"Look at the lengths the Chinese government will go to keep people from speaking their mind."
The actions of the chinese government (I feel) have far more to do with the will to power than anything as innocent as the rejection of the other's opinnion. Those in power within China have a legitimate fear of free expression - their subjects are not happy, they are not free, they are subject to arrest and torture, and their government expresses a horrifying disinterest in their wellbeing. What you describe makes them sound like simple ideologues, upset that their opponents won't agree that global warming is not a man made event.
-GiH
Isn't the old troupe that I'd rather have my children watch people make love than kill each other?
Well.. at least this makes them equal. And honestly, the degree of excessive blood and gibs in some games really is pornographic. It dosen't add to the reality of the experience. It's funny. It's somewhat gratifying when you finally land a saw blade in that punk's neck and his head flies off.. but really.. it dosen't help you tell the story.
good for adults. Bad for nine year olds.
Better yet, if you equate it to porn, you will get more parents to pull their heads out of their asses and go "Oh.. GTA isn't appropriate for my 7 year old?"
-GiH
Time to a send-serve e-mail system. I send an e-mail, the company I pay for my e-mail services holds that e-mail on their system, sending only a one line message 'index' to the recipient. The recieving mail software can show the user a from and subject line summary. If the user choses to open the e-mail, it is retrieved from the sending mail server.
This dosen't take care of the 'I have 600 spam letters in my in-box' issue, but it dose begin the trend of placing financial responsability on the sending party. It also removes re-mailing. "where am I downloading this message from... myself? Wha?" I think not.
Ultimately the only way to make Spam stop, is to place the crushingly expensive bandwidth and hosting costs on the sending group.
Mooching bandwidth cannot be called theft, maybe fraud. As long as you don't take something physically away it can't be called theft.
People just want you to think of it as theft, because of the natural (or better learned) aversion to such an act.
That would depend on the contract that the company being mooched from had set up with it's internet provider. I was working in systems when napster really started to catch on, and we had a very interesting issue for a few weeks. Suddenly network usage went through the roof. That kicked in the OC-3 (which was billed on a per second basis, it was intended to keep our web-services opperating smoothly when the systems were syncing the content deltas between the machine shops in, chicago, melbourne, and london).
Suddenly we had a several thousand dollars higher than expected bill to explain to corporate.
Admittedly this was a brilliant example of "We didn't put any forethought in our network design, and now we're bent over."
Theft through a WAP would obviously be far more limited (by the bandwidth on the access point itself), however that does not mean that no damage will be done. It's a nit-picky pencil neck, accountant kind of issue. But I wouldn't want to be the IT jerk stuck with explaining to the boss why 'the internet is slow', would you?
-GiH Ignore the man behind the blue screen, he is of no importance.
It is no more theft than someone selling a "guide to the stars' homes" (since a burgler could deduce that there may be things of worth in their houses and rob them)
Closer to "A guide to the unguarded jewels of the rich and famous", but otherwise correct. The essential element here is that whereas there is a passive activity (seeing a stars home, hoping to spot a celeb, etc) with a map to the starts homes, there is no clear positive use for warchaling symbols, at least in the eyes of the bussinesses whose WAPs are configured poorly.
Now, I can see in the future as community networks get more prevelant, the idea of building a connectivity map for urban areas to advise where folks should meet up if they want to have net access, could be an excellent counter point.
Does anyone know of any entertainment companies that have bars/resteraunts/etc with built in WAP to service clients net connectivity needs? (esp. in chicago)
-GiH -To be One is not nessecarily better that to be Zero, if you're tracking Job position in a linked list.
Yeah, and on several occasions, I've seen people standing under a store's awning to get out of the rain. Not just on the public sidewalk, but even inside the store's entry way. This is blatant theft of the company's services and property, if you ask me, and it's gotta stop!
Please, leave your hyberole behind.
As geeks we know it's not exactly polite to snip someone else's bandwidth. It's not quite as bad as walking up and plugging your laptop into an external power outlet to recharge, but it's in the same realm.
They are paying for a continually refreshing resource. Every moment of connectivity is (at least in theory) billed. So when I hop onto your network and download 10 gigs of porn, it starts to slow you down. Maybe not noticalby, but it will effect your performance.
I agree this is making a mountain out of a mole-hill, but the resource here is not air or floor-space, it's electricity and photons in a pipe. A pipe they had to pay to run in, and electricity they have to pay for to send signals for bussiness purposes.
-GiH -You are not a fuzzy ball of love, only the sheep is a fuzzy ball of love. Learn to be like the sheep, and all will become clear.
