and the instant that happens another anti-trust suit occurs mandating hardware be open. oh doom and gloomer, how do you make it out of bed in the morning? its not microsofts permission. its taking hardware that was designed group up to be used for Windows 8 and making it do something outside what it was designed to do. dont want to get a MS key? dont buy hardware designed from the ground up for one OS and one OS only.
You really ought to read the parent of the post you're replying to first. Then you would see that I was making the exact point you were making and pointing out the futility of saying "they're all the same".
the "brand name" as you call it, and i must assume you mean the "known" author is a known author not because he is quality, but because AT ONE TIME he sold a significant QUANTITY of books. and oft times, quality isnt even required (*cough* twilight *cough*)
I especially love this statement: " By the Pentagon's own admission, building and operating three versions of the F-35 — one for the Air Force, one for the Navy and one for the Marines — will cost more than $1.4 trillion over its lifetime, making it the most expensive weapons program ever undertaken". The implication being even the military thinks it too much, which they don't. Such a statement implies something that doesnt exist, and conveniently ignores that the entire reason for developing a common platform for multiple roles is to save money. Yes, that one single platform is 1.4T. But the thinking was that 3 separate weapon systems to update all 3 branches at would cost even more. When properly executed this type of program does work; shared parts commonality is a real savings. When poorly executed you can end up with an unusable product (re: Naval version of the F-111 that was too heavy and unmaneuverable)
Point is, yes, the man from the CIP, a group dedicated to the eradication of the world's militaries, but particularly the US military, thinks we should cut the military. Shocking. I love how people for various things never call their organization by their true intentions, but always give it something normal and official sounding, to create a built in bias towards thinking they are legit when they call for things.
You're right. No college grads are returning vets or even on-going servicemembers with 13+ years of service. No college grads are regularly volunteering at or through their local church. No college grads had any professors who were also former military and as big or bigger rednecks than themselves. No college grads are capable of forming their own opinions. No college grads are self starters with their own businesses No sir.
Thank for painting with the wonderfully wide brush. All college grads are pinko commie feminist libtards. None of us think independently or have any experience outside of the programming implanted by our professors, who are also all pinko commie feminist libtards. Thank you for being the one to point out the truth to me. Hell, one of my professors was even....homosexual...from Columbia (the one with the drugs, not the college), who says he came here for a better life, but we all know it's really to undermine American society. *shudder*
Freedom: Only conservative white christian males need apply.
Sarcasm aside....never hire an MBA? the notion that the only college grad is a "politically correct nauseated degreed folks" and the only way to find "self driven entrepenruarials" is to find non-grads? You are so bloody ignorant and blind, and I say this as someone who is pretty damn conservative on most issues.
Also: saying you dont want someone as a customer as a business owner? Good luck with that. Rules of business 101: Never turn away a paying customer.
For the lower level jobs that don't require much education in & of itself, a better metric would be to pick employees based on character, as opposed to education. Is s/he someone who's dedicated to the job, punctual, honest and capable of sticking to a job for a reasonable amount of time? Too many people in the work force - particularly younger workers - change jobs every few months, which is a telltale sign of a lack of commitment and eager to try making a fast buck. Why not weed out those, instead of checking whether the girl you are gonna hire as a secretary or someone who'll work in the office cafeteria has a Masters degree? This is the result of too much of an emphasis being given on education - even when it's not needed!
but that would require treating people like people rather than anonymous white pieces of paper, and interacting with them, and...and...other horrors on the list of Ultimate HR Taboos.
Dont you realize this is slashdot? Only automatic kneejerk anti-DHS comments are allowed here. Keep your reasonable and realistic comments to yourself!
i dont htink the decision is malignant at all, or indefensible. i think its strictly legal in fact for this reason: I dont believe the exemption, while nice, should be applied because i dont think that phones (and jailbreaking of them) legally falls under the DMCA or its intent. the DMCA was not created to protect phones but copywritten works. a phone is not a copywritten work, and preventing it from being used on competitors networks is not protecting copywritten works either.
i think that a clear legal mechanism or statement that jailbreaking a phone is not illegal is what is needed.
while its nice while it lasted, and inconvenient now that its gone, for the LoC to apply the fair use exemption to jailbreaking is a misuse of the power granted him the grows out of a misuse of the DMCA to protect phone carriers from competition.
the LoC has specific duties and responsibilties. even when PoTUS is someones titular boss that doesnt mean he gets to direct his every move in regards to responsibilities given him by congress. such a thing would be scandalous and illegal.
