Pretty easily, actually. All the administration has to do is the same thing they did with Jose Padilla, hold the person for years, then when the Supreme Court finally gets around to taking notice, appear to cave in (note that Padilla has yet to have his promised trial) before the Supreme Court actually gets to decide whether this is legit or not.
especially when one considers that the right of redress held by U.S. citizens is not extended to E.U. citizens.
Oh well, in that case there's no problem, since the Republicans are taking that right away from US Citizens. Now all the DoD has to do is declare you an enemy combatant and there is no proof, no trial, no appeals, and no redress.
If the stupid tax thugs want to cripple their economy through rent-seeking, make sure they only get the correct rent...
Sentence is good, but I don't see what rent-seeking has to do with this. With regards to taxes, rent-seeking is done by one company seeking to impose tax on another in order to improve its own position without doing any work. If the wireless broadband providers were pushing this tax on the fiber providers, that would be rent-seeking. Government taxation for the sake of taxation isn't considered rent-seeking, it's just taxation.
the firmware is no different than the firmware that Theo uses everyday on the motherboard he uses on his PC, or the raid controller that the uses on his server. None of which he has access too.
I suggest you learn the difference between firmware and drivers.
I have yet to see a raid card or a motherboard that was so cheaply made you had to upload a firmware every time you wanted to use it because the company wouldn't pay a few cents more for flash. Perhaps it is the wireless (and other device) manufacturers that need to learn the difference between firmware and drivers. If the driver has to give an instruction to the device in order for it to work, that is part of the driver, whether it's a one byte "send data" message or a giant chunk of code.
Microsoft can only push competitors out of the market because Microsoft offers more. The market is rewarding Microsoft for giving customers what they want.
And for the customers that don't want what they're giving, well, I guess they're just fucked.
Raw capitalism has the same problem raw democracy has. The losing 49% can just go to hell.
In this particular case, we would like more documentation for the Intel wireless chips
BSD already had reverse engineered the firmwares to the intel wireless chipsets without documentation, but they were buggy, so he wants Intel to let BSD have the documentation. He also wants Intel to let BSD redistribute the "real" firmware, while they work the bugs out of the reverse-engineered ones.
No what I am saying is that Theo in the past has said that binary blog firmware was just fine and dandy as long as the device is documented.
Exactly. And by "documented" he doesn't mean a gpl driver that talks to some mysterious firmware, he means that he wants the documentation to the firmware itself. He doesn't mind having a binary firmware to tide him over while he rewrites the firmware from scratch.
None of the stuff with Marvell has anything to do with their driver. I'm sure he's happy that whatever driver it has is open source, and that there's plenty of driver-writing documentation out there, but that's not what he's arguing about.
As for distribution rights to the Marvell stuff, from other posts it looks like MIT is helping the Marvell lawyers write up a license that will permit it so that will eventually be out of the way, but it's still not the documentation to the firmware.
I know everyone loves the "running out of oil" story, but if that were true then why is oil barely above $60 when we have 2 huge suppliers threatening to cut back production, and North Korean bomb tests? If we were really running out of oil and some people threatened to cut us off plus some negative diplomatic news, we would be over 100 easily.
Because we're not running out of oil, yet. Besides, North Korea doesn't have oil, and probably couldn't nuke any of the serious oil exporters from there. Oil prices are not psychic, they have nothing to do with the future beyond what people perceive the future to be, and apparently they're perceiving the future the same way the EIA does.
Perhaps you're right, perhaps the authors are biased. It could be that the numbers they used are biased, intentionally or unintentionally. Controlling that perception is what controls the prices, so the participants certainly have a good stake in this. (I wonder what the US government's bias on oil prices would be...)
Still, if I had a penny for every person who thinks that we'll just "find more oil" when what we have now runs out, I'd have enough money to buy a metal detector powerful enough to find the pirate treasure buried in my front yard. Because it's gotta be there, I just need a bigger, better, and more expensive detector to find it.
That's fine. Nobody cares whether you care or not, but ranting against people because they care is poor form. He wants the device itself documented. He wants to be able to write his own firmware for it. Having a partial API and a binary blob that contains an entire OS isn't what he wants.