From The FAQ "What happens if this intelligent technologies, the various control systems, break down?"
"Again, this is being considered. For example, in the design of the Millenium house specifically avoided any centralised computer control system to minimise such problems - if there were faults the technology was engineered for graceful degradation. As regards more general Integer housing, in terms of design there should always be a manual override so heating, lighting, security and anything else can be operated separately and manually rather than being pre-programmed. The more detailed arrangements that still have to be put in place concern questions of exactly who to contact, just as currently people have to contact tradespeople like plumbers, electricians or gas engineers if there is a fault."
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 specifically requires the FCC to preempt such laws when asked to do so, but the FCC has often failed to carry out its obligations under the Act. See http://www.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/02/08/ 011379P.pdf for only the most recent case where a court ordered the FCC to carry out its duties to make it possible for some Missouri governmental entities to offer telecommunications services.
But Your Honor! How is my cosuin Rodney supposed to earn a free living if he has competition?
I wonder if this obligation could be called on to break up that town in california where all the 'radio wave alergic' people have set up stiff resistance to anything that smacks of being more advanced than a TV.
But I don't believe there's actually a point at which gravitational pull disapears, it just becomes so minor as to be trivial. Unless you extend the timeline out far enough, in which case even the most trival resistance will slowly bleed all the energy out of a system.
Simply moving the objects further away wouldn't increase their kinetic energy. That would only be true if the speed at which they were travelling at was still increasing. Is it? I can't see from my office.
As I said, being converted to Kinetic Potential. As I lift a box into the air, I am 'storing' the kinetic energy in the force of the potential energy that is released in the form of kinetic energy when I release the box.
If I put a tenis ball on a very long tether in void, and I throw it, the begining kinetic energy will slowly be converted into potential energy stored in the tether, until the potential energy exceeds the kinetic force moving the ball forward, at which point the ball will begin to move back in the direction the tether is pulling. Unless of course I forgot to secure the tether (whoops).
Gravity between bodies in space acts as a tether. The farther objects move from each other, the more kinetic energy is 'lost' to the pull of gravity between the two objects, until the axis is reached, and the potential energy stored in their position begins to be released as the two object move toward each other with progressively greater and greater force, as the force of gravity exerts itself.
Would this perhaps be linked to the idea that there's a limited amount of energy in the universe, which is more and more being turned into kinnetic potential as objects get further and further from the center point?
Or perhaps we're just setting aside another 'unbreakable' barrier.
They can legislate away but if the regulations they impose are so far fetched that nobody will impliment them, they've got no real power.
I believe they do in fact control the top level DNS servers.
-GiH Orange is not a color or a fruit, it is an object which can be used as either, depending on which member function is called. Now Apples, that's just a color.
It should be illegal to propose that you restrict companies- profitable or not-- from exercising human rights.
Why? Companies aren't humans. They don't have the full list of human rights either. Each different flavor of Corporation comes with a different set of rights, but none grant a corporation the full bill of rights, and no-where is it set to law that corporate entites have garunteed human rights. Incorporation is a trade-off, the owner loses the personal freedom to do as he would, up to and including the sale of stock and other holdings. In return, the individual founders are sheltered by the corporate entity from any law suits that the corporation should suffer, and the finacial issues attatched to the company.
This leaves only negligance and incompetance, in nearly all other ways, the owners and the board are protected from private suit by the corporate umbrella.
Get a job.
That's a very shallow strike sir, even if it applies to the individual to whom you are replying it dosen't change the validity of his suggestion, in fact perhaps it enfroces it. The corporate system is failing to care for itself, let alone those who support it. When corporations focus on profits NOW and turn a blind eye to success in the future, everyone pays.
Croporations have an obligation not to make bad decisions for their stockholders. Often this is interpreted as Corporations having a requirement to make money no matter what is nessecary, or the stock holders will eat them. Generally, this is not the case.
The idea behind stock is that I as an investor am purchasing my share in the future of your company. I believe your company is doing so well, that I hearby grant you a temporary loan, and recieve a garuntee of stock, a portion of the company. I am stating that I have assurance in the company, or it's ability to generate wealth over time. The majority of stock holdings are not day traders, they are long term investments in a given corporation.
What happens when stock holders start clamoring for cash, now?
Well, the first thing you do is cut all risk aka 'growth' ventures. The decrease head-count as ruthlessly as possible, setting the corporation up to continue as it is indefinately. Once this is done, aquire smaller companies that can similarly be downsized and with minimal changes to production, streamlined in.
