Ah ha, trick example! I said density, not pressure, as it is the amount of atmosphere that matters, not the pressure it produces. It does not retain enough heat from the sun, nor produce enough convection from the equator to keep the CO2 at poles from freezing.
It is the atmosphere that regulates heat and makes our planet livable, mitigating the extremes of both the seasons and the perihelion and aphelion. The so-called habitable zone extends from Venus all the way to Mars. It is their atmospheres that make one a crushing furnace and the other a nearly frozen world.
Claiming that an eccentric orbit taking us inside that of Mercury would make this planet unlivable is about as insightful a comment as sticking ones hand a fire and calling it hot. But an eccentric orbit that remains in the habitable zone, even taking us out to Mars orbit, wouldn't necessarily preclude the possibility of life.
Did you now that the Earth does in fact have an elliptical orbit, and that in January it is actually three million miles closer than it is in July?
Did you also know that the primary reason there is solid carbon dioxide on Mars is the density of the atmosphere, and not the distance to the sun?
Did you also know that if your mommy was any uglier, or your daddy wasn't drunk, you wouldn't exist? It's true! The existence of life is contingent on many factors.
And besides, Charley's in the trees, man, he's in the freakin' trees!
This has nothing to do with privacy. There is nothing "private" about a number used as a unique identifier in government databases. This is a security matter, and what she is doing is no different than posting an exploit.
Doesn't this make them the Apple of cell phones? Microsoft has been shipping an embedded OS for close to a decade. It was Apple who tried to claim a web browser was an "SDK" while they make a mad scramble to bring the real SDK to a beta state.
The sad thing about Farenheit 451 is that it owes more to the ideology of the likes of Neil Postman and Andrew Keen than any sort of anti-totalitarian sentiment.
And which will stand the test of time better? The story that is style and allegory, or the one devotes pages of exposition to laughably wrong predictions of a supposedly realistic future? It all might as well be spaceports in Ohio.
Being a poll worker is not, nor has it ever been, an integral part of the democratic process. You are guaranteed a right to vote, a right to have that vote faithfully counted (every Diebold machine ought to be incinerated at 4000F) and the right not to have your vote diluted by fraudulent votes. No one in their right mind would assert that every citizen has the right to monitor the polls as an official poll worker.
Don't be so fucking dense. The impartiality of the process is the only thing that gives an election any credibility. Every citizen does have an equal right to become a poll worker, assuming they meet the qualifications, and an ideological litmus test should not be part of the application.
"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything." - Joseph Stalin (apocryphal)
That strikes me as what we in the industry call 'a recipe for disaster'.
The industry? Is this the same industry that says you can't put bacon in the fry oil because it is too delicious?
Why don't you let the grown-ups make grown-up decisions about the applications they install on their personal computers and devices, and leave the hysterical fear-mongering to the government.
I'd mod parent down, but I'd rather explain why I disagree.
I'd just call you a fucking moron, since I don't usually spell things out for disingenuous retards, especially those who abuse the moderation system, but I'll make an exception in this case.
There is no market when there is no choice. The visa holder can't shop the market the way we can, and that is the only reason they are paid vastly less than the rest of us. It is that gap that depresses wages, not the slight increase in the supply of workers. The visa program is not a step in the right direction, it is a traitorous manipulation of the market by the federal government, and in no way adheres to any sort of libertarian principles.
An open border would be the best thing to happen to our economy. We'd steal the best and brightest from other countries, and the knuckle-draggers like the above get forced out of the market.
Oh, I get it, you're referring to the question itself. Juvenal's insight is not diminished by unilateral transparency. The rise of citizen "watchers" as a solution makes it the very opposite of moot.
And my MacBook is an Internet appliance, because it connects to the Internet. Please, don't let marketers define your reality.
If the SDK simply was not ready for prime time, it betrays that the iPhone was rushed to market. For months, people clamored for third-party applications, and Apple said nothing. Then Android is announced, and suddenly Steve is all "oh, hai, all that stuff about the web being the SDK, we were just pulling your leg, stalling for time."
"Ad-hoc" is a joke, a useless kludge to their security regime to help them sell the device for use in a classroom setting.
And Apple invoking "security" as an excuse for tighter control is every bit as transparent as when governments make the same argument. It does not stop the jailbreakers. And the jailbreakers haven't unleashed the apocalypse of viruses and worms we were promised, which has also failed to materialize in a market of hundreds of millions of previously existing smartphones with no or fewer restrictions.
No, the simple hypothesis is that Apple is straightforward and honest, which would imply that the reversal of their strategic direction was the result of external events.
If what the FSF is doing is wrong, why do you feel the need to deflect attention from Apple? When did Timothy start whoring for a corporation?
You know, years ago, when.NET was first released, I predicted it was part of a plan to end the dominance of open systems. With their code signing and runtime restrictions, they were going to require special permission for developers to write "unsafe" code. Microsoft was taking the first step toward making Stallman's "The Right to Read" into a reality.
