The area within the Moon's orbit (384,000 km radius) has 38 x 10^21 Joules of sunlight passing through every minute (...) solar energy in space is easily extracted.
But building a pi*(384,000 km)^2 = 463,000,000,000,000,000 m^2 solar panel is not, the effective energy density per m^2 is just that of Earth minus the atmosphere and cloud cover. When it reaches earth sunlight is 1366 watts/m^2 and 75% of that reaches ground level. In the best areas for solar panels you get 25-30% effective sunlight so in total you get about 20% of the effectiveness of a space based 24x7 solar panel. What do you think costs more, setting up 5 m^2 in a desert or sending 1 m^2 into space - or building it in space? Make that 20m^2 and you've covered most populated areas on the globe. Not to mention that with cosmic radiation, micrometeorites and such space is actually rather nasty, maintenance is a bitch and recycling impossible. Outside of space probes space-based solar power makes no sense whatsoever.
Not sure how any serious engineer or scientist works at NASA these days. NASA's mission changes quarterly (or more frequently), subject to political whim.
Because private companies are totally not flip-flopping based on quarterly performance and managers playing musical chairs. Most of this is simply political theater because none of these missions are funded, so nobody really cares how often they change except to make other politicians look bad. NASA's got plenty more mundane missions which will continue.
...I am only 53 so I will never get one from the Queen when I am 100. Oh well.
The Queen will probably be a King anyway by that time... Ok, you'll never know how long the current one lives, and you'll never know what Charles' next surgery will be, so YMMV;)
Well considering the telegram would have to be 47 years from now, Charles would have to live to 111. Must be a frustrating life, he's now 64 and in an age where most are looking to settle into retirement he's still waiting for the "job" he's been chosen to do from birth. And if her mother is anything like her mother again, it might still take another 15 years because I definitively think this is going to be one of those "over my dead body" successions.
Is this accurate? I don't know much about telegraphs, but I'm pretty sure they're analog machines.
All real world machines are analog, but the communication is digital (signal/no signal). SOS =... ---... = 101010001110111011100010101 (for human convenience a dash is three dots long as is the pause between letters, seven between words). I agree it's an odd wording though, with that logic the blind have been reading digital books for ages - with their digits, even.
It doesn't take a PhD to use the TOR Browser bundle, you could also direct users to a TOR gateway service like onion.to if you only care about protecting the anonymity of the site. I think the main reason it's not happening is because the current whack-a-mole game is not working very well. Search for any popular item + torrent on Google and you'll find plenty sites, public torrents usually refer to many independent trackers and on top of that there's trackerless peer exchange. It doesn't really matter where you get the torrent/magnet link, you'll be part of the same swarm. They can't win unless they shut down that down and if they shut that down moving the torrent sites to TOR wouldn't help.
If you remembered what life was all about you wouldn't be working 12+ hours a day in the first palce. Add sleep, commute, basic living like hygiene, meals and basic housekeeping and it's obvious you don't have a life outside work. I could do it for a short while for lots of money, but in general life's too short to live it later. Not that I'm doing anything "useful" with my spare time in that sense, but I'm certainly enjoying it. You want to be an old geezer with money because all you've done in life is work? Well if you make it that far, most that work all day and all night don't.
If you didn't provide a license to download it, they're going to sue because their pirated source code crashed the airplane? Can anyone find even one actual court case like that, not just hyperbole?
Unless you're regularly doing tasks where you find yourself twiddling your thumbs for several seconds or minutes waiting for the SSD to finish reading/writing several GB of data, the difference between 600 MB/s and 1.25 GB/s is imperceptible despite being a 2x speedup. Twice as fast as the blink of an eye is still as fast as a blink of an eye to our perception.
Well I feel there's an underlying assumption in pretty much every review that you're the kind of person this matters for. If any SSD is good enough for you, you don't need to read SSD reviews just like you don't need to read CPU or GPU reviews to play solitaire but if you do 3D rendering or play Crysis 3 you do. If you read reviews for things that are utterly irrelevant to you, well I'd grab those free page hits too if I could.
