Is it just the conspiracy theorist in me that finds this scary as to what could be added into Windows 7? Super-secret backroom deals that the DoD / DoJ can covertly spy on the unwitting populace? Ah, silly tech, they don't have to send people OVER to do that, they just have to ask Microsoft for a favor over the phone.
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Who says the Singularity is reliant on ARTIFICIAL Intelligence?
AUGMENTED Intelligence is actually within our grasp: for example, look at the number of people who know how to Google / Wiki any information they don't know to get caught up with whatever subject is at hand? "Well, Damn, don't know much about RAID, better Wiki it... oh, I get it!"
The Singularity is not going to be an all at once WHAMMO thing, we're not going to wake up with benevolent robotic overlords announcing that the Rapture of the Geeks is at hand. It will be gradual, and those of us on the techy side will likely not even notice it.
Computers will get faster, and as we learn how to augment ourselves, we will to. Eventually we'll be able to communicate with a PC/PDA directly. Meanwhile, things like RepRap will change our world in ways we're not quite ready for. (For example, I have no dobut that a functional RepRap would be a beautiful, amazing thing in the hands of Slashdot or the OSS Community. At the same time, the idea of 4Chan getting ahold of one fills me with Dread.)
You would THINK that they'd be "intelligent" enough to factor in your REJECTIONS as well as your purchases (and what you've identified as items you already own).
Figure it out! I do NOT buy derivative works. No books about writers who wrote biographies about Pratchett.
Well, do you often give Amazon feedback saying "I do not like this?" Does Amazon have a "Books I do NOT want to Checkout" function?
If Amazon is not collecting any information on what suggested items were not appreciated, how can the list be expected to have any form of accuracy?
I had to convince my girlfriend a few weeks ago that we should get tickets because he's one person I would really like to see before he, ahmen, dies. So we spent ~$160 for great ticket to see him at the Chicago theater on Oct. 11. I have no more words for this. Frame the tickets in front of a newspaper article talking about his death (or a nice photo of him) and sell it on eBay.
With a large dev team, lots of server admins, lots of marketing and a massive user base - you mean they don't test at all with other browsers while their in beta?
Ron Paul and his supporters and trying to change the Republican Party. This will be a slow process, probably taking 5-15 years before we have significant leadership positions in that party (such is libery, eternal vigilance). We need people running on all levels:
If Dr. Paul truly wishes to change the Republican party, he needs to lead an exodus from the Republican Party. The only way that party is going to stop being held sway by the people abusing it's unity is to temporarily fracture said unity to shake them out of their positions of power.
This country could use a 3rd or 4th party, the 2 party system has some very big failings.
GPL Violations is allowed (with author's permission) to break into the boxes of all GPL violators. *That* could be interesting. Of course not. Open Source doesn't pay enough lobbyists to break the law. You have to bribe people a certain amount each year to get that privilege.
"I'm disappointed with the decision, in so far as I understand that it will result in hundreds of actions challenging the detention of enemy combatants to be moved to federal district court. I think it bears emphasis that the court's decision does not concern military commission trials, which will continue to proceed. Instead it addresses the procedures that the Congress and the president put in place to permit enemy combatants to challenge their detention."
He said the Justice Department would comply with the ruling while studying the decision and "whether any legislation or any other action may be appropriate."
In other words: "Sure, yeah, great ruling, but we're still putting them in our Kangaroo Courts. Oh, and you Dems? Get ready to be forced to "compromise" and make this all legal in retrospect, just like how we're trying to force you to let us get away with warrantless wiretapping."
Also, as an aside: Anyone else find they had to disable the dynamic discussion stuff to be able to read this page or post on it? It was locking Firefox up here.
The constitution isn't "granted" to non-citizens, it limits what the government can do to people. Which is a good thing, since then the government can't push the constitution aside by inventing new ways to revoke citizenships. Tell that to John Walker Lindh and Jose Padilla, two American citizens who had their rights as both American citizens and human beings revoked because, well, the Bush Administration thought they were inconvenient.
