The summary mentions the "recent publication of more than 250,000 diplomatic cables". This is a falsehood that keeps circulating. As of this moment, Wikileaks has published only 1295 of these cables, and I believe nearly all of these are published in the redacted form that has already been made public by cooperating news organizations such as NYT, Guardian, Der Speigel, etc. Glenn Greenwald at Salon seems to be the best source of reasonable reporting about this whole WikLeaks witch hunt: http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/index.html It would be great if the/. editors would correct this misstatement in the story summary.
Although it's a bit more modern than the real oldies mentioned in the post, I consider D'Arcy Thompson's On Growth and Form (1917) to be one of the great classic timeless science books. I had it as a text book for a physiology class 20 years ago and it is still on my shelf. Every once in a while I just like to thumb through it and bask in its coolness (and I am NOT a biologist).
I can't believe I'm this old, but I seem to remember writing what were called "animals" in honeywell assembler code back in 1983 during a systems programming class at Dartmouth. I don't suppose these were technically viruses, but they did self-propagate. Does anybody remember these things being called "animals" back then?
First let me say that I acknowledge the immoral depravity of this plan. But in the world we live in, where guys like Cheney, Poindexter, Perle, et al. are getting rich through state-fronted corporate-controlled murder, torture, theft and imperial conquest, I would actually be pleased if they did this as long as the market were limited to around 10000 traders. It's not like it would change anything as far as who's getting rich off killing, it would just make more of it public, and makes it impossible to deny what is really happening. That is, it has a chance of generating some public awareness of a corrupt system that already exists anyway. Sure, anyone who participates in this should go to prison, but those people should already be in prison. But the problem is that if they limit it to 10000 [of the wealthiest individuals in the world], there's no way to make it *regressive*, which means they wouldn't limit it like that. What they really want is to open it up so all our 401/k's and social security taxes get put into it, then they can convert it into the usual upward funnel, whereby the collective wealth of the little guys gets transfered up to Poindexter's buddies.
Remember, the aim of this administration (and the power behind it) is NOT to stop terrorism. On the contrary, the more terrorism there is, the more military might we need to "control" it, the more they get rich. Since the public can't seem to (is not allowed to) understand *that* fact, maybe they'd understand *this*, because it's so blatant. Of course that's wishful thinking, though.
For selfish reasons, I've had my eye on Transgenic Pets, a company that is promising to deliver non-allergenic cats for allergy-sufferers like me. I know it is selfish, and I'm not sure I could ever go through with it, but it really sucks being a cat lover and never being able to go near them...
Yeah, I remember back in the days when we thought #010101 was as good as it got, and then scientists gave us #000000 and it revolutionized our web pages.
Just because XML is overhyped, that doesn't mean XML is not a simple, beautiful thing, it just means that when you finally learn how simple it is, you may feel a bit let down. I'd say that namespaces are the most valuable feature of XML at this point. XML Schemas, on the other hand, are truly disgusting. After years of happily editing DTD's (and everything else) in Emacs, XML Schema is the first technology that has driven me to use an expensive commercial GUI tool (XMLSpy). What's worse, this (admittedly great) software only runs on Win32, so it is currently the only reason I have not erased XP off my laptop. I think XML Schema 1.1 should just adopt RelaxNG and be done with it. Then I could go back to Emacs... But in the absence of that, who wants to help build an open source XML Schema GUI editor (or plugin for Eclipse, Netbeans, etc.)?
I've never been a subscriber to Salon, and I wouldn't say their content is all great, but one of the things that worries me most these days is the airtight corporate control over all our major (and minor for the most part) media. Salon at least does some independent investigative journalism and is not afraid to print stories from one of my favorite journalists, Greg Palast, including his exposé of the Florida election theft in 2000, and his "re-exposé" of the same thing still going on in this year's election there. Also, Joe Conason's Journal is a regular Salon political column that is almost always great. I can get stuff like this elsewhere, but, sadly not often from a place as "reputable" as Salon. If Salon disappears the pickings will be even slimmer and the Palasts and Conasons of the world will be even more marginalized.
