Boy. Wouldn't it have been great if they were doing that trance-music grinding slow-mo, panning through the crowds, and panned to a whole bunch of sweaty people on the ground bear ass naked and screwing? That would have been so hot.
They could title the scene, "Last night in Gomorrah."
I want the Wachowskis to make another porn movie. Bound was rad.
I feel like DS9 was kindof ok for a little while in the middle.
Jeri Ryan may be purdy, but you still have to listen to that patronizing constipated captain. Oooh, do you raise your eyebrows at that, Captain? How titilating!
If Xen were BSD Licensed, then Microsoft might have just rolled it into Windows XP and their virtualization software. Probably only if they could find a way to make it so that Linux wouldn't run on it.
However, it's GPLed, so I can't imagine it'll ever see common use as a host for Windows. Unless they give MS a special dispensation.
Right. But every time you search Google so that you can read an article on programming, five search on google and ask "Do I have herpes?"
I'm usually on Google looking for one sentence answers. The only reason the rest of the page is usually relevant to me is so that I can tell if the source is reputable.
In those cases, it'd be very handy if Google understood what the pages said, and reinterpretted them, and answered my question briefly. Out loud would be fine.
Yeah, but when they figure out a way to weed out all those "ranking services" (Sometimes "search engine optimizers"), I guarantee that google-watch.com will start decrying it as censorship.
If they had solved all the other problems inherent in building a strong AI, using "computer" as a keyword would be no problem at all.
As a viewer of Star Trek, could you tell when the characters were talking to each other and when they were talking to the computer? Well, then, the computer would use all the same queues.
"When search grows up, it will look like Star Trek: you talk into the air ("Computer! What's the situation down on the planet?") and the computer processes your question, figures out its context, figures out what response you're looking for, searches a giant database in who-knows-how-many languages, translates/analyses/summarises all the results, and presents them back to you in a pleasant voice. I think this technology is about, oh, 300 years off. Just getting the computer to understand your question, much less the context it's being asked in, is way beyond the state of the art in computer science right now."
No, the GPL wouldn't force MS to open source the whole thing. It would simply not be permitted to violate copyright on the GPLed works that they had included.
Until they removed the code they didn't own, they'd be violating copyright, and could be sued for damages by the owner of the copyright.
If MS for some reason couldn't remove the GPLed code, then sure, if they want to continue distribution without getting sued for it, they'd need to release the product under the GPL.
You want the rich and powerful to be able to buy time to get their message across, in a way that is only answerable to litigation, requiring another rich and powerful person or organization to back it.
Uh, but that wouldn't change if we instituted new laws. We'd still need the gov't to litigate, just like we would now.
You still haven't shown that the existing laws are failing.
Also important is ease of updates for those of us that are semi-diligent.
For example, the two latest RPC patches (blaster and successor) have been mildly annoying to install. Sure, you just run MS's update tool, but I've found that about 20% of machines still read unpatched according to MS's security auditing tool. This makes it kindof a pain to ensure compliance.
After reapplying the patch six or seven times to some machines, our network is safe. That's kindof lame.
Similarly, the patch that would have prevented SQL Slammer was a collossal pain in the ass to install. Fortunately, we don't have any laptop users with SQL Server, so there was no potential infection vector on our network, and we had plenty of time to patch.
Deploying all the different Office VB patches is looking prohibitively difficult to me. It hasn't been exploited yet by a worm, but when it does... shit. I hope our AV is up to the task.
I guess MS Software Update Server is an absolute necessity. No two ways about it. Weird how it doesn't get more discussion.
Almost always, apt-get upgrade is cake. I'm just concerned about those times it breaks. Hopefully it can always be repaired manually. I've definitely run into snags with apt-get that were beyong my ability to repair. It was on a toy machine, so it might have had an unusual configuration, and it wasn't consequential.
Whether we're diligent or not, if patches are difficult enough it barely matters that the patch was released at all, in terms of worldwide impact.
Right. But they still have all those rules about fraud.
Show us an example of a bad product placement, one that would be changed by requirements of "honesty and fair dealing," and then perhaps we can consider laws to rectify the problem.
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Boy. Wouldn't it have been great if they were doing that trance-music grinding slow-mo, panning through the crowds, and panned to a whole bunch of sweaty people on the ground bear ass naked and screwing? That would have been so hot.
They could title the scene, "Last night in Gomorrah."
I want the Wachowskis to make another porn movie. Bound was rad.
No, it isn't.
/.ers hate every trek show since Next Gen.
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I feel like DS9 was kindof ok for a little while in the middle.
Jeri Ryan may be purdy, but you still have to listen to that patronizing constipated captain. Oooh, do you raise your eyebrows at that, Captain? How titilating!
Thanks for reminding me. I was so happy once I forgot about that.