The low-powered, RISC space is where AMD needs to go. It doesn't necessarily have to be ARM. Instead, there's a market for low-powered x86, which is where Intel is going with Haswell. AMD needs to get ahead of the game and create something that is capable of power sipping (which obviously won't be x86)
Actually Intel has already shown they can make x86 phones on par with existing ARM phones, not market leading or anything but middle of the road. You want AMD to out-do ARM and Intel, push a new instruction set, create the compiler support and the industry momentum behind it? With a single, financially troubled company who I wouldn't bet is there five years from now? Yes, Itanic was a huge failure but Intel still makes Itaniums for anyone foolish enough to bet on that horse, AMD couldn't make any such promises. To compare it to US politics x86 and ARM are the republicrats and anything AMD would come up with a third party. They get support on Slashdot but go nowhere in the real world.
but is also capable of running legacy x86 code at reasonable speeds.
If you want a past example that tried just this, see Transmeta with their VLIW design. It did not end well, the x86 code didn't perform and nobody made native VLIW binaries. Besides, AMD has already split their efforts two-way on ARM and x86 which I suspect was a mistake. If you're losing the battle against Intel picking a new one against Samsung, Qualcomm, nVidia, Apple and everyone else making ARM chips still doesn't seem like a good idea. As an x86 supplier they'd have value as an alternative to Intel, in the ARM market they're entirely expendable.
According to Wikipedia, AMD is worth $4.5b. Possibly more. Perhaps Apple could convince their shareholders to take less. But we'll call it $4.5b for our purposes.
That's the balance sheet, in practice the market cap is 2.8 billion - right before Christmas it was about 1.4 billion. At any rate, AMD's technology sucks at power efficiency which makes it a horrible match for all the mobile devices (iPhone, iPad, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro) that Apple wants to sell. Even trying to make "fashionable" non-mobile products like the Mac Mini, iMac or the new Mac Pro would be very much harder with an AMD processor. If you don't mind a big case, big heatsink and big fans AMD will get the job done but it's totally the opposite of everything Apple stands for.
The problem with the X8s (well other than the arch, see my previous post with a link on why the BD/PD/EX platform is AMD's netburst) is they simply cost too much to make, for every X8 that comes out with all functioning core they probably get 2 dozen X4s or X6s thanks to bad cores so THAT is where the bang for the buck is, although if given a choice I'd take a Deneb or Thuban over Bulldozer any day of the week.
None of them are good bang for the buck for AMD, the FX-8150/8350 is a big chip of 315 mm^2 versus 216 mm^2 for Sandy Bridge, 160 mm^2 for Ivy Bridge and 177 mm^2 for Haswell. Granted the last two are on 22nm but even the 32nm Sandy Bridge was way smaller than AMD's chip, which means more chips per wafer and lower defect rates. And Intel is planning to move to 14nm next year, so there's absolutely no chance of AMD closing any gap, at best they avoid widening it.
Note that the last found privilege escalation exploit was in 2008, denial-of-service attacks can fairly easily be stopped at the firewall or tracked down on an internal company network. Not to mention most are local bugs, that is to say you already need a user on the machine to crash it in the first place. I don't particularly care much if you're able to crash your own desktop, so the relevant bugs for a corporate desktop are rather few and far between.
Meh, every large business I know has some kind of legacy/compatibility issue or a vendor they dropped like a hot potato to make them run out-of-support. True, that might not apply to the OS the average desktop runs but I doubt support is a legal requirement in practice despite what SOX, HIPAA and whatnot else might say, in practice I think it's more CYA. Because if you're any kind of IT leader and is running an out of support OS you'll be first against the wall when they need to find scapegoats.
HDMI 1.4 (released in 2009) is capable of driving 4k displays.
Up to 30 Hz, which is fine for high resolution stills and 24p movies but I'd never run my computer on anything less than 60 Hz as games and other high FPS content would look horrible. HDMI 2.0 should be right around the corner to bring it up to speed with DisplayPort 1.2 and Thunderbolt 2.0 - even if screens are still thousands of dollars and 4K content still very rare.
Unlike lossy compression where you're always looking for better ways to exploit the bits a lossless compression has a hard limit in that you can't compress it down to less information than it actually contains. FLAC is pretty much as good as it's going to get, you can compare it to for example PNG for lossless pictures that is unchanged for the last 9 years. Sane with ZIP, RAR, 7Z etc. they use many of the same underlying algorithms and change very slowly.
Playing loud music at 3AM is nothing like a natural right exercised without imposing on others - it is a clear over-the-line case, as in one person violating someone else's rights (the "quiet enjoyment" part of natural property rights). As the saying goes, your right to swing your fist ends at my nose.