The fact is, most movies, most TV shows, most video games put Muslims in a bad light, so we have to try to tell our side of the story.
Someone needs to explain to these people (and Fox News, while you're at it) that trying to cancel out a raving lunatic by adding a raving lunatic from the "other side" does not "balance out", you just have two raving lunatics.
Sit pretty and keep handling North Korea using a mix of sanctions, threats and concessions.
That would require Bush to concede that Clinton's original plan was right. Back in the 90's, Clinton faced a North Korea that wanted but didn't have The Bomb. So Clinton told them that if they allowed inspectors to make sure their plutonium plant was shut down, they'd get some nuclear reactors (engineered to not produce nuclear grade material) and food and oil. North Korea agreed.
Then Bush got in power and decided that concessions were for wimps and cut off NK's food and oil, talking big about appeasement and not caving into threats from North Korea. NK talked big about "acts of war", threw out the inspectors, reopened the plutonium processing plant, and here we are.
So now what is Bush going to do? It's almost certain that Kim Jong-Il will not accept the same concessions he did in the Clinton era since how he has The Bomb and therefore "deserves" much better treatment. Will Bush admit to making a mistake and go the diplomacy route? Will Bush go to war? Will Bush do nothing and hope that the rest of Asia will take care of his problem for him?
Linear RPGs are still RPGs, they just tell you what role you're going to play.
I've been thinking of how to combat the "help, I'm lost and can't find an NPC that knows what the hell I'm supposed to be doing" feeling I get from playing some of the later Wizardry games, as well as the "wtf, both of these choices suck and either way I choose she's going to die so why do I care" feeling I get from some of the linear RPGs, but nothing comes to mind other than a game that ran on rails the first time around, and when you've completed the game, you get the New Game + option that lets you just walk away and wander off to do what you like (plus content "out there" to experience once you've walked away from the main game path).
What do you think they make more money from, you paying your bill on time, or you paying your bill plus a reconnection fee?
Take a look at credit card company websites, if you're paying online, both of the ones I've used make you jump through extra hoops to reschedule your payment to transfer now instead of at the last second before the due date (that many more days of interest, plus the chance that something goes wrong at the last second, and bam! Late fees!).
social networking IS about momentum -- once you have it, it's hard to lose it.
Oh, momentum is great alright, and if nothing else changes, MySpace will last a long time. But first, consider the "meme"ness of social networks. MySpace's worst nightmare is that someone will post on their MySpace page "Wow! This web3.0networksite.com site is awesome, I'm making a profile there!" How many hours will it take for that to reach their entire network?
It doesn't describe human nature except inadvertently.
"Inadvertently"?! Are you telling me that humans normally take their brain out and wring all of the day's events out into the sink before go to sleep? I must be missing something then, because I remember what I read, see and hear, and there is not a thing that you or anyone else can do about it.
Whether or not you accept anthropomorphism as a rhetorical technique (holy shit, highschool lit FINALLY paid off!) aside, you tell me how you intend to prevent people from ever making a Monty Python reference ever again, and I'll accept that the spread of information is "not human nature".
DNA match evidence is widely perceived as completely reliable by juries, public, judges, etc...and a less-reliable matching will erode that confidence.
Absolutely right! DNA tests are 100% accurate and foolproof. The prosecutors say so themselves. In fact, this new test is so easy, all you do is push a button, and the screen lights up "guilty".
The Smithsonian Magazine has sort of a followup on Mary Schweitzer (more about her and her history than the actual fossils) from May 2006. It's probably not exactly what you're looking for, but it's a start. According to her university's information page, she hasn't published anything this year, yet. Or that page just isn't up to date.
So we have a bone with flesh inside. Either a) the flesh was added long after the dinosaur died a1) by a burrowing animal that got trapped inside the bone a2) by a palentologist who wasn't getting enough fame watching 80's TV b) blood vessels and cells can be preserved for millions of years in the right conditions
or if you're a fundamentalist, the answer is obviously
c) the earth is 6000 years old
Funny how when you pick the fundamentalist source, there doesn't seem to be much discussion about the possibilities here. The other guy's source on Science News went on to point out that
Using the extraction technique, Schweitzer and her colleagues subsequently recovered what appear to be blood vessels and osteocytes from two other well-preserved specimens of T. rex. They've also obtained osteocytes from an 80-million-year-old hadrosaur, a plant-eating dinosaur.
