So let me see if I have this straight. I take an X-terminal, or my old Sun SparcStation that in 1993 could boot up, use bootp to get an IP address and then connect to a TFTP server to download an OS image and on top of that I add some minor refinements, such as adding another server that stores any changes I made to the OS so that the next time I boot I get an image that's customized, oh, and when I sync these changes to the server I compress them (which no one has ever done before to save bandwidth and improve performance), encrypt them (which no one has ever done before to ensure security) and only transmit the incremental changes (which no one has ever done before to improve performance) and all of a sudden I have something that's the basis for a whole new patent? Damn, who knew that it was so easy? Seriously, I read the document and this comes off like someone trying to patent putting bacon on a cheeseburger and extending that patent to the entire concept of putting any and all other toppings on a cheeseburger, or any other kind of sandwich for that matter.
Dude, you should use it. Next time you come up for a review at work tell your boss that you deserve a raise because even though the company has other developers that they're just developers, where as you're the guy who writes the "secret sauce". If he asks you what it is tell him that you can't tell him, because it's a secret.
Right On! You've hit the nail on the head with this one. Brilliant post. I would mod you up if I had points but I don't, so I'll have to give you a blowjob instead. Let's look at the "two different jurisdictions" claim. Is there anyone who doubts that there is not cooperation between the Department of Justice and the Manhattan District Attorney's office on this case? Does anyone who is a lawyer (IANAL, oh, and I'm not a lawyer either) know if it would be possible for Aleynikov's attorney to make the case that there is cooperation between the two agencies and that this cooperation constitutes a violation of the double jeopardy clause? Seriously, take a look at the press release from Vance's office and at these two sentences:
District Attorney Vance thanked Supervisory Special Agent Michael McSwain of the FBI’s New York Field Office.
District Attorney Vance also thanked Goldman Sachs for its assistance and cooperation in the investigation.
So we have the Manhattan District Attorney's office admitting that the FBI cooperated with them on this case as well as Goldman Sachs and thanking them for their cooperation. It's the same goddamned case! How many times can they try Aleynikov for the same crime? If this attempt fails can the state of Illinois go after him because he was supposed to go to work for a Chicago based firm?
Oh, and anyone who used mod points to mod this incredibly stupid post "interesting" should also be sent to Fukushima to work clean up without any protective gear whatsoever. Seriously, people who are that ignorant just fuck things up for everyone else, they're like those morons who used to put pennies in their fuse boxes because a circuit kept blowing and ended up burning their houses down.
Are you being paid by TEPCO to tell lies or are you just a worthless piece of shit who has no fucking idea whatsoever about the physics of ionizing radiation, radiation safety or how dosimeters work? I'm leaning towards the latter myself. You're just some conservative or libertarded piece of shit who wanted to post some stupid shit and rant about "ignorant journalists and nutty lefty conspiracy theorists". If you start looking at radiation accidents you find that a depressingly large number of them happen because of stupid fucking bastards like you who say stupid shit like "oh, that alarm always goes off, so we just ignore it." or "ignore those dosimeter readings, they're never accurate." I'll bet that you're one of those dumbfucks who puts a piece of black tape over his "check engine light" because it's always going on and because he thinks he's smarter than the people who design engine management systems and then complains when his engine burns out six months later . Newsflash emt377, you stupid piece of shit, dosimeters are made and designed by people, who unlike you, are intelligent and know what the fuck they're doing. They work their asses off to make sure that these devices deliver readings that are accurate because they know that people's lives and health depend upon it. The rule in radiation safety is that you always trust the dosimeter, if the your dosimeter readings are higher it's because you're being exposed to higher amounts of radiation.
Stupid bastards like you deserve to be forced at gunpoint to work cleanup at Fukushima, with no protective gear whatsoever. Either that or you should be forced to wear a Cobalt-60 jock strap until your balls and dick fall off and there's no longer any danger of you producing offspring who will further pollute the gene pool.
