Say it as many times as you want to. I still think you have a poorly thought out position, I simply fail to see how preventing procreation improves the natural selection process, and, don't think "natural selection" is something that can be bypassed, or therefor needs to safeguarded.
Individuals and co-operating groups trying to find ways to survive and breed IS natural selection. A sterilization program is a far bigger deviation from natural selection than a bone marrow transplant, or any other treatment, with the exception of gene therapy approaches.
Besides, when did natural selection become some divine force not to be interfered with?
Furthermore, the infectious organism in a pandemic is also in a natural selection process, in this case, HIV is a very fast-mutating virus, and is almost certain to evolve a non-CCR5 binding variant before CCR5 expressive humans are selected out.
Yup, point taken, and a lot of interesting reading there, some of it is a hair to the right of Occam's razor, but overall, it adds up. Who knows? maybe Soros did buy himself a president. He probably got a better deal than the Saudis did on theirs.
With or without Quid-pro-quo, its an abuse of the system to be able to affect the outcome by throwing money at the game. Thats just my opinion, your opinion, and a possible interpretation of McCain's words and actions this election. Obama doesn't see it the same way.
Pity campaign finance reform is such a loser issue.
no sh!t... I've worked a couple gigs for GSA, and at state levels, the complexity of the redundency is mind boggling. Lets just give the root passwords to Google, and emmigrate to Sweden.
And to my mind, CIO is a business type, a good CIO harnesses IT to make business more efficient, and a brilliant CIO will pursue visionary ways to do that, whereas CTO is an engineering type, who will often have visionary technology ideas, a brilliant CTO will be able to find a way to make them increase the bottom line.
To my mind, if your product is technology, or the delivery of the product is only possible via technology, get a CTO, otherwise, get a CIO.
The US gov. needs a CIO, but more important than whether its a CIO or CTO is whether the candidate has proven themselves to be committed to transparency, freedom of information, and open standards.
+1 insightful, from a lifelong liberal, and staunch Obama fan. IF he did turn off fraud detection (too lazy to check your sources on a Saturday morning) then thats a long way from transparency. Brilliant, but a bit sly.
On the other hand, if your chief concern is that a big interest group , say oil, funneled a large amount to his campaign, and is going to pull strings on it, they left him a pretty big loophole, "What?, you are Joe Q Public, and you ran 200,000 transactions? well, as long as you realize I never wanted that money and wouldn't have accepted it had I known it was coming from you. I think you can find the door on your way own."
Normally, I'd agree without comment, but this case does resemble theft more than most piracy in that the "victim" loses the ability to use the software they [purchased|licensed].
Another point to be made for that example is that a bike light has three or four power options - non-rechargable batteries, rechargable batteries, generator only, generator + rechargable battery. When the lifetime carbon costs and environmental impact of producing batteries or generators is factored in, I think generator + rechargable battery would win.
I didn't out up with that sh#t. I emailed their support, telling them to fix their broken website, or lose me as a customer, wgot no response, so I switched banks.
Exactly, The tech is maturing, but to gain I have to upgrade. Well, our 2 cars have planty of life in them, especially my commuter. I don't want to send either of them to the junkheap, just to increase my gas mileage, that seems like a very big net carbon loss, I'd rather reduce, reuse, recycle, repair, even if I had to ammortize over 5 years to see return.
Are there any Open projects going strong for adapting a street car to have some added electrical drive + regen braking, I figure my 12 mile commute could be made considerably cheaper. I have always wondered why we [geeks] can't come up with a modification to add embedded motors on the free wheels of a two wheel drive - add some firmware and we're looking at bolt on 4 wheel drive + greatly improved torque at the wheels, something the performance modders can get excited about.
induction charging, or plug in at the garage at home, a small solar panel to top off at work before the schlep home...
IANAL. It has been explained to me that the biggest differences between holding copyright in a corporation as opposed to a person is that people die, and corporations can be aquired. Other than those cases, people and corporations are both legal entities with the right to hold copyrights.
you give good point, I'd like to add that the easiest people to frame would be white hats since they are already trying to log in as scott/tiger. It would be very ironic to see legitimate research chilled by this.
The issue of how "live" the system is is a big one... My mental image was a stream that comes from the source, and is cached at each node. A new node connnects at any time and receives from the beginning of the stream. This is obviously different to your idea. I have had a few experiences with bit torrent where the download starts out very healthy, but after a while the number of peers drops off dramatically... keeping the broadcast more synchronous makes this less likely to happen.
I like the idea of variable compression rates fo higher and lower bandwidth nodes, now it is not just distributing the bandwidth cost, but also the computational cost of recompression. Of course this creates a whole new element to the cost tree.