I didn't see any mention of that in your "same story".
But hey, let's look and see what's been going on since last year. Why, the Smithsonian has decided to not let Mary Schweitzer slide into oblivion so easily. According to that May '06 article, not only has she been finding blood cells since the 90's, it seems she's gone on to dissolve a few more fossils in acid and recover organic material, so I think we can rule out A2, unless Schweitzer is just that good.
I guess people just weren't curious enough to take the chance.
Fine, you want a plan? First, we sit down and think of ways to kill Americans. Then we figure out how to stop them. Hijackers on planes? Armed pilots, air marshals... how about we just ditch the TSA, tell the airlines they're on their own with respect to security, and if they screw up and a plane falls out of the sky, we're not bailing them out with tax money anymore. Sure, all our airlines will probably end up looking something like El Al but unlike the TSA, El Al's security doesn't rely on luck. Hell, an armed populace with training to deal with terrorists would probably save more peoples lives than any military action. Just tack a class covering "if the guy has a bomb, go for the headshot" onto all of the other classes people have to take in most places to get a gun permit. That would pretty much cover suicide bombers in cafes, busses, and just about anywhere else where there's enough people that one of them is likely to have a gun and be willing to use it. Take advantage of the fact that the vast majority of terrorists want attention and don't just suddenly explode. In the meantime, we start teaching people what to look for. Not just media campaigns telling them to watch out for the boogeymen and report anything and everything that moves, we identify things that could be threats (like, say, UHauls in front of government buildings). We quit with the "oh noes! what if we give them ideas!" bullshit, and encourage open discourse on things that can go boom in terrible ways so that even if we do "give them ideas" the public will have already covered that angle.
Then, we start looking at the people who are currently organized into groups who want to kill us. All of them, not just the militant muslims. Then we start doing everything we can to discredit them. Let's start with the islamic ones, since we're stuck in Iraq and Afghanistan until we figure out how to get rid of them. Smuggle bombs into apartment complexes and set them off, blame militants who are too stupid to figure out how to handle nitroglycerin properly. Pump out leaflets "are you next? Do you have some loser wannabe next door about to blow you to bits because he's an idiot? Call xxxxx-xxxx and turn him in!" Hell, stoop to their level, find a kind of flabby guy with terminal cancer willing to give his life for his country, dress him up like a news anchor, and let him run around and get captured. Then, instead of yammering on about how great islam is, his job is to scream "omfg! they're building a nuclear bomb" and then set off the bomb he's got in his belly where we scooped the flab out (I think a 30 pound warhead should not knock down more than a few buildings around the one that they were hiding in). Bush can wake up the next morning and issue a press release about how he's aga... aghs... terribly disappointed that the militant islamic groups would use nuclear weapons within their own lands. Pledge full assistance to the citizens to recover from this disaster, and remind them that the terrorists are not their friends, that they don't care about Islam or their holy lands, only about the power they get by spreading fear. Throw in a remark about how the other people in the building would still be alive if only they had turned the militants in, and wonder out loud whether you still get to claim your virgins if you're killed by incompetence instead of insurgence. Tell Iran that there'll be hell to pay if it's determined that they were the source of the materials.
Then, once we've put a serious damper on recruitment and start mopping up whats left of the organized terrorists, we start looking at why these people appear in the first place. It doesn't take a million dollars, a genius leader, or even a terrorist cell to get a big drum, fill it with gasoline, set it on fire, and toss the giant molotov cocktail out the back of a pickup truck in the middle of a busy intersection. Or to ram your truck into t
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Pretty easily, actually. All the administration has to do is the same thing they did with Jose Padilla, hold the person for years, then when the Supreme Court finally gets around to taking notice, appear to cave in (note that Padilla has yet to have his promised trial) before the Supreme Court actually gets to decide whether this is legit or not.
especially when one considers that the right of redress held by U.S. citizens is not extended to E.U. citizens.
