You have the mentality of a peasant. Just because something is "legal"does not mean that it is automatically fair or correct. The law is riddled with exceptions that enrich and empower the few at the expense of everyone else. This is not an accident. These kinks in the laws are bought and paid for by the rich and powerful so they (and their heirs) can keep and expand their wealth and power.
All you have to do is look at the ever growing gap between the wealthy and every one else to see how things really work. Theoretically in an capitalistic meritocracy, rewards are related to individual effort. If you believe that and look at the increasing inequality, then you would have to conclude that the 1% are working harder and getting smarter and the 99% are slacking off and getting dumber. How likely is that?
But you are a well trained peasant who is incapable of critical thinking, so it never occurs to you that you are playing in a rigged game. You would have fit in well in the era of the divine right of kings.
Right. It's the Congress critters owned by the United Launch Alliance that are holding up the funding. They would rather give nearly a billion dollars to prop up the Russian space program then let SpaceX get a lead on the current Boeing/Lockheed-Martin (ULA) monopoly.
So even though ULA sat on their ass for decades and used Russian motors for their Atlas V they are still the preferred vendor. So if you have enough clout in Congress and every manager in NASA and the Air Force knows they can spend their post-government career in a well paid civilian job at Boeing, you can sleep easy because the government will spend whatever it takes to keep you fat and happy.
No capitalism in sight. It's the insiders giving each other hands jobs. Business as usual.
Living in the past? Are you traveling at relativistic speeds perhaps?
Hey, Rip Van Winkle, it 2015, not 1980. Simple math. To make it fair, let's say 1990. 2015 minus 1990 equals 35 years.
No change in electronics has happened since 1990, according to you. Are you posting here using your ASR-33 teletype or your DEC VT-100? Just wondering.
So how many big US banks have assumed huge risks for short term profits since Sorbanes-Oxley passed? You talk as if it was a plague of locusts that mysteriously descended out of the sky for no discernible reasons. It passed because Wall Street fucked up the entire world economy out of incompetence and greed.
Were you asleep since 2008 or are you mentally deficient? Those are the only two reasons I can think of for your idiocy.
Given the chance, big business behaves like meth freak with rabies. They are not trustworthy. There is no such thing as "business ethics".
There is only one goal: making the people at the top as rich as possible. Nothing else counts. This is why 10% of the profits of large US companies go to the CEO. That's insane. No where else in the world is this true.
Even after Sorbanes-Oxley the banking sector remains unchanged. We've seen international currency rigging, wholesale tax cheating and money laundering. There have been tens of billions of dollars of fines. It's still the same rigged game.
Sorbanes-Oxley is too weak. Until CEOs and board of director members go to jail it will never stop. So far no one has gone to jail. Not one person. The only people who do time are people convicted on insider trading, which is a joke. That is petty crime compared to what people like Mozilo did at Countrywide Mortgage.
If we are ever going to ride ourselves of our completely corrupt economic system a lot of very rich people are going to have to spend decades in jail and be stripped of every penny they stole. And we are going to have to break up the monopolies and de facto cartels that dominate the economy. Only then will we get back to functioning capitalism. If you think that our economy is capitalistic then you are truly delusional.
It's easy to understand: since corporations became people, you are no longer a person.
Corporations have the resources to define how the law is applied. You, as an individual, do not. So when a corporation decides, you have to live with that result. Your so called "inalienable rights" have been revoked.
Of course it's not solely corporate power that has caused this too happen. Warrantless surveillance, civil forfeiture, arbitrary voting restrictions and the like are all part of the package.
You can make yourself a lot more comfortable by understanding that you are a peasant, not a citizen in a democracy. If you can see through the propaganda you've been fed and comprehend your true position it all makes perfect sense.
Those were the good ole days. But now they don't keep in on the opens shelves, you have to ask the pharmacist and if they don't like your looks you can't get it at all.:(
Sims presented similar work at SigGraph in 1994. He did physical simulations using a Connection Machine CM-5.
This video shows results from a research project involving simulated Darwinian evolutions of virtual block creatures. A population of several hundred creatures is created within a supercomputer, and each creature is tested for their ability to perform a given task, such the ability to swim in a simulated water environment. Those that are most successful survive, and their virtual genes containing coded instructions for their growth, are copied, combined, and mutated to make offspring for a new population. The new creatures are again tested, and some may be improvements on their parents. As this cycle of variation and selection continues, creatures with more and more successful behaviors can emerge.