I still like the torrent concept, with trackers co-ordinating the peers, but it is going to be challenging to prevent dropouts cascading down the tree when nodes go dark. Is the client involved in computing the best source nodes to connect to? This is a more distributed model, but the clients need a more complete map of the tree, which consumes bandwidth. Perhaps this information also flows from node to node...
I am a Java developer by day, I am considering using a signed applet for the node software, one issue is that even a signed applet cannot listen on a priveledged port in *nix unless it has root access... which isn't going to happen, I need to look at bit torrent again to see exactly how it gets past these firewall issues.
I have been pondering this for a few weeks, and really like this idea, it would almost eliminate the bandwidth cost of doing live streaming broadcasts. I started thinking of a torrent based solution, but the torrent concept doesn't place priority on any piece of the file arriving before any other, with a broadcast stream you want the chunks arriving in sequence, or close to it. I think it would have to be designed from ground up.
Another big issue would be matching appropriate clients and peers based on their relative point in the stream, eg. a new client that connects to a peer that is almost finished with the stream poses issues, the peer would have to have almost the whole broadcast cached, and the liklihood of the peer going silent is pretty high, also, the broadcast is no longer live, but delayed considerably.
What about low-bandwidth nodes on the tree? if bandwidth is not enough to receive and rebroacast the stream to at least one client, the node is effectively a leech.
I am currently working for a start-up on a very limited budget, and although I have the ability to build servers and workstations, we buy them from Grace. We also bought a sonicwall firewall / dns appliance as soon as we could afford it to replace my iptables based home-brew. We outsource our email, and pay for supported hosting. Why? Because all these items are outside our core business, and to succeed we cannot afford to spend the time to do these things right, and we definitely can't afford to do them half-a$$ed. We will probably buy one of these, hopefully soon.
At home, time and money are even tighter, and I do build my own boxes, maintain my own firewall, etc. It hasn't saved a penny, just made it possible to buy nicer kit, and the only way I can justify the time spent is the jump up the learning curve.
The truth is that for many lusers the CLI is simply NOT as usefull as it is to you and I. As geeks we work in a world mostly defined by ascii streams arranged in heirarchies: source, config files, out and err streams, log files.
Users don't really care about any of those, except perhaps the config part, and for that they want a gui.
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succinct. Or the cuter, younger, poxier Weblogic
Get off MY lawn, coward.
Say it as many times as you want to. I still think you have a poorly thought out position, I simply fail to see how preventing procreation improves the natural selection process, and, don't think "natural selection" is something that can be bypassed, or therefor needs to safeguarded.
The mortality rate for HIV is nowhere near 100%.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/science/july-dec08/hivmortality_07-01.html among many other sources.
Individuals and co-operating groups trying to find ways to survive and breed IS natural selection. A sterilization program is a far bigger deviation from natural selection than a bone marrow transplant, or any other treatment, with the exception of gene therapy approaches.
Besides, when did natural selection become some divine force not to be interfered with?
Furthermore, the infectious organism in a pandemic is also in a natural selection process, in this case, HIV is a very fast-mutating virus, and is almost certain to evolve a non-CCR5 binding variant before CCR5 expressive humans are selected out.
At first read I though you were just trolling, then I looked at some of your other posts, including http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1021887&cid=25678799, c'mon man, you are smarter than this?
Yup, point taken, and a lot of interesting reading there, some of it is a hair to the right of Occam's razor, but overall, it adds up. Who knows? maybe Soros did buy himself a president. He probably got a better deal than the Saudis did on theirs.
With or without Quid-pro-quo, its an abuse of the system to be able to affect the outcome by throwing money at the game. Thats just my opinion, your opinion, and a possible interpretation of McCain's words and actions this election. Obama doesn't see it the same way.
Pity campaign finance reform is such a loser issue.
no sh!t... I've worked a couple gigs for GSA, and at state levels, the complexity of the redundency is mind boggling. Lets just give the root passwords to Google, and emmigrate to Sweden.
And to my mind, CIO is a business type, a good CIO harnesses IT to make business more efficient, and a brilliant CIO will pursue visionary ways to do that, whereas CTO is an engineering type, who will often have visionary technology ideas, a brilliant CTO will be able to find a way to make them increase the bottom line.
To my mind, if your product is technology, or the delivery of the product is only possible via technology, get a CTO, otherwise, get a CIO.
The US gov. needs a CIO, but more important than whether its a CIO or CTO is whether the candidate has proven themselves to be committed to transparency, freedom of information, and open standards.
(Balmer isn't qualified. )
+1 insightful, from a lifelong liberal, and staunch Obama fan. IF he did turn off fraud detection (too lazy to check your sources on a Saturday morning) then thats a long way from transparency. Brilliant, but a bit sly.
