Upgrade the security of my VPN tunnel to use an N-bit encryption, where N is some number that the OS vendor has yet to have seen in someone else's standard.
With Windows, I'm SOL. With Linux, I can write the plugin myself.
The motivation for underwriting future research is saving lives.
There's not much profit in that, so you motivate it through government.
The money still comes from the public and goes to the researchers. But the researchers don't expect to make billion-dollar windfall profits, and don't foist dangerous chemicals on the public in vain attempt to strike it rich in the meantime.
And you save more lives because you don't make parsimonious decisions to "kill some now to save more later".
Our current system of trying to meld capitalism and medicine is resulting in the capitalistically-logical decision that spending lives to make money is a good thing.
I want to be paid for criticizing the way people put colored blocks around their text...
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The conclusion most will draw from your argument rests on a faulty implication: that vi was intended to be more featureful than Notepad.
If Bill Joy had had access to the screen capabilities of a graphics engine, instead of a glass-TTY, there might never have been a Notepad, because vi would have had a mouse and a cursor and still would have had need to put all of vi's "power" into the editor he chose to write.
Vi isn't as "easy to use" as Notepad because Bill Joy lacked the technology. Notepad isn't as "powerful" as vi because Microsoft lacked the concern.
None of this stopped Richard Stallman, who put everything into emacs. But then, nothing stopped Richard Stallman, who put way too much into emacs, and suggested the problem was that you lacked two extra fingers and an eidetic memory for command strings and an understanding of the obvious need for operating-system internals in a text editor...
All the more reason to have an orbit that can be reached from Baikonur. The shuttle is cute, but using it to bring anything other than people and newspapers to the space station is a waste of fuel.
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Upgrade the security of my VPN tunnel to use an N-bit encryption, where N is some number that the OS vendor has yet to have seen in someone else's standard.
With Windows, I'm SOL. With Linux, I can write the plugin myself.
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The Internet was transferred to the Chinese and Indians in the early '00s.
What America now has is the unprofitable contract to manage the root servers for them.
This was solved with a 2-byte code in the 70s.
Anyone got any news?
What is there to "preserve"?
It's software.
Anyone with have a nut in their head can make it portable software.
Then it's self-preserving.
We'll be playing Hunt the Wumpus long after the oil runs out.
There's plenty of prior art for this sort of situation. This young man has nothing to worry about. They just want to run a few tests on his brain.
Benji Mouse: "But first it must be properly prepared..."
Arthur: "Prepared?"
Benji: "...prepared, examined... diced..."
ubuntu is better than kubuntu
Why don't we just take up a collection and buy FARK.com?
/. eventually, anyway...
All their story are belong to
It only took his webserver a couple of minutes to realize that /. makes everything "limited"...
America spent a trillion dollars building the internet economy, and then this Congress and President shipped it to China and India.
Fuck them.
Trying to kiss our ass by keeping control of the root servers is not going to save their jobs in 2006 and 2008.
The motivation for underwriting future research is saving lives.
There's not much profit in that, so you motivate it through government.
The money still comes from the public and goes to the researchers. But the researchers don't expect to make billion-dollar windfall profits, and don't foist dangerous chemicals on the public in vain attempt to strike it rich in the meantime.
And you save more lives because you don't make parsimonious decisions to "kill some now to save more later".
Our current system of trying to meld capitalism and medicine is resulting in the capitalistically-logical decision that spending lives to make money is a good thing.
And that's a bad thing.
1. Read story about Zombie Lurch
2. Post it on Slashdot
3. ???
4. Profit!
Wait...
You have it backwards.
The question is, "Is it right to enforce a patent even though you know your action has a likelihood of causing one or more deaths?"
300 microns is 0.3 millimeters.
That's not paper, it's card-stock.
It's not even that. It's plastic.
Um, is there any part of this metaphor that isn't just marketing hype?
All my PCs are coated in plastic.
I for one welcome our carbon-fiber overshells.
Without Intel, AMD would not exist. AMD is a de facto rogue division of Intel. And it's destroying value in the market, not creating it.
I want to be paid for criticizing the way people put colored blocks around their text...
The conclusion most will draw from your argument rests on a faulty implication: that vi was intended to be more featureful than Notepad.
If Bill Joy had had access to the screen capabilities of a graphics engine, instead of a glass-TTY, there might never have been a Notepad, because vi would have had a mouse and a cursor and still would have had need to put all of vi's "power" into the editor he chose to write.
Vi isn't as "easy to use" as Notepad because Bill Joy lacked the technology. Notepad isn't as "powerful" as vi because Microsoft lacked the concern.
None of this stopped Richard Stallman, who put everything into emacs. But then, nothing stopped Richard Stallman, who put way too much into emacs, and suggested the problem was that you lacked two extra fingers and an eidetic memory for command strings and an understanding of the obvious need for operating-system internals in a text editor...
Every time Intel spends several billion dollars devising a new instruction set, AMD knocks off a copy.
How much does AMD have to pay Intel for that?
How much should they?
If not, why should AMD get away with stealing Intel's hard work?
If American coders have to buy bug-insurance, there will be no coders in America.
Has IBM's 2500-patent-per-year pace of carving out territory in innovation-space really done the world that much good?
RF doorcard systems have been around for over a decade.
Just what is new about any of this?
Ender's Game is a bad Harry Potter book, with far worse sequels.
I was worried that it might actually show up on film.
Now, I can sleep better.
I have a better idea.
Hire bartenders who can see.
Thank you.
All the more reason to have an orbit that can be reached from Baikonur. The shuttle is cute, but using it to bring anything other than people and newspapers to the space station is a waste of fuel.
No, lying is the antithesis of freedom.
Protecting national security is all well and good. It's when the law used to do so is applied mendaciously that we lose.
Propaganda is also bad.
The current administration uses both, constantly, often in lieu of competence and diligence and honor.
The Chinese may be doing this to quell dissent of all kinds. But we're no better for allowing our government to lie constantly.