Anonymous fascist Coward doesn't realize that monopolism is capitalism's worst enemy. I've already made more capitalist money exploiting the surplus value of others' labor than you'll ever spend. And I've spent more on medical bills in the US than my old Canadian taxes cost when I worked there, with better care in Canada.
Man, you (literally) poor fascist work drones really loves you some Rush Limbo propaganda more than you love your country, your job, your children, or any glimmer of sense, dontcha?
The problem is that much content is not simply a commodity, but rather unique, even if in large quantity. That's why the copyright making a "temporary" artificial monopoly on that content is a problem. This is also true to some extent in, say, the neighborhood example you mention. But real property is different: there's no alternative, every item is unique. Though many neighborhoods are interchangeable, there's nothing we can do to all live in, say, the top penthouse on Park Avenue. Content is different: its natural state is distribution of multiple identical copies, of even the most desired item. That's why it's worth fighting these artificial, archaic "compromises" that are no longer justified by their original benefits in "promoting science and the useful arts". Everything is against them except the status quo and the powers benefiting from it.
Newsflash: corporate media execs will say anything to protect their monopolies on intellectual products. As a last resort they might produce an intellectually satisfying argument, but only once they've exhausted all the easy ways to keep their fat status quo.
They should call it "Free Beer". Then they could sell the identical version called "DRM" to the people who don't like that.
Hollywood hates us. It treats us like animals. And the millions of us who obsessively consume its poison prove them right. But without DRM, the minority of us who could prove them wrong could capture the masses our own ways, and have a chance to evolve the whole beast. I'd drink to that.
Dick Cheney has himself done more damage to my country, and thereby to me, than every VP combined, plus probably every president, possibly including his Bush. He is evil to the core. He has bankrupted us, financially and morally, for which I will be paying for the rest of my life. He has killed thousands, hundreds of thousands. His treasons and other crimes are too numerous to mention. He is the devil, and I will dance on his grave. Especially if we can hang him to death for his treason, preferably tomorrow.
I said we should hang him for treason. The mountain of evidence is already undeniable, but of course we need a trial that uses it. Because we are a mostly civilized people, even if 50M of use have sent that vile scumbag to run the place every chance they got. Yeah, I'm bitter and full of rage.
Meanwhile, when I point it out, you say something nonsensical about a "witch hunt". Do you know what that term means? Evidently not. I'm not interested in your fake concern about my stress life. Your facile political analysis of "they're all the same" is also meaningless. All you've got is pollyanna (look it up) so you can feel like everything is just A-OK. Everything is not A-OK, it's Cheney's fault more than any single other person, and you're covering for him with meaningliss twaddle.
You are exactly the kind of apathetic babbler upon whom Cheney depends to get away with his crimes. I hate him, and I hate you too. Now get out of the way.
You are one weird dude to be crying about Cheney, evidence, and seriousness. And I mean one: the only person left who doesn't realize Cheney is the devil. And that mere "witch hunts" are too puny when stalking the devil.
Please tell me more about yourself, so we can have some details before your peculiar species is finally extinct. But hey, Dick, is that you?
Now we've got something for Cheney to do after we've impeached him: dole out the tape while they reassemble all the evidence he's shredded the past 7 years.
Sun has now opened the source to nearly all of Java, while Linux's source is of course all open. Running Java bytecodes calling Java APIs in a VM that then calls native Linux APIs means there's still plenty of "translation" and stacking/calling/jumping overhead and complexity in the usual OS/app config.
So has anyone hybridized the Java VM with the Linux kernel itself? Directly mapping Java APIs called by app/let bytecodes onto Linux APIs. Maybe just Java integrated to the kernel in a "shell VM", the way that bash scripts are interpreted and run against the kernel, but precompiled into bytecode "binaries" run by the Java "shell". But there might be really interesting power gained by making Java the primary OS/app programming language, rather than the traditional C code. And Java apps might get better performance, lower overall runtime complexity, and/or just a more complete API than just the Java ones.
Has anyone tried this yet? Dare I call it "Lava", or "Livux"?