If Xen were BSD Licensed, then Microsoft might have just rolled it into Windows XP and their virtualization software. Probably only if they could find a way to make it so that Linux wouldn't run on it.
However, it's GPLed, so I can't imagine it'll ever see common use as a host for Windows. Unless they give MS a special dispensation.
Right. But every time you search Google so that you can read an article on programming, five search on google and ask "Do I have herpes?"
I'm usually on Google looking for one sentence answers. The only reason the rest of the page is usually relevant to me is so that I can tell if the source is reputable.
In those cases, it'd be very handy if Google understood what the pages said, and reinterpretted them, and answered my question briefly. Out loud would be fine.
And do you know who answered the phone?
The man with the mismatched shoe laces!
Yeah, but when they figure out a way to weed out all those "ranking services" (Sometimes "search engine optimizers"), I guarantee that google-watch.com will start decrying it as censorship.
If they had solved all the other problems inherent in building a strong AI, using "computer" as a keyword would be no problem at all.
As a viewer of Star Trek, could you tell when the characters were talking to each other and when they were talking to the computer? Well, then, the computer would use all the same queues.
That's not the issue.
More context for that quote:
"When search grows up, it will look like Star Trek: you talk into the air ("Computer! What's the situation down on the planet?") and the computer processes your question, figures out its context, figures out what response you're looking for, searches a giant database in who-knows-how-many languages, translates/analyses/summarises all the results, and presents them back to you in a pleasant voice. I think this technology is about, oh, 300 years off. Just getting the computer to understand your question, much less the context it's being asked in, is way beyond the state of the art in computer science right now."
That's what I meant. All plastics are organic. Thus it is meaningless/redundant to say "an organic plastic."
Ah. I forgot that oxygen was required in order to be considered organic.
So... nevermind.
Does the phrase "Organic Plastics" strike anyone else as exceedingly stupid?
"Get this! It's plastic... made from LONG CARBON CHAINS! BRILLIANT! Why did we never think of this before!?!"
Someone want to explain that to me? Aren't all plastics "organic"?
I think the quote you're looking for is this:
"Bad artists copy. Good artists steal."
- Me
No, the GPL wouldn't force MS to open source the whole thing. It would simply not be permitted to violate copyright on the GPLed works that they had included.
Until they removed the code they didn't own, they'd be violating copyright, and could be sued for damages by the owner of the copyright.
If MS for some reason couldn't remove the GPLed code, then sure, if they want to continue distribution without getting sued for it, they'd need to release the product under the GPL.
And thus Ximian as well.
Block the Caldera topic.
Slurp sluuuuurp!
Great. When that happens, we can talk about a law.
You want the rich and powerful to be able to buy time to get their message across, in a way that is only answerable to litigation, requiring another rich and powerful person or organization to back it.
Uh, but that wouldn't change if we instituted new laws. We'd still need the gov't to litigate, just like we would now.
You still haven't shown that the existing laws are failing.
In jail, held by the MCP
RAM: Oh my User...Tron--they've got you in here?
TRON: Not for long, friend.
Did you skip the second fucking sentence of my post?
"Boeing isn't paying CNN for those placements."
And hopefully, the judge would say, "You paid money to get people to eat your product. It hurt them. You're going to jail."
Once that fails to happen, you'll have an actual example to point to. Show us the existing laws failing.
Also important is ease of updates for those of us that are semi-diligent.
For example, the two latest RPC patches (blaster and successor) have been mildly annoying to install. Sure, you just run MS's update tool, but I've found that about 20% of machines still read unpatched according to MS's security auditing tool. This makes it kindof a pain to ensure compliance.
After reapplying the patch six or seven times to some machines, our network is safe. That's kindof lame.
Similarly, the patch that would have prevented SQL Slammer was a collossal pain in the ass to install. Fortunately, we don't have any laptop users with SQL Server, so there was no potential infection vector on our network, and we had plenty of time to patch.
Deploying all the different Office VB patches is looking prohibitively difficult to me. It hasn't been exploited yet by a worm, but when it does... shit. I hope our AV is up to the task.
I guess MS Software Update Server is an absolute necessity. No two ways about it. Weird how it doesn't get more discussion.
Almost always, apt-get upgrade is cake. I'm just concerned about those times it breaks. Hopefully it can always be repaired manually. I've definitely run into snags with apt-get that were beyong my ability to repair. It was on a toy machine, so it might have had an unusual configuration, and it wasn't consequential.
Whether we're diligent or not, if patches are difficult enough it barely matters that the patch was released at all, in terms of worldwide impact.
Right. But war is just good for ratings. Boeing isn't paying CNN for those placements.
Right?
Right. But they still have all those rules about fraud.
Show us an example of a bad product placement, one that would be changed by requirements of "honesty and fair dealing," and then perhaps we can consider laws to rectify the problem.
Otherwise, no one cares.