So how loud? At what hours? Who decides that? Say one is a light sleeper working night shifts and the other a heavy metal fan who thinks the heavy beat is essential, are they going to agree on where the fist ends and where the nose is? Property rights are rather simple but I imagine the standard of "quiet enjoyment" is quite fuzzy.
What if I want to grow vegetables in my front lawn, but the local government has passed a zoning rule that says I can't.
I'm not sure what the deal is with the vegetables, but let's say it's a city ordinance against having trash lying around that might attract rodents and if there's rodents near your house they'll probably be around my house that might possibly at some point in the future get a rodent problem where your trash habits might have been a contributing cause. How far can I extend my interests before they'd clash with your interests to not give a damn?
Most libertarians I've met seem to have this simple world image where they live in their own bubble with their own property, like it doesn't interact with anyone else ever. Your car pollutes, should I have the right to tell you to stop polluting my air and get a bicycle? What about speed limits, who decides exactly what's reckless driving? I'm sure I can find some reason why you can't have a vegetable patch too, if I try hard enough.
This is the same argument that has been going on for 400 years: collectivism vs. individual rights. (...) when rights of the collective are elevated above the rights of individuals, there are no barriers to tyranny
If either side "won" it'd be bizarre. Say one individual wants to listen to very loud music at 3 AM and the collective neighborhood wants him to stop, then what? It'd be crazy if society couldn't make any rules because individual rights trumps all and it'd be crazy if society could make any rules because collective rights trumps all. Society can have the democratic consent of the governed, but it can never have the individual consent of every person in every matter, so if you didn't vote for the government that passed the law should the law still apply to you? You never consented to it, there aren't any more free territories and for the sake of argument we can assume all other nations on earth would bar your emigration there. Society does force its will on the individual, if you don't agree with that right then there's no basis for democracy or society in general.
Natural rights - if they exist, after all these are all figments of human imagination and don't exist by any law of nature - are the exception to that, individual rights that society can't take away. Or rather I should say they actually can take away, but that they morally and ethically shouldn't be able to take away. Note that you can reshape many rights as both positive and negative, for example if we agree that society can order you to not do something like play loud music at 3 AM can't they then then order you to not earn any income without paying taxes on it? There's a reason this discussion has been going on for hundreds of years and I really doubt we'll settle it tonight unless we get totally hammered, unfortunately then we won't remember the solution in the morning.
And it no doubt comes from organizations where the only career path is to become a manager and where everyone who doesn't have any subordinates is per definition on the lowest rung of the ladder. The more I have to do it, the more I realize I dislike managing people and particularly those who can't work independently, can't stay on focus and can't be trusted to deliver realistic feedback on progress. Given the choice between computers who do exactly what I say - despite it being totally wrong and entirely not what I intended to say and totally crash - and employees that at best do some of what they're supposed to do some of the time I'd pick computers any day. My talents are equally wasted on trying to manage people as a project manager is trying to use his people skills to fix a computer, but hey if that's the only way to get a better paycheck...
How about stopping with bombing foreign countries first and taking their resources at gun point. People only become extremists if they don't have anything else left to lose.
Except that's not actually true, there are many poor people around the world who have less than your typical terrorist. In fact there are plenty examples of young males living in first world countries being radicalized into becoming terrorists, head full of ideology but not suffering at all. On the contrary, many countries have been relatively peaceful and secular for a long time even though they were rather primitive and poor.
Calm and measured explanations of just what the coders are doing wrong would be ever so much more helpful. If all Linus is going to do is mouth off then perhaps it's time he just STFU and GTFO.
Mostly he's talking to seasoned veterans at kernel development who damn well know what the rules are, they just choose to bend them. They're always pushing and he's the one who has to push back, measured explanations is as useless as explaining to boys that trying to sneak a peek into the girl's locker room is wrong. Of course they knew that but they did it anyway and a "please don't do that" won't discourage anyone from trying again. Even if he rejects the patches unless he talks back he becomes the wall people throw crap at to see what sticks. Usually The I'd call developers who should know better behaving in ways that are destructive to the project a management problem, but he's the project manager so his way of resolving it is to give people a well-deserved ass chewing on the LKML. Don't knock it if it works...
