That's great and all if we suddenly believed that corporations are honest and will regulate themselves. How many times have companys ran sweat-shops and claimed that they were treating their worker's fairly?
They'd be subjects to the laws of the country, whose flag they'll be flying. If you don't lose any sleep over the conditions in that country, you should not care much about them either.
I'm pretty sure, they'll have regular "shore leaves" to Mexico and even US (visitor's visa is far easier to obtain, than work authorization).
That said, getting here and working here should be MUCH easier, than it currently is. Why do we believe, an American schmuck is entitled to
better work/pay than an Indian, Mexican, Thai, or Ukrainian one? "Birth right" is something, this country used reject...
There's no requirement that they be equally probable.
There is. Telling you your gender gives you very little information (much less than a bit) -- you already knew it with high certainty. Figure the rest out for yourself or ask a CS professor...
Also, I think you have it backwards on compression.
The value of each "bit" in a file is not, in fact, equally probable. Compressors squeze it down closer to the actual information in a file. This is why random files don't compress much, and text files compress very well.
But first you need to grasp the "equally probable" requirement.
That's what happened. Many major problems were either solved or proven unsolvable. "Tons" of Engineers were needed to make practical things (like wordprocessors) with those results, which lead most of CS departments to retool themselves to teach practical, rather than theoretical skills leading the few remaining Computer Scientists to lament: "Where is the Science in CS?"
The most obvious indication of the problem -- my personal pet peeve -- is that nobody can define bit anymore... Even Wikipedia currently omits a crucial part in its definition -- the two mutually exclusive states also need to be equally probable, otherwise data compressors stop working:-)
My bluetooth cellphone and laptop do this. The phone can "dial" Verizon's network. Not sure, what the bandwidth is supposed to be, but I saw downloads of 20 kilobytes per second.
The laptop talks to the phone over the built-in bluetooth and can share the connection over the built-in WiFi card.
And driving in three dimensions is ofcourse trickier than two.
I don't see, why this is immediately true. The third dimension certainly gives two more directions for accident-avoidance maneuver, for example.
I'll admit I wouldn't want to be an early adopter of that technology.
Early adopters are likely to get most of the fun, though -- before the skies above get crowded and the laws get written to ban all sorts of things, which somebody died doing.
I think you mean resulting/from/ tenant-landlord animosity.
There are always bad tenants and there are always bad landlords. You can not legislate bad people out. Unfortunately, in this case lawmakers try -- they have a huge incentive.
If there wasn't a problem, why was there a law?
What naivette! Why is there a Patriot Act? Or anti-sodomy laws?
There are more tenants, than there are landlords, so the laws (and especially their enforcement) are tremendously skewed against landlords.
After all, why should the owner of some code not do as he/she wishes with it?
You know, where the author of GPL -- Mr. Stallman -- lives, right? Cambridge, MA...
The dominant view of property in that town may be very different from yours. For example, this is the city that had the most anti-landlord legislation for years (resulting in great tenant-landlord animosity, of course). After the state-wide referendum repealed most of it several years ago, many people in Cambridge keep campaigning to put them back in. Tenants, you see, are people too.
Now, I don't know Mr. Stallman's views on the subject, but I would not be at all surprised, that his answer to the question:
After all, why should the owner of some
apartment not do as he/she wishes with it?
is quite different from yours.
Back to your original question, users are "people too", aren't they?
... violate the implicit contract. So what? Until the sites start saying: "please, don't browse our pages if you block our ads," -- I'll be happy violating.
The link you provide, actually, affirms the Christianity of the founding fathers. They were not, of course, the dogmatic types, and had little patiences for the religious establishment. But that does not contradict, what I said at all.
Most of them if not all believed Christianity to be a perversion of the original teachings of Jesus.
Not sure about the "most", but probably many. And I totally agree with them -- but it is irrelevant. What is relevant is their opinion, that Men are endowed with unalienable Rights by their Creator (whoever that is), and that the Government derives its just power from the Consent of these Men. Scalia's opinion should not worry you.
They would not be happy to see where this country has gone.
Actually, they would probably be quite amazed, that an agrarian remote state, which could not even shake off its overseas masters without serious help from another overseas power, is now the world's only -- and unrivaled -- superpower.
I suspect, we'd disagree strongly about particular aspects of today's America, that the founding fathers would've been most unhappy about:
When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe,
we shall become corrupt as in Europe Thomas Jefferson
Apparently Chief Justice Antonin Scalia
thinks so.
When I heard that on the news a month ago I literally felt a chill go down my spine.
Warm up. The actual quote (from your link) is: "It's a symbol of the fact that government comes -- derives its authority from God."
Both you and Austin Cline are right -- the Government "derives its just Powers from the Consent of the governed". But Antonin Scalia knows this document a little better than you two. Because it also states: "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights".
So, the Government derives its power from the consent of the governed, who, in turn got created with these rights. Ergo, the Government's power can be said to be coming from the governed's Creator(s) directly.
No wonder, Scalia dislikes journalists.:-)
All of the Founding Father were religious people -- although of different sects. Scalia is simply one of those jurists, who interpret the Constitution "traditionaly". What it meant, when it was written, rather than what it should mean now (as the "activist" judges like to ponder).
This is just a logical development of "blogs". Limited only by the computer power and bandwidth.
