"The judicial system is make a mistake a see these lobby organisations as some sort of private police corp. Their only interest is to keep their old profitable monopoly. There organisations have nothing to do in our judicial system, says The Pirate Partys partyleader Rickard Falkvinge."
This being/. I don't expect anybody to actually read the acticel, but before you begin your rant^H^H^H^H... post about how these tests are useless etc. etc. please, at least read the article disclaimer:
Don't read too much into this and don't draw any final conclusions. Each of these exciting projects have their own reason for being, as well as different pros and cons, which are not considered in this post. They each have a different level of stability and completeness. Furthermore, some of them haven't been optimized for speed yet. Take this post for what it is: an interesting experiment; Now fell free to begin your rant about it being a slow news day...
This isn't about security. It's about being able to say that you've done something about something.
In this case something very important about security. This is what politicians do to profile them self. It really doesn't matter what they do and what they do it to, but at the moment "security" is the cheap way to do something. Mostly because it's so damn hard to prove that the measures are ineffective. It's impossible to prove that blurring some images *didn't* foil some terrorists plans.
Being able to say that you got google to do something that you wanted them to do, is just an added bonus in the "look how important I am" hat.
I sometimes feel like killing my self, when I take on my webmaster cap. I manage my own sites, a couple of galleries, blogs and forums, and I spend so much time fighting spam, that I sometimes feel like just giving up. I already removed most of the options to leave comments or submit feedback, but that isn't always an options (eps. for the message board). Yes, I've captcha'ed everything etc. etc..
I really hope that this is for the long term. And by "they" i mean the politicians.
While the JFK speech that kicked of the first trips to the moons has its inspiring places ("We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win..."), I'm having a hard time imagining anybody planning anything beyond the next election.
Could we tie this into the War on Terror in someway?
The Bill of Rights does NOT protect against censorship by non-government entities. If you are using some Microsoft service, Microsoft has every right to censor whatever you say.
And rightly so.
I've a fairly successful phpBB running and, yes I censor. I censor spam, hate speech and racism. I really can't see why I should pay (bandwidth) for them to get their message out. They can run their own site and pay their own bandwidth bill.
If I over do it, people will simply leave my site and go somewhere else...
As someone with bipolar disorder, I welcome any further additions to the repertoire of weapons we have against serious depression. I just hope no one in the trials commits suicide, a common occurrance of people who are just beginning to have their depression lifted.
A doctor once told me that a positiv sign that, the treament of a bipolar depression was working, was that the patient had enough energy to sue the doctor... I'm not really sure if he as joking...
I think this could be rather cool... a screen with a 2mp resolution could probably give a good multi-level-focus image in vga (good enough for video conferencing).
A little later in the afternoon, I got pissed off. "I've been reading your file," said the Colonial, a thin young man who looked like a strong wind would sail him off like a kite. "Okay," I said. "It says you were married." "I was." "Did you like it? Being married." "Sure. It beats the alternative." He smirked. "So what happened? Divorce? Fuck around one time too many?" Whatever obnoxiously amusing qualities this guy had were fading fast. "She's dead," I said. "Yeah? How did that happen?" "She had a stroke." "Gotta love a stroke," he said. "Bam, your brain's skull pudding, just like that. Good that she didn't survive. She'd be this fat, bedridden turnip, you know. You'd just have to feed her through a straw or something." He made slurping noises. I didn't say anything. Part of my brain was figuring how quickly I could move to snap his neck, but most of me was just sitting there in blind shock and rage. I simply could not believe what I was hearing. Down in some deep part of my brain, someone was telling me to start breathing again soon, or I was going to pass out. The Colonial's PDA suddenly beeped. "Okay," he said, and stood up quickly. "We're done. Mr. Perry, please allow me to apologize for the comments I made regarding your wife's death. My job here is to generate an enraged response from the recruit as quickly as possible. Our psychological models showed that you would respond most negatively to comments like the ones I have just made. Please understand that on a personal level I would never make such comments about your late wife." I blinked stupidly for a few seconds at the man. Then I roared at him. "What kind of sick, fucked-up test was THAT?!?" "I agree it is an extremely unpleasant test, and once again I apologize. I am doing my job as ordered, nothing more." [...] I headed to the door, then stopped. "I know you were doing your job," I said. "But I still want you to know. My wife was a wonderful person. She deserves better than to be used like this." "I know she does, Mr. Perry," the man said. "I know she does." I went through the door. In the next room, a very nice young lady, who happened to be completely naked, wanted me to tell her anything I could possibly remember about my seventh birthday party.