But I was wrong. I picked the wrong villain.
It has been Apple who released a revolutionary computer that is completely locked down. It took Android and the jailbreak community to force their hand, make them admit that a web browser was not an SDK. And still, over a year after they announced it would be a real platform, the iPhone is as bad as any console - you need Apple's favor to run on the device, you have to sell your work through their channel, and they can cut you off on a whim. And the crapware that all the apologists said this was supposed to prevent still makes up the majority of the App Store. It has nothing to do with quality and everything to do with control.
And you still can't buy most music on iTunes without DRM. You can't play that music on other devices. You can't even buy certain kinds of third-party peripherals for Apple hardware.
If Microsoft is Sauron, Apple is Galadriel with the One Ring - beautiful and elegant, jealous and cruel. You will not have any others before me. You will love me and despair.
The secret shame of Web 2.0 is that it is a piss-poor implementation of the "write once, run anywhere" dream that the market pretends to want and nobody can deliver, and everyone who tries is ridiculed for being "slow like Java". Web 2.0 is the lowest common denominator, the ad-hoc solution that does most of what everyone needs but in the most convoluted, painful way possible. The browser is your runtime, the browser is your sandbox, and Javascript is the dominant language of the next hundred years. Can you blame people for trying to make the best of a bad situation?
The problem with the film isn't the ridiculous number of creative liberties taken with physics. It's the fact that of all the highly qualified, professional people who would undoubtedly volunteer in droves to save the world, the crew is made up of a bunch of unstable, narcissistic emo whiners, and the ship is designed in such a way to give them endless opportunities to fail. It's a slow horror movie, and like all bad horror movies, the suspense is driven by the stupidity of the characters.
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Ah ha, trick example! I said density, not pressure, as it is the amount of atmosphere that matters, not the pressure it produces. It does not retain enough heat from the sun, nor produce enough convection from the equator to keep the CO2 at poles from freezing.
It is the atmosphere that regulates heat and makes our planet livable, mitigating the extremes of both the seasons and the perihelion and aphelion. The so-called habitable zone extends from Venus all the way to Mars. It is their atmospheres that make one a crushing furnace and the other a nearly frozen world.
Claiming that an eccentric orbit taking us inside that of Mercury would make this planet unlivable is about as insightful a comment as sticking ones hand a fire and calling it hot. But an eccentric orbit that remains in the habitable zone, even taking us out to Mars orbit, wouldn't necessarily preclude the possibility of life.
Did you now that the Earth does in fact have an elliptical orbit, and that in January it is actually three million miles closer than it is in July?
Did you also know that the primary reason there is solid carbon dioxide on Mars is the density of the atmosphere, and not the distance to the sun?
Did you also know that if your mommy was any uglier, or your daddy wasn't drunk, you wouldn't exist? It's true! The existence of life is contingent on many factors.
And besides, Charley's in the trees, man, he's in the freakin' trees!
I second this, and I've used everything. If you want to work with Java, this choice is a no-brainer.
This has nothing to do with privacy. There is nothing "private" about a number used as a unique identifier in government databases. This is a security matter, and what she is doing is no different than posting an exploit.
Here's a prediction: WAR's active player base will never exceed 15% of WoW's.
Doesn't this make them the Apple of cell phones? Microsoft has been shipping an embedded OS for close to a decade. It was Apple who tried to claim a web browser was an "SDK" while they make a mad scramble to bring the real SDK to a beta state.
The sad thing about Farenheit 451 is that it owes more to the ideology of the likes of Neil Postman and Andrew Keen than any sort of anti-totalitarian sentiment.
And which will stand the test of time better? The story that is style and allegory, or the one devotes pages of exposition to laughably wrong predictions of a supposedly realistic future? It all might as well be spaceports in Ohio.
Your Heinlein paperbacks are sticky, aren't they?
Being a poll worker is not, nor has it ever been, an integral part of the democratic process. You are guaranteed a right to vote, a right to have that vote faithfully counted (every Diebold machine ought to be incinerated at 4000F) and the right not to have your vote diluted by fraudulent votes. No one in their right mind would assert that every citizen has the right to monitor the polls as an official poll worker.
Don't be so fucking dense. The impartiality of the process is the only thing that gives an election any credibility. Every citizen does have an equal right to become a poll worker, assuming they meet the qualifications, and an ideological litmus test should not be part of the application.
"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything." - Joseph Stalin (apocryphal)
That strikes me as what we in the industry call 'a recipe for disaster'.
The industry? Is this the same industry that says you can't put bacon in the fry oil because it is too delicious?
Why don't you let the grown-ups make grown-up decisions about the applications they install on their personal computers and devices, and leave the hysterical fear-mongering to the government.
I'd mod parent down, but I'd rather explain why I disagree.
