Also, if they do find a way to make these things in microgravity, how are they going to ever mass produce them on earth? It's not like you can just build a gravity free chamber. Unless they plan on letting them harden in free fall from a plane:)
Well, this patch is a little more generalized too, it throttles any IP that accesses the site too quickly... Something like this would have probably throttled nimda to some extent also, and misbehaved robots that really slam your site.
Another part of unionization is collective bargaining. Those with valuable skills in a certain domain will band together and say to management, "If you want our skills, here's how we define 'fair treatment.'"
Sort of like all the companies in a certain market mergering or buying other companies until they are the only game in town, then they get to say "Here is how we define the Windows Update EULA"...
Oops, did that slip out?
Your ideas rely on the creation of labor monopolies. A monopoly is never compatible with real free market ideas.
I have seen my department and my co-workers displaced, disrespected, displeased, and occasionally dismissed over the same kinds of technological shifts
Oh yeah, poor you, forced to work there. Unions are the last refuge of the inept and the inflexible.
People whine about the RIAA being anti-free-market, protectionist, etc, then turn around and propose something like a union? Gimme a break.
On the securityfocus incidents list, there was a guy that ran a little web site that was being DoSed by a competitor in a strange way. The much higher traffic competitor had a bunch of 1 pixel by 1 pixel frames and each one loaded a copy of the little guy's site. The effect was he was using his own users to DoS his competition.
People suggessted a javascript popup telling them the truth about what was going on, or an HTTP redirect to a very large file on the big guy's site, but Jonathan A. Zdziarski at the site linked above decided to write this patch as an ad-hoc solution.
I'd be very careful with this patch in production, as it is ad-hoc and not tested very much at all.
If you know AI, you know that the definition isn't even well defined. Who says that the ultimate achievement will even be a human-like intelligence or self-awareness?
You may think I am a blind nay-sayer, but I'm actually one of those whack-o's that believes in a AI-driven technological singularity, which will likely destroy us, in one way or another. Destroy might not be negative in this context, since it may mean we live on, just not in animal form, but possibly still as distinct intelligences.
But... Do you really think that some consumer hardware robot gimmick is really any reason to bring this up? Were you equally alarmed by Furby?
my less technical friends are always trying to send me files via AIM and it gets old really quickly explaining why you are using a client that isn't capable of accepting their transfers. I use Gaim on my non-Microsoft boxen and this appears to be the only major feature it's missing.
Why don't you explain to them that there are protocols designed for sending (binary) files, and email and AIM are not them. Just because everyone has a bad habit doesn't make it right.
Of course, until they make robotic horses, they can't make law enforcement robots.
The government also can't sponsor development in most normal computer languages, because so far there hasn't been a language with commands in French and English.
He's not talking about them open sourcing their web site code. He's talking about them using open source in general. Previously they used a closed source C/C++ scripting engine.
Anime was never given a proper chance in the mainstream. All the shit on CN was edited homogenized tasteless mush compared to the edgy teen/adult programming that anime can be. I also think their selection of anime sucked for the most part. There is more to anime than just action or fighting, or kids shows.
Just get DHCP to assign one, and then set it as a static IP
Don't you get it? This accomplishes nothing over leaving it DHCP, except you get cut off when the DHCP server decides to reassign you, and you possibly interfere with the new rightful user of your old address. Your computer thinking the address is static is meaningless.
Anyone shocked by the fact that Philip Morris, a tobacco company, is in the top 5 all time donors [opensecrets.org]?
No.
Philip Morris is far from "a tobacco company". Tobacco is just part of what they do. They have hundreds of food brands, in fact, a large majority of the "name brand" stuff in the grocery is Philip Morris. Check their site sometime, I'd bet your refrigerator is full of their products.
But that's not the point of my reply. The point is, the overt contributions of Philip Morris are nothing. You also have to look at the billions and billions of tobacco tax money that the tobacco industry generates for the government(s). The settlement with the states was also a big source of free money for governments to spend on whatever they wanted.
The government is addicted to tobacco in a big way. Even if PM gave zero in direct donations to candidates, indirectly, they still give billions in tax revenue each year. The government likes it this way. They can act all big and bad an anti-tobacco, when in reality, they love the tobacco industry, and can't live without it.
The democrats might whine for tobacco tax increases "for the children", when in reality they are just propping up the covert system of graft, that somehow slips past the public eye unnoticed.
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Also, if they do find a way to make these things in microgravity, how are they going to ever mass produce them on earth? It's not like you can just build a gravity free chamber. Unless they plan on letting them harden in free fall from a plane :)
Well, this patch is a little more generalized too, it throttles any IP that accesses the site too quickly... Something like this would have probably throttled nimda to some extent also, and misbehaved robots that really slam your site.
(it would take me a good bit of digging through paperwork to find out even what the number is, I don't know it).
Try picking up the phone and dialing 211.
That was one suggestion, but it would still cause the web server to have to handle the requests.
Another part of unionization is collective bargaining. Those with valuable skills in a certain domain will band together and say to management, "If you want our skills, here's how we define 'fair treatment.'"