The result is VERY profitable, for a few years anyway. Then their product begins to slip, and unless they can find some reason why new customers should be attracted to them (see harley davidson), are doomed to slip slowly downward.
This isn't even about corporate wealth, it's just the slowly unrolling aftershocks of the 1980's. Greed is Still good; until that changes people aren't going to check themseleves in the name of the common good. Without Morals, there is this.
If you want to stop it, start your own little company, produce something mildly profitable, and pay your employees what you can.
I remember when I was just leaving the area, the last of the local plants finally scaled back to just a matinance group, the whole area died. IBM was the heart and soul of quite a few towns in New York, and they didn't do very well when it left.
The Power, Tele-com, Water Supply, etc for New York City comes from all over northern New York,
Coincidentally enough, the easiest route for such is right down the hudson valley. There aren't many places in the country with that kind of already-established power and communications resources.
I'm from poughkeepsie, IBM has an old interest in the area, lots of old corporate gold clubs, resteraunts, etc. The weather is reasonable, the living is cheaper than along the coast, and hey, It's New York.
Damn, now I'm homesick.
-GiH Proud to live in Chicago, Where Flat takes on a whole new meaning.
When he co-founded Netscape Communications in 1994, Jim Clark introduced a Web browser that promised computer users a way around the Microsoft juggernaut.
Huh? IE came before Netscrape? hmm.. news to me.
-GiH It's called research, journalists used to do it.
Slashdot Mirror
"Look at the lengths the Chinese government will go to keep people from speaking their mind." The actions of the chinese government (I feel) have far more to do with the will to power than anything as innocent as the rejection of the other's opinnion. Those in power within China have a legitimate fear of free expression - their subjects are not happy, they are not free, they are subject to arrest and torture, and their government expresses a horrifying disinterest in their wellbeing. What you describe makes them sound like simple ideologues, upset that their opponents won't agree that global warming is not a man made event. -GiH
Next time you want to go all vigilante on spammers, use a baseball bat. -GiH
Isn't the old troupe that I'd rather have my children watch people make love than kill each other? Well.. at least this makes them equal. And honestly, the degree of excessive blood and gibs in some games really is pornographic. It dosen't add to the reality of the experience. It's funny. It's somewhat gratifying when you finally land a saw blade in that punk's neck and his head flies off.. but really.. it dosen't help you tell the story. good for adults. Bad for nine year olds. Better yet, if you equate it to porn, you will get more parents to pull their heads out of their asses and go "Oh.. GTA isn't appropriate for my 7 year old?" -GiH
Time to a send-serve e-mail system. I send an e-mail, the company I pay for my e-mail services holds that e-mail on their system, sending only a one line message 'index' to the recipient. The recieving mail software can show the user a from and subject line summary. If the user choses to open the e-mail, it is retrieved from the sending mail server.
This dosen't take care of the 'I have 600 spam letters in my in-box' issue, but it dose begin the trend of placing financial responsability on the sending party. It also removes re-mailing. "where am I downloading this message from... myself? Wha?" I think not.
Ultimately the only way to make Spam stop, is to place the crushingly expensive bandwidth and hosting costs on the sending group.
-GiH
Mooching bandwidth cannot be called theft, maybe fraud. As long as you don't take something physically away it can't be called theft. People just want you to think of it as theft, because of the natural (or better learned) aversion to such an act.
That would depend on the contract that the company being mooched from had set up with it's internet provider. I was working in systems when napster really started to catch on, and we had a very interesting issue for a few weeks. Suddenly network usage went through the roof. That kicked in the OC-3 (which was billed on a per second basis, it was intended to keep our web-services opperating smoothly when the systems were syncing the content deltas between the machine shops in, chicago, melbourne, and london).
Suddenly we had a several thousand dollars higher than expected bill to explain to corporate.
Admittedly this was a brilliant example of "We didn't put any forethought in our network design, and now we're bent over."
Theft through a WAP would obviously be far more limited (by the bandwidth on the access point itself), however that does not mean that no damage will be done. It's a nit-picky pencil neck, accountant kind of issue. But I wouldn't want to be the IT jerk stuck with explaining to the boss why 'the internet is slow', would you?
-GiH
Ignore the man behind the blue screen, he is of no importance.
It is no more theft than someone selling a "guide to the stars' homes" (since a burgler could deduce that there may be things of worth in their houses and rob them)
Closer to "A guide to the unguarded jewels of the rich and famous", but otherwise correct. The essential element here is that whereas there is a passive activity (seeing a stars home, hoping to spot a celeb, etc) with a map to the starts homes, there is no clear positive use for warchaling symbols, at least in the eyes of the bussinesses whose WAPs are configured poorly.