Linux the kernel runs extremely well on everything from smartphones to supercomputers, obviously it's more than ready for the desktop. The challenge (remember, we don't have problems anymore) is the desktop environment and the applications, none of which are Linus' responsibility. And right now I'd take bets that Android hybrids conquers the desktop before Unity, Gnome 3, KDE or any of the existing solutions do. Too bad we can't clone him so he could run those projects too, because he's got both the doer gene and the manager gene. Forget about the kernel for a moment, remember the BitKeeper debacle? Other managers of a huge project like the kernel might do a lot of things, but I don't know anyone else but Linus who sits down and cranks out git on top of everything else. He's not just floating on past glory, he keep earning that respect he enjoys.
Oh, one last thing OP - if the new people you're talking to are the type who won't believe you that you've done the project and are showing you.js source to "prove" that you're not being honest - run away.
People apply for jobs with fake diplomas and work certificates for degrees they never earned and work they never did, faking many years of their CV. Flip the situation around, you had this dude come into your office pretending he'd written some software but it had someone else's name on it and you let him smooth talk you into thinking it must be the new maintainer that had copy&replaced his name instead? Hey, I've got a bridge to sell you...
Who says he didn't have permission, if I was a contractor I'd at a minimum try to have a "show, but not use" clause part of my standard contract so I'd have a portfolio of my work. That maybe it says so in the contract someone signed two years ago doesn't mean you have a reference on hand or even at all anymore that can back that up, the legal department will have the contract but they won't know what you wrote and the people who hired you might have left. I know companies have an HR department that can verify employment dates but I don't keep references on hand that can testify to everything I've done and certainly not on speed dial, if I had this happen to me I'd probably be caught equally flat-footed. I think you're making up entirely unreasonable demands to make this his fault.
When you sell your book to a publisher you generally sell the copyright.
Really? That sounds like a silly thing to do, as you'd lose the right to write for example sequels (derivative works), movie rights, video game adaptations, merchandising rights and whatnot. I'd expect it to be some form of exclusive reproduction/distribution agreement of the book itself while all other rights are negotiable. That you'd might want to sell eBook rights, foreign language rights and book club rights as well seems likely, but it would be very unwise to sell the "unknowns" for a pittance if your book is a smashing hit. And certainly not the right to write derivative works, that's just aiming a double-barreled shotgun to your feet and give them one each for good measure.
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The area within the Moon's orbit (384,000 km radius) has 38 x 10^21 Joules of sunlight passing through every minute (...) solar energy in space is easily extracted.
But building a pi*(384,000 km)^2 = 463,000,000,000,000,000 m^2 solar panel is not, the effective energy density per m^2 is just that of Earth minus the atmosphere and cloud cover. When it reaches earth sunlight is 1366 watts/m^2 and 75% of that reaches ground level. In the best areas for solar panels you get 25-30% effective sunlight so in total you get about 20% of the effectiveness of a space based 24x7 solar panel. What do you think costs more, setting up 5 m^2 in a desert or sending 1 m^2 into space - or building it in space? Make that 20m^2 and you've covered most populated areas on the globe. Not to mention that with cosmic radiation, micrometeorites and such space is actually rather nasty, maintenance is a bitch and recycling impossible. Outside of space probes space-based solar power makes no sense whatsoever.
Not sure how any serious engineer or scientist works at NASA these days. NASA's mission changes quarterly (or more frequently), subject to political whim.
Because private companies are totally not flip-flopping based on quarterly performance and managers playing musical chairs. Most of this is simply political theater because none of these missions are funded, so nobody really cares how often they change except to make other politicians look bad. NASA's got plenty more mundane missions which will continue.
...I am only 53 so I will never get one from the Queen when I am 100. Oh well.
The Queen will probably be a King anyway by that time... Ok, you'll never know how long the current one lives, and you'll never know what Charles' next surgery will be, so YMMV ;)
Well considering the telegram would have to be 47 years from now, Charles would have to live to 111. Must be a frustrating life, he's now 64 and in an age where most are looking to settle into retirement he's still waiting for the "job" he's been chosen to do from birth. And if her mother is anything like her mother again, it might still take another 15 years because I definitively think this is going to be one of those "over my dead body" successions.
Is this accurate? I don't know much about telegraphs, but I'm pretty sure they're analog machines.
All real world machines are analog, but the communication is digital (signal/no signal). SOS = ... --- ... = 101010001110111011100010101 (for human convenience a dash is three dots long as is the pause between letters, seven between words). I agree it's an odd wording though, with that logic the blind have been reading digital books for ages - with their digits, even.