Investigative reporting costs tons of money, and even if Salon has the best of intentions, the bottom line will prevent them from doing lots of stories. Maybe we can use the slashdot effect to really make a difference, and not only save them, but give them the funds to actually improve. Our corporate government and out-of-control military-industrial complex need to keep the people blissfully ignorant in order to continue getting away with murder every day. Ownership of the media is their biggest weapon in this war against us, and so I've decided I can afford to pay $18.50 (or $30 with no ads) to try and save a dying breed. Who's with me?
This rule is fine, but you have to be willing to apply without a double standard. And by this rule, all governments I know of are terrorists, with the US perhaps heading the list.
- "We" (the giant corporate military industrial complex of the "west",
including the world bank, IMF, WTO, etc.) systematically oppress,
murder and enslave entire countries full of innocent people.
- We install our own dictatorships in these countries (e.g. Indonesia,
Iraq, etc.) while parcelling up their resources among 1st-world
megacorporations, many of which have larger operating budgets than
entire countries.
- We force these countries to accept "free trade", meaning we make
them remove all import tarriffs, and then flood their economy with
cheap products and staple foods. Just like when a Wal-Mart moves in
next door, the local artisans/farmers cannot compete, and they and
their children must give up the farm and move into the city to work
for subsistence wages under inhumane conditions in factories for
Gap, Nike, etc.
- Anyone who tries to resist this is called a "communist" (or maybe
now they'll be called an "Al Qaeda sympathizer") and is subject to
imprisonment, torture, and murder. These are people who've somehow
gotten the crazy idea that a country's natural resources might
actually be used to benefit its *own* citizens. They don't realize
that their lot in life is to shut up and be cheap labor.
- We force these countries to take out massive loans to buy our
imported goods--loans they will never be able to repay.
- In addition to providing the capital for the loans, U.S. taxpayers
money goes into "aid packages" for these now destitute countries.
The aid packages are earmarked for buying food and goods from
western megacorporations. This is another way in which the system
works to channel our money to the corporations.
- If anyone gets out of line, we don't have a problem using weapons of
mass distruction against their citizens (a million people have died
radiation-related deaths in Iraq since 1991 because we rained
thousands of tons of depleted uranium bombs and shells over the
whole southern half of the country). After all, making us
taxpayers support a massive military system (of historically
unprecented size) is another major way in which the system feeds our
money to the industrial complex.
- On 9/11, some assholes out there (we don't have the monopoly on
evil) manage to succeed in attacking the monetary system that rules
the world. Over 3000 "collateral" casualties also result.
- The response? Use this as a great excuse to (a) remove some more
civil liberties from us (an educated, free-thinking populace is the
*real* enemy of tyranny), and also (b) channel more of our money
into our military machine.
- Anyone who tries to point out any of the above is basically called a
traitor. After all, "you're either with us or against us". As if
even trying to understand what's going on is treasonous!
If you are intrigued by any of this and want to investigate for yourself (don't believe me--I'm just regurgitating this stuff), you might like to look at John Pilger's new book "The New Rulers of the World", or any of his earlier stuff. Also, the copious writings of Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, and even Gore Vidal are great places to start.
If you are unwilling to open your eyes, you'll probably just call me a "communist" or an "Al Queda sympathizer" (I am neither). While it shouldn't be necessary, I nevertheless feel compelled to stress that I do not condone the 9/11 attacks, nor do I think the people killed on that day "deserved to die", or that the terrorists were justified in doing it. I also think that it was counterproductive to their cause, as all violence is. I just wish people would be willing to see that we ourselves have been, and are again contemplating, waging extended campaigns of violence in the world that dwarf the events of 9/11. We still have a chance to change our ways.
Marc Fleury of JBoss (at an informal session in Boston last month) said that he is in constant contact with developers and management at Sun, and that Sun secretly loves JBoss, because grass-roots projects like that are just what Sun needs in their fight against M$.
I also remember him actually defending Sun's charging so much for J2EE certification, but I can't remember what his reasoning was.
For Java code afficionados, I'd heartily recommend taking a look at Lucene. It's small but pretty. One particularly bad example of code out of control would be Turbine. The latter is very frustrating because they generally have great ideas and lots of energy, but wading through the convoluted class hierarchies and gratuitously overloaded methods (some of which must be called more than once with different arg types) is not for the faint of heart.
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Sorry but the question is too inane to take seriously. Best of luck.