Yes, as I mentioned, insurance corps are taking a bigger piece of the profits that used to flow more to doctors. Some doctors might not be making as much as their exorbitantly rich predecessors, bringing down the average, but I can tell you that many still are - even just noting my own pre-med classmates' careers.
That old article doesn't mention any reasons or stats about the decline. But the declining supply of doctors makes the prices even higher, as I noted, so increasing its supply should reduce them. I note that doctor incomes aren't yet so low that rural areas can afford enough of them as well as can suburban areas, to say nothing of dangerous or otherwise less desirable places to live.
Hybrid cars are better than the typical cars. Now there's a prediction that "intelligent cars" will also be better than typical cars, as much better as are hybrids. So the correct headline is
"'Intelligent Cars' As Good As Hybrid Cars"
Otherwise the headline is about hybrids, which this story is not about. And it implies that hybrids aren't so good, as if not-so-good "intelligent cars" are their benchmark.
Plus, the research is only a single prediction of a complex system yet to be built, let alone tested, so a correct headline would be in the future tense, anyway.
The Constitution isn't "unclear" on the right to record public places, it's silent. The people have a right to security in our homes, through only reasonable searches. The absence of a Constitutional power to stop our photography of public places means that power doesn't exist.
The other points you make are relevant to the story's subject, satellite photography. Technology changes the basic human rights into unbalanced privileges. Like driving a car, or carrying a gun, those freedoms are based on restrictions, because not everyone can or does have them. Buildings themselves are technology that we use to protect our rightful privacy. When someone invades that privacy, using technology or even just naked techniques, we use the government to stop them, to protect our rightful privacy. When the government is the invading party, we run the government to prevent such abuses, where private action can rightfully be stopped only once the act is committed.
The government strategy of buying up exclusive rights to privately sold images is an interesting strategy, as it does not interfere with any rights. However, those images must be available to the public once the government's justified timeframe of restricting them has expired. A legit process protecting info from public access during only the actually required timeframe is one of the most urgent reforms our Info Age government now demands.
The Constitution does not have an expiration date. Your subtroll post is worthless in every way. Think about thinking about the Constitution before you post.
I have been to every continent on which people outnumber penguins, and I have the pictures to prove it. Including pictures of people trying to throw me out of various picturesque churches.
I certainly don't think government censorship, even specifically banning photography of public places, is "uniquely American". I've been engaged in the US end of the "droit de regard" debate for well over a decade, though I can cite French examples.
Complaints by Americans about unamerican activity of our government (and its people) are not "ignorant". They are the American way: part of the process of petitioning the government for redress of grievances, as well as free expression and any number of other rights we explicitly protect according to our Constitution. You want to talk about ignorance, look to your comment about the Constitution needing a "right to use their camera", when government powers exist only so far as the Constitution explicitly creates them (and the states don't prohibit them).
It's like you live in the fake America in the Rush Limbo show, where no American ever leaves their hick town, except to go to Disneyworld. Naturally a free, informed American exercising my full rights and demanding my government protect them frustrates you. There are plenty of other countries where that's the way they do it, but not in my America.
This story is about the US "spy chief", not a state org.
When a state prohibits recording publicly viewable places, then we're just arguing about whether it's completely stupid - if the state's constitution creates that kind of power for it.
Of course I should be able to photograph the public parts of those buildings, like the parts I can see from the street. Of course I should be able to photograph the Normandy invasion plans, now that the invasion is over a half-century old, and they're in a museum.
And of course the interiors of "public" buildings that are actually classified/restricted (including offices requiring appointments), and new plans still closed to public access, should not be photographed without proper authorization.
That's why we spend so much time and money building public buildings: they control access to their interiors.
This situation seems like a basic reality, while trying to stop photography of public exteriors is a basic fantasy. Part of the simcurity that pretends to protect us but keeps us scared into obedience by merely obscuring both how vulnerable and how safe we actually are.
There are already plenty of public places in the USA with posted signs prohibiting video/photos.