The creatures shown are results from many independent simulations in which they were selected for swimming, walking, jumping, following, and competing for control of a green cube.
Sims is a MacArthur Grant winner. He has continued working with evolutionary algorithms and iterated function systems. His home page is here.
Someone is deeply concerned about the existence/nonexistence of a flat area on the side of a smart watch? Really?
This falls so far below the standard of "News for Nerds" that it is an embarrassment. What part of the Slashdot demographic gives a rip? The fashion conscious? Here? (chokes laughing).
So the flat edge effects the clock speed? Number of cores? Memory? Battery life? Connectivity?
Tell me. I absolutely do not have the fainest idea of why this got posted. It's too stupid to be a Shashvertisement. Is it due to drugs, drink, too much caffeine and lack of sleep on the part of editors? A cry for help? Or perhaps too many brain cells have died because of a combination of junk food and constant florescent lighting?
Whatever. Just don't ever pull this kind of crap again.You just make yourself look as dumb as you are.
The Thought Police (thinkpol in Newspeak) are the secret police of the fictional superstate, Oceania, in George Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Orwell's Thought Police are charged with uncovering and punishing "thoughtcrime" and thought-criminals. They use psychological methods and omnipresent surveillance (such as telescreens) to search, find, monitor, and arrest members of society who could potentially challenge authority and the status quo -- even if only by thought -- hence the name Thought Police. They use terror and torture to achieve their ends.
"You have to manifest a criminal intent to further the aims prohibited by the statute."
So the authorities decide if you are thinking correctly: "... there's also the question of intent there: repeating speech is not automatically an endorsement...." and "... I believe many people may believe terrorism is self-evidently immoral."
So as soon as an authority figure accuses you of having "intent" you are guilty because it is "self-evidently immoral."
Now consider how the TSA operates. We obviously have nothing to fear from a gang of unaccountable self selected guardians who need to prove that they are doing something to justify their existence. And the FBI has never engaged in illegal activity by spying on legitimate political activity (MLK), tried to blackmail leaders to influence their activities (MLK), engaged in black ops including violence in order to discredit political movements and individuals (COINTELPRO) or conspired with criminals (Whitey Bulger) and then covered up illegal acts, including drug dealing and murder.
We have nothing to fear. They never lie and they are always right.
Really, how out of contact with the real world are Slashdot readers? Fact are irrelevant in this situation.
This is sensationalistic news. Look at the components: drugs, a murdered young woman, gruesome botched corpse disposal and a violent TV show known world wide. Who give a crap about anything else? Not the people who wrote the story and not the people viewing it. Trying to see if any of it makes sense is just spoiling everyone's fun.
It could turn out that the story was scrambled and what really happened was that a dispute over clipping a hedge lead to the death of a pet dog and someone tried to get rid of the evidence in the trash and nobody would care. Nothing could of happened and it was all made up and nobody would care. A retraction could be printed, but it would in microscopic text two weeks later in the margin of the obituaries and it wouldn't make any difference. The story got a headline, some people took the bait and read it and that is all that counts.
Yes, you're right. Because killing the messenger always works.
RIAA/MPAA/monopolistic-whatever could wipe peer-to-peer communications off the face of the earth (and out to geosynchronous orbit) and piracy rates would stay the same. Same for DRM. The underlying issue is that bits are fungible. If you can copy a document file you can copy a film or music file. This even precedes bits: they used to make dual video decks so that it was really easy to make illegal copies of video tapes.
So going after a specific piece of software or protocol is flat out stupid. All it does in screw up legitimate users. Those who want to cheat remain unaffected.
What the monopolists would like is the solution being tried in North Korea: house to house searches.
“The local propaganda departments are getting inminban [people’s unit] heads to collect cassettes and CDs from people’s homes and are combing through them,” a source speaking from inside the country claimed. “If even one song from the banned list is discovered, they incinerate the whole thing.”
The RIAA is jealous. They keep trying to get the equivalent system started here.
Not only do they flood the internet with positive propaganda, but they have lists of banned words and phrases for censorship purposes. If you want to follow this real in time check out China Digital Times. They cover all the news that the Chinese Communist Party (CPP) wants to cover up.
Those on the net critical of the CCP are very savvy, and have come up with their own set of terms for avoiding/parodying, well, everything. It's called the Grass-Mud Horse, aka an Alpaca. The phrase translated as Grass-Mud Horse sounds nearly the same in Mandarin as “f--k your mother”. It was the title of a satyric song "originally coined to get around, and also poke fun at, government censorship of vulgar content", and rapidly became the symbol of those seeking to outwit censorship.
