A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace by John Perry Barlow
Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.
We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one, so I address you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always speaks. I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us. You have no moral right to rule us nor do you possess any methods of enforcement we have true reason to fear.
Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. You have neither solicited nor received ours. We did not invite you. You do not know us, nor do you know our world. Cyberspace does not lie within your borders. Do not think that you can build it, as though it were a public construction project. You cannot. It is an act of nature and it grows itself through our collective actions.
You have not engaged in our great and gathering conversation, nor did you create the wealth of our marketplaces. You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.
You claim there are problems among us that you need to solve. You use this claim as an excuse to invade our precincts. Many of these problems don't exist. Where there are real conflicts, where there are wrongs, we will identify them and address them by our means. We are forming our own Social Contract. This governance will arise according to the conditions of our world, not yours. Our world is different.
Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications. Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies live.
We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth.
We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.
Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us. They are all based on matter, and there is no matter here.
Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge. Our identities may be distributed across many of your jurisdictions. The only law that all our constituent cultures would generally recognize is the Golden Rule. We hope we will be able to build our particular solutions on that basis. But we cannot accept the solutions you are attempting to impose.
In the United States, you have today created a law, the Telecommunications Reform Act, which repudiates your own Constitution and insults the dreams of Jefferson, Washington, Mill, Madison, DeToqueville, and Brandeis. These dreams must now be born anew in us.
You are terrified of your own children, since they are natives in a world where you will always be immigrants. Because you fear them, you entrust your bureaucracies with the parental responsibilities you are too cowardly to confront yourselves. In our world, all the sentiments and expressions of humanity, from the debasing to the angelic, are parts of a seamless whole, the global conversation of bits. We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat.
In China, Germany, France, Russia, Singapore, Italy and the United States, you are trying to ward off the virus of liberty by erecting guard posts at the frontiers of Cyberspace. These may keep out the contagion for a small time, but they will not work in a world that will soon be blanketed in b
Don't know about the announcement, but after listening to the calls I think someone should teach Duplex that round digits in phone numbers are zeros (not the letter o).
I'm with you on bringing sanity to the table RE technology in school. It is used too much, too much money is spent on tech (and buildings) instead of on education/teachers.
Not so in agreement about charter schools. My kids go to them, they save the district money (educate kids for a fraction of the cost), many of them have appropriately-limited tech (no ipads, no laptops regularly in classroom - just chromebooks in a separate room that are used when needed), and if they really screw up we can take our kids elsewhere.
I don't see how this is targeted at Apple iPhones. Every iPhone made to date has a battery that is replaceable not just by independent repair shops, but also by end users themselves equipped with cheap kits from places like iFixit. For $25 (5 less than the temporary reduced price from Apple for battery replacement) I get everything I need to replace my iPhone 6S batter in this kit, and don't have to deal with the hassle of getting to an Apple store, scheduling appointment, having them tell me battery is not in stock and to come back, etc.
The horrors of not having municipal waste collection... My neighborhood organizes itself to negotiate bulk rates and then contract with a single waste company all households then use for collection.
I'm seeing a lot of "give them two weeks notice or you'll get screwed" type posts.
I just watched someone senior and technical (and valuable) do a multi-year transition into retirement. He was not the kind of guy to give only 2 weeks notice, but also his management was not the type to screw him over. Everyone won. It was really neat to be near such a smooth/amiacable changing of the guard.
There are surely plenty of cases where people get screwed.
Gauge how valuable you really are...and how much mutual respect/trust exists in the employment relationship. Act accordingly.
A few posts seem to strike a safe balance: Give notice when you're willing/able to be gone (not before) but be willing to stick around for transition. I assume the fellow in the case I'm familiar with would have been more than OK (financially) leaving years earlier (so technically gave notice when ready to leave), but the transition happened because it was mutually-beneficial. He was able to ease into retirement (longer and more-frequent vacations, maybe shorter work weeks) and they were able to ease into not having him around. Neither party tried to screw the other in any way.
"Comcast isn't feeling any pressure to upgrade its lines to fiber"
Their infrastructure is coax. If I read the DOCSIS wikipedia page correctly that coax is good for 10gig downstream / 1gig upstream currently and soon 10g/10g.
Why would they convert to fiber? What would they gain from fiber except a lot of expense to convert from one to the other?