Back in the day when I was in database application development, half the time, what we did was clean up after some intern who, though he know how to program and then did a database with a bit of functionality in Access or Excel. Then the department would get hooked on that database. Then the intern would leave. Then the database would break. Or get horrible slow. Or need some new functionlity.
Then we would step in. And laugh all the way to the bank.
Speaking as somebody with more than 15 years of (professionel) development experience, the most important lesson here is:
Programming!=Development
Programming is a (small-) subset of the process of developing software. That's why I just laugh when somebody tells me about 4, 5 or 6 (or what ever) generation languages, where you don't need to know anything and can basically just look at the computer and it will do your bidding. Yeah, right. The problem is not coding. With modern RAD tools like Delphi and similar, that's fairly easy (for most/business/ needs), what's hard is knowing what you want and design your system to actually support that in a useful way.
I feel like making a snide remark about a couple of OSS program here (The GIMP ), but that would be childish...
The problem is at the core of the GIMP developer team's culture.
I think this is the problem of quite a few OSS projects. We wanted to give our users (of a closed source system) an extra database alternative and decided to take a look at Postgresql, as it doesn't get much more free that that (with MySQL not being that free anymore).
Reading through some of the postgres mailing liste, trying to find a bit of information on how to do some fairly basic stuff (something like the mysql command "show databases" to get a list of databases), didn't turn up much, except people being flamed then they tried to suggest something.
I did finally figure it out (do a select on a system table with a few conditions), and decided to add the information, in a note, to the online postgresql documentation. Only to have it deleted!
We dropped postgresql shortly after (before releasing it), as there was simply to much of our sql that had to be rewritten (sql that worked fine with both mysql and DBISam).
Good point. Somebody gave us a collection of condensed disney stories, that he has demanded to be read from a few times, but now I've hidden it, as I simply can't stand reading from it.
It the bastard version of all the stories disney ever did, bastarderised even further to get them down to 7-8 pages (large print and pictures).
Ah, beat me to it! But let me echo it - I just have to:
Nooooooooooooooooooooo!
My son is two and a half and he's very much into animated movies. Nemo, Shrek (1+2), Toy Story (1+2), Winnie the Pooh (tons), Ice Age, Robots, etc, etc. Some of it a bit scary, so we are always by his side, so I've seen these movies a bazillion times.
The ones that last (both for us as adults and for him) are the Pixar ones. You can watch these movies again and again and they stay funny, and you can find new deepts in them. The disney ones are usually okay, but they always play the emotion card a bit heavily, which gets old really fast (dreamworks and fox is rather uneven, but usually okay, too).
It was done to "making jamming mechanically less likely", by placing the most used combinations of letters away from each other. Some argue that this actually makes it faster and not slower to use.
Thanks, I was wondering about that as well. Okay, my humour may not be for everbody, but I've gotten two "troll" and two "overrated" moderations on that one. WTF?
My two and half year old plays with the big box of duplo's I get him at an online auction site. There are not a single special block in it just 2x2, 2x4 and a couple of 2x8, in red, green and blue.
In the beginning he wanted me to make things for him, mostly airplans, but he's slowly starting to make his own stuff. I was god damn proud, the first time he came up to me with a odd looking lump of bricks and told me it was an airplan.
I'll probably buy him regular legos one day, but I'll also probably throw-away the building instructions and tell him to just look at the cover, if he want to make the official thing.
If you release a program and a 100.000 people copy it and you only make 40$ of it, you have the wrong bussiness model.
Same with the RIAA members - how about giving away the songs (it's really just an ads for the artist - that's why the record companies are willing to pay radio stations to have their crap played) and then make you money on the concerts and t-shirts?
Trying to stop people from copying something digital is a battle you'll never win....
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From http://www2.piratpartiet.se/ in my translation:
"The judicial system is make a mistake a see these lobby organisations as some sort of private police corp. Their only interest is to keep their old profitable monopoly. There organisations have nothing to do in our judicial system, says The Pirate Partys partyleader Rickard Falkvinge."