These restrictions are clear violations of the Constitution, which creates no power for our government to prevent our recording public places. Not to mention absolutely unamerican in attitude.
There's so much accumulated destruction of America to fix now that it'll take generations to even catch up to where we could be, not to mention all the new problems accumulating while we're catching up. If we can even reverse momentum at all.
The Human Mutation [...] simply identifying it as a very distinct difference
There are other genes different between humans and other apes. Identifying them requires something like a diff run, not the complex analysis reported in this story. Apparently lacking the human neuropsin gene doesn't disqualify submitters from Slashdot.
That's "Flamebait" only if there's no reasonable response possible to saying how the Pentagon is killing our soldiers and playing with toys instead of honoring our commitments to protect them while they protect us. Thanks, TrollMods, for admitting your guilt the only way you know how: by trying to suppress the truth about it.
US healthcare prices are controlled mainly by supply and demand, like in any other market. Demand has grown greatly, with the increasing population, increasingly old in demographics, increasingly sick from environmental and labor abuse, and increased education about medical solutions to problems previously considered "the wages of sin".
While the supply of doctors remains artificially reduced by our medical education/certification system. Med school and pre-med serves primarily to "weed out" people wanting to become doctors, so only the most cut-throat (pun intended) competitive contestants get to play a game that can pay as much or more than being a lawyer, one of the few non-entrepreneurial ways to make that much money. It selects for doctors who value money, not health, especially with the extremely unhealthy hazing practically all young students and doctors must undergo for years, which also serves to subsidize the big money makers.
Demand is growing without a simple solution, nor should there necessarily be one (except maybe lots of cosmetic surgery and "permanent stopgap" psych drugs). Supply, though, should be solved by producing at least double the number of new doctors per year. Starting with testing, upgrading and recertifying the many medical pros immigrating to the US, who'd produce more medical service supply at the lowest cost, having already invested most (if not all) of what's needed. Then proceeding to increasing need+merit qualified scholarships, including selecting the best volunteers who augment medical services in places most needing them, like poor urban centers and rural areas. A tax on the richest doctors to pay to produce more doctors on whom such a tax would be spread more broadly would be appropriate.
Another part of the equation is the artificially constrained supply of patented drugs. More competition in producing drugs would increase supply and lower prices even more reliably than would more doctors. Expiring drug patents after some multiple of inventor investment, maybe as high as 10x ROI, would keep the pharmacos motivated (since healing humans is evidently insufficient motivation), while eliminating the license to get filthy rich while poor people stay sick, and everyone pays for that immoral system.
The last big chunk is insurance. Malpractice damages must be reformed, not to spare doctors, but rather to return actual penalties to malpracticers, rather than just a blanket fee on them all in increased insurance premiums. Actual damages should be paid to the damaged party, but no punitive damages should be - those should be paid to the state, just as punitive jail time is spent in a state facility, not mowing the injured party's lawn with an ankle cuff on. Those penalties would also help pay down the burden paid by the whole public which pays for the justice system that keeps lawyers fat and justice largely delayed.
And of course every other industrial country, and many nonindustrial ones, have proven for generations that spreading insurance premiums across the entire population, minus the profit margins, makes government health insurance deliver better care without leaving people broke and ill. Congress has government health insurance - the rest of us who they represent deserve it at least as much as do those powerful, rich people.
The AMA is the gatekeeper of all that status quo keeping us sick and broke, and them fat and golfing. That cartel should at least be ignored, properly distrusted, and probably broken up or limited in its anticompetitive constraints of the health they swear to protect.
So yeah, regulation is the problem, and reregulation prioritizing real economics optimizing public health is the answer. Technology's greatest role is in discussing exactly how to get there, and then administering it.
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Anonymous fascist Coward doesn't realize that monopolism is capitalism's worst enemy. I've already made more capitalist money exploiting the surplus value of others' labor than you'll ever spend. And I've spent more on medical bills in the US than my old Canadian taxes cost when I worked there, with better care in Canada.
Man, you (literally) poor fascist work drones really loves you some Rush Limbo propaganda more than you love your country, your job, your children, or any glimmer of sense, dontcha?