The idea of not torturing someone until they confess -- quaint, really. He wants a fair trial? Oh, how cute. Thinks we're being unjust in keeping him in jail for years without charging him with anything? Aww, poor baby.
History will judge this administration, and us for not speaking out against it. And history will not be kind.
Last time I checked, MS was convicted of abusing their "monopoly" while Linux and MacOS existed. Last I heard, they had something like a 95% market share at that time, and used it to propel their shitty Internet browser from a 5% market share to a 90%-someodd market share.
Maybe for the 100th patch they should give free access to AC for anyone who subscribes to either of their other games. I would fully support this. Or a LOTRO "Lifetime" subscription. $200 for a permanent account until AC dies in a few years.
Seriously though, they need to redo the graphics engine and start advertising. Make up little 1 minute long advertisements for each patch, and put them up on Youtube. Bribe the Penny Arcade guys, get them over there.
For me, all I say is try it. Whether it's hard coded into the brain, or I was raised to it, or whatever, there's a lot of benefits that come from religion in just my personal life. Add in the community that comes with it and it's a no-brainer for me. Well, um, you said it.
Really? Then how come the BSA has awards for Jewish members (the Ner Tamid award -- I won it back in '75), and my nephew just became an Eagle scout? Because deep down, in their dark little bigot hearts, most of these Christian Supremacists believe that on your deathbeds, right before Isreal gets wiped out so Jesus can come back (or somesuch nonsense), you'll all admit you were wrong, they were right, and die as nice little Christians.
I doubt they'd ever let a Muslim or a Buddhist in as a troop leader, for example.
I take it you did go out of your way to make waves.
I believe the problem is when you stand up and scream you are an atheist and want everyone else to change what they are doing to do it your way, is when there are problems.
I think for the most part when you are "different" from a group of people and you elect to be involved with them. That you will be accepted as long as you try to fit in and look for common ground. As opposed to stressing how you are different and they should change who they are, what they have always done, and what they believe so as to make you happy.
No, all you have to say is "I am Gay" or "I am an Athiest" and the BSA national organization will say "Hope you enjoy Hell, you're no longer allowed to be a troop leader, buh bye!"
It's not "making waves" or "trying to enforce your beliefs on other people" (as if you could teach someone to be gay, jesus) -- the BSA's stance is that merely being gay or non-Christian means you are not fit to lead children.
They were taken to court and, quite rightly, had their rights to discriminate as a private organization upheld. So oh well, screw the bigots.
Pity there's no alternatives to the BSA. Maybe some enterprising geeks could start one up, dedicated to environmentalism, conservation, science, and other mildly geeky stuff in addition to the BSA. Like the "Mr. Wizard Brigade" or something.
Indeed, IIRC they even had an internal slogan -- "it's not done til Lotus won't run", or something like that.
Which - even ignoring the utter lack of even the slightest actual evidence of this ever being true - would have sounded even dumber when it first surfaced back in the mid-80s than it does today. What sane OS vendor would lock out 90% of its potential customers by not running their primary application ?
A: An OS Vendor who's also trying to sell a competing software to said 90% of their potential customers.
I didn't make it past the first three or four paragraphs, but no PHB is going to read further either. Court cases over GPL violation show that you can't use open source software the way you please? If he thought that before he's a moron and probably a sociopath. And the article seems to go on in that vein. Well, if "the way you please" means "bending the original developers as a post and making a commercial product out of their work", then sure, he's right, sorta.
And having thumbed through the article three times trying not to gag, that does seem to be what he's trying to say, at least in part. And as a bonus, he's both saying it wrong and getting the basic facts wrong, to boot.
Looks to me like MediaDefender is in clear violation of at least two subsections of 18 USC 1030. Where is the federal criminal investigation? Corporations, and their cronies, do not face criminal investigations unless their bri... political contributions run out. Or unless they're stupid.
Are these guys stupid enough? We'll see.
This does explain those fake torrents I see every so often that have fake trackers and like 90,000 peers, though.
They should be fine trying to sell Linux support. I don't think there is anyone on their support team that actually knows Linux. I know for a fact that Dell has a Linux support team in their Gold Technical Support (now ProSupport) and several Linux support teams in their Server/Storage teams.