Yeah, it's too bad to see it go. I ran an SGI Altix 3000 at a previous job and it was a screaming box, very elegantly designed and designed for massive clustering. NASA had a cluster of 10,240 Itaniums using the SGI Altix architecture, and it wasn't a weird, one-off hack. You could have duplicated it if you had the money and the space.
I think that not having an affordable way for hobbyists to build their own Itanium workstations really hurt Intel. If Intel, or someone else, had come out with an affordable motherboard for building a single or dual CPU system more people could have built their own systems, as they do with x86, and seen what the chip was capable of. What Intel has accomplished with the x86 is impressive, but how long can it go on?
Rand did a good job but those at the helm of her namesake's organization have grabbed on to the worst of her ideas (e.g., they are overboard on IP as sancrosanct and way to pre-emptive on foreign policy).
No she didn't. Rand was a total whore for ultra-restrictive IP regulations.
Well if you weren't an ignorant piece of shit, and a fucking worthless coward posting anonymously you might realize that our current system of health insurance is a relic of the socialistic policies enacted by the Roosevelt administration during the Second World War. See during World War II wages and prices were strictly controlled, so in order to compete for workers businesses had to offer other forms of compensation. One that they could offer, and that they were given a tax write-off for, was employer provided health insurance. Now, if we had a true free market then there wouldn't be any reason to have preferential tax treatment for employer provided health insurance over any other employer provided benefit. Every once in a while someone suggests that we get rid of this particular tax break, and when they do they end up getting their balls ripped off by everyone including the insurance companies who absolutely love the fact that their product has been given an unfair competitive advantage by decades of government regulation.
I wouldn't expect you to know this though. You sound like a Libertarian, and Libertarians are nothing more than a bunch of retards, dildos and losers who talk shit about how great their ideas are and how both parties are really the same but despite that end up voting Republican every single election.
Yeah, darn those 'environmental policies'. Americans should be absolutely thrilled to let huge corporations dig up whatever they want and dump the tailings wherever they like because the anonymous cowards on./ (have you ever noticed how "anonymous coward" is a perfect description of most libertarians and conservatives?) say so. Come back when you've learned some history as to why those regulations were put in place and when you're not a piece of shit and willing to stand behind the ideas you espouse.
Yeah, Somalia's a real paradise too. I'm sure that they're going to have the largest GDP in the world in no time thanks to their lack of a pesky and interfering central government.
Don't work in a small business, do you?
You pretty much need permits to poop.
Neither do you you lying fuck. I work in a small business and have been a contractor and I call bullshit on your "you need permits to poop". Speaking of poop have you ever noticed how much libertarian shit is spouted by people posting anonymously. What, are you guys ashamed of your ideas?
John Stossel is a libertarian twat. And not only is he a libertarian twat but you haven't even read his book yet, which shows that you're a twat. Stossel's schtick is to take some stupid regulation or a regulation that was enforced by someone who is stupid, make a big deal about it and then say "See! All government regulations are stupid. Big corporations should be allowed to do whatever they want!" Not only are we supposed to ignore the fact that his conclusion doesn't follow from the evidence he presents but we're also supposed to ignore the fact that John Stossel is anything but a disinterested party and is actually a corporate ass-whore who gets his paycheck by being willing to go A2M, any time, any place, on whatever corporation is willing to cut him a check.
Nope, not as long as you keep engaging in these "No True Scotsman" arguments. Even before 1913 and the establishment of the Federal Reserve, American and British capitalists hid behind government force to do business. The Gilded Age could not have taken place without massive cooperation from the government in everything from using eminent domain to steal land to sending in troops to break strikes. The establishment of the Federal Reserve Board (What is it with guys like you and the Fed? Are you so obsessed with it because you can't rant about the Rothschilds and the International Jewish Banking Conspiracy any more?) changed none of this.
is that they're stupid, especially those dumb bastards who love Ayn Rand and think that Ron Paul actually cares about liberty, and don't really know much about capitalism and don't bother to think things through. If a capitalist has a choice between spending X amount of resources to preserve his profits via rent-seeking mechanisms such as the DMCA or onerous patent litigation and 2X to preserve his profits via developing more efficient products rational actor theory, and human nature, says that rent-seeking is going to win every time. Adam Smith, you know, the guy who wrote The Wealth of Nations pointed this out when he wrote:
“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”
When confronted with this fact they either ignore it, minimize its threat, offer up irrelevant counter arguments or offer up solutions that make no sense whatsoever, such as eliminating government altogether.
