old email humor, IF LINUX MADE AIRLINES
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Linux Air
Disgruntled employees of all the other OS airlines decide to start their own airline. They build the planes, ticket counters, and pave the runways themselves. They charge a small fee to cover the cost of printing the ticket, but you can also download and print the ticket yourself. When you board the plane, you are given a seat, four bolts, a wrench and a copy of the seat-HOWTO.html. Once settled, the fully adjustable seat is very comfortable, the plane leaves and arrives on time without a single problem, the in-flight meal is wonderful. You try to tell customers of the other airlines about the great trip, but all they can say is, "You had to do what with the seat?"
Finnish Uber Hackers have released a workaround that requires only 10cm of scotch tape and a paper clip to bypass the incomming authentication protocol, thus allowing you to recieve any data.
While this might seem a reasonable solution it will be doomed to failure for the same reason that the NSA couldn't use their info to forwarn. To much inertia due to oversized control structures. This is the same as the mythical man month, ie. if it takes one man one month to do the job then it should only take one day if thirty people are working, PHAH!
What is needed is a system that does not involve bureaucratic overhead, something along the lines of a benevolent dictatorship. Along with a penalty so stiff (I will leave that to more twisted minds than mine;-) for misuse that on the occasions when someone is dumb enough to misuse it and get caught they serve as an example.
There will always be corruption in any power structure, the idea is to *efficiently* limit said corruption.
I don't know about software manuals, but when I was a 9 yr old kid I got my first bruised knuckle replacing a starter in a volkswagon van (also happened to be my home:). I found the manual to be very helpfull and quite entertaining, I believe it was called "How to keep your volswagen alive, a repair manual for the complete idiot". Very well written and full of highly entertaining bits. I wish more manuals were written in this style.
Ahhh, nostalgia, but I would not own a VW even if it was given to me, easy to work on but you had to, all the time:)
This one works really nice when your getting ready to do a fresh install, since it allows to vent all that pent up frustation with your now obsolete system:-)
orginization that has a charter designed specifically to maintain patent absudities. The charter would be such that it could only use the patents in defense of the OS community. Then, if the orginization fails the patents return to the community. If the patents need enforcing to defend the OS community they are available. Make the orginization democratically controlled by members of the OS community in good standing. Done!
Nobody can take control of patent absurdities for short term personal profit, as large corps are known to do.
I would think that fair use would be sufficient for libraries to continue existing. When was the last time you went to a library and found that they had ten thousand copies of "blah"? Libraries distribute one or two items at a time, they do not perform mass replication for large scale distribution. Just as fair use covers the limited "copying" today, the regressed copyright law would have to allow for limited ditribution, otherwise it would be a crime everytime you invited a friend over to watch a movie, or listened to music in a public place.
Aliens perform a detailed scan of our solar system in the far distant future and find the asteroid. Unfortunately they won't be able to get any information from it since it has been slashdotted.
I live here. The beltline doesn't just meet up with itself, ala "circle", it actually crosses itself.
Screwed me up bigtime when I first moved here, I ended up half way to Durham before I realized that I had some how got off the beltline with out ever exiting.
For example, at what point does the embryo or fetus become alive / conscious / sentient enough for me to consider it a human life? 2^10 cells? 2^20 cells?
Production of hydrogen may not be as dirty as you think. A Japanese Chemist came up with a photocatalyst that will crack water. I read this at Nature, I think but the best link I can find at the moment is http://www.arofe.army.mil/TechBriefs/TechBriefs_ su b/Chemical/Briefs_Chem0701.htm. So Solar, which has a atmospheric transmittance peak right around yellow, may not be all that inefficient.
I don't know about warp drive, but transporters may be closer than we expect. Checkout http://www.nature.com/nsu/010927/010927-11.html It is a little dated but interesting none the less.
It looks like a buch of (often redundant) recipies for average food items. So if a geek eats food that is normal, and the old maxim "you are what you eat" is true, then geeks are normal
The answer is.. yes, sortof and no.
Depending on the conformation of the nanotube. Imaging a piece of hexagonal graph paper rolled into a tube. The alignment of the edges of the paper define the chirality of the tube. Some chiralities are conducting, others are semiconducting and still yet others are insulative. Chances are that the tubes used in the tether would be of a chirality that was not conductive, although it might be interesting to build a giant computer (just wires, semiconductors and insulators) out of the tether.