Oh well, in that case there's no problem, since the Republicans are taking that right away from US Citizens. Now all the DoD has to do is declare you an enemy combatant and there is no proof, no trial, no appeals, and no redress.
If the stupid tax thugs want to cripple their economy through rent-seeking, make sure they only get the correct rent...
Sentence is good, but I don't see what rent-seeking has to do with this. With regards to taxes, rent-seeking is done by one company seeking to impose tax on another in order to improve its own position without doing any work. If the wireless broadband providers were pushing this tax on the fiber providers, that would be rent-seeking. Government taxation for the sake of taxation isn't considered rent-seeking, it's just taxation.
the firmware is no different than the firmware that Theo uses everyday on the motherboard he uses on his PC, or the raid controller that the uses on his server. None of which he has access too.
http://www.openbios.info/ Well, at least his motherboard is covered.
I suggest you learn the difference between firmware and drivers.
I have yet to see a raid card or a motherboard that was so cheaply made you had to upload a firmware every time you wanted to use it because the company wouldn't pay a few cents more for flash. Perhaps it is the wireless (and other device) manufacturers that need to learn the difference between firmware and drivers. If the driver has to give an instruction to the device in order for it to work, that is part of the driver, whether it's a one byte "send data" message or a giant chunk of code.
Microsoft can only push competitors out of the market because Microsoft offers more. The market is rewarding Microsoft for giving customers what they want.
And for the customers that don't want what they're giving, well, I guess they're just fucked.
Raw capitalism has the same problem raw democracy has. The losing 49% can just go to hell.
No what I am saying is that Theo in the past has said that binary blog firmware was just fine and dandy as long as the device is documented.
Exactly. And by "documented" he doesn't mean a gpl driver that talks to some mysterious firmware, he means that he wants the documentation to the firmware itself. He doesn't mind having a binary firmware to tide him over while he rewrites the firmware from scratch.
None of the stuff with Marvell has anything to do with their driver. I'm sure he's happy that whatever driver it has is open source, and that there's plenty of driver-writing documentation out there, but that's not what he's arguing about.
As for distribution rights to the Marvell stuff, from other posts it looks like MIT is helping the Marvell lawyers write up a license that will permit it so that will eventually be out of the way, but it's still not the documentation to the firmware.
I know everyone loves the "running out of oil" story, but if that were true then why is oil barely above $60 when we have 2 huge suppliers threatening to cut back production, and North Korean bomb tests? If we were really running out of oil and some people threatened to cut us off plus some negative diplomatic news, we would be over 100 easily.
Because we're not running out of oil, yet. Besides, North Korea doesn't have oil, and probably couldn't nuke any of the serious oil exporters from there. Oil prices are not psychic, they have nothing to do with the future beyond what people perceive the future to be, and apparently they're perceiving the future the same way the EIA does.
Perhaps you're right, perhaps the authors are biased. It could be that the numbers they used are biased, intentionally or unintentionally. Controlling that perception is what controls the prices, so the participants certainly have a good stake in this. (I wonder what the US government's bias on oil prices would be...)
Still, if I had a penny for every person who thinks that we'll just "find more oil" when what we have now runs out, I'd have enough money to buy a metal detector powerful enough to find the pirate treasure buried in my front yard. Because it's gotta be there, I just need a bigger, better, and more expensive detector to find it.
So what you're saying is, you don't care.
;)
That's fine. Nobody cares whether you care or not, but ranting against people because they care is poor form. He wants the device itself documented. He wants to be able to write his own firmware for it. Having a partial API and a binary blob that contains an entire OS isn't what he wants.
Hell, maybe he even wants to run Linux on it
Sure thing son, here you go!
Buffering 0.0001%...
it would have been easier to set up a rowing or "hand cycling" device instead.
It probably would have been easier to do it that way, but much harder to use the computer.
The fact is, most movies, most TV shows, most video games put Muslims in a bad light, so we have to try to tell our side of the story.