Now, I can see in the future as community networks get more prevelant, the idea of building a connectivity map for urban areas to advise where folks should meet up if they want to have net access, could be an excellent counter point.
Does anyone know of any entertainment companies that have bars/resteraunts/etc with built in WAP to service clients net connectivity needs? (esp. in chicago)
-GiH
-To be One is not nessecarily better that to be Zero, if you're tracking Job position in a linked list.
Yeah, and on several occasions, I've seen people standing under a store's awning to get out of the rain. Not just on the public sidewalk, but even inside the store's entry way. This is blatant theft of the company's services and property, if you ask me, and it's gotta stop!
Please, leave your hyberole behind.
As geeks we know it's not exactly polite to snip someone else's bandwidth. It's not quite as bad as walking up and plugging your laptop into an external power outlet to recharge, but it's in the same realm.
They are paying for a continually refreshing resource. Every moment of connectivity is (at least in theory) billed. So when I hop onto your network and download 10 gigs of porn, it starts to slow you down. Maybe not noticalby, but it will effect your performance.
I agree this is making a mountain out of a mole-hill, but the resource here is not air or floor-space, it's electricity and photons in a pipe. A pipe they had to pay to run in, and electricity they have to pay for to send signals for bussiness purposes.
-GiH
-You are not a fuzzy ball of love, only the sheep is a fuzzy ball of love. Learn to be like the sheep, and all will become clear.
From The FAQ
"What happens if this intelligent technologies, the various control systems, break down?"
"Again, this is being considered. For example, in the design of the Millenium house specifically avoided any centralised computer control system to minimise such problems - if there were faults the technology was engineered for graceful degradation. As regards more general Integer housing, in terms of design there should always be a manual override so heating, lighting, security and anything else can be operated separately and manually rather than being pre-programmed. The more detailed arrangements that still have to be put in place concern questions of exactly who to contact, just as currently people have to contact tradespeople like plumbers, electricians or gas engineers if there is a fault."
-GiH
What is cheeseier anyway?
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 specifically requires the FCC to preempt such laws when asked to do so, but the FCC has often failed to carry out its obligations under the Act. See http://www.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/02/08/ 011379P.pdf for only the most recent case where a court ordered the FCC to carry out its duties to make it possible for some Missouri governmental entities to offer telecommunications services.
But Your Honor! How is my cosuin Rodney supposed to earn a free living if he has competition?
I wonder if this obligation could be called on to break up that town in california where all the 'radio wave alergic' people have set up stiff resistance to anything that smacks of being more advanced than a TV.
-GiH
Citizen, The Computer thanks you for presenting your national ID card. We find all information valid, please step into the processing chamber.
Bzzzt! Flash.. smoke
-GiH
Hmm.. good point..
But I don't believe there's actually a point at which gravitational pull disapears, it just becomes so minor as to be trivial. Unless you extend the timeline out far enough, in which case even the most trival resistance will slowly bleed all the energy out of a system.
-GiH
Simply moving the objects further away wouldn't increase their kinetic energy. That would only be true if the speed at which they were travelling at was still increasing. Is it? I can't see from my office.
As I said, being converted to Kinetic Potential. As I lift a box into the air, I am 'storing' the kinetic energy in the force of the potential energy that is released in the form of kinetic energy when I release the box.
If I put a tenis ball on a very long tether in void, and I throw it, the begining kinetic energy will slowly be converted into potential energy stored in the tether, until the potential energy exceeds the kinetic force moving the ball forward, at which point the ball will begin to move back in the direction the tether is pulling. Unless of course I forgot to secure the tether (whoops).
Gravity between bodies in space acts as a tether. The farther objects move from each other, the more kinetic energy is 'lost' to the pull of gravity between the two objects, until the axis is reached, and the potential energy stored in their position begins to be released as the two object move toward each other with progressively greater and greater force, as the force of gravity exerts itself.
-GiH
Light has mass when it's in motion, but not otherwise. That whole 'a particle, And a wave' thing.
-GiH
Would this perhaps be linked to the idea that there's a limited amount of energy in the universe, which is more and more being turned into kinnetic potential as objects get further and further from the center point?
Or perhaps we're just setting aside another 'unbreakable' barrier.
-GiH
User Satisfaction Skyrockets when we stop taking a sledgehammer to their computer every few minutes.
Studies are still inconclusive on the subscription results against crushing our users fingers!