I'd just call you a fucking moron, since I don't usually spell things out for disingenuous retards, especially those who abuse the moderation system, but I'll make an exception in this case.
There is no market when there is no choice. The visa holder can't shop the market the way we can, and that is the only reason they are paid vastly less than the rest of us. It is that gap that depresses wages, not the slight increase in the supply of workers. The visa program is not a step in the right direction, it is a traitorous manipulation of the market by the federal government, and in no way adheres to any sort of libertarian principles.
An open border would be the best thing to happen to our economy. We'd steal the best and brightest from other countries, and the knuckle-draggers like the above get forced out of the market.
So which is it? Troll or idiot?
Oh, look, a submissive Apple fanboy, trying to pick a fight. It's cute when they try to be the man.
And by unilateral, I mean bilateral. Someone just delete my whole thread please. :-)
I thought you were implying that surveillance was made pointless by giving that power to everyone.
Oh, I get it, you're referring to the question itself. Juvenal's insight is not diminished by unilateral transparency. The rise of citizen "watchers" as a solution makes it the very opposite of moot.
You didn't answer my question. What, exactly, are you claiming is "moot"?
Who watches the watchers? The point becomes moot when everyone is a watcher.
What, exactly, point is that?
Surveillance? Law-breaking? Law-abiding? Privacy? Secrecy? Good only for show? Evil divorced from shame?
EDIT: I'm not saying I like it. I'm just saying that it's the way it has been for 200 years.
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And my MacBook is an Internet appliance, because it connects to the Internet. Please, don't let marketers define your reality.
If the SDK simply was not ready for prime time, it betrays that the iPhone was rushed to market. For months, people clamored for third-party applications, and Apple said nothing. Then Android is announced, and suddenly Steve is all "oh, hai, all that stuff about the web being the SDK, we were just pulling your leg, stalling for time."
"Ad-hoc" is a joke, a useless kludge to their security regime to help them sell the device for use in a classroom setting.
And Apple invoking "security" as an excuse for tighter control is every bit as transparent as when governments make the same argument. It does not stop the jailbreakers. And the jailbreakers haven't unleashed the apocalypse of viruses and worms we were promised, which has also failed to materialize in a market of hundreds of millions of previously existing smartphones with no or fewer restrictions.
Yes, I just wanted to make someone admit that Apple will say one thing and do something entirely different, essentially lying to the world. *grin*
No, the simple hypothesis is that Apple is straightforward and honest, which would imply that the reversal of their strategic direction was the result of external events.
If what the FSF is doing is wrong, why do you feel the need to deflect attention from Apple? When did Timothy start whoring for a corporation?
You know, years ago, when .NET was first released, I predicted it was part of a plan to end the dominance of open systems. With their code signing and runtime restrictions, they were going to require special permission for developers to write "unsafe" code. Microsoft was taking the first step toward making Stallman's "The Right to Read" into a reality.
But I was wrong. I picked the wrong villain.
It has been Apple who released a revolutionary computer that is completely locked down. It took Android and the jailbreak community to force their hand, make them admit that a web browser was not an SDK. And still, over a year after they announced it would be a real platform, the iPhone is as bad as any console - you need Apple's favor to run on the device, you have to sell your work through their channel, and they can cut you off on a whim. And the crapware that all the apologists said this was supposed to prevent still makes up the majority of the App Store. It has nothing to do with quality and everything to do with control.
And you still can't buy most music on iTunes without DRM. You can't play that music on other devices. You can't even buy certain kinds of third-party peripherals for Apple hardware.
If Microsoft is Sauron, Apple is Galadriel with the One Ring - beautiful and elegant, jealous and cruel. You will not have any others before me. You will love me and despair.
The SDK was in Beta, during which time confidentiality is required.
No it isn't. Apple just wanted it that way. And they still want it that way, for reasons of laziness, legal incompetence, or control-freak habit.
The secret shame of Web 2.0 is that it is a piss-poor implementation of the "write once, run anywhere" dream that the market pretends to want and nobody can deliver, and everyone who tries is ridiculed for being "slow like Java". Web 2.0 is the lowest common denominator, the ad-hoc solution that does most of what everyone needs but in the most convoluted, painful way possible. The browser is your runtime, the browser is your sandbox, and Javascript is the dominant language of the next hundred years. Can you blame people for trying to make the best of a bad situation?
Holy cow, it's Uwe Boll imitating Buckaroo Banzai. That explains everything.
The problem with the film isn't the ridiculous number of creative liberties taken with physics. It's the fact that of all the highly qualified, professional people who would undoubtedly volunteer in droves to save the world, the crew is made up of a bunch of unstable, narcissistic emo whiners, and the ship is designed in such a way to give them endless opportunities to fail. It's a slow horror movie, and like all bad horror movies, the suspense is driven by the stupidity of the characters.