It doesn't take a PhD to use the TOR Browser bundle, you could also direct users to a TOR gateway service like onion.to if you only care about protecting the anonymity of the site. I think the main reason it's not happening is because the current whack-a-mole game is not working very well. Search for any popular item + torrent on Google and you'll find plenty sites, public torrents usually refer to many independent trackers and on top of that there's trackerless peer exchange. It doesn't really matter where you get the torrent/magnet link, you'll be part of the same swarm. They can't win unless they shut down that down and if they shut that down moving the torrent sites to TOR wouldn't help.
If you remembered what life was all about you wouldn't be working 12+ hours a day in the first palce. Add sleep, commute, basic living like hygiene, meals and basic housekeeping and it's obvious you don't have a life outside work. I could do it for a short while for lots of money, but in general life's too short to live it later. Not that I'm doing anything "useful" with my spare time in that sense, but I'm certainly enjoying it. You want to be an old geezer with money because all you've done in life is work? Well if you make it that far, most that work all day and all night don't.
If you didn't provide a license to download it, they're going to sue because their pirated source code crashed the airplane? Can anyone find even one actual court case like that, not just hyperbole?
Unless you're regularly doing tasks where you find yourself twiddling your thumbs for several seconds or minutes waiting for the SSD to finish reading/writing several GB of data, the difference between 600 MB/s and 1.25 GB/s is imperceptible despite being a 2x speedup. Twice as fast as the blink of an eye is still as fast as a blink of an eye to our perception.
Well I feel there's an underlying assumption in pretty much every review that you're the kind of person this matters for. If any SSD is good enough for you, you don't need to read SSD reviews just like you don't need to read CPU or GPU reviews to play solitaire but if you do 3D rendering or play Crysis 3 you do. If you read reviews for things that are utterly irrelevant to you, well I'd grab those free page hits too if I could.
The low-powered, RISC space is where AMD needs to go. It doesn't necessarily have to be ARM. Instead, there's a market for low-powered x86, which is where Intel is going with Haswell. AMD needs to get ahead of the game and create something that is capable of power sipping (which obviously won't be x86)
Actually Intel has already shown they can make x86 phones on par with existing ARM phones, not market leading or anything but middle of the road. You want AMD to out-do ARM and Intel, push a new instruction set, create the compiler support and the industry momentum behind it? With a single, financially troubled company who I wouldn't bet is there five years from now? Yes, Itanic was a huge failure but Intel still makes Itaniums for anyone foolish enough to bet on that horse, AMD couldn't make any such promises. To compare it to US politics x86 and ARM are the republicrats and anything AMD would come up with a third party. They get support on Slashdot but go nowhere in the real world.
but is also capable of running legacy x86 code at reasonable speeds.
If you want a past example that tried just this, see Transmeta with their VLIW design. It did not end well, the x86 code didn't perform and nobody made native VLIW binaries. Besides, AMD has already split their efforts two-way on ARM and x86 which I suspect was a mistake. If you're losing the battle against Intel picking a new one against Samsung, Qualcomm, nVidia, Apple and everyone else making ARM chips still doesn't seem like a good idea. As an x86 supplier they'd have value as an alternative to Intel, in the ARM market they're entirely expendable.
According to Wikipedia, AMD is worth $4.5b. Possibly more. Perhaps Apple could convince their shareholders to take less. But we'll call it $4.5b for our purposes.
That's the balance sheet, in practice the market cap is 2.8 billion - right before Christmas it was about 1.4 billion. At any rate, AMD's technology sucks at power efficiency which makes it a horrible match for all the mobile devices (iPhone, iPad, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro) that Apple wants to sell. Even trying to make "fashionable" non-mobile products like the Mac Mini, iMac or the new Mac Pro would be very much harder with an AMD processor. If you don't mind a big case, big heatsink and big fans AMD will get the job done but it's totally the opposite of everything Apple stands for.
The problem with the X8s (well other than the arch, see my previous post with a link on why the BD/PD/EX platform is AMD's netburst) is they simply cost too much to make, for every X8 that comes out with all functioning core they probably get 2 dozen X4s or X6s thanks to bad cores so THAT is where the bang for the buck is, although if given a choice I'd take a Deneb or Thuban over Bulldozer any day of the week.