But no, they don't have consumer-level Linux support yet. Who does?
This was an inappropriate thing for him to be doing, and he knew he was breaking the rules. He should be fired, not suspended. If he can be suspended for 180 days without affecting anyone elses workflow, then he clearly isn't doing anything important anyway.
A more important issue is what this says about the bloat and inefficiency at NASA. If an employee can spend years working on their blog at work, it is because they are not being given enough real work to do.
Obviously you're new to this procrastination thing. Let me explain.
See that big pile of stuff to do in your "in" box?
in a related event, god said: thou shalt not steal. Do invisible men talk to you often? There are pills for that now, you know. You can talk to a real live Doctor too, he or she can help you get over this strange delusion.
There are several hundreds of anime series and even if 'most' are boring (and I agree with that), that still leaves dozens of interesting and original ones! Just like sitcoms? 100 shitty ones, 1 Seinfeld.
Their concern was that the Red Cross was reselling their tradmark. Dirty pool on the Red Cross. And it won't turn out bad for J&J PR wise; the Red Cross has a strong motivation to hide thier money-grubbing ways. Not exactly. J&J trademarked the Red Cross Symbol before the Red Cross could get it trademarked in the US but AFTER the Red Cross started using it. They agreed that J&J could keep the trademark and RC just wouldn't sell anything with the Red Cross logo.
Flash forward to today, whereas for a way to make money, the Red Cross is certifying non-JJ medical kits as being "Red Cross Approved" and allowing the Red Cross logo to be used on these certification notices on packaging. JJ doesn't want their competitors being approved by the Red Cross, so JJ fights back.
It's also worth noting that there are a rather large number of international treaties that protect the Red Cross/Diamond/Crecent/etc symbols from mis-use. I would think that those treaties would have invalidated J&J's trademark on the symbol, but obviously J&J disagrees.
25 years old is plenty old enough to realize that serving up unreleased music is a pretty stupid thing to do, no? Obviously so, because the average 25 year old college student would never, ever dream of doing it. Clearly, this mentally deficient young man is a statistical anomaly, perhaps a communist or even a -- dare I say it -- TERRORIST.
Clearly, a more fitting crime for this liberal commie-terrorist (who kicks kittens) would be 5 years per kilobyte.
* Ninth Amendment â" Protection of rights not specifically enumerated in the Bill of Rights.
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
It was put in there for a reason, to keep tyrannical laws from being passed that are clearly against rights that should be guaranteed to a human being but weren't specifically thought of during the writing of the constitution/BOR.
Somehow I doubt the founding fathers had "Dude, they should totally be able to pirate music, movies, and video games" when they were writing the bill of rights.
Although it is funny to imagine George Washington with a surfer accent. "GNARLY, I like, totally can't tell a lie, DUDE."
Having said that, I think they did have some pretty interesting ideas on copyright, trademarks, patents, etc, ideas that would be called "Dangerous Subversive Liberal Commie Nonsense" nowadays, didn't they?
Eh? What evidence do you have linking those two to the Westboro church? Please read my comment again -- "Westboro types", in other words, "Christian Terrorists", or, if you prefer, "Christian Fundamentalists".
My point is, was, and will be that you're making claims out of the entire religion of Islam because of a relatively small number of extremists.
Relatively small compared to what? Do you have any statistics? Oh no no no NO... I am not the one saying that Islam is part of some weird plot to make boarding schools to indoctrinate our youth, or that ex-cons who find Allah are somehow worse for us as a society then ex-cons who find YHWH.
It's up to YOU to provide statistics showing that somehow Islam makes you violent, that ex-cons are more likely to relapse if they find Allah instead of YHWH; the numbers of these mythical evil Islamic boarding schools of doom, etc etc. You are the one making outrageous claims up above, not I.
And while you're at it, please try and find some statistics as to how saying something like that DOESN'T make you a bigot.
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Who says the Singularity is reliant on ARTIFICIAL Intelligence?
