Using just the signature, it would be more correct to say: Nothing Exploded, then, it was the beginning.
I'll grant you that may be more poetic. I'm not sure it's more correct.
In the beginning, there was nothing. Then it exploded.
Splitting hairs, but Hawking would insist there was nothing in our Universe if it existed at all, then * exploded into it creating it (I think).
The explosion marked the beginning.
Hawking (multiverse theory and all that) would disagree (by my reading of Brief History of Time).
[Have I mentioned I'm a dilettante? I only barely keep up with this stuff. If you understand the math, you should be explaining this !@#$ to me. Just sayin'.]
If any retail chain deserves to fail it is Best Buy.
I can't disprove that but I can say in my case, Best Buy came through for me in spades. They honored the extended warranty I bought at time of purchase far better than I expected. The dog of an HP laptop I bought from them is now running as it should have been when I bought it, which is to say marvelously. Geek Squad support has been knowledgable and efficient.
I've priced components there that I'd like to pick up, and their prices are comparable to competitors in the area selling equivalent stuff. Same for prices on printer cartridges.
The big box store model for electronics may be obsolete, but it's not because Best Buy wasn't trying, in my experience. They never did anything wrong in my case. YMMV.
Fascinating reading, thanks. It confirms my knowledge of the situation adding much interesting color. However, I can't see any dates in there later than 2003. Might it not be time to revisit the issue, perhaps with more than one guy's efforts (bright and insightful though he may be)?
FYI, this (bottom of the page) doesn't exist. I'll see if I can find it at EFF (they probably moved it in the interim).
North America, 23 separate countries some very warlike one who has been involved in most international wars, with no unifying structure....seems to be mostly doing OK
You do realize that the point of all of this is to communicate, yes? So, what did you actually mean by that?
Soil fertility could be solved with existing knowledge from any number of sources, researched, correlated to local conditions, optimized for cost.... oops, when you go to implement it, that's when you hit the interesting issues.
Even before that. Even if you sort out the human problem, how do you ship truckloads of dirt back and forth across Africa? Bucket lines of peasants, or is that going to take fuel? The problem appears to be a combination of human nature and logistics. So far, the solution appears to be:
i) fertilizer to produce crops for food now.
ii) fuel (and the will) to enable shipping dirt back and forth across Africa.
iii) shoot all the Mugabes who turn up in the meantime.
iv) Profit! If it works in Africa, it could work everywhere.
If we're so smart, why hasn't sumfin like the Koch Bro's shown up to create "The/. Thinktank" to solve all the world's ills?
if it works, it becomes permanent. If it doesn't work, it's not a solution.
I think that's a fairly narrow, and deficient, definition of "works". My definition of "works" is "makes the problem go away forever and can be maintained through the foreseeable future."
Do I have to get my copy of the book out and cite page numbers?
Not everybody on/. is a douche, ya know.:-) I think when I read it, I didn't even know what a septic tank was, so wouldn't have been able to differentiate between the two if I'd tried.
So: if you do host something like this and are thinking of removing it because it is old, out of date,... please think again.
Which reminds me of the guy in the Niven & Pournelle Lucifer's Hammer who was spraying his books with insecticide, double bagging them, then dropping 'em down a well. Thanks.
So if old forums were converted to plain static html files that can be easily copied/indexed, then that means that all this fancy pants highend database stuff is all a big wank and long term useless as its not portable data.
What are you talking about? Gmane was/is(?) presenting Usenet groups as web forums. It's portable data (ASCII/text), and it would be just as easy to take it the other way (forum --> newsfroup format). All it takes is a db programmer with time to do it. It's hardly rocket science. You do know what the "ht" in HTML means, yes?
a. remove the government, so the corporations can rape you directly b. remove the corrupting influence of corporations, so it is accountable to the people, as intended
How are you going to accomplish "b"? The "corrupting influence of corporations" only exists if politicians are corruptible, and they almost Universally are.
and do you know what these guys did when people tried to exercise their freedoms?
So, why wasn't your much vaunted gov't there to protect them when they tried to exercise their freedoms? Sitting on its hands? Toadying to deep pocketed corporatists? Accepting bribes to keep their hands off?