A lot of regulation ends up being a great conduit for crony capitalism. When you regulate an industry you make it subject to regulatory capture (the industry ends up writing its own rules). You also entrench large businesses because smaller ones don't have the resources to comply with complex regulations and/or lobby for their interests. The big businesses that are most-successful RE regulatory capture (probably large content creators like Google/Facebook/Netflix in this example) get their business models entrenched/favored.
There is a problem with correlating this market share number (% of sales of new devices) with the market share number developers and such would be interested in (% of active devices in use). Many (not all) android phones are disposable and can be out of date (especially RE os version) before they leave the store. Many iOS devices, on the other hand, remain in use (and running current OS version) for 4 years. THAT creates a large, target-able user base for developers/etc.
I had the impression the Model S has two motors between the rear wheels, one for each wheel.
Nope, one in the back, some kind of differential so the two sides are not locked together. Under decent acceleration while turning you can tell they're not torque-vectored optimally (most power to outside). It's unfortunate. For the price I had assumed Model-Ss were AWD with 4 motors and logic to torque-vector nicely (like Acura's SH-AWD does in the rear). Guess we have to wait for the F (for Four-motors) variant.
1/3 of your income for the monthly payment on a depreciating asset? That's just crazy. The payments on my family's TWO cars comes to less than 10% of my gross income, and I think that's too high.
You financed a depreciating asset? That's just crazy. (It's all relative)
I think it is inaccurate to say these were (EDS) folks who already worked on the GM account. I think these were internal HP-IT folks (that never serviced GM acct) who have been following Randy Mott around (from WalMart to Dell to HP to GM). Where I'm assuming that HP has a problem is that their employment contracts include promises that you won't poach other employees when you leave, and this is obviously happening if folks are leaving together as groups.
I work for a company that was spun off by HP then spun off by that resulting company. Twice removed we are now doing quite well. You lose the benefits and negatives that come with being part of a large company...but the net result can be positive. HP has become a REALLY large company, even since I left there 3.5 years ago (for their twice-emancipated child). I think it is very possible that HP is too large (both in scope of products/services and number of people) to be effectively managed by a single CEO + management team...and that is one of the underlying causes of the turmoil seen for the past decade. In that respect it does make sense to spin off the PC business.
HP's size and structure is also inhibiting to some types of innovation and entrepreneurial spirit. HP had this online backup solution (I think called "HP Upstart") that was the result of buying/integrating a start-up in that space. They wanted to grow it and make it into a large offering for consumers, enterprise customers, etc. Problem is it is simply not possible to create a profitable online backup service when forced to do things the standard way in HP DataCenters which makes your cost significantly higher than the price folks like BackBlaze charge (while being profitable).
This is a great example of sensationalized cherry-picked anecdotal evidence...which in reality means nothing. The picture showing ice was taken during an abnormal year. The ice melts away every year, usually in July. It took longer to melt in 2006 thanks in part to their being more than normal amounts of "multi-year" ice shoved down from the arctic that year.
On some levels agree...but I think it is important to point out that you've got the demographics of Ahmadinejad's base a bit backward. From the news reports I've read... If you use the 2005 election results as a guide (seen as more accurate than results from the current election, for obvious reasons) his support is disproportionally urban. Part of what makes this election look rigged is that he did so well in these rural areas - it is unreasonable to think so many people changed their minds so completely. So I'm not sure enabling the city folks is a means to the result you're looking for.
Personally I don't think our government (the US Government) should be intervene...so for me it is kind of a mute point...but if you're going to argue for isolationism via interventionism, don't make bad assumptions.
On a side note, about 68% of the population of Iran lives in cities...much like here.
Slashdot Mirror
Seems somewhat appropriate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
by John Perry Barlow
Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.
We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one, so I address you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always speaks. I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us. You have no moral right to rule us nor do you possess any methods of enforcement we have true reason to fear.
Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. You have neither solicited nor received ours. We did not invite you. You do not know us, nor do you know our world. Cyberspace does not lie within your borders. Do not think that you can build it, as though it were a public construction project. You cannot. It is an act of nature and it grows itself through our collective actions.
You have not engaged in our great and gathering conversation, nor did you create the wealth of our marketplaces. You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.
You claim there are problems among us that you need to solve. You use this claim as an excuse to invade our precincts. Many of these problems don't exist. Where there are real conflicts, where there are wrongs, we will identify them and address them by our means. We are forming our own Social Contract. This governance will arise according to the conditions of our world, not yours. Our world is different.
Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications. Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies live.
We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth.
We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.
Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us. They are all based on matter, and there is no matter here.
Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge. Our identities may be distributed across many of your jurisdictions. The only law that all our constituent cultures would generally recognize is the Golden Rule. We hope we will be able to build our particular solutions on that basis. But we cannot accept the solutions you are attempting to impose.
In the United States, you have today created a law, the Telecommunications Reform Act, which repudiates your own Constitution and insults the dreams of Jefferson, Washington, Mill, Madison, DeToqueville, and Brandeis. These dreams must now be born anew in us.
You are terrified of your own children, since they are natives in a world where you will always be immigrants. Because you fear them, you entrust your bureaucracies with the parental responsibilities you are too cowardly to confront yourselves. In our world, all the sentiments and expressions of humanity, from the debasing to the angelic, are parts of a seamless whole, the global conversation of bits. We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat.
In China, Germany, France, Russia, Singapore, Italy and the United States, you are trying to ward off the virus of liberty by erecting guard posts at the frontiers of Cyberspace. These may keep out the contagion for a small time, but they will not work in a world that will soon be blanketed in b
Don't know about the announcement, but after listening to the calls I think someone should teach Duplex that round digits in phone numbers are zeros (not the letter o).
I'm with you on bringing sanity to the table RE technology in school. It is used too much, too much money is spent on tech (and buildings) instead of on education/teachers.
Not so in agreement about charter schools. My kids go to them, they save the district money (educate kids for a fraction of the cost), many of them have appropriately-limited tech (no ipads, no laptops regularly in classroom - just chromebooks in a separate room that are used when needed), and if they really screw up we can take our kids elsewhere.
How is this different than HPs memristor from a decade ago?
I don't see how this is targeted at Apple iPhones. Every iPhone made to date has a battery that is replaceable not just by independent repair shops, but also by end users themselves equipped with cheap kits from places like iFixit. For $25 (5 less than the temporary reduced price from Apple for battery replacement) I get everything I need to replace my iPhone 6S batter in this kit, and don't have to deal with the hassle of getting to an Apple store, scheduling appointment, having them tell me battery is not in stock and to come back, etc.
https://www.ifixit.com/Store/i...
The horrors of not having municipal waste collection...
My neighborhood organizes itself to negotiate bulk rates and then contract with a single waste company all households then use for collection.
I'm seeing a lot of "give them two weeks notice or you'll get screwed" type posts.
I just watched someone senior and technical (and valuable) do a multi-year transition into retirement. He was not the kind of guy to give only 2 weeks notice, but also his management was not the type to screw him over. Everyone won. It was really neat to be near such a smooth/amiacable changing of the guard.
There are surely plenty of cases where people get screwed.
Gauge how valuable you really are...and how much mutual respect/trust exists in the employment relationship. Act accordingly.
A few posts seem to strike a safe balance: Give notice when you're willing/able to be gone (not before) but be willing to stick around for transition. I assume the fellow in the case I'm familiar with would have been more than OK (financially) leaving years earlier (so technically gave notice when ready to leave), but the transition happened because it was mutually-beneficial. He was able to ease into retirement (longer and more-frequent vacations, maybe shorter work weeks) and they were able to ease into not having him around. Neither party tried to screw the other in any way.
WebOS - like the old Palm Pre phones and the new LG TVs.
"Comcast isn't feeling any pressure to upgrade its lines to fiber"
Their infrastructure is coax. If I read the DOCSIS wikipedia page correctly that coax is good for 10gig downstream / 1gig upstream currently and soon 10g/10g.
Why would they convert to fiber? What would they gain from fiber except a lot of expense to convert from one to the other?
Was your S7 made in 2015? No OS updates?
Agree with this guy. I fit the article's stated demographic of "youngish in the early 2000s" and I have also NEVER experienced a custom ringback tone.
They don't trust the government to protect internet access, but they want the government to do it anyway. SMH
"Have" is correct. Let me help you parse the sentence...
"Samsung's Calls For Industry To Embrace Its Battery Check Process as a New Standard Have Been Ignored."
"Samsung's Calls...Have Been Ignored"
(It is not "Samsung's New Standard Have Been Ignored" as you seem to be reading it.)