Someone needs to explain to these people (and Fox News, while you're at it) that trying to cancel out a raving lunatic by adding a raving lunatic from the "other side" does not "balance out", you just have two raving lunatics.
Why, Fox News, of course!
You make it sound so partisian, like there exists a major party that doesn't lie through its teeth.
Sit pretty and keep handling North Korea using a mix of sanctions, threats and concessions.
That would require Bush to concede that Clinton's original plan was right. Back in the 90's, Clinton faced a North Korea that wanted but didn't have The Bomb. So Clinton told them that if they allowed inspectors to make sure their plutonium plant was shut down, they'd get some nuclear reactors (engineered to not produce nuclear grade material) and food and oil. North Korea agreed.
Then Bush got in power and decided that concessions were for wimps and cut off NK's food and oil, talking big about appeasement and not caving into threats from North Korea. NK talked big about "acts of war", threw out the inspectors, reopened the plutonium processing plant, and here we are.
So now what is Bush going to do? It's almost certain that Kim Jong-Il will not accept the same concessions he did in the Clinton era since how he has The Bomb and therefore "deserves" much better treatment. Will Bush admit to making a mistake and go the diplomacy route? Will Bush go to war? Will Bush do nothing and hope that the rest of Asia will take care of his problem for him?
Man, I had to throw out this old Bible I found the other day, some loser named Gutenburg had scribbled on it.
If the government wasn't there, I could say whatever I pleased.
If the government wasn't there, I could not stop you from copying what I wrote.
Which then, is a right, and which then is a privilege granted by the government?
The exact quote is Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write. Except that I'm fairly certain he'd have written it in French. Anyway, the gist that he would give his life to preserve the other author's freedom of speech.
Sadly, it seems that we're running out of people who believe this, whether through simple attrition or execution.
no information would have been compromised.
;P
Yeah, except for the whole VPN Passwords.txt file on the desktop
Linear RPGs are still RPGs, they just tell you what role you're going to play.
I've been thinking of how to combat the "help, I'm lost and can't find an NPC that knows what the hell I'm supposed to be doing" feeling I get from playing some of the later Wizardry games, as well as the "wtf, both of these choices suck and either way I choose she's going to die so why do I care" feeling I get from some of the linear RPGs, but nothing comes to mind other than a game that ran on rails the first time around, and when you've completed the game, you get the New Game + option that lets you just walk away and wander off to do what you like (plus content "out there" to experience once you've walked away from the main game path).
What do you think they make more money from, you paying your bill on time, or you paying your bill plus a reconnection fee?
Take a look at credit card company websites, if you're paying online, both of the ones I've used make you jump through extra hoops to reschedule your payment to transfer now instead of at the last second before the due date (that many more days of interest, plus the chance that something goes wrong at the last second, and bam! Late fees!).
social networking IS about momentum -- once you have it, it's hard to lose it.
Oh, momentum is great alright, and if nothing else changes, MySpace will last a long time. But first, consider the "meme"ness of social networks. MySpace's worst nightmare is that someone will post on their MySpace page "Wow! This web3.0networksite.com site is awesome, I'm making a profile there!" How many hours will it take for that to reach their entire network?
It doesn't describe human nature except inadvertently.
"Inadvertently"?! Are you telling me that humans normally take their brain out and wring all of the day's events out into the sink before go to sleep? I must be missing something then, because I remember what I read, see and hear, and there is not a thing that you or anyone else can do about it.
Whether or not you accept anthropomorphism as a rhetorical technique (holy shit, highschool lit FINALLY paid off!) aside, you tell me how you intend to prevent people from ever making a Monty Python reference ever again, and I'll accept that the spread of information is "not human nature".
DNA match evidence is widely perceived as completely reliable by juries, public, judges, etc...and a less-reliable matching will erode that confidence.
Absolutely right! DNA tests are 100% accurate and foolproof. The prosecutors say so themselves. In fact, this new test is so easy, all you do is push a button, and the screen lights up "guilty".
The Smithsonian Magazine has sort of a followup on Mary Schweitzer (more about her and her history than the actual fossils) from May 2006. It's probably not exactly what you're looking for, but it's a start. According to her university's information page, she hasn't published anything this year, yet. Or that page just isn't up to date.