As one Chinese blogger explained, “The grass-mud horse represents information and opinions that cannot be accepted by the mainstream discourse, and the ‘Song of the Grass-Mud Horse’ has become a metaphor of the power struggle over Internet expression.”
It's very interesting. A lot of it is based on Chinese slang and history, so understanding it requires some added interpretation, which is supplied at the China Digital Times. It is very interesting and cleaver, and well worth the effort.
It's not about teaching computer programming because software is "special". It's about coming in with extra resources and teaching anything with a high degree of rigor. This could be done with math, English, Latin, Biology, even gardening. (I worked people who were involved with what became the charter school movement, and they used a school yard garden to coordinate teaching biology, math and other subjects. Yes, grades went up in all subjects.)
So surprise, surprise, a company with a big stake in software finds the coding is the key subject. If this were being done in Nevada, the magic subject might be probability and statistics...
You've revealed a key component of the conservative world view. if you are a Capitalist Making Big Money then everything you do is good, and all your opinions are validated by your wealth. Spending vast sums on idiosyncratic projects (Ellison/sailboats, Bezos/Blue Origin) is your God given right because you made all that money. It is yours to do as you please.
Unless you take the money you've made and do something that contradicts conservative dogma (climate change), at which point your previously unimpeachable opinions are all wrong and you are wasting (i.e. dumping) your fortune. Obviously you have had some sort of mental breakdown. You and your projects are then open to endless criticism. All that stuff about the freedom to spend your money any way you want goes right out the window (or Windows in this case).
I think we should all thank TWX for using an obscure insider term instead of the common term for a Humvee so we all know he is soooooooooooooooooooo much cooler then the rest of us.
The irony is making my head spin: a discussion about the possible unintended consequences of using a firearm on Slashdot. Never seen that before, ever.
Usually it's the John Wayne/Rambo/Chuck Norris 2nd Amendment rights chest thumping about the right to bear arms and the idea that a bullet has to stop somewhere never comes up. In the Slashdot pro-gun world no uninvolved person is ever hit by gunfire.
Of course were are talking about a drone here, not a mere human. So it's really important to consider every possible facet of gun use, with an emphasis on caliber and shot vs. bullet.
I have a radical thought: let's make this part of the discussion whenever someone starts advocating guns. Of course that would require consistency and logic, and it's foolish to expect that on Slashdot. Future discussions on Slashdot will be like every past discussion involving fire arms; the idea that anyone can end up in the line of fire will never be mentioned.
In determining the probable cause of the accident, board members were focused on how well officials prepared for the worst. NTSB member Robert Sumwalt said Scaled Composites "put all their eggs in the basket of the pilots doing it correctly."
"My point is that a single-point human failure has to be anticipated," Sumwalt said. "The system has to be designed to compensate for the error."
Accusing the test pilot of being untrained and/or incompetent or whining about the risks of interlocks is both irrelevant and stupid. Single point operator failures should be designed out of any system that can cost a human life. That's why there are airbags, seat belts, and crumple zones in cars: because people fuck stuff up. If a new car that costs $15,000 can have these safety features then leaving equivalent features out of a spacecraft is engineering malpractice and possibly criminal negligence.
But no one will be held personally accountable. And whatever safety culture does result won't last. By the time there is a 20% staff turn over it will be completely gone. Why? Because: we're makin money here, if you don't get that then get the fuck out.
Just like in the Challenger disaster, when a technical person objects a manager will say "Take off your engineering hat and put on your management hat." And people will die and nothing will change.
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It's not a tax dodge if it's legal.
You have the mentality of a peasant. Just because something is "legal"does not mean that it is automatically fair or correct. The law is riddled with exceptions that enrich and empower the few at the expense of everyone else. This is not an accident. These kinks in the laws are bought and paid for by the rich and powerful so they (and their heirs) can keep and expand their wealth and power.
All you have to do is look at the ever growing gap between the wealthy and every one else to see how things really work. Theoretically in an capitalistic meritocracy, rewards are related to individual effort. If you believe that and look at the increasing inequality, then you would have to conclude that the 1% are working harder and getting smarter and the 99% are slacking off and getting dumber. How likely is that?
But you are a well trained peasant who is incapable of critical thinking, so it never occurs to you that you are playing in a rigged game. You would have fit in well in the era of the divine right of kings.