AUGMENTED Intelligence is actually within our grasp: for example, look at the number of people who know how to Google / Wiki any information they don't know to get caught up with whatever subject is at hand? "Well, Damn, don't know much about RAID, better Wiki it... oh, I get it!"
How long until we figure out how to make pills to make people think faster, or remember better?
How long until we get PDAs in the form of sunglasses that will allow you to automatically get the definition of words as you hear / read them?
Or Contact Lense-displays that connect to a PDA that you control using your brain?
The Singularity is not going to be an all at once WHAMMO thing, we're not going to wake up with benevolent robotic overlords announcing that the Rapture of the Geeks is at hand. It will be gradual, and those of us on the techy side will likely not even notice it.
Computers will get faster, and as we learn how to augment ourselves, we will to. Eventually we'll be able to communicate with a PC/PDA directly. Meanwhile, things like RepRap will change our world in ways we're not quite ready for. (For example, I have no dobut that a functional RepRap would be a beautiful, amazing thing in the hands of Slashdot or the OSS Community. At the same time, the idea of 4Chan getting ahold of one fills me with Dread.)
You would THINK that they'd be "intelligent" enough to factor in your REJECTIONS as well as your purchases (and what you've identified as items you already own).
Figure it out! I do NOT buy derivative works. No books about writers who wrote biographies about Pratchett.
Well, do you often give Amazon feedback saying "I do not like this?" Does Amazon have a "Books I do NOT want to Checkout" function?
If Amazon is not collecting any information on what suggested items were not appreciated, how can the list be expected to have any form of accuracy?
I have no more words for this. Frame the tickets in front of a newspaper article talking about his death (or a nice photo of him) and sell it on eBay.
With a large dev team, lots of server admins, lots of marketing and a massive user base - you mean they don't test at all with other browsers while their in beta?
Wait, you think this is accidental?hahahahaha
Ron Paul and his supporters and trying to change the Republican Party. This will be a slow process, probably taking 5-15 years before we have significant leadership positions in that party (such is libery, eternal vigilance). We need people running on all levels:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlqXq8YxQFQ
If Dr. Paul truly wishes to change the Republican party, he needs to lead an exodus from the Republican Party. The only way that party is going to stop being held sway by the people abusing it's unity is to temporarily fracture said unity to shake them out of their positions of power.This country could use a 3rd or 4th party, the 2 party system has some very big failings.
Bush's Pet Lawman: Nice ruling, too bad it doesn't matter.
"I'm disappointed with the decision, in so far as I understand that it will result in hundreds of actions challenging the detention of enemy combatants to be moved to federal district court. I think it bears emphasis that the court's decision does not concern military commission trials, which will continue to proceed. Instead it addresses the procedures that the Congress and the president put in place to permit enemy combatants to challenge their detention."
He said the Justice Department would comply with the ruling while studying the decision and "whether any legislation or any other action may be appropriate."
In other words: "Sure, yeah, great ruling, but we're still putting them in our Kangaroo Courts. Oh, and you Dems? Get ready to be forced to "compromise" and make this all legal in retrospect, just like how we're trying to force you to let us get away with warrantless wiretapping."
Also, as an aside: Anyone else find they had to disable the dynamic discussion stuff to be able to read this page or post on it? It was locking Firefox up here.
The idea of not torturing someone until they confess -- quaint, really. He wants a fair trial? Oh, how cute. Thinks we're being unjust in keeping him in jail for years without charging him with anything? Aww, poor baby.
History will judge this administration, and us for not speaking out against it. And history will not be kind.
Which is why they were, you know, found guilty?
Seriously though, they need to redo the graphics engine and start advertising. Make up little 1 minute long advertisements for each patch, and put them up on Youtube. Bribe the Penny Arcade guys, get them over there.
Something.
*ducks*
I doubt they'd ever let a Muslim or a Buddhist in as a troop leader, for example.
I take it you did go out of your way to make waves.
I believe the problem is when you stand up and scream you are an atheist and want everyone else to change what they are doing to do it your way, is when there are problems.
I think for the most part when you are "different" from a group of people and you elect to be involved with them. That you will be accepted as long as you try to fit in and look for common ground. As opposed to stressing how you are different and they should change who they are, what they have always done, and what they believe so as to make you happy.