The summary mentions the "recent publication of more than 250,000 diplomatic cables". This is a falsehood that keeps circulating. As of this moment, Wikileaks has published only 1295 of these cables, and I believe nearly all of these are published in the redacted form that has already been made public by cooperating news organizations such as NYT, Guardian, Der Speigel, etc. Glenn Greenwald at Salon seems to be the best source of reasonable reporting about this whole WikLeaks witch hunt: http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/index.html It would be great if the /. editors would correct this misstatement in the story summary.
Although it's a bit more modern than the real oldies mentioned in the post, I consider D'Arcy Thompson's On Growth and Form (1917) to be one of the great classic timeless science books. I had it as a text book for a physiology class 20 years ago and it is still on my shelf. Every once in a while I just like to thumb through it and bask in its coolness (and I am NOT a biologist).
It may not solve your internet problem, though.
-- a friend
I can't believe I'm this old, but I seem to remember writing what were called "animals" in honeywell assembler code back in 1983 during a systems programming class at Dartmouth. I don't suppose these were technically viruses, but they did self-propagate. Does anybody remember these things being called "animals" back then?
First let me say that I acknowledge the immoral depravity of this plan. But in the world we live in, where guys like Cheney, Poindexter, Perle, et al. are getting rich through state-fronted corporate-controlled murder, torture, theft and imperial conquest, I would actually be pleased if they did this as long as the market were limited to around 10000 traders. It's not like it would change anything as far as who's getting rich off killing, it would just make more of it public, and makes it impossible to deny what is really happening. That is, it has a chance of generating some public awareness of a corrupt system that already exists anyway. Sure, anyone who participates in this should go to prison, but those people should already be in prison. But the problem is that if they limit it to 10000 [of the wealthiest individuals in the world], there's no way to make it *regressive*, which means they wouldn't limit it like that. What they really want is to open it up so all our 401/k's and social security taxes get put into it, then they can convert it into the usual upward funnel, whereby the collective wealth of the little guys gets transfered up to Poindexter's buddies.
Remember, the aim of this administration (and the power behind it) is NOT to stop terrorism. On the contrary, the more terrorism there is, the more military might we need to "control" it, the more they get rich. Since the public can't seem to (is not allowed to) understand *that* fact, maybe they'd understand *this*, because it's so blatant. Of course that's wishful thinking, though.
For selfish reasons, I've had my eye on Transgenic Pets, a company that is promising to deliver non-allergenic cats for allergy-sufferers like me. I know it is selfish, and I'm not sure I could ever go through with it, but it really sucks being a cat lover and never being able to go near them...
Yeah, I remember back in the days when we thought #010101 was as good as it got, and then scientists gave us #000000 and it revolutionized our web pages.
Just because XML is overhyped, that doesn't mean XML is not a simple, beautiful thing, it just means that when you finally learn how simple it is, you may feel a bit let down. I'd say that namespaces are the most valuable feature of XML at this point. XML Schemas, on the other hand, are truly disgusting. After years of happily editing DTD's (and everything else) in Emacs, XML Schema is the first technology that has driven me to use an expensive commercial GUI tool (XMLSpy). What's worse, this (admittedly great) software only runs on Win32, so it is currently the only reason I have not erased XP off my laptop. I think XML Schema 1.1 should just adopt RelaxNG and be done with it. Then I could go back to Emacs... But in the absence of that, who wants to help build an open source XML Schema GUI editor (or plugin for Eclipse, Netbeans, etc.)?
Just hope you don't get a "paper" jam halfway through your print job!
I've never been a subscriber to Salon, and I wouldn't say their content is all great, but one of the things that worries me most these days is the airtight corporate control over all our major (and minor for the most part) media. Salon at least does some independent investigative journalism and is not afraid to print stories from one of my favorite journalists, Greg Palast, including his exposé of the Florida election theft in 2000, and his "re-exposé" of the same thing still going on in this year's election there. Also, Joe Conason's Journal is a regular Salon political column that is almost always great. I can get stuff like this elsewhere, but, sadly not often from a place as "reputable" as Salon. If Salon disappears the pickings will be even slimmer and the Palasts and Conasons of the world will be even more marginalized.
