Draw a circle. Now draw a square, that circumscribes the circle. Now draw another square, the same size.
If you put the two squares together, you have a geometric figure that can circumscribe two circles, that is not four times the area of the circle. Yes, the storms on Jupiter are oblong, not rectangles, but I bet if you think about it really hard you'll get it.
What I got was, "Ha ha, Microsoft's engineers can't repair their own OS", which is an entirely appropriate thing to ridicule them for.
Ballmer's not a technician. However, if HE can't get it to work, with all the resources Microsoft has to throw at the problem, how could they countenance selling this OS to anybody?
It seems like a really, really stupid thing for Allchin to publicize.
What a tool. "Gee, sure am sorry that car I designed keeps catching fire on you. But look on the bright side! You can have yourself a nice weenie roast!"
"If you don't coordinate with him, you can say whatever you want - as long as your commercial includes the citation of who you are."
That's not at all a bad idea. However, "coordinate" and "who you are" are two little items that are almost guaranteed to be rife for corruption.
Your proposal is indeed a good one. Unfortunately, as you point out, the system has been gerrymandered by both sides to guarantee one thing: Whoever's in power, they'll have either a D or an R after their name.
I see what you're after, but that's not going to solve the problem.
What if I really, really want Joe Smith to be elected, and I want that so badly that I'm willing to buy a TV commercial for him? I should be free to do so.
And as long as that freedom exists, money will continue to pervert the process. I'm not convinced that less liberty is worth less perversion of the system.
Unfortunately, the insurance companies do not want efficient billing systems. The longer they can delay paying the claim, the longer they get to hold on to the money, and the more interest they collect.
Wow. Have you been paying ANY attention? Let's just start with the Bill of Rights, which (in retrospect) seems to have worked out exactly the way its opponents figured it would.
We've lost:
Amendment I. See the above story. Free Speech zones. Journalists under investigation for being journalists. Amendment IV. NSA phone trolling. Amendment V. All the detention centers, and the citizens held in the US because they look scary. Amendment VI. Gitmo. Amendment VIII. Abu Ghraib. I don't believe for a second that the acts that the soldiers are being imprisoned for weren't sanctioned at the highest levels. Go read Alberto Gonzales' opinions on torture, and tell me this isn't a systematic problem. Amendment IX. People like you, and our leaders, have no concept of this amendment. Amendment X. More federal regulation of absolutely everything.
Our "leaders" have been whacking away at a lot of these for 20 years, but this administration has been pretty egregious, and effective, and removing our most fundamental liberties.
Why would a "test tube created critter" care any less? More to the point, why is "caring" an issue? IF you can create a computer that has good situational awareness (which is a big challenge) there's no reason it couldn't be programmed to fail as safely as possible.
I don't care about caring. I care about low error rate, and fail-safe operation. Right now, that means meaty carbon units. In the future, there's no reason to expect that that will continue to be true.
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Draw a circle. Now draw a square, that circumscribes the circle. Now draw another square, the same size.
If you put the two squares together, you have a geometric figure that can circumscribe two circles, that is not four times the area of the circle. Yes, the storms on Jupiter are oblong, not rectangles, but I bet if you think about it really hard you'll get it.
Thus endeth the lesson.
"But since when is obeying the law evil?"
If an when obeying a law (which may or may not be evil) causes you to do evil, you have done evil. The law is not a "get out of evil free" card.
What I got was, "Ha ha, Microsoft's engineers can't repair their own OS", which is an entirely appropriate thing to ridicule them for.
Ballmer's not a technician. However, if HE can't get it to work, with all the resources Microsoft has to throw at the problem, how could they countenance selling this OS to anybody?
It seems like a really, really stupid thing for Allchin to publicize.
"but ANY technical person at Microsoft would know what to do."
Yeah...shrug and reinstall. Blast the hard drive, reinstall Windows, give it back to the user, and say "See you in six months!"
"It's not his job to clean spyware off a computer. "
No, but it is ABSOLUTELY his job to make sure his products work properly. What is he managing, if not the products that users get stuck with?