That pretty much sums it up if you ask me.
The actual project:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/buzz-like
The screen shots looks kind of nice, but I don't know enough about making music to be able to evaluate it's worth.
This isn't about security. It's about being able to say that you've done something about something.
In this case something very important about security. This is what politicians do to profile them self. It really doesn't matter what they do and what they do it to, but at the moment "security" is the cheap way to do something. Mostly because it's so damn hard to prove that the measures are ineffective. It's impossible to prove that blurring some images *didn't* foil some terrorists plans.
Being able to say that you got google to do something that you wanted them to do, is just an added bonus in the "look how important I am" hat.
I sometimes feel like killing my self, when I take on my webmaster cap. I manage my own sites, a couple of galleries, blogs and forums, and I spend so much time fighting spam, that I sometimes feel like just giving up. I already removed most of the options to leave comments or submit feedback, but that isn't always an options (eps. for the message board). Yes, I've captcha'ed everything etc. etc..
Anyway, somebody else already answered: Specialization...
I really hope that this is for the long term. And by "they" i mean the politicians.
While the JFK speech that kicked of the first trips to the moons has its inspiring places ("We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win..."), I'm having a hard time imagining anybody planning anything beyond the next election.
Could we tie this into the War on Terror in someway?
Could we get this under control of some kind of international controlled non-profit organization, please?
I just mime encoded a couple of dvd's and printed them with a point size of 0.00000001.
The important thing is to use an OCR font...
Stem Cells: The Real Culprits in Cancer?
That seem worse then ELIZA!
Isn't the definition of IA something like "What we will maybe, probably be able to do in five years"?
How does it handle ... images?
"I see a blond babe, with huuuuuge...."
The Bill of Rights does NOT protect against censorship by non-government entities. If you are using some Microsoft service, Microsoft has every right to censor whatever you say.
And rightly so.
I've a fairly successful phpBB running and, yes I censor. I censor spam, hate speech and racism. I really can't see why I should pay (bandwidth) for them to get their message out. They can run their own site and pay their own bandwidth bill.
If I over do it, people will simply leave my site and go somewhere else...
As someone with bipolar disorder, I welcome any further additions to the repertoire of weapons we have against serious depression. I just hope no one in the trials commits suicide, a common occurrance of people who are just beginning to have their depression lifted.
A doctor once told me that a positiv sign that, the treament of a bipolar depression was working, was that the patient had enough energy to sue the doctor... I'm not really sure if he as joking...
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That's pretty much how a Plenoptic camera works:
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0511/05112206refocus
I think this could be rather cool... a screen with a 2mp resolution could probably give a good multi-level-focus image in vga (good enough for video conferencing).
From John Scalzi' Old Man's War (nominated for a Hugo this year) http://www.scalzi.com/books/2005/11/old_mans_war.h tml
A little later in the afternoon, I got pissed off.
"I've been reading your file," said the Colonial, a thin young man who looked like a strong wind would sail him off like a kite.
"Okay," I said.
"It says you were married."
"I was."
"Did you like it? Being married."
"Sure. It beats the alternative."
He smirked. "So what happened? Divorce? Fuck around one time too many?"
Whatever obnoxiously amusing qualities this guy had were fading fast. "She's dead," I said.
"Yeah? How did that happen?"
"She had a stroke."
"Gotta love a stroke," he said. "Bam, your brain's skull pudding, just like that. Good that she didn't survive. She'd be this fat, bedridden turnip, you know. You'd just have to feed her through a straw or something." He made slurping noises.
I didn't say anything. Part of my brain was figuring how quickly I could move to snap his neck, but most of me was just sitting there in blind shock and rage. I simply could not believe what I was hearing.
Down in some deep part of my brain, someone was telling me to start breathing again soon, or I was going to pass out.
The Colonial's PDA suddenly beeped. "Okay," he said, and stood up quickly. "We're done. Mr. Perry, please allow me to apologize for the comments I made regarding your wife's death. My job here is to generate an enraged response from the recruit as quickly as possible. Our psychological models showed that you would respond most negatively to comments like the ones I have just made. Please understand that on a personal level I would never make such comments about your late wife."
I blinked stupidly for a few seconds at the man. Then I roared at him. "What kind of sick, fucked-up test was THAT?!?"