None of them are good bang for the buck for AMD, the FX-8150/8350 is a big chip of 315 mm^2 versus 216 mm^2 for Sandy Bridge, 160 mm^2 for Ivy Bridge and 177 mm^2 for Haswell. Granted the last two are on 22nm but even the 32nm Sandy Bridge was way smaller than AMD's chip, which means more chips per wafer and lower defect rates. And Intel is planning to move to 14nm next year, so there's absolutely no chance of AMD closing any gap, at best they avoid widening it.
Note that the last found privilege escalation exploit was in 2008, denial-of-service attacks can fairly easily be stopped at the firewall or tracked down on an internal company network. Not to mention most are local bugs, that is to say you already need a user on the machine to crash it in the first place. I don't particularly care much if you're able to crash your own desktop, so the relevant bugs for a corporate desktop are rather few and far between.
Meh, every large business I know has some kind of legacy/compatibility issue or a vendor they dropped like a hot potato to make them run out-of-support. True, that might not apply to the OS the average desktop runs but I doubt support is a legal requirement in practice despite what SOX, HIPAA and whatnot else might say, in practice I think it's more CYA. Because if you're any kind of IT leader and is running an out of support OS you'll be first against the wall when they need to find scapegoats.
HDMI 1.4 (released in 2009) is capable of driving 4k displays.
Up to 30 Hz, which is fine for high resolution stills and 24p movies but I'd never run my computer on anything less than 60 Hz as games and other high FPS content would look horrible. HDMI 2.0 should be right around the corner to bring it up to speed with DisplayPort 1.2 and Thunderbolt 2.0 - even if screens are still thousands of dollars and 4K content still very rare.
Unlike lossy compression where you're always looking for better ways to exploit the bits a lossless compression has a hard limit in that you can't compress it down to less information than it actually contains. FLAC is pretty much as good as it's going to get, you can compare it to for example PNG for lossless pictures that is unchanged for the last 9 years. Sane with ZIP, RAR, 7Z etc. they use many of the same underlying algorithms and change very slowly.
Playing loud music at 3AM is nothing like a natural right exercised without imposing on others - it is a clear over-the-line case, as in one person violating someone else's rights (the "quiet enjoyment" part of natural property rights). As the saying goes, your right to swing your fist ends at my nose.
So how loud? At what hours? Who decides that? Say one is a light sleeper working night shifts and the other a heavy metal fan who thinks the heavy beat is essential, are they going to agree on where the fist ends and where the nose is? Property rights are rather simple but I imagine the standard of "quiet enjoyment" is quite fuzzy.
What if I want to grow vegetables in my front lawn, but the local government has passed a zoning rule that says I can't.
I'm not sure what the deal is with the vegetables, but let's say it's a city ordinance against having trash lying around that might attract rodents and if there's rodents near your house they'll probably be around my house that might possibly at some point in the future get a rodent problem where your trash habits might have been a contributing cause. How far can I extend my interests before they'd clash with your interests to not give a damn?
Most libertarians I've met seem to have this simple world image where they live in their own bubble with their own property, like it doesn't interact with anyone else ever. Your car pollutes, should I have the right to tell you to stop polluting my air and get a bicycle? What about speed limits, who decides exactly what's reckless driving? I'm sure I can find some reason why you can't have a vegetable patch too, if I try hard enough.
This is the same argument that has been going on for 400 years: collectivism vs. individual rights. (...) when rights of the collective are elevated above the rights of individuals, there are no barriers to tyranny
If either side "won" it'd be bizarre. Say one individual wants to listen to very loud music at 3 AM and the collective neighborhood wants him to stop, then what? It'd be crazy if society couldn't make any rules because individual rights trumps all and it'd be crazy if society could make any rules because collective rights trumps all. Society can have the democratic consent of the governed, but it can never have the individual consent of every person in every matter, so if you didn't vote for the government that passed the law should the law still apply to you? You never consented to it, there aren't any more free territories and for the sake of argument we can assume all other nations on earth would bar your emigration there. Society does force its will on the individual, if you don't agree with that right then there's no basis for democracy or society in general.
Natural rights - if they exist, after all these are all figments of human imagination and don't exist by any law of nature - are the exception to that, individual rights that society can't take away. Or rather I should say they actually can take away, but that they morally and ethically shouldn't be able to take away. Note that you can reshape many rights as both positive and negative, for example if we agree that society can order you to not do something like play loud music at 3 AM can't they then then order you to not earn any income without paying taxes on it? There's a reason this discussion has been going on for hundreds of years and I really doubt we'll settle it tonight unless we get totally hammered, unfortunately then we won't remember the solution in the morning.