This post is rife with ignorance and false statements that I don't have time to dispute.
What the poster really meant to say was:
"This post conflicts with my dearly held and totally unexamined assumptions and ideas about capitalism. I am incapable of addressing it in any coherent fashion so I will instead wave my hands and imply that the original poster is ignorant and a liar because he said things that make me uncomfortable."
You're a fucking idiot. You won't be able to sue them at all, they'll be given blanket immunity. So yeah, maybe you can fuck with them in small claims court, do you think that they're going to give a shit about that?
Rand Paul is a fucking piece of shit. Anyone who thinks that he's concerned about liberty or civil rights is an idiot. Having your rights violated by someone working for the private sector every time you get on a plane is in no way, shape or form better than having them violated by a federal employee. Paul's privatization proposal is nothing more than a way to transfer federal dollars into the pockets of the corporations that will take over screening operations. Paul's reform is no reform, it's as much of a scam as hiring mercenaries from Blackwater/Xe or privatizing state prison systems and if anything will end up being even less efficient and more fucked up than the system we have today.
When Paul's idiot fucktard of a son proposes doing away with the TSA entirely call me, until then this is just more libertarian corporate bullshit.
The science fiction author Charles Sheffield wrote a story about a similar idea in the late 1970s called What Song the Sirens Sang. The protagonist is a journalist investigating a politician who has come seemingly out of nowhere and is about to be nominated for president. He discovers that the secret to the politician's success is that he has developed a theory of communications that allows him to combine words and music to evoke optimum emotional responses. Check it out, it's a short read and very good.
Malcolm Gladwell is a tool, he's popular with the same group of idiots who thought that George Gilder was the shit back in the 1990s and who know think that Freakonomics was the greatest thing since oral sex. What Gladwell is peddling is nothing more than the kind of glib, contrarian, pop-social science bullshit that Slate magazine is so well known for peddling. The schtick is to make a statement that contradicts conventional wisdom such as the one that inspired this post or:
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and that is designed to garner a lot of attention. Once you've hooked people you then lay out a case to back your thesis by re-defining standards, ignoring any evidence that doesn't advance your thesis, exaggerating any evidence that does further your thesis (in the Nixon case you ignore Watergate and his repeated law breaking and offer up the fact that he signed the EPA into law, the 26th amendment passed on his watch and he was supported by Sammy Davis Jr.), avoiding anything that resembles in-depth analysis and offering up loads of anecdotes and bon mots to back your thesis while completely disregarding any empirical research. The other schtick is to take something incredibly complex, such as the psychology of decision making (excellently covered in Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow and simplify most of the substance out of it so you can write a book like Blink and still end up fucking it up.
The goal of writers such as Gladwell, George Gilder, Thomas Friedman and David Brooks is not to enlighten readers but to sell lots of books that reinforce the prejudices of the status quo and which don't require the reader to think to much. The effect is that the reader goes away thinking that they've learned something without ever having to actually think. The fact is that nobody knows who will be more remembered in 50 years, Gates or Jobs. By then both of them might have faded into obscurity. How many people today remember Philo T. Farnsworth (the inventor of television) or David Sarnoff (the CEO of RCA who stole all of Farnsworth's ideas)? Not too many.
That's really cool. You know, one of these machines would make a really cool hideout for a James Bond villain. The only things you'd need to add to make it perfect are a prominently labelled self-destruct switch and a pool full of sharks with frickin' lasers on their heads.
