Is it anywonder that our Univeristies are populated with psychotic misifts with the social skills of Hitler?
Thing is, Hitler had excellent social skills. An intuitive grasp of psychology and sociology. He tapped directly into demons in German souls and freed them. His speeches whipped people into a frenzy, he could play audiences like Hendrix played the guitar. Turned a joke party into a juggernaut which within a couple of years of campaigning almost gained a majority in Parliament. He could blackmail and backstab with ease and with a smile on his face (Hindenberg, Rohm and Papen all fell to his wiles). He charmed laborers, soldiers, politicians (Chamberlain) and royalty (an ex-king of Great Britain) alike. He had a magnetic and charismatic personality.
This man used his social skills to become dictator and then to order genocide. He had enormous skills. But he was a psychotic bastard misfit that shouldn't have been born.
No the caveat wasn't added just in case I ever want to become governor of California.
And? Have you been experiencing power cuts? Perhaps 20 was too much? 10 times too much?
And you pay the same per month? Oh my God! Perhaps you use more electricity even if the price has fallen? Or perhaps you have a more reliable supply? Or perhaps a better customer support service? Or perhaps those nasty nasty shareholders like your pension fund are earning more money from the shares, money that would be better spent on the extra 18 staff...
Yeah and the fragging rules implemented during 'deregulalization' (a joke term in this case) caused the California crisis.
If wholesale prices are floated BUT retail prices are fixed (because voters would rebel against rises and sack the politicians), retail suppliers just switch off the power or go bankrupt when wholesale prices go above retail. As they always will. End price regulation has been tried by everybody from the Romans to the Soviet and it never ever worked and always lead to shortages and Enron-like exploitation.
Communism is a political system based on the principal that a small group should control political power in the name of the working class, and hold that power through authoritarian means, in order to implement a socialist economic policy.
You're mixing the Leninist heresy of Marxist Communism (an awful load of tosh) with fascism (authoritarian / socialist - fascism is itself a heresy of Leninism). Under the Leninist tosh, the Communist Party (revolutionary avantgarde), a 'democratic' representative of the working class, had a monopoly of political power (but was not mean to be 'authoritarian') in order to implement first a socialist economy and then to implement a communist economy once socialism was built. First socialism, then communism.
All tosh based on a load of stuff that Marx made up sitting in the British Library and then Lenin added to in order to legitimize the Bolsheivik power grab.
Whatever new things come along, Google will be there, doing them better, leaner, faster,...
Google is not God, it is not manifest destiny, it is not a historically necessary, it is not destined for anything. Google kicks butt for now. But there are other companies and technologies just waiting to gangbang it. Remember how quickly google appeared? It can be superseded just as quickly. Don't get religious on google, its just a company with good policy, clever technology and clever guys. Policies stagnate, technology goes out of date and clever guys leave. Hey, maybe yahoo can reinvent itself. Or maybe hotbot? Or maybe Ebay will turn its massive market power and revenue into a filesharing network?
Seems you don't know much about Blogger. Blogger allows you to keep your stuff (all files, including web pages) on your own server. It actually encourages you to do so. Blogger basically just generates your html for you (and spell check and allows posting via a toolbar etc). You can arrange web space if you need it. Which is cool. No real risk if you don't want it.
You realize that by giving this advise you might be contributing to somebody's death? So somebody follows your guide and gets fried because you didn't (AND CAN'T) mention everything in a slashdot post.
I'm sure there myriad things that you haven't mentioned that are IMPORTANT in this situation.
What are you trying to do, write High-Voltage Repairs for Dummies? There are some things in life that you leave to PROFESSIONALS. Guys that have spent years studying and practising. Because the shit they do is dangerous. DANGEROUS. A six step guide is no fragging way to replace the knowledge and experience. Sheez.
Have you been reading too much Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance? Do it yourself and if you get it you wrong, you'll achieve Nirvana anyway?
BTW The power company will freak if they get a call "Hi, I'm the IT guy at suicidal dot com and I want to work on main breaker box so please switch off the mains. No, I'm not an electrician but some guy on slashdot told me how to do it. No, I'm not insane, I just like messing with things. No, I don't think I'll knock your grid out."