and in this case, PoTUS isnt his boss. the Librarian of Congress works for Congress, not PoTUS. IE, part of the legislative branch, not the executive.
the President has precisely zero power to direct the LoC to do anything.
thing is its not int he presidents power to vacate an already ancted law. best this petition can do is get him to agree to sponsor a bill to make the change. but he cant force the change directly.
to expound on that, the initital stance is that jailbreaking is illegal.
the LoC made a exemption for some time under the Fair Use exemption powers as granted by the DMCA.
realistically speaking however, jailbreaking doesnt fall under fair use of copyrighted works, because copyright doesnt apply. a phone is a device, not a copywritten work. hence any exemption under such as the DMCA lacks true legal standing.
a better legal mechanism needs to be found, or an outright law stating that jailbreaking is not illegal.
so stop getting mad at an "unelected bearuecrat" doing his job and interpretting the laws to the best of his ability, you kneejerking ignorant twit.
what part of "Per 17 U.S.C. 1201(a)(1), the LoC is in charge of reviewing related items on a regular schedule and deciding if "fair use" exemptions need to be made" dont you get?
Someone has to be in charge of making these decisions. Congress elected not to do it themselves since they, theoretically, have a bajillion other things to argue about other than every single possible exemption under Fair Use. So they delegated that responsibility the logical person, the person considered a subject matter expert, namely the LoC, to do it.
lets create representatives to evaluate everything. votes on whether a search warrant is warrented. on whether the streets should be cleared after snow. votes on every. single. thing.
no? dont like that? maybe we should delegate some of those things then.
ever actually have to trace wires on an aircraft? i've worked on Huey and Cobras...small helos. And they can be a PITA to track things down. And yes, i've found things that were caused by miswired connections, usually in the solder terminals of a switch. so yes, i can easily see something simple like putting the wrong wire into the wrong terminal of a terminal lug/connector as all it was. wouldnt be the first time, just like it wouldnt be the first time a tech manual drawing was unclear or even incorrect.
In order to passively seek, there has to be something to be sought. in other words, it only works if the other guy is actively emitting in some way.
if the other guy is also only passively seeking, neither one can see the other. basic physics, engineering, logic, or whatever you want to call it.
the only passive seeker that will always remain effective is IR band, because they kinda need the engines to fly. but its also rather short range, wont give real accurate RAB (RAB being only really relevent for BVR) and if you're that close and can pickup his tailpipes, you already know where he's at, and which way hes going.
precisely. its a non-story written by the same idiot at wired who constantly uses every opportunity he can to bash on the F22 and F35, while glossing over or ignoring inconvenient facts.
I'm not saying they arent without their problems...i'm saying the writer has proven in the past he has an axe to grind, much like the that Broder guy at NYT writing about the Tesla last week.
another thing he misses, is that most aircraft are not locked into a single design. it's entirely possible to replace the radios with other radios. you'd have to redraw some tech manuals, and maybe run some more wires. but its not unheard of and actually quite common for hardware to be updated.
"There is no reason their total lifetime earnings should exceed that of the grunt plus the cost of their education unless they are working more hours overall and then the increase should be relative to the number of extra hours."
Pure and utter bull. People have different abilities, different aptitudes, different attitudes, different personalities, etc etc and so forth. A doctor will always have a greater worth to society and economy than a burger flipper. Always. You cannot argue otherwise. It's also much harder to become doctor, there are far fewer people able to do it, and who want to do it.
So why in hell should the burger flipper be entitled to as much lifetime earnings as the doctor?
Don't you realize that if an economy were managed in such a way you effectively create huge disincentive for people to become doctors? Some still will, but many will look at Easy Path A compared to Hard Path B, see they achieve the same result, and thus choose A.
If someone is content to be a burger flipper their whole life, have at it. I've known a few people who were fine with it (though eventually two of them decided to open their own place and now have a successful local chain, and just sold their first franchise a few hundred miles away).
As a humanist, the inclination is to say that people have the same worth. And they do on a human scale.
But when it comes to how they choose to spend their time in trade for money, they absolutely do have different worths.
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and the instant that happens another anti-trust suit occurs mandating hardware be open.
oh doom and gloomer, how do you make it out of bed in the morning?
its not microsofts permission. its taking hardware that was designed group up to be used for Windows 8 and making it do something outside what it was designed to do. dont want to get a MS key? dont buy hardware designed from the ground up for one OS and one OS only.
It's Zero you twit. You're nerd credentials are hereby revoked.