Sort of like all the companies in a certain market mergering or buying other companies until they are the only game in town, then they get to say "Here is how we define the Windows Update EULA"...
Oops, did that slip out?
Your ideas rely on the creation of labor monopolies. A monopoly is never compatible with real free market ideas.
I have seen my department and my co-workers displaced, disrespected, displeased, and occasionally dismissed over the same kinds of technological shifts
Oh yeah, poor you, forced to work there. Unions are the last refuge of the inept and the inflexible.
People whine about the RIAA being anti-free-market, protectionist, etc, then turn around and propose something like a union? Gimme a break.
God fucking dammit. The app wasn't written in fucking C++!!! It was written in the closed source "yScript2", with "business logic in C++".
On the securityfocus incidents list, there was a guy that ran a little web site that was being DoSed by a competitor in a strange way. The much higher traffic competitor had a bunch of 1 pixel by 1 pixel frames and each one loaded a copy of the little guy's site. The effect was he was using his own users to DoS his competition.
People suggessted a javascript popup telling them the truth about what was going on, or an HTTP redirect to a very large file on the big guy's site, but Jonathan A. Zdziarski at the site linked above decided to write this patch as an ad-hoc solution.
I'd be very careful with this patch in production, as it is ad-hoc and not tested very much at all.
If you know AI, you know that the definition isn't even well defined. Who says that the ultimate achievement will even be a human-like intelligence or self-awareness?
You may think I am a blind nay-sayer, but I'm actually one of those whack-o's that believes in a AI-driven technological singularity, which will likely destroy us, in one way or another. Destroy might not be negative in this context, since it may mean we live on, just not in animal form, but possibly still as distinct intelligences.
But... Do you really think that some consumer hardware robot gimmick is really any reason to bring this up? Were you equally alarmed by Furby?
Shit, you're right. My threshold is usually 1 unless I am bored, and I didn't click through.
my less technical friends are always trying to send me files via AIM and it gets old really quickly explaining why you are using a client that isn't capable of accepting their transfers. I use Gaim on my non-Microsoft boxen and this appears to be the only major feature it's missing.
Why don't you explain to them that there are protocols designed for sending (binary) files, and email and AIM are not them. Just because everyone has a bad habit doesn't make it right.
Seriously, we really don't understand how close or far we are to making a machine self aware
You've been watching too many movies.
I really like the idea of Canadian robots
Extreme robotic hockey?
Of course, until they make robotic horses, they can't make law enforcement robots.
The government also can't sponsor development in most normal computer languages, because so far there hasn't been a language with commands in French and English.
He's not talking about them open sourcing their web site code. He's talking about them using open source in general. Previously they used a closed source C/C++ scripting engine.
Anime was never given a proper chance in the mainstream. All the shit on CN was edited homogenized tasteless mush compared to the edgy teen/adult programming that anime can be. I also think their selection of anime sucked for the most part. There is more to anime than just action or fighting, or kids shows.
Actually, C64 BASIC may come in handy with PEEK and POKE.
PhyicsGenuis (the troll) back with a new account! WB!
No way, PhysicsGenius was way better than this guy. This guy is a predictible poser, not a clever troll.
luckily we still havent had one of these buggers do any destructive things...
Uh, CIH?
Well, that and every new install of BIND or any other DNS server comes with their roots preinstalled.
We all know how much weight default settings can carry, just look at any of the recent worms. Most people get it working then stop messing with it.
Maybe he thought it was an ee cummings style statement?
Just get DHCP to assign one, and then set it as a static IP
Don't you get it? This accomplishes nothing over leaving it DHCP, except you get cut off when the DHCP server decides to reassign you, and you possibly interfere with the new rightful user of your old address. Your computer thinking the address is static is meaningless.
I see what you are saying, it would make enforcement difficult if you didn't hold the copyright on a substantial part of the code. I agree.
AVtoolbox has external VGA-TV and TV-VGA in all quality levels. That way you never have to worry about TV out on your card.
. It's keyed, and makes hooking the console up to the television nearly idiot-proofed.
You mean like an S-Video connector....... only proprietary. Sounds like a great feature!
Really... how hard is it to screw up "red plug into red socket, yellow plug into yellow socket"?
Anyone shocked by the fact that Philip Morris, a tobacco company, is in the top 5 all time donors [opensecrets.org]?
No.
Philip Morris is far from "a tobacco company". Tobacco is just part of what they do. They have hundreds of food brands, in fact, a large majority of the "name brand" stuff in the grocery is Philip Morris. Check their site sometime, I'd bet your refrigerator is full of their products.
But that's not the point of my reply. The point is, the overt contributions of Philip Morris are nothing. You also have to look at the billions and billions of tobacco tax money that the tobacco industry generates for the government(s). The settlement with the states was also a big source of free money for governments to spend on whatever they wanted.
The government is addicted to tobacco in a big way. Even if PM gave zero in direct donations to candidates, indirectly, they still give billions in tax revenue each year. The government likes it this way. They can act all big and bad an anti-tobacco, when in reality, they love the tobacco industry, and can't live without it.
The democrats might whine for tobacco tax increases "for the children", when in reality they are just propping up the covert system of graft, that somehow slips past the public eye unnoticed.