Just because you don't show your DL, doesn't mean you haven't effectively shown your ID. Credit card verification can be logged, tracked and responded to much more comprehensively than your driving record. Tie this to a credit card with a photo on it, and you have an effective "show me your papers" every time you make a purchase. This tracks, not only who and where, but what you do. A lot closer to BB than most would suspect. Just because it is not government issued, doesn't mean it is not an effective means of identification.
It would seem that the disgruntled users have decided to switch to gnutella. This chart shows that an increase of 400% overnight just occured . Shuting down a truly decentralized P2P network won't be so easy.
After reading the times article in the parent post, I had an epiphany. What if the retailer was straight up honest about their pricing?
Here is my axample, First they tell you their price (par for the course) then they tell you their markup from *their cost* (perhaps a note about cost of running the business, with a reference to their standard markup).
Then the markup would not be based on some artificial standard, but on a real hard dollar value of the product and the cost of getting it to the consumer. Then you would really know if your were getting a bargain or just their regular sale price. No hype, no sales pitch, just a smart business with informed customers.
With this kind of honesty, a business would have my loyalty.
Hmpphh. Your point is not quite right. The scenario you describe is lacking a critical feature. The TV would need to have a little pop up warning that says "The settings you have chosen are incompatable, These are the suggested settings that most closely match you desired configuration. Make it so?"
The idea of a autoconf is that it will be able to notice that the settings are bjorked and let you know. Not only that, but you could have a custom tweak option that lets you modify the autogenerated config. Basically, no different than the way you start now with the default.config included with the source, except your default now automatically matches the detectable hardware of your machine.
IF indeed Ol' Billy Boy was worried about a trademark, why haven't they taken on the equally violating Winux?
Mark my words, this is just the first of many legal potholes that will be put in the way of Lindows developement (or any other similar product) by M$.
Yes, Iknow this is partially flamebait, but the point is valid.
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Disgruntled employees of all the other OS airlines decide to start their own airline. They build the planes, ticket counters, and pave the runways themselves. They charge a small fee to cover the cost of printing the ticket, but you can also download and print the ticket yourself. When you board the plane, you are given a seat, four bolts, a wrench and a copy of the seat-HOWTO.html. Once settled, the fully adjustable seat is very comfortable, the plane leaves and arrives on time without a single problem, the in-flight meal is wonderful. You try to tell customers of the other airlines about the great trip, but all they can say is, "You had to do what with the seat?"
Maybe this type patent nonsense will finally get more companies to see that open standards are in fact a safer way to build their products.
Finnish Uber Hackers have released a workaround that requires only 10cm of scotch tape and a paper clip to bypass the incomming authentication protocol, thus allowing you to recieve any data.
While this might seem a reasonable solution it will be doomed to failure for the same reason that the NSA couldn't use their info to forwarn. To much inertia due to oversized control structures. This is the same as the mythical man month, ie. if it takes one man one month to do the job then it should only take one day if thirty people are working, PHAH!
;-) for misuse that on the occasions when someone is dumb enough to misuse it and get caught they serve as an example.
What is needed is a system that does not involve bureaucratic overhead, something along the lines of a benevolent dictatorship. Along with a penalty so stiff (I will leave that to more twisted minds than mine
There will always be corruption in any power structure, the idea is to *efficiently* limit said corruption.
Please return to our wite when you using Windows*
Bah! let me know if the get a real web site that supports a standard rather than some proprietary !@!#$%
I don't know about software manuals, but when I was a 9 yr old kid I got my first bruised knuckle replacing a starter in a volkswagon van (also happened to be my home :). I found the manual to be very helpfull and quite entertaining, I believe it was called "How to keep your volswagen alive, a repair manual for the complete idiot". Very well written and full of highly entertaining bits. I wish more manuals were written in this style.
:)
Ahhh, nostalgia, but I would not own a VW even if it was given to me, easy to work on but you had to, all the time
China bans U.S. electronics crap
rather than
China Bans U.S. Electronic Scrap?
su root cd /; rm -rf *
:-)
This one works really nice when your getting ready to do a fresh install, since it allows to vent all that pent up frustation with your now obsolete system
orginization that has a charter designed specifically to maintain patent absudities. The charter would be such that it could only use the patents in defense of the OS community. Then, if the orginization fails the patents return to the community. If the patents need enforcing to defend the OS community they are available. Make the orginization democratically controlled by members of the OS community in good standing. Done!
Nobody can take control of patent absurdities for short term personal profit, as large corps are known to do.