If your turds resemble mountains, you should probably see a doctor...
And it no doubt comes from organizations where the only career path is to become a manager and where everyone who doesn't have any subordinates is per definition on the lowest rung of the ladder. The more I have to do it, the more I realize I dislike managing people and particularly those who can't work independently, can't stay on focus and can't be trusted to deliver realistic feedback on progress. Given the choice between computers who do exactly what I say - despite it being totally wrong and entirely not what I intended to say and totally crash - and employees that at best do some of what they're supposed to do some of the time I'd pick computers any day. My talents are equally wasted on trying to manage people as a project manager is trying to use his people skills to fix a computer, but hey if that's the only way to get a better paycheck...
How about stopping with bombing foreign countries first and taking their resources at gun point. People only become extremists if they don't have anything else left to lose.
Except that's not actually true, there are many poor people around the world who have less than your typical terrorist. In fact there are plenty examples of young males living in first world countries being radicalized into becoming terrorists, head full of ideology but not suffering at all. On the contrary, many countries have been relatively peaceful and secular for a long time even though they were rather primitive and poor.
Calm and measured explanations of just what the coders are doing wrong would be ever so much more helpful. If all Linus is going to do is mouth off then perhaps it's time he just STFU and GTFO.
Mostly he's talking to seasoned veterans at kernel development who damn well know what the rules are, they just choose to bend them. They're always pushing and he's the one who has to push back, measured explanations is as useless as explaining to boys that trying to sneak a peek into the girl's locker room is wrong. Of course they knew that but they did it anyway and a "please don't do that" won't discourage anyone from trying again. Even if he rejects the patches unless he talks back he becomes the wall people throw crap at to see what sticks. Usually The I'd call developers who should know better behaving in ways that are destructive to the project a management problem, but he's the project manager so his way of resolving it is to give people a well-deserved ass chewing on the LKML. Don't knock it if it works...
Linux the kernel runs extremely well on everything from smartphones to supercomputers, obviously it's more than ready for the desktop. The challenge (remember, we don't have problems anymore) is the desktop environment and the applications, none of which are Linus' responsibility. And right now I'd take bets that Android hybrids conquers the desktop before Unity, Gnome 3, KDE or any of the existing solutions do. Too bad we can't clone him so he could run those projects too, because he's got both the doer gene and the manager gene. Forget about the kernel for a moment, remember the BitKeeper debacle? Other managers of a huge project like the kernel might do a lot of things, but I don't know anyone else but Linus who sits down and cranks out git on top of everything else. He's not just floating on past glory, he keep earning that respect he enjoys.
Oh, one last thing OP - if the new people you're talking to are the type who won't believe you that you've done the project and are showing you .js source to "prove" that you're not being honest - run away.
People apply for jobs with fake diplomas and work certificates for degrees they never earned and work they never did, faking many years of their CV. Flip the situation around, you had this dude come into your office pretending he'd written some software but it had someone else's name on it and you let him smooth talk you into thinking it must be the new maintainer that had copy&replaced his name instead? Hey, I've got a bridge to sell you...
Who says he didn't have permission, if I was a contractor I'd at a minimum try to have a "show, but not use" clause part of my standard contract so I'd have a portfolio of my work. That maybe it says so in the contract someone signed two years ago doesn't mean you have a reference on hand or even at all anymore that can back that up, the legal department will have the contract but they won't know what you wrote and the people who hired you might have left. I know companies have an HR department that can verify employment dates but I don't keep references on hand that can testify to everything I've done and certainly not on speed dial, if I had this happen to me I'd probably be caught equally flat-footed. I think you're making up entirely unreasonable demands to make this his fault.
When you sell your book to a publisher you generally sell the copyright.
Really? That sounds like a silly thing to do, as you'd lose the right to write for example sequels (derivative works), movie rights, video game adaptations, merchandising rights and whatnot. I'd expect it to be some form of exclusive reproduction/distribution agreement of the book itself while all other rights are negotiable. That you'd might want to sell eBook rights, foreign language rights and book club rights as well seems likely, but it would be very unwise to sell the "unknowns" for a pittance if your book is a smashing hit. And certainly not the right to write derivative works, that's just aiming a double-barreled shotgun to your feet and give them one each for good measure.