*whoooosh*
You really ought to read the parent of the post you're replying to first.
Then you would see that I was making the exact point you were making and pointing out the futility of saying "they're all the same".
*whooosh*
the "brand name" as you call it, and i must assume you mean the "known" author is a known author not because he is quality, but because AT ONE TIME he sold a significant QUANTITY of books. and oft times, quality isnt even required (*cough* twilight *cough*)
Scholars will tell you there are only 8 to 18 (depending on the scholar) unique plots in all of human civilization.
Given the sheer number of stories we tell on a daily basis let alone all history...some overlap should hardly be surprising.
flamebait? hah. truth hurts.
I especially love this statement: " By the Pentagon's own admission, building and operating three versions of the F-35 — one for the Air Force, one for the Navy and one for the Marines — will cost more than $1.4 trillion over its lifetime, making it the most expensive weapons program ever undertaken". The implication being even the military thinks it too much, which they don't. Such a statement implies something that doesnt exist, and conveniently ignores that the entire reason for developing a common platform for multiple roles is to save money. Yes, that one single platform is 1.4T. But the thinking was that 3 separate weapon systems to update all 3 branches at would cost even more. When properly executed this type of program does work; shared parts commonality is a real savings. When poorly executed you can end up with an unusable product (re: Naval version of the F-111 that was too heavy and unmaneuverable)
Point is, yes, the man from the CIP, a group dedicated to the eradication of the world's militaries, but particularly the US military, thinks we should cut the military.
Shocking. I love how people for various things never call their organization by their true intentions, but always give it something normal and official sounding, to create a built in bias towards thinking they are legit when they call for things.
You're right.
No college grads are returning vets or even on-going servicemembers with 13+ years of service.
No college grads are regularly volunteering at or through their local church.
No college grads had any professors who were also former military and as big or bigger rednecks than themselves.
No college grads are capable of forming their own opinions.
No college grads are self starters with their own businesses
No sir.
Thank for painting with the wonderfully wide brush. All college grads are pinko commie feminist libtards. None of us think independently or have any experience outside of the programming implanted by our professors, who are also all pinko commie feminist libtards. Thank you for being the one to point out the truth to me. Hell, one of my professors was even....homosexual...from Columbia (the one with the drugs, not the college), who says he came here for a better life, but we all know it's really to undermine American society. *shudder*
Freedom: Only conservative white christian males need apply.
Sarcasm aside....never hire an MBA? the notion that the only college grad is a "politically correct nauseated degreed folks" and the only way to find "self driven entrepenruarials" is to find non-grads? You are so bloody ignorant and blind, and I say this as someone who is pretty damn conservative on most issues.
Also: saying you dont want someone as a customer as a business owner? Good luck with that.
Rules of business 101: Never turn away a paying customer.
Precisely!!!
For the lower level jobs that don't require much education in & of itself, a better metric would be to pick employees based on character, as opposed to education. Is s/he someone who's dedicated to the job, punctual, honest and capable of sticking to a job for a reasonable amount of time? Too many people in the work force - particularly younger workers - change jobs every few months, which is a telltale sign of a lack of commitment and eager to try making a fast buck. Why not weed out those, instead of checking whether the girl you are gonna hire as a secretary or someone who'll work in the office cafeteria has a Masters degree? This is the result of too much of an emphasis being given on education - even when it's not needed!
but that would require treating people like people rather than anonymous white pieces of paper, and interacting with them, and...and...other horrors on the list of Ultimate HR Taboos.
*shudder*
Dont you realize this is slashdot?
Only automatic kneejerk anti-DHS comments are allowed here.
Keep your reasonable and realistic comments to yourself!
the question is power output.
the article didnt even touch on that little datum.
oh ignorant AC, how you underestimate the computing power of modern electronics.
KY-58s? we still use them! marine hueys and cobras still got em! the new Zulus and Yankees might have finally updated them, but i havent seen yet.
i agree, sort of, bot for different reasons.
i dont htink the decision is malignant at all, or indefensible. i think its strictly legal in fact for this reason: I dont believe the exemption, while nice, should be applied because i dont think that phones (and jailbreaking of them) legally falls under the DMCA or its intent. the DMCA was not created to protect phones but copywritten works. a phone is not a copywritten work, and preventing it from being used on competitors networks is not protecting copywritten works either.
i think that a clear legal mechanism or statement that jailbreaking a phone is not illegal is what is needed.
while its nice while it lasted, and inconvenient now that its gone, for the LoC to apply the fair use exemption to jailbreaking is a misuse of the power granted him the grows out of a misuse of the DMCA to protect phone carriers from competition.
