I wonder if they realize that people who are now Readerless are going to avoid relying Google products/services in future. Certainly there is no way I would build life habits around any Google service now. You don't want to get too used to using anything of theirs, don't get too comfortable. Then they will wonder why their new products aren't taking off any more.
But despite that, he is still probably right. What is the chance of micro-organisms NOT getting into space? On the scale of the Universe, it would be a survival and dispersal strategy for a certain class of extremophiles if they can survive those events and reproduce. You just need one or two to survive within a rock and away you go. Whether he has found sufficient evidence for it yet is a separate question.
I would imagine that you can't judge how sad the day is before seeing what the reaction is. I would imagine this scheme is active in most countries enforcing copyright.
Some countries have their capitalism purer than others, e.g. pure jungle tooth and claw capitalism, where lawyers and business attack the population unrestrained, or somewhat socialised capitalism where the state attempts to moderate.
He knows what he is talking about, he explains things clearly, he is not condescending to the viewer -- I think the apparent smugness is not for real, or maybe it is just how his personality comes over. And if you still don't understand how there is no stair-step, you need to watch the video again! Even though I've done loads of DSP, the nice demos he gives really illustrate well what he is saying, and who can argue with pure-analogue gear proving the point -- not just theory and hand waving, but real experimental evidence. Really nice work.
560Z if you want details. 800x600 pixels, 100x37 with 16x8 characters -- perfect ssh client. Main machine has a 19" for opening GUI stuff when really necessary.
Here in Peru, the government knows they've upset someone because the main transport routes are barricaded and there are crowds throwing stones. Same with France. Seems like US authorities/government is like a child who always gets his way. It's going to be tough to crack, but it needs to learn its place -- subordinate to the will of the people. It's going to be a lot messier with all those guns around -- and maybe the government likes it that way. The more dangerous it is to protest, the less people will do it. But no-one outside the country has a chance to change anything -- only you folks.
I've probably already put more work into it that it deserves...
I can tell you find it offensive, but all the same whilst dismissing all the re-interpretable stuff, you missed one very specific prediction -- that the next pope would be the last! It's a meme, don't underestimate the power of a meme!
Here in Peru in Dec-1999, people with almost no dependency on modern infrastructure were living in terror of airplanes falling out of the sky, of the entire modern technological world failing -- all because of the hype over Y2K.
If the meme gets about that the next pope is the last, it could become self-fulfilling. Anyone want to try this Social Engineering hack on a global scale?
Middle initial is a very US style of naming. What about people who use a modified form of their name form for almost all of their life except for paperwork, e.g. Liz for Elizabeth, or those who use a middle name like their first name. You need to give them the option to use their preferred form of their name. Is it possible to let the users choose out of several alternatives if there is a clash? They are more likely to use their Uni address then, rather than be stuck with a name they don't use, a name that is embarrassing to them or some random number.
<> That's weird because it works fine for me quarter-way around the world with a 200ms RTT. I'm not trying to watch YouTube, though. Maybe we have different expectations. VNC works well enough at this distance to let me do what I need to do, whereas X fails completely. I would sing X's praises if it actually performed. FreeNX maybe works, if I could find packages, although it seems pretty much abandoned on Debian. Even the x2go stuff doesn't have a server available. How long is it going to take for someone to knock up a VNC server for Wayland? Not very long at all. It is an easy and fun student vacation project. How long before someone gets tempted to do something a bit more optimised? They could be the first, and set the standard. Glory and power, irresistible. I think there is no need to worry about Wayland having no remote access.
<> No, I haven't. I'm just trying to figure it out right now. If it is comparable to my VNC session (i.e. I get responses back in a time roughly comparable to the RTT) then I'll switch.
X is completely useless over anything more than a local network. Between South America and Europe, the only viable approach I've found is to run an Xvnc session remotely and then VNC to that. This is more or less what is proposed for remote Wayland, so we lose absolutely nothing by switching from X to Wayland (once all the necessary parts are implemented). Not sure where this unrealistic pro-X anti-Wayland FUD comes from. Nostalgia for dying 80s era technologies?
He faced 6 months if he accepted the plea bargain, effectively admitting that his moral position was wrong, admitting that he was nothing more than a common cracker and thief, accepting that the people in authority must always be respected even if they are obviously wrong and dangerously blind to reality. I can see why he might be unable to do that. That leaves the 30+-year alternative. Probably he didn't anticipate having that thrown at him. He was engaging in a form of protest. According to your logic, any street protester should be ready for 2 years of daily waterboarding from the FBI. The punishment was completely out of proportion to the offence. His suicide doesn't make him a hero. His actions while alive do to some extent, though.
Maybe it is stored 'on the network' by keeping the packets in the air constantly. If you can't beat bufferbloat, might as well make use of it for storage.