The problem is that much content is not simply a commodity, but rather unique, even if in large quantity. That's why the copyright making a "temporary" artificial monopoly on that content is a problem. This is also true to some extent in, say, the neighborhood example you mention. But real property is different: there's no alternative, every item is unique. Though many neighborhoods are interchangeable, there's nothing we can do to all live in, say, the top penthouse on Park Avenue. Content is different: its natural state is distribution of multiple identical copies, of even the most desired item. That's why it's worth fighting these artificial, archaic "compromises" that are no longer justified by their original benefits in "promoting science and the useful arts". Everything is against them except the status quo and the powers benefiting from it.
They're still reducing their inventory of intellectually unsatisfying arguments, some of which are unintellectually satisfying. The pipeline is full.
Newsflash: corporate media execs will say anything to protect their monopolies on intellectual products. As a last resort they might produce an intellectually satisfying argument, but only once they've exhausted all the easy ways to keep their fat status quo.
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They should call it "Free Beer". Then they could sell the identical version called "DRM" to the people who don't like that.
Hollywood hates us. It treats us like animals. And the millions of us who obsessively consume its poison prove them right. But without DRM, the minority of us who could prove them wrong could capture the masses our own ways, and have a chance to evolve the whole beast. I'd drink to that.
Juliet is 13 years old.
FWIW, sex above the legal age is not "underage" anywhere, by definition.
So the German government says the problem with kiddie porn is that some adults are perverts, even if no children are involved.
Do they arrest people in Germany for the love scenes in Shakespeare's _Romeo and Juliet_ between two underage kids, but played by adults?
Dick Cheney has himself done more damage to my country, and thereby to me, than every VP combined, plus probably every president, possibly including his Bush. He is evil to the core. He has bankrupted us, financially and morally, for which I will be paying for the rest of my life. He has killed thousands, hundreds of thousands. His treasons and other crimes are too numerous to mention. He is the devil, and I will dance on his grave. Especially if we can hang him to death for his treason, preferably tomorrow.
I said we should hang him for treason. The mountain of evidence is already undeniable, but of course we need a trial that uses it. Because we are a mostly civilized people, even if 50M of use have sent that vile scumbag to run the place every chance they got. Yeah, I'm bitter and full of rage.
Meanwhile, when I point it out, you say something nonsensical about a "witch hunt". Do you know what that term means? Evidently not. I'm not interested in your fake concern about my stress life. Your facile political analysis of "they're all the same" is also meaningless. All you've got is pollyanna (look it up) so you can feel like everything is just A-OK. Everything is not A-OK, it's Cheney's fault more than any single other person, and you're covering for him with meaningliss twaddle.
You are exactly the kind of apathetic babbler upon whom Cheney depends to get away with his crimes. I hate him, and I hate you too. Now get out of the way.
"Surprise arrest warrant"? That's sciency for "miracle". Hubbard really is god!
You are one weird dude to be crying about Cheney, evidence, and seriousness. And I mean one: the only person left who doesn't realize Cheney is the devil. And that mere "witch hunts" are too puny when stalking the devil.
Please tell me more about yourself, so we can have some details before your peculiar species is finally extinct. But hey, Dick, is that you?
Now we've got something for Cheney to do after we've impeached him: dole out the tape while they reassemble all the evidence he's shredded the past 7 years.
Then we can hang him for treason.
Sun has now opened the source to nearly all of Java, while Linux's source is of course all open. Running Java bytecodes calling Java APIs in a VM that then calls native Linux APIs means there's still plenty of "translation" and stacking/calling/jumping overhead and complexity in the usual OS/app config.
So has anyone hybridized the Java VM with the Linux kernel itself? Directly mapping Java APIs called by app/let bytecodes onto Linux APIs. Maybe just Java integrated to the kernel in a "shell VM", the way that bash scripts are interpreted and run against the kernel, but precompiled into bytecode "binaries" run by the Java "shell". But there might be really interesting power gained by making Java the primary OS/app programming language, rather than the traditional C code. And Java apps might get better performance, lower overall runtime complexity, and/or just a more complete API than just the Java ones.