There is a theoretical reason to have directories on your drive.
To allow multiple files to share the same names. And differ in their content and usage.
Now I know that all files can have different names but this would require everybody using a computer to register the file names they create to a central register. Otherwise - massive file overwriting.
One note - mobile penetration in Europe is around 50%. At least 50% of the US population can easily afford a mobile (if Europeans can then Americans can). The UK has 60 million inhabitants, Germany 80, the US 300. 30 million people from the UK + 40 million from Germany and 150 from the US = 220 million > 10 million (1%) or 50 million (5%) of India's population.
Add together Europe's and the US population and you have 600 million rich people.
Many more people can afford phones in Europe and the US than can in India - regardless of India's larger population.
GSM is cheap because its old. Cheap GSM stations and cheap GSM phones. I might be able to pay $1000 for a PDA CDMA phone but an Iraqi might only have $50 for his basic GSM (I'm sure he'd love to have the phone I threw away 4 years ago because it was getting tacky)
GSM is implemented throughout the Middle East - allowing roaming and phone exports/transfers over the border.
GSM is well known to technicians.
GSM works well in environments like Iraq. You might live in some isolated part of the huge US of A where GSM sucks but Iraq is an urban and concentrated country. Most people live near the cities or the river valleys.
GSM does not suck. It allows clear voice transmissions and gives an acceptable data transfer rate (not for internet browsing but for email okay).
Iraq does not need an expensive data network with bells on it. It needs one that works. And GSM works excellently - as Europe can testify.
GSM is not the future. But its the working present.
Very hot indeed. Stuck in a locker. Surrounded by shuttle. By the time the shuttle had disintegrated the air would have been cooling the locker not heating it.
Clean needles for hackers? What sort of analogy is that?
Addicts get clean needles in drug programs so they don't catch AIDS and start costing society even more.
In the case of hackers, a program on the same lines would give them money so they don't commit fraud and cost society even more.
If you wanted to find an analogy to writing more secure code in drug solutions it would be making it physically impossible for heroin addicts to take their drug (Cut their arms off? Lock them up?)
1. You'll pay for it with your 60% taxes (where did you get that figure from BTW?).
2. What will the benefit be? Your grandchildren will grow up to be geeks in the same way you grew up to be a geeks. Except they'll be terraforming geeks instead of programming geeks. A push to Mars will require technological development. The thing you're writing (computer) on is a direct result of warfare and space research.
3. They also had missiles pointed at your house for thirty years. doesn't mean you can't work with them. Who would have thought that France and Germany could work together in 1945? By the 1950's they were great economic and diplomatic buddies. As far as backstabbing is concerned, France threatened veto, Russia said no but was counting on abstaining in return for a further free hand in Chechnya.
As far as costs are concerned, even an enormous sum like $100 billion over 10 years is $10 billion a year which comes to $30 per inhabitant of the US, which comes to 10cents a day which comes to about a second of your daily work if you're complaining about paying the highest bracket of taxes. How long did it take to complain about the cost?
Or would you rather have the Indians send somebody to Mars so that their grandchildren own your grandchildren as you own the Indians ('own' in the broadest possible sense - i.e. are 1000 times richer, 3 times as well fed and live 2 longer).
Sorry but its the Japanese who thought these toys up. For their internal market. You know Japan, the country with the pacific consitution and Hiroshima and cartoons about battle robots and kid pilots.
Ah... advertising law is a wonderful field where wordsmiths clash.
In many cases a copywriter manipulates language to make a dubious clash and then the advertised company gets sued by a competitor. The plaintiff lawyer has fun attacking it with reference to professional and consumer opinion (is Slashdot professional or consumer) and the defending lawyer has to say, it wasn't dubious, people are used to dubious advertising and take it with a pinch of salt and anyway dubious advertising doesn't effect their decisions - all in one go.
A lawyer (or lawyers) found that the term 'broadband' is misleading as used in reference to 128kbps. He didn't define it.