AND, my small business pays less per employee on the extra taxes than on the premiums we might pay in the USA.
Thus a lot of drugs simply are never released in Canada, or released much later in Canada than in the United States, because the lower expected prices for prescriptions in Canada mean that drug companies can't make iMoney on Canadian customers. I remember Strattera (atomoxetine, an antidepressant for treating ADHD) being one of them.
I call bullshit. This is just another lie put out by conservatards and libertards to spread FUD about single payer health care. Give us a list of drugs that have not been released in Canada but have been released in the US because of profitability. Come on. I want a list, and an unequivocal statement from the drug company that the reason that these drugs aren't available is because of Canada's single payer system. Come on you lying SOB, produce some fucking evidence, and no, a broadcast from the Rush Limbaugh show or anything put out by the Heritage Institute, American Enterprise Institute or Competitive Enterprise Institute doesn't count as evidence.
And the rest of us who only through accident of birth didn't happen to have any capital should just starve?
YES! Because Ayn Rand said so in the greatest book ever written, Atlas Shrugged. Unless your parents left you a huge railroad, or a massive international mining company, or unless you're inventing new metal alloys or a motor that runs off of static electricity you're a looter and a moocher and you should kill yourself!
because it's hard to figure out if this is a favorable mutation or an unfavorable one. TFA said that the condition might have something to do with making it easier for skin cells to fold over each other during fetal development. What might be the consequences of hindering this?
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Dude. You should sell it to someone for a lot of money and tell them that it's a new prototype for a "Cloudstation". Cash in on the hype!
So let me see if I have this straight. I take an X-terminal, or my old Sun SparcStation that in 1993 could boot up, use bootp to get an IP address and then connect to a TFTP server to download an OS image and on top of that I add some minor refinements, such as adding another server that stores any changes I made to the OS so that the next time I boot I get an image that's customized, oh, and when I sync these changes to the server I compress them (which no one has ever done before to save bandwidth and improve performance), encrypt them (which no one has ever done before to ensure security) and only transmit the incremental changes (which no one has ever done before to improve performance) and all of a sudden I have something that's the basis for a whole new patent? Damn, who knew that it was so easy? Seriously, I read the document and this comes off like someone trying to patent putting bacon on a cheeseburger and extending that patent to the entire concept of putting any and all other toppings on a cheeseburger, or any other kind of sandwich for that matter.
Dude, you should use it. Next time you come up for a review at work tell your boss that you deserve a raise because even though the company has other developers that they're just developers, where as you're the guy who writes the "secret sauce". If he asks you what it is tell him that you can't tell him, because it's a secret.
So we have the Manhattan District Attorney's office admitting that the FBI cooperated with them on this case as well as Goldman Sachs and thanking them for their cooperation. It's the same goddamned case! How many times can they try Aleynikov for the same crime? If this attempt fails can the state of Illinois go after him because he was supposed to go to work for a Chicago based firm?
Oh, and anyone who used mod points to mod this incredibly stupid post "interesting" should also be sent to Fukushima to work clean up without any protective gear whatsoever. Seriously, people who are that ignorant just fuck things up for everyone else, they're like those morons who used to put pennies in their fuse boxes because a circuit kept blowing and ended up burning their houses down.
Stupid bastards like you deserve to be forced at gunpoint to work cleanup at Fukushima, with no protective gear whatsoever. Either that or you should be forced to wear a Cobalt-60 jock strap until your balls and dick fall off and there's no longer any danger of you producing offspring who will further pollute the gene pool.
Yeah, it's too bad to see it go. I ran an SGI Altix 3000 at a previous job and it was a screaming box, very elegantly designed and designed for massive clustering. NASA had a cluster of 10,240 Itaniums using the SGI Altix architecture, and it wasn't a weird, one-off hack. You could have duplicated it if you had the money and the space. I think that not having an affordable way for hobbyists to build their own Itanium workstations really hurt Intel. If Intel, or someone else, had come out with an affordable motherboard for building a single or dual CPU system more people could have built their own systems, as they do with x86, and seen what the chip was capable of. What Intel has accomplished with the x86 is impressive, but how long can it go on?
