laughing already."
"Iduno..."
The real test in my book, isn't when a robot can beat a human 50% of the time. I mean, that would be interesting, certainly. That would indicate that AI can properly imitate morons. The scary thing is that eventually, if AI could model the tester's intuitions, the AI might eventually win 75%... 80%... 90% of the time. We could build something that seems more human than a human. Rob Zombie would piss his pants.
At the end of the day, all we should conclude is that wealth has turned the guys who run Google into the same sort of offensive facists who run most other corporations.
Your comment is insightful like a brick. They are dealing with this in exactly the correct manner, whether or not this is an infringing use of the trademark. They have simply asked this guy to note that Google is a trademark of Google corporation. They did not say, "You cannot call Google a verb." They are not suing. They did not threaten to sue.
Project Builder and Vi/Emacs are priced at $0. They are widely accepted by the mac dev community. Mac based web developers, on the other hand, all need the workflow, ease of use, and power of BBEdit.
A cheaper HTML BBEdit would cannibalize their sales. Most of the price conscious developers have already switched to emacs, vi, and project builder. This may stem the tide a bit, or even draw back some folks that prefer the BBEdit interface.
What do I know? I code VB for a living, so: Nothing.
But previously if you learned of a BIND vulnerability, you could hijack ALL of the root servers, redirecting 100% of requests to your site.
I'm not sure that is exactly the attack everyone is concerned about. More likely they'd point the firehose at, you know, someone else's site... I'll leave it to the trolls to suggest which sites.
Hopefully they'll incorporate some type of authentication with a pre-registration required, even if it is free, just to create a sense (even if it ends up being false) of accountability.
The internet provides no accountability in any case. The caught number of hackers is dwarfed by the uncaught. Providing poor people with anonymous internet access is probably safer than providing it to the idle rich (college students).
If you're insecure, you can't rely on every ISP in the world to be helpful or vigilant. Not because they shouldn't be, but because they are not.
Most teenagers I know can type quicker on their phones than they can on a keyboard.
Apparently there are kids in Japan that can key in 200 wpm. That's faster than they talk. Text messages can, in some cases, work as a better communications medium than speech. When you're standing in the same room.
Alvin Toffler was a fag.