Since consumers would probably equate 'broadband' with 'quick', I think the finding is reasonable - 128 isn't quick.
Wow. High technology indeed. Apart from the high-speed Internet access and movie access (I'll believe it when it starts, companies have been claiming its just round the corner for near to a decade), its just a prototype red box with stuff crammed into it. Guess what, I can watch VCDs (and even DVDs), listen to mp3s, chat, read my email, watch TV and sends text messages from my $1000 PC. Putting together the components in a red box isn't a big deal for a competent engineer.
The internet and movie claims are the only interesting aspect. But I'll believe that when I see it.
I keep on getting spam about Fuel Savers that will increase the efficiency of my engine by 27%, 100% guaranteed, etc., etc. and now Slashdot is promoting them and the spammers!
If somebody is saying that cracking hydrogen will increase the mileage on your car, they're full of crack. The only way that could occur would be if hydrogen was to act as a catalyst increasing efficiency of the burn in your car (You can't get more energy from a chemical reaction then you get from it in reverse. Burning oxygen with hydrogen in an ideal environment will give the same energy as was needed to split water)
And if it did and did so safely, you'd find hydrogen crackers in modern cars. Not to mention planes, ships, trains, tanks, etc. Everybody from the car manufacturers to the military to NASA would use this technology.
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Is it anywonder that our Univeristies are populated with psychotic misifts with the social skills of Hitler?
Thing is, Hitler had excellent social skills. An intuitive grasp of psychology and sociology. He tapped directly into demons in German souls and freed them. His speeches whipped people into a frenzy, he could play audiences like Hendrix played the guitar. Turned a joke party into a juggernaut which within a couple of years of campaigning almost gained a majority in Parliament. He could blackmail and backstab with ease and with a smile on his face (Hindenberg, Rohm and Papen all fell to his wiles). He charmed laborers, soldiers, politicians (Chamberlain) and royalty (an ex-king of Great Britain) alike. He had a magnetic and charismatic personality.
This man used his social skills to become dictator and then to order genocide. He had enormous skills. But he was a psychotic bastard misfit that shouldn't have been born.
No the caveat wasn't added just in case I ever want to become governor of California.
And? Have you been experiencing power cuts? Perhaps 20 was too much? 10 times too much?
And you pay the same per month? Oh my God! Perhaps you use more electricity even if the price has fallen? Or perhaps you have a more reliable supply? Or perhaps a better customer support service? Or perhaps those nasty nasty shareholders like your pension fund are earning more money from the shares, money that would be better spent on the extra 18 staff...
Yeah and the fragging rules implemented during 'deregulalization' (a joke term in this case) caused the California crisis.
If wholesale prices are floated BUT retail prices are fixed (because voters would rebel against rises and sack the politicians), retail suppliers just switch off the power or go bankrupt when wholesale prices go above retail. As they always will. End price regulation has been tried by everybody from the Romans to the Soviet and it never ever worked and always lead to shortages and Enron-like exploitation.
If it's not a free market, its not a free market.
Communism is a political system based on the principal that a small group should control political power in the name of the working class, and hold that power through authoritarian means, in order to implement a socialist economic policy.
You're mixing the Leninist heresy of Marxist Communism (an awful load of tosh) with fascism (authoritarian / socialist - fascism is itself a heresy of Leninism). Under the Leninist tosh, the Communist Party (revolutionary avantgarde), a 'democratic' representative of the working class, had a monopoly of political power (but was not mean to be 'authoritarian') in order to implement first a socialist economy and then to implement a communist economy once socialism was built. First socialism, then communism.
All tosh based on a load of stuff that Marx made up sitting in the British Library and then Lenin added to in order to legitimize the Bolsheivik power grab.
You didn't understand the clause.
In simple English
If the message comes from one of the listed orgs (party, etc) AND concerns goods or services FROM the listed org, then its okay.
Still, if your church is producing penile extenders, then its exempt.
May the US system needs a revamp but do you know anything about the European?