At least Sitting Bull had the guts to stand up against the bastards.
It's the implied threat to anyone else of the same race as the victim.
It's politicians pandering to minorities. As if I (white guy) take any offense whatsoever when anyone trash mouth's Rush Limbaugh or Hillary Clinton! Chyaa, right.
Welcome to the 21st Century, when idiotic speech doesn't make you look like an idiot, it makes you a prisoner.
To sum it up: there is no real sense in which electronic communications are "inherently recorded" by any middleman, at all, any more than a telephone conversation, unless you count temporary storage, which should be set up as just that... temporary, and wiped when a file is deleted.
You haven't been reading the news? The NSA is already setting up a datacentre to record all of that traffic. Add to that, they don't believe they have "intercepted" that data unless and until an NSA drone actually accesses that data. They're lobbying Congress for approval, last I heard.
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So, what was there prior to the Big Bang?
Using just the signature, it would be more correct to say: Nothing Exploded, then, it was the beginning.
I'll grant you that may be more poetic. I'm not sure it's more correct.
In the beginning, there was nothing. Then it exploded.
Splitting hairs, but Hawking would insist there was nothing in our Universe if it existed at all, then * exploded into it creating it (I think).
The explosion marked the beginning.
Hawking (multiverse theory and all that) would disagree (by my reading of Brief History of Time).
[Have I mentioned I'm a dilettante? I only barely keep up with this stuff. If you understand the math, you should be explaining this !@#$ to me. Just sayin'.]
... and at that point, even time didn't exist.
I mean, come on! that's just scary!
...Yet Americans will cheerfully keep voting for Republicrats ...
Because Obama and the Democrats have done SUCH a good job reigning in the TSA ...
If he'd said "Demopublicans", then would you have got it?
In the beginning, there was nothing. Then it exploded.
I like your signature. But ... you do have it backwards.
So, what was there prior to the Big Bang?
If any retail chain deserves to fail it is Best Buy.
I can't disprove that but I can say in my case, Best Buy came through for me in spades. They honored the extended warranty I bought at time of purchase far better than I expected. The dog of an HP laptop I bought from them is now running as it should have been when I bought it, which is to say marvelously. Geek Squad support has been knowledgable and efficient.
I've priced components there that I'd like to pick up, and their prices are comparable to competitors in the area selling equivalent stuff. Same for prices on printer cartridges.
The big box store model for electronics may be obsolete, but it's not because Best Buy wasn't trying, in my experience. They never did anything wrong in my case. YMMV.
Fascinating reading, thanks. It confirms my knowledge of the situation adding much interesting color. However, I can't see any dates in there later than 2003. Might it not be time to revisit the issue, perhaps with more than one guy's efforts (bright and insightful though he may be)?
FYI, this (bottom of the page) doesn't exist. I'll see if I can find it at EFF (they probably moved it in the interim).
These IETF dudes sound like the A-Team of IT. They just roll into town, unfuck the network, and are gone just as mysteriously.
I wish they'd roll into ICANN and do the same.
Everybody already has a Facebook, Twitter, or Google ID.
Check your assumptions (or did you mean, "everybody that matters ..."?). I disagree. If you don't know why, you haven't been trying very hard.
North America, 23 separate countries some very warlike one who has been involved in most international wars, with no unifying structure ....seems to be mostly doing OK
You do realize that the point of all of this is to communicate, yes? So, what did you actually mean by that?
Soil fertility could be solved with existing knowledge from any number of sources, researched, correlated to local conditions, optimized for cost.... oops, when you go to implement it, that's when you hit the interesting issues.
Even before that. Even if you sort out the human problem, how do you ship truckloads of dirt back and forth across Africa? Bucket lines of peasants, or is that going to take fuel? The problem appears to be a combination of human nature and logistics. So far, the solution appears to be:
i) fertilizer to produce crops for food now.
ii) fuel (and the will) to enable shipping dirt back and forth across Africa.
iii) shoot all the Mugabes who turn up in the meantime.
iv) Profit! If it works in Africa, it could work everywhere.
If we're so smart, why hasn't sumfin like the Koch Bro's shown up to create "The /. Thinktank" to solve all the world's ills?
if it works, it becomes permanent. If it doesn't work, it's not a solution.