-GiH
And they say we're slow.
They can legislate away but if the regulations they impose are so far fetched that nobody will impliment them, they've got no real power.
I believe they do in fact control the top level DNS servers.
-GiH
Orange is not a color or a fruit, it is an object which can be used as either, depending on which member function is called. Now Apples, that's just a color.
Sir, ICANN has created a rule that favors the Public Good over their corporate sponsors.
Good GOD man! You there! Take the chopper and go swine hunting, You over there, start taking bids on subteranean cold food storage.
---------
Or maybe we can all just put our wallets out, bend over, and get it done with.
-GiH
It should be illegal to propose that you restrict companies- profitable or not-- from exercising human rights.
Why? Companies aren't humans. They don't have the full list of human rights either. Each different flavor of Corporation comes with a different set of rights, but none grant a corporation the full bill of rights, and no-where is it set to law that corporate entites have garunteed human rights. Incorporation is a trade-off, the owner loses the personal freedom to do as he would, up to and including the sale of stock and other holdings. In return, the individual founders are sheltered by the corporate entity from any law suits that the corporation should suffer, and the finacial issues attatched to the company.
This leaves only negligance and incompetance, in nearly all other ways, the owners and the board are protected from private suit by the corporate umbrella.
Get a job.
That's a very shallow strike sir, even if it applies to the individual to whom you are replying it dosen't change the validity of his suggestion, in fact perhaps it enfroces it. The corporate system is failing to care for itself, let alone those who support it. When corporations focus on profits NOW and turn a blind eye to success in the future, everyone pays.
-GiH
Croporations have an obligation not to make bad decisions for their stockholders. Often this is interpreted as Corporations having a requirement to make money no matter what is nessecary, or the stock holders will eat them. Generally, this is not the case.
The idea behind stock is that I as an investor am purchasing my share in the future of your company. I believe your company is doing so well, that I hearby grant you a temporary loan, and recieve a garuntee of stock, a portion of the company. I am stating that I have assurance in the company, or it's ability to generate wealth over time. The majority of stock holdings are not day traders, they are long term investments in a given corporation.
What happens when stock holders start clamoring for cash, now?
Well, the first thing you do is cut all risk aka 'growth' ventures. The decrease head-count as ruthlessly as possible, setting the corporation up to continue as it is indefinately. Once this is done, aquire smaller companies that can similarly be downsized and with minimal changes to production, streamlined in.
The result is VERY profitable, for a few years anyway. Then their product begins to slip, and unless they can find some reason why new customers should be attracted to them (see harley davidson), are doomed to slip slowly downward.
This isn't even about corporate wealth, it's just the slowly unrolling aftershocks of the 1980's. Greed is Still good; until that changes people aren't going to check themseleves in the name of the common good. Without Morals, there is this.
If you want to stop it, start your own little company, produce something mildly profitable, and pay your employees what you can.
also, see; My Journal
-GiH
'Bout time IBM got back into upstate NY.
I remember when I was just leaving the area, the last of the local plants finally scaled back to just a matinance group, the whole area died. IBM was the heart and soul of quite a few towns in New York, and they didn't do very well when it left.
-GiH
The Power, Tele-com, Water Supply, etc for New York City comes from all over northern New York,
Coincidentally enough, the easiest route for such is right down the hudson valley. There aren't many places in the country with that kind of already-established power and communications resources.
I'm from poughkeepsie, IBM has an old interest in the area, lots of old corporate gold clubs, resteraunts, etc. The weather is reasonable, the living is cheaper than along the coast, and hey, It's New York.
Damn, now I'm homesick.
-GiH
Proud to live in Chicago, Where Flat takes on a whole new meaning.
If only it was truly external to a need for time.
"Why yes docotor, we will write that program!"
What makes you say that
"The printer just spit out the results.
Or; Why can't I set a global to tell myself not to run that devide by zero after the crash has occoured before I execute..?
-Gih
Loopy does not even begin to describe my current mental state.
Technically excellent, but utterly lacking any conection to the context of this article.
But try Google, search for 'White Hat tutorial', or 'Network Security'.
........
Also, keep up to date on CERT warnings.
Same as everything else though, the best tool is the machine you want to secure.. go play.
-Gih
The number you have dialed 9..1..1.. has been changed to an unlisted number, thank you
When he co-founded Netscape Communications in 1994, Jim Clark introduced a Web browser that promised computer users a way around the Microsoft juggernaut.
Huh? IE came before Netscrape? hmm.. news to me.
-GiH
It's called research, journalists used to do it.