You may be thinking about patenting processes, ideas, DNA and other rubbish but the EU system isn't as abused or open to abuse as the US.
How in frag did this get modded up to insightful?
I would have thought the author would have at least needed to mention what in his opinion needs revamping.
This is as insightful as 'Microsoft needs to be nice' and 'Hot chicks should love geeks'.
The weid thing is that I can read this without much effort. Ow.
Google is not God, it is not manifest destiny, it is not a historically necessary, it is not destined for anything. Google kicks butt for now. But there are other companies and technologies just waiting to gangbang it. Remember how quickly google appeared? It can be superseded just as quickly. Don't get religious on google, its just a company with good policy, clever technology and clever guys. Policies stagnate, technology goes out of date and clever guys leave. Hey, maybe yahoo can reinvent itself. Or maybe hotbot? Or maybe Ebay will turn its massive market power and revenue into a filesharing network?
Seems you don't know much about Blogger. Blogger allows you to keep your stuff (all files, including web pages) on your own server. It actually encourages you to do so. Blogger basically just generates your html for you (and spell check and allows posting via a toolbar etc). You can arrange web space if you need it. Which is cool. No real risk if you don't want it.
You realize that by giving this advise you might be contributing to somebody's death? So somebody follows your guide and gets fried because you didn't (AND CAN'T) mention everything in a slashdot post.
I'm sure there myriad things that you haven't mentioned that are IMPORTANT in this situation.
What are you trying to do, write High-Voltage Repairs for Dummies? There are some things in life that you leave to PROFESSIONALS. Guys that have spent years studying and practising. Because the shit they do is dangerous. DANGEROUS. A six step guide is no fragging way to replace the knowledge and experience. Sheez.
Have you been reading too much Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance? Do it yourself and if you get it you wrong, you'll achieve Nirvana anyway?
BTW The power company will freak if they get a call "Hi, I'm the IT guy at suicidal dot com and I want to work on main breaker box so please switch off the mains. No, I'm not an electrician but some guy on slashdot told me how to do it. No, I'm not insane, I just like messing with things. No, I don't think I'll knock your grid out."
They're getting GSM cellphones so don't count on the newest communications technology for mobile phones. Then again, that might not be a bad thing.
The 'loophole' been closed. Patents are now granted for 20 years from filing.
There is a theoretical reason to have directories on your drive.
To allow multiple files to share the same names. And differ in their content and usage.
Now I know that all files can have different names but this would require everybody using a computer to register the file names they create to a central register. Otherwise - massive file overwriting.
What are you talking about?
Kazaa is distributed free. It is not being pirated. So why are you talking about software being pirated and companies wanting it to be pirated?
Do you know what Kazaa is?
And do you know what kind of laws countries have against piracy? Or know the international IP conventions?
One note - mobile penetration in Europe is around 50%. At least 50% of the US population can easily afford a mobile (if Europeans can then Americans can). The UK has 60 million inhabitants, Germany 80, the US 300. 30 million people from the UK + 40 million from Germany and 150 from the US = 220 million > 10 million (1%) or 50 million (5%) of India's population.
Add together Europe's and the US population and you have 600 million rich people.
Many more people can afford phones in Europe and the US than can in India - regardless of India's larger population.
GSM is cheap because its old. Cheap GSM stations and cheap GSM phones. I might be able to pay $1000 for a PDA CDMA phone but an Iraqi might only have $50 for his basic GSM (I'm sure he'd love to have the phone I threw away 4 years ago because it was getting tacky)
GSM is implemented throughout the Middle East - allowing roaming and phone exports/transfers over the border.
GSM is well known to technicians.
GSM works well in environments like Iraq. You might live in some isolated part of the huge US of A where GSM sucks but Iraq is an urban and concentrated country. Most people live near the cities or the river valleys.
GSM does not suck. It allows clear voice transmissions and gives an acceptable data transfer rate (not for internet browsing but for email okay).
Iraq does not need an expensive data network with bells on it. It needs one that works. And GSM works excellently - as Europe can testify.
GSM is not the future. But its the working present.