Has anyone tried this yet? Dare I call it "Lava", or "Livux"?
Yes, as I mentioned, insurance corps are taking a bigger piece of the profits that used to flow more to doctors. Some doctors might not be making as much as their exorbitantly rich predecessors, bringing down the average, but I can tell you that many still are - even just noting my own pre-med classmates' careers.
That old article doesn't mention any reasons or stats about the decline. But the declining supply of doctors makes the prices even higher, as I noted, so increasing its supply should reduce them. I note that doctor incomes aren't yet so low that rural areas can afford enough of them as well as can suburban areas, to say nothing of dangerous or otherwise less desirable places to live.
Hybrid cars are better than the typical cars. Now there's a prediction that "intelligent cars" will also be better than typical cars, as much better as are hybrids. So the correct headline is
"'Intelligent Cars' As Good As Hybrid Cars"
Otherwise the headline is about hybrids, which this story is not about. And it implies that hybrids aren't so good, as if not-so-good "intelligent cars" are their benchmark.
Plus, the research is only a single prediction of a complex system yet to be built, let alone tested, so a correct headline would be in the future tense, anyway.
The Constitution isn't "unclear" on the right to record public places, it's silent. The people have a right to security in our homes, through only reasonable searches. The absence of a Constitutional power to stop our photography of public places means that power doesn't exist.
The other points you make are relevant to the story's subject, satellite photography. Technology changes the basic human rights into unbalanced privileges. Like driving a car, or carrying a gun, those freedoms are based on restrictions, because not everyone can or does have them. Buildings themselves are technology that we use to protect our rightful privacy. When someone invades that privacy, using technology or even just naked techniques, we use the government to stop them, to protect our rightful privacy. When the government is the invading party, we run the government to prevent such abuses, where private action can rightfully be stopped only once the act is committed.
The government strategy of buying up exclusive rights to privately sold images is an interesting strategy, as it does not interfere with any rights. However, those images must be available to the public once the government's justified timeframe of restricting them has expired. A legit process protecting info from public access during only the actually required timeframe is one of the most urgent reforms our Info Age government now demands.
The Constitution does not have an expiration date. Your subtroll post is worthless in every way. Think about thinking about the Constitution before you post.
You mean like the ones on NJ Turnpike toll plaza leading to I278-W?
I have been to every continent on which people outnumber penguins, and I have the pictures to prove it. Including pictures of people trying to throw me out of various picturesque churches.
I certainly don't think government censorship, even specifically banning photography of public places, is "uniquely American". I've been engaged in the US end of the "droit de regard" debate for well over a decade, though I can cite French examples.
Complaints by Americans about unamerican activity of our government (and its people) are not "ignorant". They are the American way: part of the process of petitioning the government for redress of grievances, as well as free expression and any number of other rights we explicitly protect according to our Constitution. You want to talk about ignorance, look to your comment about the Constitution needing a "right to use their camera", when government powers exist only so far as the Constitution explicitly creates them (and the states don't prohibit them).
It's like you live in the fake America in the Rush Limbo show, where no American ever leaves their hick town, except to go to Disneyworld. Naturally a free, informed American exercising my full rights and demanding my government protect them frustrates you. There are plenty of other countries where that's the way they do it, but not in my America.
This story is about the US "spy chief", not a state org.
When a state prohibits recording publicly viewable places, then we're just arguing about whether it's completely stupid - if the state's constitution creates that kind of power for it.
Of course I should be able to photograph the public parts of those buildings, like the parts I can see from the street. Of course I should be able to photograph the Normandy invasion plans, now that the invasion is over a half-century old, and they're in a museum.
And of course the interiors of "public" buildings that are actually classified/restricted (including offices requiring appointments), and new plans still closed to public access, should not be photographed without proper authorization.
That's why we spend so much time and money building public buildings: they control access to their interiors.