I think that's a fairly narrow, and deficient, definition of "works". My definition of "works" is "makes the problem go away forever and can be maintained through the foreseeable future."
The alternative is firefighting and bandaids.
Do I have to get my copy of the book out and cite page numbers?
Not everybody on /. is a douche, ya know. :-) I think when I read it, I didn't even know what a septic tank was, so wouldn't have been able to differentiate between the two if I'd tried.
So: if you do host something like this and are thinking of removing it because it is old, out of date, ... please think again.
Which reminds me of the guy in the Niven & Pournelle Lucifer's Hammer who was spraying his books with insecticide, double bagging them, then dropping 'em down a well. Thanks.
Off topic, but ...
So if old forums were converted to plain static html files that can be easily copied/indexed, then that means that all this fancy pants highend database stuff is all a big wank and long term useless as its not portable data.
What are you talking about? Gmane was/is(?) presenting Usenet groups as web forums. It's portable data (ASCII/text), and it would be just as easy to take it the other way (forum --> newsfroup format). All it takes is a db programmer with time to do it. It's hardly rocket science. You do know what the "ht" in HTML means, yes?
Spying is Spying. It is an immoral act ...
Tell that to Intrepid. Immoral act, my ass.
do we
a. remove the government, so the corporations can rape you directly
b. remove the corrupting influence of corporations, so it is accountable to the people, as intended
How are you going to accomplish "b"? The "corrupting influence of corporations" only exists if politicians are corruptible, and they almost Universally are.
and do you know what these guys did when people tried to exercise their freedoms?
So, why wasn't your much vaunted gov't there to protect them when they tried to exercise their freedoms? Sitting on its hands? Toadying to deep pocketed corporatists? Accepting bribes to keep their hands off?
At least Sitting Bull had the guts to stand up against the bastards.
Libertarians have been repeatedly shown to have the least sense of humour of all Internet kooks.
You should read up on Russian Soviet era Black Humour. Just because you don't get it, doesn't mean it isn't funny.
ok.. but you know autocomplete wouldn't provide a non-existent word..
I don't know how it's implemented. I can add words to my word processor's spellchecker personal dictionary.
Personally, I'd be satisfied if they'd just bother to proofread. Unfortunately, I think this is just going to be the way it is in the future.
I'm pretty sure he didn't say
testimount
, given that's not even a word.
Give it up. It seems most of these people are typing on cellphones and relying on autocompletion.
It's the implied threat to anyone else of the same race as the victim.
It's politicians pandering to minorities. As if I (white guy) take any offense whatsoever when anyone trash mouth's Rush Limbaugh or Hillary Clinton! Chyaa, right.
Welcome to the 21st Century, when idiotic speech doesn't make you look like an idiot, it makes you a prisoner.
To sum it up: there is no real sense in which electronic communications are "inherently recorded" by any middleman, at all, any more than a telephone conversation, unless you count temporary storage, which should be set up as just that... temporary, and wiped when a file is deleted.
You haven't been reading the news? The NSA is already setting up a datacentre to record all of that traffic. Add to that, they don't believe they have "intercepted" that data unless and until an NSA drone actually accesses that data. They're lobbying Congress for approval, last I heard.
...well-regarded in the OpenBSD community.
That is to say, both of them agree.
Ever seen an OpenBSD hackathon? I have. I'd guess 75 people were there, and that's just the devs who could make it.
A$$hole.
If you get an "Informative" mod for that, I'm giving up on Slashdot.
Er, bye? It's at +3 Informative as I look at it. BTW, don't discount his reading 2600. I used to too. Know thy enemy, and all that.
Just curious; I haven't tried it. Does it then ask you for your passphrase?
So, if I wander past your workstation and see an unsecured shell prompt, can I just do:
find $HOME -type f -exec grep ssh {} \;
then run that script, and I'm in?
V-1s and V-2s lead to the Apollo program and got Neill on the Moon.
They also led to ICBM's and hellfire missiles.
You say that like it's a bad thing. Imagine being the guy who came up with this.
I'm feeling especially moody this morning for some reason. :-P Nietzche seems to bring out the worst in me.