Works for wives as well.
Marry the hottest newest 18 year old on her birthday and damn, the next day there's a newer one available.
Don't know which is more perverse, changing wives as they get old for more eye-candy or changing video cards for more eye-candy.
Very hot indeed. Stuck in a locker. Surrounded by shuttle. By the time the shuttle had disintegrated the air would have been cooling the locker not heating it.
They're not uber-worms come to conquer the Earth.
Clean needles for hackers? What sort of analogy is that?
Addicts get clean needles in drug programs so they don't catch AIDS and start costing society even more.
In the case of hackers, a program on the same lines would give them money so they don't commit fraud and cost society even more.
If you wanted to find an analogy to writing more secure code in drug solutions it would be making it physically impossible for heroin addicts to take their drug (Cut their arms off? Lock them up?)
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1. You'll pay for it with your 60% taxes (where did you get that figure from BTW?).
2. What will the benefit be? Your grandchildren will grow up to be geeks in the same way you grew up to be a geeks. Except they'll be terraforming geeks instead of programming geeks. A push to Mars will require technological development. The thing you're writing (computer) on is a direct result of warfare and space research.
3. They also had missiles pointed at your house for thirty years. doesn't mean you can't work with them. Who would have thought that France and Germany could work together in 1945? By the 1950's they were great economic and diplomatic buddies. As far as backstabbing is concerned, France threatened veto, Russia said no but was counting on abstaining in return for a further free hand in Chechnya.
As far as costs are concerned, even an enormous sum like $100 billion over 10 years is $10 billion a year which comes to $30 per inhabitant of the US, which comes to 10cents a day which comes to about a second of your daily work if you're complaining about paying the highest bracket of taxes. How long did it take to complain about the cost?
Or would you rather have the Indians send somebody to Mars so that their grandchildren own your grandchildren as you own the Indians ('own' in the broadest possible sense - i.e. are 1000 times richer, 3 times as well fed and live 2 longer).
Sorry but its the Japanese who thought these toys up. For their internal market. You know Japan, the country with the pacific consitution and Hiroshima and cartoons about battle robots and kid pilots.
Ah... advertising law is a wonderful field where wordsmiths clash.
In many cases a copywriter manipulates language to make a dubious clash and then the advertised company gets sued by a competitor. The plaintiff lawyer has fun attacking it with reference to professional and consumer opinion (is Slashdot professional or consumer) and the defending lawyer has to say, it wasn't dubious, people are used to dubious advertising and take it with a pinch of salt and anyway dubious advertising doesn't effect their decisions - all in one go.
A lawyer (or lawyers) found that the term 'broadband' is misleading as used in reference to 128kbps. He didn't define it.
Since consumers would probably equate 'broadband' with 'quick', I think the finding is reasonable - 128 isn't quick.
Short, catchy and means you deal with computers.
Wow. High technology indeed. Apart from the high-speed Internet access and movie access (I'll believe it when it starts, companies have been claiming its just round the corner for near to a decade), its just a prototype red box with stuff crammed into it. Guess what, I can watch VCDs (and even DVDs), listen to mp3s, chat, read my email, watch TV and sends text messages from my $1000 PC. Putting together the components in a red box isn't a big deal for a competent engineer.
The internet and movie claims are the only interesting aspect. But I'll believe that when I see it.
I keep on getting spam about Fuel Savers that will increase the efficiency of my engine by 27%, 100% guaranteed, etc., etc. and now Slashdot is promoting them and the spammers!
If somebody is saying that cracking hydrogen will increase the mileage on your car, they're full of crack. The only way that could occur would be if hydrogen was to act as a catalyst increasing efficiency of the burn in your car (You can't get more energy from a chemical reaction then you get from it in reverse. Burning oxygen with hydrogen in an ideal environment will give the same energy as was needed to split water)
And if it did and did so safely, you'd find hydrogen crackers in modern cars. Not to mention planes, ships, trains, tanks, etc. Everybody from the car manufacturers to the military to NASA would use this technology.
For the sake of Sagan, do the ballanoie test.