So we have a bone with flesh inside. Either
a) the flesh was added long after the dinosaur died
a1) by a burrowing animal that got trapped inside the bone
a2) by a palentologist who wasn't getting enough fame watching 80's TV
b) blood vessels and cells can be preserved for millions of years in the right conditions
or if you're a fundamentalist, the answer is obviously
c) the earth is 6000 years old
Funny how when you pick the fundamentalist source, there doesn't seem to be much discussion about the possibilities here. The other guy's source on Science News went on to point out that I didn't see any mention of that in your "same story".
But hey, let's look and see what's been going on since last year. Why, the Smithsonian has decided to not let Mary Schweitzer slide into oblivion so easily. According to that May '06 article, not only has she been finding blood cells since the 90's, it seems she's gone on to dissolve a few more fossils in acid and recover organic material, so I think we can rule out A2, unless Schweitzer is just that good.
What exactly is it you're trying to debunk again?
I guess people just weren't curious enough to take the chance.
Fine, you want a plan? First, we sit down and think of ways to kill Americans. Then we figure out how to stop them. Hijackers on planes? Armed pilots, air marshals... how about we just ditch the TSA, tell the airlines they're on their own with respect to security, and if they screw up and a plane falls out of the sky, we're not bailing them out with tax money anymore. Sure, all our airlines will probably end up looking something like El Al but unlike the TSA, El Al's security doesn't rely on luck. Hell, an armed populace with training to deal with terrorists would probably save more peoples lives than any military action. Just tack a class covering "if the guy has a bomb, go for the headshot" onto all of the other classes people have to take in most places to get a gun permit. That would pretty much cover suicide bombers in cafes, busses, and just about anywhere else where there's enough people that one of them is likely to have a gun and be willing to use it. Take advantage of the fact that the vast majority of terrorists want attention and don't just suddenly explode. In the meantime, we start teaching people what to look for. Not just media campaigns telling them to watch out for the boogeymen and report anything and everything that moves, we identify things that could be threats (like, say, UHauls in front of government buildings). We quit with the "oh noes! what if we give them ideas!" bullshit, and encourage open discourse on things that can go boom in terrible ways so that even if we do "give them ideas" the public will have already covered that angle.
Then, we start looking at the people who are currently organized into groups who want to kill us. All of them, not just the militant muslims. Then we start doing everything we can to discredit them. Let's start with the islamic ones, since we're stuck in Iraq and Afghanistan until we figure out how to get rid of them. Smuggle bombs into apartment complexes and set them off, blame militants who are too stupid to figure out how to handle nitroglycerin properly. Pump out leaflets "are you next? Do you have some loser wannabe next door about to blow you to bits because he's an idiot? Call xxxxx-xxxx and turn him in!" Hell, stoop to their level, find a kind of flabby guy with terminal cancer willing to give his life for his country, dress him up like a news anchor, and let him run around and get captured. Then, instead of yammering on about how great islam is, his job is to scream "omfg! they're building a nuclear bomb" and then set off the bomb he's got in his belly where we scooped the flab out (I think a 30 pound warhead should not knock down more than a few buildings around the one that they were hiding in). Bush can wake up the next morning and issue a press release about how he's aga... aghs... terribly disappointed that the militant islamic groups would use nuclear weapons within their own lands. Pledge full assistance to the citizens to recover from this disaster, and remind them that the terrorists are not their friends, that they don't care about Islam or their holy lands, only about the power they get by spreading fear. Throw in a remark about how the other people in the building would still be alive if only they had turned the militants in, and wonder out loud whether you still get to claim your virgins if you're killed by incompetence instead of insurgence. Tell Iran that there'll be hell to pay if it's determined that they were the source of the materials.
Then, once we've put a serious damper on recruitment and start mopping up whats left of the organized terrorists, we start looking at why these people appear in the first place. It doesn't take a million dollars, a genius leader, or even a terrorist cell to get a big drum, fill it with gasoline, set it on fire, and toss the giant molotov cocktail out the back of a pickup truck in the middle of a busy intersection. Or to ram your truck into t