Investigative reporting costs tons of money, and even if Salon has the best of intentions, the bottom line will prevent them from doing lots of stories. Maybe we can use the slashdot effect to really make a difference, and not only save them, but give them the funds to actually improve. Our corporate government and out-of-control military-industrial complex need to keep the people blissfully ignorant in order to continue getting away with murder every day. Ownership of the media is their biggest weapon in this war against us, and so I've decided I can afford to pay $18.50 (or $30 with no ads) to try and save a dying breed. Who's with me?
This rule is fine, but you have to be willing to apply without a double standard. And by this rule, all governments I know of are terrorists, with the US perhaps heading the list.
- "We" (the giant corporate military industrial complex of the "west",
including the world bank, IMF, WTO, etc.) systematically oppress,
murder and enslave entire countries full of innocent people.
- We install our own dictatorships in these countries (e.g. Indonesia,
Iraq, etc.) while parcelling up their resources among 1st-world
megacorporations, many of which have larger operating budgets than
entire countries.
- We force these countries to accept "free trade", meaning we make
them remove all import tarriffs, and then flood their economy with
cheap products and staple foods. Just like when a Wal-Mart moves in
next door, the local artisans/farmers cannot compete, and they and
their children must give up the farm and move into the city to work
for subsistence wages under inhumane conditions in factories for
Gap, Nike, etc.
- Anyone who tries to resist this is called a "communist" (or maybe
now they'll be called an "Al Qaeda sympathizer") and is subject to
imprisonment, torture, and murder. These are people who've somehow
gotten the crazy idea that a country's natural resources might
actually be used to benefit its *own* citizens. They don't realize
that their lot in life is to shut up and be cheap labor.
- We force these countries to take out massive loans to buy our
imported goods--loans they will never be able to repay.
- In addition to providing the capital for the loans, U.S. taxpayers
money goes into "aid packages" for these now destitute countries.
The aid packages are earmarked for buying food and goods from
western megacorporations. This is another way in which the system
works to channel our money to the corporations.
- If anyone gets out of line, we don't have a problem using weapons of
mass distruction against their citizens (a million people have died
radiation-related deaths in Iraq since 1991 because we rained
thousands of tons of depleted uranium bombs and shells over the
whole southern half of the country). After all, making us
taxpayers support a massive military system (of historically
unprecented size) is another major way in which the system feeds our
money to the industrial complex.
- On 9/11, some assholes out there (we don't have the monopoly on
evil) manage to succeed in attacking the monetary system that rules
the world. Over 3000 "collateral" casualties also result.
- The response? Use this as a great excuse to (a) remove some more
civil liberties from us (an educated, free-thinking populace is the
*real* enemy of tyranny), and also (b) channel more of our money
into our military machine.
- Anyone who tries to point out any of the above is basically called a
traitor. After all, "you're either with us or against us". As if
even trying to understand what's going on is treasonous!
If you are intrigued by any of this and want to investigate for
yourself (don't believe me--I'm just regurgitating this stuff), you
might like to look at John Pilger's new book "The New Rulers of the
World", or any of his earlier stuff. Also, the copious writings of
Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, and even Gore Vidal are great places to
start.
If you are unwilling to open your eyes, you'll probably just call me a
"communist" or an "Al Queda sympathizer" (I am neither). While it
shouldn't be necessary, I nevertheless feel compelled to stress that I
do not condone the 9/11 attacks, nor do I think the people killed on
that day "deserved to die", or that the terrorists were justified in
doing it. I also think that it was counterproductive to their cause,
as all violence is. I just wish people would be willing to see that
we ourselves have been, and are again contemplating, waging extended
campaigns of violence in the world that dwarf the events of 9/11. We
still have a chance to change our ways.
> There is stopped reading. I guess it's needs an other release before the syntax is correct.
People in glass houses...
Marc Fleury of JBoss (at an informal session in Boston last month) said that he is in constant contact with developers and management at Sun, and that Sun secretly loves JBoss, because grass-roots projects like that are just what Sun needs in their fight against M$.
I also remember him actually defending Sun's charging so much for J2EE certification, but I can't remember what his reasoning was.
For Java code afficionados, I'd heartily recommend taking a look at Lucene. It's small but pretty. One particularly bad example of code out of control would be Turbine. The latter is very frustrating because they generally have great ideas and lots of energy, but wading through the convoluted class hierarchies and gratuitously overloaded methods (some of which must be called more than once with different arg types) is not for the faint of heart.