"I agree it is an extremely unpleasant test, and once again I apologize. I am doing my job as ordered, nothing more."
[...]
I headed to the door, then stopped. "I know you were doing your job," I said. "But I still want you to know. My wife was a wonderful person. She deserves better than to be used like this."
"I know she does, Mr. Perry," the man said. "I know she does."
I went through the door.
In the next room, a very nice young lady, who happened to be completely naked, wanted me to tell her anything I could possibly remember about my seventh birthday party.
Back in the day when I was in database application development, half the time, what we did was clean up after some intern who, though he know how to program and then did a database with a bit of functionality in Access or Excel. Then the department would get hooked on that database. Then the intern would leave. Then the database would break. Or get horrible slow. Or need some new functionlity.
/business/ needs), what's hard is knowing what you want and design your system to actually support that in a useful way.
Then we would step in. And laugh all the way to the bank.
Speaking as somebody with more than 15 years of (professionel) development experience, the most important lesson here is:
Programming!=Development
Programming is a (small-) subset of the process of developing software. That's why I just laugh when somebody tells me about 4, 5 or 6 (or what ever) generation languages, where you don't need to know anything and can basically just look at the computer and it will do your bidding. Yeah, right. The problem is not coding. With modern RAD tools like Delphi and similar, that's fairly easy (for most
I feel like making a snide remark about a couple of OSS program here (The GIMP ), but that would be childish...
I think this is the problem of quite a few OSS projects. We wanted to give our users (of a closed source system) an extra database alternative and decided to take a look at Postgresql, as it doesn't get much more free that that (with MySQL not being that free anymore).
Reading through some of the postgres mailing liste, trying to find a bit of information on how to do some fairly basic stuff (something like the mysql command "show databases" to get a list of databases), didn't turn up much, except people being flamed then they tried to suggest something.
I did finally figure it out (do a select on a system table with a few conditions), and decided to add the information, in a note, to the online postgresql documentation. Only to have it deleted!
We dropped postgresql shortly after (before releasing it), as there was simply to much of our sql that had to be rewritten (sql that worked fine with both mysql and DBISam).
Good point. Somebody gave us a collection of condensed disney stories, that he has demanded to be read from a few times, but now I've hidden it, as I simply can't stand reading from it.
It the bastard version of all the stories disney ever did, bastarderised even further to get them down to 7-8 pages (large print and pictures).
Ah, beat me to it! But let me echo it - I just have to:
Nooooooooooooooooooooo!
My son is two and a half and he's very much into animated movies. Nemo, Shrek (1+2), Toy Story (1+2), Winnie the Pooh (tons), Ice Age, Robots, etc, etc. Some of it a bit scary, so we are always by his side, so I've seen these movies a bazillion times.
The ones that last (both for us as adults and for him) are the Pixar ones. You can watch these movies again and again and they stay funny, and you can find new deepts in them. The disney ones are usually okay, but they always play the emotion card a bit heavily, which gets old really fast (dreamworks and fox is rather uneven, but usually okay, too).
That's nothing more than a myth.
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_248.html
It was done to "making jamming mechanically less likely", by placing the most used combinations of letters away from each other. Some argue that this actually makes it faster and not slower to use.
Wouldn't it be fairly easy to make a mod_rewrite rule, that would block the redirects or forward them to a sod-off.html page?
I've made a few rewrite rules to avoid hotlinking of my images, and this seems possible to me.
Thanks, I was wondering about that as well. Okay, my humour may not be for everbody, but I've gotten two "troll" and two "overrated" moderations on that one. WTF?
Do we really need this? I can't imagine how anybody will have usage for more that four qubits anyway. When will the madness stop?
In the beginning he wanted me to make things for him, mostly airplans, but he's slowly starting to make his own stuff. I was god damn proud, the first time he came up to me with a odd looking lump of bricks and told me it was an airplan.
I'll probably buy him regular legos one day, but I'll also probably throw-away the building instructions and tell him to just look at the cover, if he want to make the official thing.
If you release a program and a 100.000 people copy it and you only make 40$ of it, you have the wrong bussiness model.
Same with the RIAA members - how about giving away the songs (it's really just an ads for the artist - that's why the record companies are willing to pay radio stations to have their crap played) and then make you money on the concerts and t-shirts?
Trying to stop people from copying something digital is a battle you'll never win....