NASA gave Boeing $4.2 billion for it's CTS-100 crew system, and $2.6 billion to SpaceX for the Dragon. Add in $900 million to the Russians to send US astronauts to the ISS and it's $3 billion extra to make sure that Boeing will remain the incumbent. And don't forget the the CTS-100 has never been launched, while the Dragon has been to the ISS multiple times.
So even though ULA sat on their ass for decades and used Russian motors for their Atlas V they are still the preferred vendor. So if you have enough clout in Congress and every manager in NASA and the Air Force knows they can spend their post-government career in a well paid civilian job at Boeing, you can sleep easy because the government will spend whatever it takes to keep you fat and happy.
No capitalism in sight. It's the insiders giving each other hands jobs. Business as usual.
Hey, Rip Van Winkle, it 2015, not 1980. Simple math. To make it fair, let's say 1990. 2015 minus 1990 equals 35 years.
No change in electronics has happened since 1990, according to you. Are you posting here using your ASR-33 teletype or your DEC VT-100? Just wondering.
Were you asleep since 2008 or are you mentally deficient? Those are the only two reasons I can think of for your idiocy.
Given the chance, big business behaves like meth freak with rabies. They are not trustworthy. There is no such thing as "business ethics".
There is only one goal: making the people at the top as rich as possible. Nothing else counts. This is why 10% of the profits of large US companies go to the CEO. That's insane. No where else in the world is this true.
Even after Sorbanes-Oxley the banking sector remains unchanged. We've seen international currency rigging, wholesale tax cheating and money laundering. There have been tens of billions of dollars of fines. It's still the same rigged game.
Sorbanes-Oxley is too weak. Until CEOs and board of director members go to jail it will never stop. So far no one has gone to jail. Not one person. The only people who do time are people convicted on insider trading, which is a joke. That is petty crime compared to what people like Mozilo did at Countrywide Mortgage.
If we are ever going to ride ourselves of our completely corrupt economic system a lot of very rich people are going to have to spend decades in jail and be stripped of every penny they stole. And we are going to have to break up the monopolies and de facto cartels that dominate the economy. Only then will we get back to functioning capitalism. If you think that our economy is capitalistic then you are truly delusional.
The tubes would collapse without the cats filling them up.
At least that is what I saw the first time I glanced at the post.
Corporations have the resources to define how the law is applied. You, as an individual, do not. So when a corporation decides, you have to live with that result. Your so called "inalienable rights" have been revoked.
Of course it's not solely corporate power that has caused this too happen. Warrantless surveillance, civil forfeiture, arbitrary voting restrictions and the like are all part of the package.
You can make yourself a lot more comfortable by understanding that you are a peasant, not a citizen in a democracy. If you can see through the propaganda you've been fed and comprehend your true position it all makes perfect sense.
Those were the good ole days. But now they don't keep in on the opens shelves, you have to ask the pharmacist and if they don't like your looks you can't get it at all. :(
Sims is a MacArthur Grant winner. He has continued working with evolutionary algorithms and iterated function systems. His home page is here.
This falls so far below the standard of "News for Nerds" that it is an embarrassment. What part of the Slashdot demographic gives a rip? The fashion conscious? Here? (chokes laughing).
So the flat edge effects the clock speed? Number of cores? Memory? Battery life? Connectivity?
Tell me. I absolutely do not have the fainest idea of why this got posted. It's too stupid to be a Shashvertisement. Is it due to drugs, drink, too much caffeine and lack of sleep on the part of editors? A cry for help? Or perhaps too many brain cells have died because of a combination of junk food and constant florescent lighting?
Whatever. Just don't ever pull this kind of crap again.You just make yourself look as dumb as you are.
I guess the article is wrong. I feel better already.
"You have to manifest a criminal intent to further the aims prohibited by the statute."
So the authorities decide if you are thinking correctly: "... there's also the question of intent there: repeating speech is not automatically an endorsement. ..." and "... I believe many people may believe terrorism is self-evidently immoral."
So as soon as an authority figure accuses you of having "intent" you are guilty because it is "self-evidently immoral."
Now consider how the TSA operates. We obviously have nothing to fear from a gang of unaccountable self selected guardians who need to prove that they are doing something to justify their existence. And the FBI has never engaged in illegal activity by spying on legitimate political activity (MLK), tried to blackmail leaders to influence their activities (MLK), engaged in black ops including violence in order to discredit political movements and individuals (COINTELPRO) or conspired with criminals (Whitey Bulger) and then covered up illegal acts, including drug dealing and murder.
We have nothing to fear. They never lie and they are always right.