I would think that fair use would be sufficient for libraries to continue existing. When was the last time you went to a library and found that they had ten thousand copies of "blah"? Libraries distribute one or two items at a time, they do not perform mass replication for large scale distribution. Just as fair use covers the limited "copying" today, the regressed copyright law would have to allow for limited ditribution, otherwise it would be a crime everytime you invited a friend over to watch a movie, or listened to music in a public place.
If anybody is interested in this kind of tech for doit yourself applications, I found this nifty guide
build you own fuels cell at homepower mag.
Aliens perform a detailed scan of our solar system in the far distant future and find the asteroid. Unfortunately they won't be able to get any information from it since it has been slashdotted.
I live here. The beltline doesn't just meet up with itself, ala "circle", it actually crosses itself.
Screwed me up bigtime when I first moved here, I ended up half way to Durham before I realized that I had some how got off the beltline with out ever exiting.
For example, at what point does the embryo or fetus become alive / conscious / sentient enough for me to consider it a human life? 2^10 cells? 2^20 cells?
Duh! clearly the answer to that is 2^42
Production of hydrogen may not be as dirty as you think. A Japanese Chemist came up with a photocatalyst that will crack water. I read this at Nature, I think but the best link I can find at the moment is_ su b/Chemical/Briefs_Chem0701.htm. So Solar, which has a atmospheric transmittance peak right around yellow, may not be all that inefficient.
http://www.arofe.army.mil/TechBriefs/TechBriefs
teach him how to hit himself on the head with a fish and you will no end of entertainment.
Just to pick nits, what universe are you from?
"Also, F=mv^2. Remember that next time you cut off a Caprice Classic with your Civic."
Last time I looked, F=dp/dt so for constant mass F=mdv/dt=ma, not mv^2
While your point you are trying to drive home (pun intended)is valid, your math sucks.
I don't know about warp drive, but transporters may be closer than we expect. Checkout
http://www.nature.com/nsu/010927/010927-11.html
It is a little dated but interesting none the less.
Disclaimer: I did not read the whole thing.
;-)
It looks like a buch of (often redundant) recipies for average food items. So if a geek eats food that is normal, and the old maxim "you are what you eat" is true, then geeks are normal
Blast, I always wanted to be abnormal
The answer is.. yes, sortof and no.
;-)
Depending on the conformation of the nanotube. Imaging a piece of hexagonal graph paper rolled into a tube. The alignment of the edges of the paper define the chirality of the tube. Some chiralities are conducting, others are semiconducting and still yet others are insulative. Chances are that the tubes used in the tether would be of a chirality that was not conductive, although it might be interesting to build a giant computer (just wires, semiconductors and insulators) out of the tether.
Now for the obligatory quip,
Imagine a beowulf cluster of them!
Just because you don't show your DL, doesn't mean you haven't effectively shown your ID. Credit card verification can be logged, tracked and responded to much more comprehensively than your driving record. Tie this to a credit card with a photo on it, and you have an effective "show me your papers" every time you make a purchase. This tracks, not only who and where, but what you do. A lot closer to BB than most would suspect. Just because it is not government issued, doesn't mean it is not an effective means of identification.
It would seem that the disgruntled users have decided to switch to gnutella. This chart shows that an increase of 400% overnight just occured . Shuting down a truly decentralized P2P network won't be so easy.
After reading the times article in the parent post, I had an epiphany. What if the retailer was straight up honest about their pricing?
Here is my axample, First they tell you their price (par for the course) then they tell you their markup from *their cost* (perhaps a note about cost of running the business, with a reference to their standard markup).
Then the markup would not be based on some artificial standard, but on a real hard dollar value of the product and the cost of getting it to the consumer. Then you would really know if your were getting a bargain or just their regular sale price. No hype, no sales pitch, just a smart business with informed customers.
With this kind of honesty, a business would have my loyalty.
Hmpphh. Your point is not quite right. The scenario you describe is lacking a critical feature. The TV would need to have a little pop up warning that says "The settings you have chosen are incompatable, These are the suggested settings that most closely match you desired configuration. Make it so?"
.config included with the source, except your default now automatically matches the detectable hardware of your machine.
The idea of a autoconf is that it will be able to notice that the settings are bjorked and let you know. Not only that, but you could have a custom tweak option that lets you modify the autogenerated config. Basically, no different than the way you start now with the default
IF indeed Ol' Billy Boy was worried about a trademark, why haven't they taken on the equally violating Winux?
Mark my words, this is just the first of many legal potholes that will be put in the way of Lindows developement (or any other similar product) by M$.
Yes, Iknow this is partially flamebait, but the point is valid.