First -- textual blogs. Then -- foto blogs (Flikr, FotoLog). Next -- video clips, then continuous video-streaming, and so on with the possible future technologies (3D-video, avatars, etc.)
in the future, everyone will have their own public-access TV show.
Not everyone has a blog today -- most people never will. This hobby (or profession) is not for all. Some prefer hiking, cars, computers...
Show me charts and stats and benchmarks that prove Linux superior to Windows in every measure and I'll not argue with you.
As if anyone can present such charts to support Windows. If it was ever about, actually, being measurably better, Microsoft would not exist.
Heck, Linux would not exist, because BSD is quietly superior...
A perfectly American open-source enthusiast, has just told me, compiling Mozilla with -march=opteron is not supported, because it is "an exotic" compiler flag.
To return the "favor", MIT can just name their next droid "Calltech" (or "CIT"):
Although it is clunky and still far from perfection, we all love this creature, and it can already do all these exciting tricks. We decided to call it "Calltech".
I'll wait for something like this to develop beyond "computer cursor control". With little more tweaking it should be possible to use this thing to, at least, send text messages...
Ok, but there is more than one.com server, is not there? Can some of them not belong to other companies?
They would all carry the entire.com (so that caches would still be valid), but the root-servers would redirect requests to them based on the formula I suggested or even on simple round-robin...
Slashdot Mirror
Meter (metre), for example,, is officially defined as a distance light travels in vacuum in a certain fraction of a second.
Bit is the information needed to chose between two equally probable options...
But don't feel too bad -- in Google's own collection of definitions only one seems correct -- that by the WordNet people...
They'd be subjects to the laws of the country, whose flag they'll be flying. If you don't lose any sleep over the conditions in that country, you should not care much about them either.
I'm pretty sure, they'll have regular "shore leaves" to Mexico and even US (visitor's visa is far easier to obtain, than work authorization).
That said, getting here and working here should be MUCH easier, than it currently is. Why do we believe, an American schmuck is entitled to better work/pay than an Indian, Mexican, Thai, or Ukrainian one? "Birth right" is something, this country used reject...
But first you need to grasp the "equally probable" requirement.
The most obvious indication of the problem -- my personal pet peeve -- is that nobody can define bit anymore... Even Wikipedia currently omits a crucial part in its definition -- the two mutually exclusive states also need to be equally probable, otherwise data compressors stop working :-)
RMFP (my fancy post) -- it is only two paragraphs. My laptop is acting as a router -- it shares its "dial-up" connection over WiFi.
The laptop talks to the phone over the built-in bluetooth and can share the connection over the built-in WiFi card.
There's got to be a person of Ford's caliber somewhere...
What naivette! Why is there a Patriot Act? Or anti-sodomy laws?
There are more tenants, than there are landlords, so the laws (and especially their enforcement) are tremendously skewed against landlords.
You know, where the author of GPL -- Mr. Stallman -- lives, right? Cambridge, MA...
The dominant view of property in that town may be very different from yours. For example, this is the city that had the most anti-landlord legislation for years (resulting in great tenant-landlord animosity, of course). After the state-wide referendum repealed most of it several years ago, many people in Cambridge keep campaigning to put them back in. Tenants, you see, are people too.
Now, I don't know Mr. Stallman's views on the subject, but I would not be at all surprised, that his answer to the question:
is quite different from yours.Back to your original question, users are "people too", aren't they?
from accusing "BushCo" of censorship...
And, probably, then some...
I suspect, we'd disagree strongly about particular aspects of today's America, that the founding fathers would've been most unhappy about:
.But this one more step further off-topic...
Warm up. The actual quote (from your link) is: "It's a symbol of the fact that government comes -- derives its authority from God."
Both you and Austin Cline are right -- the Government "derives its just Powers from the Consent of the governed". But Antonin Scalia knows this document a little better than you two. Because it also states: "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights".
So, the Government derives its power from the consent of the governed, who, in turn got created with these rights. Ergo, the Government's power can be said to be coming from the governed's Creator(s) directly.
No wonder, Scalia dislikes journalists. :-)
All of the Founding Father were religious people -- although of different sects. Scalia is simply one of those jurists, who interpret the Constitution "traditionaly". What it meant, when it was written, rather than what it should mean now (as the "activist" judges like to ponder).
This, actually, was a Dilbert cartoon... Dogbert was saying: "I like to con, and I like to insult. I'll be a CONSULTANT!"
First -- textual blogs. Then -- foto blogs (Flikr, FotoLog). Next -- video clips, then continuous video-streaming, and so on with the possible future technologies (3D-video, avatars, etc.)
Not everyone has a blog today -- most people never will. This hobby (or profession) is not for all. Some prefer hiking, cars, computers...
It is Spring -- Love is supposed to be in the air...
A perfectly American open-source enthusiast, has just told me, compiling Mozilla with -march=opteron is not supported, because it is "an exotic" compiler flag.
This means WAR...
I'll wait for something like this to develop beyond "computer cursor control". With little more tweaking it should be possible to use this thing to, at least, send text messages...
And I'm damn glad, it will become harder for litigious bastards to blackmail me into giving them access to my data...
They would all carry the entire .com (so that caches would still be valid), but the root-servers would redirect requests to them based on the formula I suggested or even on simple round-robin...