I personally cannot survive without fresh air, natural surroundings and visiting mountains now and again. I feel a constant and increasing discomfort the longer I am away from that. If I was faced with 30 years away, then I'd be looking at 30 years of totally unbearable, 24-hours-a-day torture. There are more options for suicide before getting into the system... The logic is undeniable. And if you've already made that decision, then you might as well make a statement with it and choose a symbolic day. That is how I personally can relate to Aaron's actions, although of course I have absolutely no idea what was actually going on in his head. (The other option of course is to compromise your morals and grovel and accept plea bargains and all the rest, but I don't think Aaron was up for that.)
<> I'd say it takes more bravery than you imagine to commit suicide (especially when not in an emotional state -- and he chose the day, so it was more likely a conscious decision). You have to overcome all of your survival instincts to do it. So I would not call it the coward's way out. It is more like taking the suffering up front instead of deferring the suffering over a lifetime. A coward would simply go along with it and rot in jail and come out a bitter old man.
It's only the unreasonable people who cause change in the world. I agree, most of the activists I've know have had some kind of non-normalness (bipolar, depressive, suicidal, whatever), myself included I guess. Someone once joked that only the most intelligent people are able to grasp how bad things really are!
Yeah, right -- it is just the same as a gun, right? Like you can set one off and kill someone without risk to yourself. And are you talking about those 10-20kg ones? So you can carry one unnoticed? I think it is nothing like as dangerous as a gun.
I guess you are trolling. L+H is an example that is valid in the UK (check the TV schedules for the last 10-15 years if you doubt me). It is irrelevant to the point I was making, though. If it is not true in your country, the point is still valid for some other example.
Oh no! I have to spend 2 seconds thinking of a better example now. (I am not US-resident, incidentally, so would not know what is available on your local region-locked providers.)
This is the obvious way to make it not matter at all what they lock down for 100s of years. Laurel and Hardy used to be on every Christmas when I was a child. I haven't seen any of their films now for a long long time. Probably they're all sitting in a vault somewhere turning to dust. I guess it is a reminder than in 10^3, 10^4, 10^5, 10^6... years eventually it will all be lost. So, we lost all our culture early because of greedy people. Well let them have it. I'm happy to opt out of their world. What was our culture for anyway? We seem to have lost the point of it. Meanwhile at street level human creativity remains unstoppable. Those with the itch to create something will create it no matter what.
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I wonder if they realize that people who are now Readerless are going to avoid relying Google products/services in future. Certainly there is no way I would build life habits around any Google service now. You don't want to get too used to using anything of theirs, don't get too comfortable. Then they will wonder why their new products aren't taking off any more.
But despite that, he is still probably right. What is the chance of micro-organisms NOT getting into space? On the scale of the Universe, it would be a survival and dispersal strategy for a certain class of extremophiles if they can survive those events and reproduce. You just need one or two to survive within a rock and away you go. Whether he has found sufficient evidence for it yet is a separate question.
I would imagine that you can't judge how sad the day is before seeing what the reaction is. I would imagine this scheme is active in most countries enforcing copyright.
Some countries have their capitalism purer than others, e.g. pure jungle tooth and claw capitalism, where lawyers and business attack the population unrestrained, or somewhat socialised capitalism where the state attempts to moderate.
He knows what he is talking about, he explains things clearly, he is not condescending to the viewer -- I think the apparent smugness is not for real, or maybe it is just how his personality comes over. And if you still don't understand how there is no stair-step, you need to watch the video again! Even though I've done loads of DSP, the nice demos he gives really illustrate well what he is saying, and who can argue with pure-analogue gear proving the point -- not just theory and hand waving, but real experimental evidence. Really nice work.
560Z if you want details. 800x600 pixels, 100x37 with 16x8 characters -- perfect ssh client. Main machine has a 19" for opening GUI stuff when really necessary.
Here in Peru, the government knows they've upset someone because the main transport routes are barricaded and there are crowds throwing stones. Same with France. Seems like US authorities/government is like a child who always gets his way. It's going to be tough to crack, but it needs to learn its place -- subordinate to the will of the people. It's going to be a lot messier with all those guns around -- and maybe the government likes it that way. The more dangerous it is to protest, the less people will do it. But no-one outside the country has a chance to change anything -- only you folks.
I can tell you find it offensive, but all the same whilst dismissing all the re-interpretable stuff, you missed one very specific prediction -- that the next pope would be the last! It's a meme, don't underestimate the power of a meme!
Here in Peru in Dec-1999, people with almost no dependency on modern infrastructure were living in terror of airplanes falling out of the sky, of the entire modern technological world failing -- all because of the hype over Y2K.
If the meme gets about that the next pope is the last, it could become self-fulfilling. Anyone want to try this Social Engineering hack on a global scale?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophecy_of_the_Popes
Middle initial is a very US style of naming. What about people who use a modified form of their name form for almost all of their life except for paperwork, e.g. Liz for Elizabeth, or those who use a middle name like their first name. You need to give them the option to use their preferred form of their name. Is it possible to let the users choose out of several alternatives if there is a clash? They are more likely to use their Uni address then, rather than be stuck with a name they don't use, a name that is embarrassing to them or some random number.