No she didn't. Rand was a total whore for ultra-restrictive IP regulations.
Well if you weren't an ignorant piece of shit, and a fucking worthless coward posting anonymously you might realize that our current system of health insurance is a relic of the socialistic policies enacted by the Roosevelt administration during the Second World War. See during World War II wages and prices were strictly controlled, so in order to compete for workers businesses had to offer other forms of compensation. One that they could offer, and that they were given a tax write-off for, was employer provided health insurance. Now, if we had a true free market then there wouldn't be any reason to have preferential tax treatment for employer provided health insurance over any other employer provided benefit. Every once in a while someone suggests that we get rid of this particular tax break, and when they do they end up getting their balls ripped off by everyone including the insurance companies who absolutely love the fact that their product has been given an unfair competitive advantage by decades of government regulation. I wouldn't expect you to know this though. You sound like a Libertarian, and Libertarians are nothing more than a bunch of retards, dildos and losers who talk shit about how great their ideas are and how both parties are really the same but despite that end up voting Republican every single election.
Yeah, darn those 'environmental policies'. Americans should be absolutely thrilled to let huge corporations dig up whatever they want and dump the tailings wherever they like because the anonymous cowards on ./ (have you ever noticed how "anonymous coward" is a perfect description of most libertarians and conservatives?) say so. Come back when you've learned some history as to why those regulations were put in place and when you're not a piece of shit and willing to stand behind the ideas you espouse.
Yeah, Somalia's a real paradise too. I'm sure that they're going to have the largest GDP in the world in no time thanks to their lack of a pesky and interfering central government.
Neither do you you lying fuck. I work in a small business and have been a contractor and I call bullshit on your "you need permits to poop". Speaking of poop have you ever noticed how much libertarian shit is spouted by people posting anonymously. What, are you guys ashamed of your ideas?
John Stossel is a libertarian twat. And not only is he a libertarian twat but you haven't even read his book yet, which shows that you're a twat. Stossel's schtick is to take some stupid regulation or a regulation that was enforced by someone who is stupid, make a big deal about it and then say "See! All government regulations are stupid. Big corporations should be allowed to do whatever they want!" Not only are we supposed to ignore the fact that his conclusion doesn't follow from the evidence he presents but we're also supposed to ignore the fact that John Stossel is anything but a disinterested party and is actually a corporate ass-whore who gets his paycheck by being willing to go A2M, any time, any place, on whatever corporation is willing to cut him a check.
Nope, not as long as you keep engaging in these "No True Scotsman" arguments. Even before 1913 and the establishment of the Federal Reserve, American and British capitalists hid behind government force to do business. The Gilded Age could not have taken place without massive cooperation from the government in everything from using eminent domain to steal land to sending in troops to break strikes. The establishment of the Federal Reserve Board (What is it with guys like you and the Fed? Are you so obsessed with it because you can't rant about the Rothschilds and the International Jewish Banking Conspiracy any more?) changed none of this.
When confronted with this fact they either ignore it, minimize its threat, offer up irrelevant counter arguments or offer up solutions that make no sense whatsoever, such as eliminating government altogether.
What the poster really meant to say was: "This post conflicts with my dearly held and totally unexamined assumptions and ideas about capitalism. I am incapable of addressing it in any coherent fashion so I will instead wave my hands and imply that the original poster is ignorant and a liar because he said things that make me uncomfortable."
You're a fucking idiot. You won't be able to sue them at all, they'll be given blanket immunity. So yeah, maybe you can fuck with them in small claims court, do you think that they're going to give a shit about that?