No, all you have to say is "I am Gay" or "I am an Athiest" and the BSA national organization will say "Hope you enjoy Hell, you're no longer allowed to be a troop leader, buh bye!"It's not "making waves" or "trying to enforce your beliefs on other people" (as if you could teach someone to be gay, jesus) -- the BSA's stance is that merely being gay or non-Christian means you are not fit to lead children.
They were taken to court and, quite rightly, had their rights to discriminate as a private organization upheld. So oh well, screw the bigots.
Pity there's no alternatives to the BSA. Maybe some enterprising geeks could start one up, dedicated to environmentalism, conservation, science, and other mildly geeky stuff in addition to the BSA. Like the "Mr. Wizard Brigade" or something.
Indeed, IIRC they even had an internal slogan -- "it's not done til Lotus won't run", or something like that.
Which - even ignoring the utter lack of even the slightest actual evidence of this ever being true - would have sounded even dumber when it first surfaced back in the mid-80s than it does today. What sane OS vendor would lock out 90% of its potential customers by not running their primary application ?
A: An OS Vendor who's also trying to sell a competing software to said 90% of their potential customers.And having thumbed through the article three times trying not to gag, that does seem to be what he's trying to say, at least in part. And as a bonus, he's both saying it wrong and getting the basic facts wrong, to boot.
Are these guys stupid enough? We'll see.
This does explain those fake torrents I see every so often that have fake trackers and like 90,000 peers, though.
But no, they don't have consumer-level Linux support yet. Who does?
Obviously you're new to this procrastination thing. Let me explain.A more important issue is what this says about the bloat and inefficiency at NASA. If an employee can spend years working on their blog at work, it is because they are not being given enough real work to do.
See that big pile of stuff to do in your "in" box?
Ok, put that aside for a minute.
Now go read Sluggy Freelance.
Ta daaa~! Welcome to the US Workforce!
Flash forward to today, whereas for a way to make money, the Red Cross is certifying non-JJ medical kits as being "Red Cross Approved" and allowing the Red Cross logo to be used on these certification notices on packaging. JJ doesn't want their competitors being approved by the Red Cross, so JJ fights back.
It's also worth noting that there are a rather large number of international treaties that protect the Red Cross/Diamond/Crecent/etc symbols from mis-use. I would think that those treaties would have invalidated J&J's trademark on the symbol, but obviously J&J disagrees.
Clearly, a more fitting crime for this liberal commie-terrorist (who kicks kittens) would be 5 years per kilobyte.
* Ninth Amendment â" Protection of rights not specifically enumerated in the Bill of Rights.
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Somehow I doubt the founding fathers had "Dude, they should totally be able to pirate music, movies, and video games" when they were writing the bill of rights.It was put in there for a reason, to keep tyrannical laws from being passed that are clearly against rights that should be guaranteed to a human being but weren't specifically thought of during the writing of the constitution/BOR.
Although it is funny to imagine George Washington with a surfer accent. "GNARLY, I like, totally can't tell a lie, DUDE."
Having said that, I think they did have some pretty interesting ideas on copyright, trademarks, patents, etc, ideas that would be called "Dangerous Subversive Liberal Commie Nonsense" nowadays, didn't they?
Eh? What evidence do you have linking those two to the Westboro church? Please read my comment again -- "Westboro types", in other words, "Christian Terrorists", or, if you prefer, "Christian Fundamentalists".
Relatively small compared to what? Do you have any statistics? Oh no no no NO... I am not the one saying that Islam is part of some weird plot to make boarding schools to indoctrinate our youth, or that ex-cons who find Allah are somehow worse for us as a society then ex-cons who find YHWH.
It's up to YOU to provide statistics showing that somehow Islam makes you violent, that ex-cons are more likely to relapse if they find Allah instead of YHWH; the numbers of these mythical evil Islamic boarding schools of doom, etc etc. You are the one making outrageous claims up above, not I.
And while you're at it, please try and find some statistics as to how saying something like that DOESN'T make you a bigot.