OK, AC, minor civics lesson:
the LoC has specific duties and responsibilties. even when PoTUS is someones titular boss that doesnt mean he gets to direct his every move in regards to responsibilities given him by congress. such a thing would be scandalous and illegal.
and in this case, PoTUS isnt his boss. the Librarian of Congress works for Congress, not PoTUS.
IE, part of the legislative branch, not the executive.
the President has precisely zero power to direct the LoC to do anything.
thing is its not int he presidents power to vacate an already ancted law.
best this petition can do is get him to agree to sponsor a bill to make the change.
but he cant force the change directly.
to expound on that, the initital stance is that jailbreaking is illegal.
the LoC made a exemption for some time under the Fair Use exemption powers as granted by the DMCA.
realistically speaking however, jailbreaking doesnt fall under fair use of copyrighted works, because copyright doesnt apply. a phone is a device, not a copywritten work. hence any exemption under such as the DMCA lacks true legal standing.
a better legal mechanism needs to be found, or an outright law stating that jailbreaking is not illegal.
so stop getting mad at an "unelected bearuecrat" doing his job and interpretting the laws to the best of his ability, you kneejerking ignorant twit.
what part of "Per 17 U.S.C. 1201(a)(1), the LoC is in charge of reviewing related items on a regular schedule and deciding if "fair use" exemptions need to be made" dont you get?
Someone has to be in charge of making these decisions. Congress elected not to do it themselves since they, theoretically, have a bajillion other things to argue about other than every single possible exemption under Fair Use. So they delegated that responsibility the logical person, the person considered a subject matter expert, namely the LoC, to do it.
lets create representatives to evaluate everything. votes on whether a search warrant is warrented. on whether the streets should be cleared after snow. votes on every. single. thing.
no? dont like that? maybe we should delegate some of those things then.
he's not just doing it on a whim.
he was granted that power by said law.
ever actually have to trace wires on an aircraft?
i've worked on Huey and Cobras...small helos. And they can be a PITA to track things down.
And yes, i've found things that were caused by miswired connections, usually in the solder terminals of a switch.
so yes, i can easily see something simple like putting the wrong wire into the wrong terminal of a terminal lug/connector as all it was.
wouldnt be the first time, just like it wouldnt be the first time a tech manual drawing was unclear or even incorrect.
Partly true.
In order to passively seek, there has to be something to be sought.
in other words, it only works if the other guy is actively emitting in some way.
if the other guy is also only passively seeking, neither one can see the other.
basic physics, engineering, logic, or whatever you want to call it.
the only passive seeker that will always remain effective is IR band, because they kinda need the engines to fly. but its also rather short range, wont give real accurate RAB (RAB being only really relevent for BVR) and if you're that close and can pickup his tailpipes, you already know where he's at, and which way hes going.
precisely. its a non-story written by the same idiot at wired who constantly uses every opportunity he can to bash on the F22 and F35, while glossing over or ignoring inconvenient facts.
I'm not saying they arent without their problems...i'm saying the writer has proven in the past he has an axe to grind, much like the that Broder guy at NYT writing about the Tesla last week.
another thing he misses, is that most aircraft are not locked into a single design. it's entirely possible to replace the radios with other radios. you'd have to redraw some tech manuals, and maybe run some more wires. but its not unheard of and actually quite common for hardware to be updated.
Not true in all cases.
"There is no reason their total lifetime earnings should exceed that of the grunt plus the cost of their education unless they are working more hours overall and then the increase should be relative to the number of extra hours."
Pure and utter bull.
People have different abilities, different aptitudes, different attitudes, different personalities, etc etc and so forth.
A doctor will always have a greater worth to society and economy than a burger flipper. Always. You cannot argue otherwise.
It's also much harder to become doctor, there are far fewer people able to do it, and who want to do it.
So why in hell should the burger flipper be entitled to as much lifetime earnings as the doctor?
Don't you realize that if an economy were managed in such a way you effectively create huge disincentive for people to become doctors? Some still will, but many will look at Easy Path A compared to Hard Path B, see they achieve the same result, and thus choose A.
If someone is content to be a burger flipper their whole life, have at it. I've known a few people who were fine with it (though eventually two of them decided to open their own place and now have a successful local chain, and just sold their first franchise a few hundred miles away).
As a humanist, the inclination is to say that people have the same worth. And they do on a human scale.
But when it comes to how they choose to spend their time in trade for money, they absolutely do have different worths.