This is sensationalistic news. Look at the components: drugs, a murdered young woman, gruesome botched corpse disposal and a violent TV show known world wide. Who give a crap about anything else? Not the people who wrote the story and not the people viewing it. Trying to see if any of it makes sense is just spoiling everyone's fun.
It could turn out that the story was scrambled and what really happened was that a dispute over clipping a hedge lead to the death of a pet dog and someone tried to get rid of the evidence in the trash and nobody would care. Nothing could of happened and it was all made up and nobody would care. A retraction could be printed, but it would in microscopic text two weeks later in the margin of the obituaries and it wouldn't make any difference. The story got a headline, some people took the bait and read it and that is all that counts.
Grow up. Thinking about news is obsolete.
RIAA/MPAA/monopolistic-whatever could wipe peer-to-peer communications off the face of the earth (and out to geosynchronous orbit) and piracy rates would stay the same. Same for DRM. The underlying issue is that bits are fungible. If you can copy a document file you can copy a film or music file. This even precedes bits: they used to make dual video decks so that it was really easy to make illegal copies of video tapes.
So going after a specific piece of software or protocol is flat out stupid. All it does in screw up legitimate users. Those who want to cheat remain unaffected.
What the monopolists would like is the solution being tried in North Korea: house to house searches.
The RIAA is jealous. They keep trying to get the equivalent system started here.
So you can do that? With what part of your body? And how long does it take to charge? (I bet under 5 seconds...)
Those on the net critical of the CCP are very savvy, and have come up with their own set of terms for avoiding/parodying, well, everything. It's called the Grass-Mud Horse, aka an Alpaca. The phrase translated as Grass-Mud Horse sounds nearly the same in Mandarin as “f--k your mother”. It was the title of a satyric song "originally coined to get around, and also poke fun at, government censorship of vulgar content", and rapidly became the symbol of those seeking to outwit censorship.
It's very interesting. A lot of it is based on Chinese slang and history, so understanding it requires some added interpretation, which is supplied at the China Digital Times. It is very interesting and cleaver, and well worth the effort.
So surprise, surprise, a company with a big stake in software finds the coding is the key subject. If this were being done in Nevada, the magic subject might be probability and statistics...
Unless you take the money you've made and do something that contradicts conservative dogma (climate change), at which point your previously unimpeachable opinions are all wrong and you are wasting (i.e. dumping) your fortune. Obviously you have had some sort of mental breakdown. You and your projects are then open to endless criticism. All that stuff about the freedom to spend your money any way you want goes right out the window (or Windows in this case).
Hypocritical much?
I think we should all thank TWX for using an obscure insider term instead of the common term for a Humvee so we all know he is soooooooooooooooooooo much cooler then the rest of us.
Prick.
Shark bait.
Spa-rtacus?
Spar-tacus?
Spart-actus?
Sparta-ctus?
Spartact-us?
Being a Bid Dick and all, you are a perfect candidate to be in charge of security at OMB. Being a Dick seems to be the only qualification you need.
If someone parked a car with a camera in you backyard/living room/outside your bathroom/in your bedroom....
Usually it's the John Wayne/Rambo/Chuck Norris 2nd Amendment rights chest thumping about the right to bear arms and the idea that a bullet has to stop somewhere never comes up. In the Slashdot pro-gun world no uninvolved person is ever hit by gunfire.
Of course were are talking about a drone here, not a mere human. So it's really important to consider every possible facet of gun use, with an emphasis on caliber and shot vs. bullet.
I have a radical thought: let's make this part of the discussion whenever someone starts advocating guns. Of course that would require consistency and logic, and it's foolish to expect that on Slashdot. Future discussions on Slashdot will be like every past discussion involving fire arms; the idea that anyone can end up in the line of fire will never be mentioned.
Accusing the test pilot of being untrained and/or incompetent or whining about the risks of interlocks is both irrelevant and stupid. Single point operator failures should be designed out of any system that can cost a human life. That's why there are airbags, seat belts, and crumple zones in cars: because people fuck stuff up. If a new car that costs $15,000 can have these safety features then leaving equivalent features out of a spacecraft is engineering malpractice and possibly criminal negligence.
But no one will be held personally accountable. And whatever safety culture does result won't last. By the time there is a 20% staff turn over it will be completely gone. Why? Because: we're makin money here, if you don't get that then get the fuck out.
Just like in the Challenger disaster, when a technical person objects a manager will say "Take off your engineering hat and put on your management hat." And people will die and nothing will change.