How do you manage to create such a strong disturbance in the Force? It is like 100s of psychic voices crying out and then being immediately silenced.
<> That's weird because it works fine for me quarter-way around the world with a 200ms RTT. I'm not trying to watch YouTube, though. Maybe we have different expectations. VNC works well enough at this distance to let me do what I need to do, whereas X fails completely. I would sing X's praises if it actually performed. FreeNX maybe works, if I could find packages, although it seems pretty much abandoned on Debian. Even the x2go stuff doesn't have a server available. How long is it going to take for someone to knock up a VNC server for Wayland? Not very long at all. It is an easy and fun student vacation project. How long before someone gets tempted to do something a bit more optimised? They could be the first, and set the standard. Glory and power, irresistible. I think there is no need to worry about Wayland having no remote access.
<> No, I haven't. I'm just trying to figure it out right now. If it is comparable to my VNC session (i.e. I get responses back in a time roughly comparable to the RTT) then I'll switch.
X is completely useless over anything more than a local network. Between South America and Europe, the only viable approach I've found is to run an Xvnc session remotely and then VNC to that. This is more or less what is proposed for remote Wayland, so we lose absolutely nothing by switching from X to Wayland (once all the necessary parts are implemented). Not sure where this unrealistic pro-X anti-Wayland FUD comes from. Nostalgia for dying 80s era technologies?
He faced 6 months if he accepted the plea bargain, effectively admitting that his moral position was wrong, admitting that he was nothing more than a common cracker and thief, accepting that the people in authority must always be respected even if they are obviously wrong and dangerously blind to reality. I can see why he might be unable to do that. That leaves the 30+-year alternative. Probably he didn't anticipate having that thrown at him. He was engaging in a form of protest. According to your logic, any street protester should be ready for 2 years of daily waterboarding from the FBI. The punishment was completely out of proportion to the offence. His suicide doesn't make him a hero. His actions while alive do to some extent, though.
Maybe it is stored 'on the network' by keeping the packets in the air constantly. If you can't beat bufferbloat, might as well make use of it for storage.
I personally cannot survive without fresh air, natural surroundings and visiting mountains now and again. I feel a constant and increasing discomfort the longer I am away from that. If I was faced with 30 years away, then I'd be looking at 30 years of totally unbearable, 24-hours-a-day torture. There are more options for suicide before getting into the system ... The logic is undeniable. And if you've already made that decision, then you might as well make a statement with it and choose a symbolic day. That is how I personally can relate to Aaron's actions, although of course I have absolutely no idea what was actually going on in his head. (The other option of course is to compromise your morals and grovel and accept plea bargains and all the rest, but I don't think Aaron was up for that.)
<> I'd say it takes more bravery than you imagine to commit suicide (especially when not in an emotional state -- and he chose the day, so it was more likely a conscious decision). You have to overcome all of your survival instincts to do it. So I would not call it the coward's way out. It is more like taking the suffering up front instead of deferring the suffering over a lifetime. A coward would simply go along with it and rot in jail and come out a bitter old man.
It's only the unreasonable people who cause change in the world. I agree, most of the activists I've know have had some kind of non-normalness (bipolar, depressive, suicidal, whatever), myself included I guess. Someone once joked that only the most intelligent people are able to grasp how bad things really are!
Yeah, right -- it is just the same as a gun, right? Like you can set one off and kill someone without risk to yourself. And are you talking about those 10-20kg ones? So you can carry one unnoticed? I think it is nothing like as dangerous as a gun.
> Pure Ad Hominem attack.
With added Streisand effect. Yes, Wickramasingh has some interesting ideas that we might find to be true one day.
You mean you're slaves?
Does that mean that Walla is also Japanese?
I guess you are trolling. L+H is an example that is valid in the UK (check the TV schedules for the last 10-15 years if you doubt me). It is irrelevant to the point I was making, though. If it is not true in your country, the point is still valid for some other example.
Oh no! I have to spend 2 seconds thinking of a better example now. (I am not US-resident, incidentally, so would not know what is available on your local region-locked providers.)
This is the obvious way to make it not matter at all what they lock down for 100s of years. Laurel and Hardy used to be on every Christmas when I was a child. I haven't seen any of their films now for a long long time. Probably they're all sitting in a vault somewhere turning to dust. I guess it is a reminder than in 10^3, 10^4, 10^5, 10^6 ... years eventually it will all be lost. So, we lost all our culture early because of greedy people. Well let them have it. I'm happy to opt out of their world. What was our culture for anyway? We seem to have lost the point of it. Meanwhile at street level human creativity remains unstoppable. Those with the itch to create something will create it no matter what.