A lot of regulation ends up being a great conduit for crony capitalism. When you regulate an industry you make it subject to regulatory capture (the industry ends up writing its own rules). You also entrench large businesses because smaller ones don't have the resources to comply with complex regulations and/or lobby for their interests. The big businesses that are most-successful RE regulatory capture (probably large content creators like Google/Facebook/Netflix in this example) get their business models entrenched/favored.
There is a problem with correlating this market share number (% of sales of new devices) with the market share number developers and such would be interested in (% of active devices in use). Many (not all) android phones are disposable and can be out of date (especially RE os version) before they leave the store. Many iOS devices, on the other hand, remain in use (and running current OS version) for 4 years. THAT creates a large, target-able user base for developers/etc.
I had the impression the Model S has two motors between the rear wheels, one for each wheel.
Nope, one in the back, some kind of differential so the two sides are not locked together. Under decent acceleration while turning you can tell they're not torque-vectored optimally (most power to outside). It's unfortunate. For the price I had assumed Model-Ss were AWD with 4 motors and logic to torque-vector nicely (like Acura's SH-AWD does in the rear). Guess we have to wait for the F (for Four-motors) variant.
1/3 of your income for the monthly payment on a depreciating asset? That's just crazy. The payments on my family's TWO cars comes to less than 10% of my gross income, and I think that's too high.
You financed a depreciating asset? That's just crazy. (It's all relative)
4 front-facing camera 3D system with gyroscopic sensors may make for a neat "dynamic perspective."
I'd rather use them to take 3D scans of things I'd like replicated (with or without modifications) through a 3D printing service like this.
I think it is inaccurate to say these were (EDS) folks who already worked on the GM account. I think these were internal HP-IT folks (that never serviced GM acct) who have been following Randy Mott around (from WalMart to Dell to HP to GM). Where I'm assuming that HP has a problem is that their employment contracts include promises that you won't poach other employees when you leave, and this is obviously happening if folks are leaving together as groups.
I work for a company that was spun off by HP then spun off by that resulting company. Twice removed we are now doing quite well. You lose the benefits and negatives that come with being part of a large company...but the net result can be positive. HP has become a REALLY large company, even since I left there 3.5 years ago (for their twice-emancipated child). I think it is very possible that HP is too large (both in scope of products/services and number of people) to be effectively managed by a single CEO + management team...and that is one of the underlying causes of the turmoil seen for the past decade. In that respect it does make sense to spin off the PC business.
HP's size and structure is also inhibiting to some types of innovation and entrepreneurial spirit. HP had this online backup solution (I think called "HP Upstart") that was the result of buying/integrating a start-up in that space. They wanted to grow it and make it into a large offering for consumers, enterprise customers, etc. Problem is it is simply not possible to create a profitable online backup service when forced to do things the standard way in HP DataCenters which makes your cost significantly higher than the price folks like BackBlaze charge (while being profitable).
Large hard drive inside (or attached via USB/eSATA) to a computer with a Backblaze subscription.
Like these folks, I don't believe the "settled science" or "scientific consensus" claimed to exist actually does.
http://www.cato.org/special/climatechange/cato_climate.pdf
This is a great example of sensationalized cherry-picked anecdotal evidence...which in reality means nothing. The picture showing ice was taken during an abnormal year. The ice melts away every year, usually in July. It took longer to melt in 2006 thanks in part to their being more than normal amounts of "multi-year" ice shoved down from the arctic that year.
Article (from AP): http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/372343/arctic_ocean_ice_crashes_on_alaska_shores/
Video (from NASA): http://www.nasaimages.org/luna/servlet/detail/nasaNAS~10~10~71195~176482:Ice-Surge-in-Barrow,-Alaska
On some levels agree...but I think it is important to point out that you've got the demographics of Ahmadinejad's base a bit backward. From the news reports I've read... If you use the 2005 election results as a guide (seen as more accurate than results from the current election, for obvious reasons) his support is disproportionally urban. Part of what makes this election look rigged is that he did so well in these rural areas - it is unreasonable to think so many people changed their minds so completely. So I'm not sure enabling the city folks is a means to the result you're looking for.
Personally I don't think our government (the US Government) should be intervene...so for me it is kind of a mute point...but if you're going to argue for isolationism via interventionism, don't make bad assumptions.
On a side note, about 68% of the population of Iran lives in cities...much like here.