On the other hand, if your chief concern is that a big interest group , say oil, funneled a large amount to his campaign, and is going to pull strings on it, they left him a pretty big loophole, "What?, you are Joe Q Public, and you ran 200,000 transactions? well, as long as you realize I never wanted that money and wouldn't have accepted it had I known it was coming from you. I think you can find the door on your way own."
They were slavers, they are vicious scurvy dogs. They are kidnappers and thieves, all around knaves. Why exactly should I emulate them?
Thats exactly how I feel, on my dark days, and If I had points right now, you'd get +5 insightful
Why are your drives spinning at night? Turn the machine off. Better for your sleep, power bill, environment.
Normally, I'd agree without comment, but this case does resemble theft more than most piracy in that the "victim" loses the ability to use the software they [purchased|licensed].
Another point to be made for that example is that a bike light has three or four power options - non-rechargable batteries, rechargable batteries, generator only, generator + rechargable battery. When the lifetime carbon costs and environmental impact of producing batteries or generators is factored in, I think generator + rechargable battery would win.
I didn't out up with that sh#t. I emailed their support, telling them to fix their broken website, or lose me as a customer, wgot no response, so I switched banks.
Exactly, The tech is maturing, but to gain I have to upgrade. Well, our 2 cars have planty of life in them, especially my commuter. I don't want to send either of them to the junkheap, just to increase my gas mileage, that seems like a very big net carbon loss, I'd rather reduce, reuse, recycle, repair, even if I had to ammortize over 5 years to see return.
heres a pattern:
First comes the "next cool way to do it."
Then comes the ide.
Cue the testing tools.
Untill theres a library way out in front, I'm just gonna keep learning selenium.
Are there any Open projects going strong for adapting a street car to have some added electrical drive + regen braking, I figure my 12 mile commute could be made considerably cheaper. I have always wondered why we [geeks] can't come up with a modification to add embedded motors on the free wheels of a two wheel drive - add some firmware and we're looking at bolt on 4 wheel drive + greatly improved torque at the wheels, something the performance modders can get excited about.
induction charging, or plug in at the garage at home, a small solar panel to top off at work before the schlep home...
Not from scratch like these guys...
http://www.theoscarproject.org/
yeah, I know I could google it...
They made their own cells.
http://www.sunswift.com/Topcell.htm
IANAL. It has been explained to me that the biggest differences between holding copyright in a corporation as opposed to a person is that people die, and corporations can be aquired. Other than those cases, people and corporations are both legal entities with the right to hold copyrights.
you give good point, I'd like to add that the easiest people to frame would be white hats since they are already trying to log in as scott/tiger. It would be very ironic to see legitimate research chilled by this.
The issue of how "live" the system is is a big one... My mental image was a stream that comes from the source, and is cached at each node. A new node connnects at any time and receives from the beginning of the stream. This is obviously different to your idea. I have had a few experiences with bit torrent where the download starts out very healthy, but after a while the number of peers drops off dramatically... keeping the broadcast more synchronous makes this less likely to happen.
I like the idea of variable compression rates fo higher and lower bandwidth nodes, now it is not just distributing the bandwidth cost, but also the computational cost of recompression. Of course this creates a whole new element to the cost tree.
I still like the torrent concept, with trackers co-ordinating the peers, but it is going to be challenging to prevent dropouts cascading down the tree when nodes go dark. Is the client involved in computing the best source nodes to connect to? This is a more distributed model, but the clients need a more complete map of the tree, which consumes bandwidth. Perhaps this information also flows from node to node...
I am a Java developer by day, I am considering using a signed applet for the node software, one issue is that even a signed applet cannot listen on a priveledged port in *nix unless it has root access... which isn't going to happen, I need to look at bit torrent again to see exactly how it gets past these firewall issues.
Another big issue would be matching appropriate clients and peers based on their relative point in the stream, eg. a new client that connects to a peer that is almost finished with the stream poses issues, the peer would have to have almost the whole broadcast cached, and the liklihood of the peer going silent is pretty high, also, the broadcast is no longer live, but delayed considerably.
What about low-bandwidth nodes on the tree? if bandwidth is not enough to receive and rebroacast the stream to at least one client, the node is effectively a leech.
At home, time and money are even tighter, and I do build my own boxes, maintain my own firewall, etc. It hasn't saved a penny, just made it possible to buy nicer kit, and the only way I can justify the time spent is the jump up the learning curve.
The truth is that for many lusers the CLI is simply NOT as usefull as it is to you and I. As geeks we work in a world mostly defined by ascii streams arranged in heirarchies: source, config files, out and err streams, log files.
Users don't really care about any of those, except perhaps the config part, and for that they want a gui.