WHY DOES ALLCHIN THINK THIS IS FUNNY?
What a tool. "Gee, sure am sorry that car I designed keeps catching fire on you. But look on the bright side! You can have yourself a nice weenie roast!"
"If you don't coordinate with him, you can say whatever you want - as long as your commercial includes the citation of who you are."
That's not at all a bad idea. However, "coordinate" and "who you are" are two little items that are almost guaranteed to be rife for corruption.
Your proposal is indeed a good one. Unfortunately, as you point out, the system has been gerrymandered by both sides to guarantee one thing: Whoever's in power, they'll have either a D or an R after their name.
I do see your point. I haven't yet figured out how to reconcile maximum liberty for the participants with maximum integrity for the process.
I see what you're after, but that's not going to solve the problem.
What if I really, really want Joe Smith to be elected, and I want that so badly that I'm willing to buy a TV commercial for him? I should be free to do so.
And as long as that freedom exists, money will continue to pervert the process. I'm not convinced that less liberty is worth less perversion of the system.
Of course, now we've got both.
Unfortunately, the insurance companies do not want efficient billing systems. The longer they can delay paying the claim, the longer they get to hold on to the money, and the more interest they collect.
Sure wish they flew anywhere near where I live, or where I need to go. Oh well...
What does your point have to do with the issue at hand?
OK, let me just check one teeny thing...
"because it's so obviously an invasion of privacy"
You're talking about the court that just denied whistleblower status to people who work for the government? That Alito court?
I have no confidence whatsoever that any of those "justices" who ruled in the majority on that case have even SEEN the Constitution.
I hope you're right. I think you're wrong.
"they are only monitoring people trying to illegally enter the country"
And they promise, cross their hearts, that it will never go further than that.
Do you really believe them?
Movies? On the TELEVISION? Who knew you could broadcast movies the same way as plain ol' TV?
wow. Never heard of such a thing.
"various local ISPs determine what constitutes "fast" (top tier), or "slow" bottom tier"
Yeah right.
It's going to be the telco, and it's going to be for their benefit only. If you think they care what the ISPs think, you're hallucinating.
Proofread. There is no technological replacement.
Thank you, Marie Antoinette!
If my web site has an unreasonable latency, it doesn't matter how much bandwidth I have.
I guarantee that the telcos will put their "tier" at a point such that it's very painful to use web sites that haven't paid for the non-sucky service.
And neither one of them knows what to do with a goddamn apostrophe.
"What actual civil rights have we lost? "
Wow. Have you been paying ANY attention? Let's just start with the Bill of Rights, which (in retrospect) seems to have worked out exactly the way its opponents figured it would.
We've lost:
Amendment I. See the above story. Free Speech zones. Journalists under investigation for being journalists.
Amendment IV. NSA phone trolling.
Amendment V. All the detention centers, and the citizens held in the US because they look scary.
Amendment VI. Gitmo.
Amendment VIII. Abu Ghraib. I don't believe for a second that the acts that the soldiers are being imprisoned for weren't sanctioned at the highest levels. Go read Alberto Gonzales' opinions on torture, and tell me this isn't a systematic problem.
Amendment IX. People like you, and our leaders, have no concept of this amendment.
Amendment X. More federal regulation of absolutely everything.
Our "leaders" have been whacking away at a lot of these for 20 years, but this administration has been pretty egregious, and effective, and removing our most fundamental liberties.
I'll see your four missile strikes, and raise you two open-ended invasions.
Boots on the ground are different from seagull-style strikes (flying in, dropping a bunch of crap, and flying away).
Why would a "test tube created critter" care any less? More to the point, why is "caring" an issue? IF you can create a computer that has good situational awareness (which is a big challenge) there's no reason it couldn't be programmed to fail as safely as possible.
I don't care about caring. I care about low error rate, and fail-safe operation. Right now, that means meaty carbon units. In the future, there's no reason to expect that that will continue to be true.
Hmm. I guess you could do that, if you wanted to manage your music collection by hand. That seems like a really bad way to spend an afternoon to me...