This situation seems like a basic reality, while trying to stop photography of public exteriors is a basic fantasy. Part of the simcurity that pretends to protect us but keeps us scared into obedience by merely obscuring both how vulnerable and how safe we actually are.
There are already plenty of public places in the USA with posted signs prohibiting video/photos.
These restrictions are clear violations of the Constitution, which creates no power for our government to prevent our recording public places. Not to mention absolutely unamerican in attitude.
There's so much accumulated destruction of America to fix now that it'll take generations to even catch up to where we could be, not to mention all the new problems accumulating while we're catching up. If we can even reverse momentum at all.
The Human Mutation
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simply identifying it as a very distinct difference
There are other genes different between humans and other apes. Identifying them requires something like a diff run, not the complex analysis reported in this story. Apparently lacking the human neuropsin gene doesn't disqualify submitters from Slashdot.
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100% Flamebait
That's "Flamebait" only if there's no reasonable response possible to saying how the Pentagon is killing our soldiers and playing with toys instead of honoring our commitments to protect them while they protect us. Thanks, TrollMods, for admitting your guilt the only way you know how: by trying to suppress the truth about it.
US healthcare prices are controlled mainly by supply and demand, like in any other market. Demand has grown greatly, with the increasing population, increasingly old in demographics, increasingly sick from environmental and labor abuse, and increased education about medical solutions to problems previously considered "the wages of sin".
While the supply of doctors remains artificially reduced by our medical education/certification system. Med school and pre-med serves primarily to "weed out" people wanting to become doctors, so only the most cut-throat (pun intended) competitive contestants get to play a game that can pay as much or more than being a lawyer, one of the few non-entrepreneurial ways to make that much money. It selects for doctors who value money, not health, especially with the extremely unhealthy hazing practically all young students and doctors must undergo for years, which also serves to subsidize the big money makers.
Demand is growing without a simple solution, nor should there necessarily be one (except maybe lots of cosmetic surgery and "permanent stopgap" psych drugs). Supply, though, should be solved by producing at least double the number of new doctors per year. Starting with testing, upgrading and recertifying the many medical pros immigrating to the US, who'd produce more medical service supply at the lowest cost, having already invested most (if not all) of what's needed. Then proceeding to increasing need+merit qualified scholarships, including selecting the best volunteers who augment medical services in places most needing them, like poor urban centers and rural areas. A tax on the richest doctors to pay to produce more doctors on whom such a tax would be spread more broadly would be appropriate.
Another part of the equation is the artificially constrained supply of patented drugs. More competition in producing drugs would increase supply and lower prices even more reliably than would more doctors. Expiring drug patents after some multiple of inventor investment, maybe as high as 10x ROI, would keep the pharmacos motivated (since healing humans is evidently insufficient motivation), while eliminating the license to get filthy rich while poor people stay sick, and everyone pays for that immoral system.
The last big chunk is insurance. Malpractice damages must be reformed, not to spare doctors, but rather to return actual penalties to malpracticers, rather than just a blanket fee on them all in increased insurance premiums. Actual damages should be paid to the damaged party, but no punitive damages should be - those should be paid to the state, just as punitive jail time is spent in a state facility, not mowing the injured party's lawn with an ankle cuff on. Those penalties would also help pay down the burden paid by the whole public which pays for the justice system that keeps lawyers fat and justice largely delayed.
And of course every other industrial country, and many nonindustrial ones, have proven for generations that spreading insurance premiums across the entire population, minus the profit margins, makes government health insurance deliver better care without leaving people broke and ill. Congress has government health insurance - the rest of us who they represent deserve it at least as much as do those powerful, rich people.
The AMA is the gatekeeper of all that status quo keeping us sick and broke, and them fat and golfing. That cartel should at least be ignored, properly distrusted, and probably broken up or limited in its anticompetitive constraints of the health they swear to protect.
So yeah, regulation is the problem, and reregulation prioritizing real economics optimizing public health is the answer. Technology's greatest role is in discussing exactly how to get there, and then administering it.
115,000 Australian dollars is 95,404 US dollars as I post this message.