Rand Paul is a fucking piece of shit. Anyone who thinks that he's concerned about liberty or civil rights is an idiot. Having your rights violated by someone working for the private sector every time you get on a plane is in no way, shape or form better than having them violated by a federal employee. Paul's privatization proposal is nothing more than a way to transfer federal dollars into the pockets of the corporations that will take over screening operations. Paul's reform is no reform, it's as much of a scam as hiring mercenaries from Blackwater/Xe or privatizing state prison systems and if anything will end up being even less efficient and more fucked up than the system we have today. When Paul's idiot fucktard of a son proposes doing away with the TSA entirely call me, until then this is just more libertarian corporate bullshit.
The science fiction author Charles Sheffield wrote a story about a similar idea in the late 1970s called What Song the Sirens Sang. The protagonist is a journalist investigating a politician who has come seemingly out of nowhere and is about to be nominated for president. He discovers that the secret to the politician's success is that he has developed a theory of communications that allows him to combine words and music to evoke optimum emotional responses. Check it out, it's a short read and very good.
and that is designed to garner a lot of attention. Once you've hooked people you then lay out a case to back your thesis by re-defining standards, ignoring any evidence that doesn't advance your thesis, exaggerating any evidence that does further your thesis (in the Nixon case you ignore Watergate and his repeated law breaking and offer up the fact that he signed the EPA into law, the 26th amendment passed on his watch and he was supported by Sammy Davis Jr.), avoiding anything that resembles in-depth analysis and offering up loads of anecdotes and bon mots to back your thesis while completely disregarding any empirical research. The other schtick is to take something incredibly complex, such as the psychology of decision making (excellently covered in Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow and simplify most of the substance out of it so you can write a book like Blink and still end up fucking it up.
The goal of writers such as Gladwell, George Gilder, Thomas Friedman and David Brooks is not to enlighten readers but to sell lots of books that reinforce the prejudices of the status quo and which don't require the reader to think to much. The effect is that the reader goes away thinking that they've learned something without ever having to actually think. The fact is that nobody knows who will be more remembered in 50 years, Gates or Jobs. By then both of them might have faded into obscurity. How many people today remember Philo T. Farnsworth (the inventor of television) or David Sarnoff (the CEO of RCA who stole all of Farnsworth's ideas)? Not too many.
That's really cool. You know, one of these machines would make a really cool hideout for a James Bond villain. The only things you'd need to add to make it perfect are a prominently labelled self-destruct switch and a pool full of sharks with frickin' lasers on their heads.
It's interesting work, but the description seems awfully breathless.
"Meddling with the very fabric of reality"?
Gimme a break. *eye-roll*
No kidding, it doesn't count as "meddling with the fabric of reality" until you're fucking around with the value of Planck's constant or c.
AND, my small business pays less per employee on the extra taxes than on the premiums we might pay in the USA.
Thus a lot of drugs simply are never released in Canada, or released much later in Canada than in the United States, because the lower expected prices for prescriptions in Canada mean that drug companies can't make iMoney on Canadian customers. I remember Strattera (atomoxetine, an antidepressant for treating ADHD) being one of them.
I call bullshit. This is just another lie put out by conservatards and libertards to spread FUD about single payer health care. Give us a list of drugs that have not been released in Canada but have been released in the US because of profitability. Come on. I want a list, and an unequivocal statement from the drug company that the reason that these drugs aren't available is because of Canada's single payer system. Come on you lying SOB, produce some fucking evidence, and no, a broadcast from the Rush Limbaugh show or anything put out by the Heritage Institute, American Enterprise Institute or Competitive Enterprise Institute doesn't count as evidence.
And the rest of us who only through accident of birth didn't happen to have any capital should just starve?
YES! Because Ayn Rand said so in the greatest book ever written, Atlas Shrugged. Unless your parents left you a huge railroad, or a massive international mining company, or unless you're inventing new metal alloys or a motor that runs off of static electricity you're a looter and a moocher and you should kill yourself!
because it's hard to figure out if this is a favorable mutation or an unfavorable one. TFA said that the condition might have something to do with making it easier for skin cells to fold over each other during fetal development. What might be the consequences of hindering this?