It's near impossible for a woman past a certain age to have sex and not develop an emotional attachment.
That is highly variable. There are many women who don't experience this, just as there are many women who do - our culture of slut shaming punishes women who don't, though you can certainly find them and talk to them yourself in various alternate sexuality groups.
It is easy to malign random strangers. Not everybody here is still a child who has done nothing dangerous in their lives.
Of *course* it is dangerous to resist an autocracy. But ensuring good information flow is a vital part of any mass political effort, why would we not follow the same spectrum of committment that the people who are actually there do?
It did not take years to spread. Bootlegs of new albums were usually widely available within a week to a month in most of the urban Soviet Block.
My example is an *extreme*, involving no computers. Once computers are involved, it is easy to make things happen much more quickly - and in the example of Libya, getting data out of the country in 12-24 hours (to make a news cycle in the West) could easily be done, given a group of dedicated volunteers. Libya is doing nothing to lock down its borders right now.
Ah, the young. Information spread quickly throughout the computer world well before the Internet - as long as you have modems it can even be almost as fast via uucp clouds, but even without them a network of sneaker net volunteers can do a hell of a lot.
The USSR tried to block the spread of bootlegs of Western music in the 70s and 80s. They did not have much success.
If I were there right now, I would be helping people set up a network of tiny servers. Use UUCP (over POTS or over a network of WiFi networks, using the pringles can antenna hack to boost range to the next node - in a pinch, sneaker net by dedicated volunteers might also bridge some gaps) and USENet software (probably INN), and you can make sure that any photos or media will spread through the whole network so that any one node's removal would not remove the data.
You need not be up 24x7, in fact it is probably smarter to stagger up times so that you only overlap with the nodes nearby you in the network.
At that point, it only takes one of the nodes being in contact with a western news agency to get the data out - whether by some sort of closed link, or by sneaker net (the eastern border is completely unguarded, CNN just walked right in).
Hell, use some micro servers and a solar panel and you're even immune to power disruption.
Information technology makes it really easy to make data persistent if you are determined to do so.
As most people were able to understand, I was speaking of the scientific Nobel prizes and not the political ones. Einstein did not win the Nobel prize as a call to action in his work on the photoelectric effect, but for his achievement.
The prize is not intended to entirely pay for the effort, it is intended to lower the cost and provide a base level of return as well as publicize the effort. The X-Prize to "space" did not pay nearly enough to pay Rutan's costs, and people don't work at getting a Nobel for the cash prize.
No, that it a white-washing of the history. Stallman did (and probably still does privately, but I haven't talked to him privately for nearly 20 years) have problems with the BSD license. I have heard him, in person, go on and on about how he believes that it is wrong for companies to be able to provide software without giving programmers the ability to modify it, and the story of how he was inspired by his frustration with being unable to fix a print driver - and invented "Free Software" in the sense of programmer "freedom" to make those modifications and specifically railed aganst the fact that companies need not include source with BSD-licensed software (SunOS and Ultrix were prime examples back then).
He has softened his (and the FSF's) stance since for tactical reasons and focused his ire elsewhere, but that is the genesis. It is really funny what revisions of history one hears as time passes, but those of us who were in the BSD camp all those years ago can not fail to remember what actually happened.
Wrong. BSD is not "Free Software," but it is "Open Source.". Free Software is a very specific term that RMS invented specifically to differentiate GPL from BSD and to highlight his philosophical differences with the latter, while the term Open Source was invented to encompass both BSD and GPL (and a range of other licenses).
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This is the reason they still haven't built a car that will run for 500,000 miles with virtually no maintenance and get 100 miles to the gallon.
That actually has more to do with the laws of thermodynamics.
Yeah. The mention of the nuclear question is from the Slashdot submitter, not TFA.
Also, let me add - this was 25 years ago. Schools seem to be much more twitchy about such things these days.
She was not fired. We were, however, an AP class.
Pfah. Metallic sodium is too much of a pain to get. Nitrogen triiodide was what really kept my classmates' attention.
Get them to find the most interesting things you can do with ammonia and iodine.
You should know the rest.
No mention of the Malware attacks named "McAfee" and "Symantec."
I hear they're even letting people with more-than-5-digit uids in. I wish the UI let you easily filter them out.
Somebody forgot to check in with his corporate masters...
Atheists in Foxholes are tired of this religiously motivated slur.
Or, you know, build some modern nuclear power plants.
It's near impossible for a woman past a certain age to have sex and not develop an emotional attachment.
That is highly variable. There are many women who don't experience this, just as there are many women who do - our culture of slut shaming punishes women who don't, though you can certainly find them and talk to them yourself in various alternate sexuality groups.
It is easy to malign random strangers. Not everybody here is still a child who has done nothing dangerous in their lives.
Of *course* it is dangerous to resist an autocracy. But ensuring good information flow is a vital part of any mass political effort, why would we not follow the same spectrum of committment that the people who are actually there do?
It did not take years to spread. Bootlegs of new albums were usually widely available within a week to a month in most of the urban Soviet Block.
My example is an *extreme*, involving no computers. Once computers are involved, it is easy to make things happen much more quickly - and in the example of Libya, getting data out of the country in 12-24 hours (to make a news cycle in the West) could easily be done, given a group of dedicated volunteers. Libya is doing nothing to lock down its borders right now.
Ah, the young. Information spread quickly throughout the computer world well before the Internet - as long as you have modems it can even be almost as fast via uucp clouds, but even without them a network of sneaker net volunteers can do a hell of a lot.
The USSR tried to block the spread of bootlegs of Western music in the 70s and 80s. They did not have much success.
If I were there right now, I would be helping people set up a network of tiny servers. Use UUCP (over POTS or over a network of WiFi networks, using the pringles can antenna hack to boost range to the next node - in a pinch, sneaker net by dedicated volunteers might also bridge some gaps) and USENet software (probably INN), and you can make sure that any photos or media will spread through the whole network so that any one node's removal would not remove the data.
You need not be up 24x7, in fact it is probably smarter to stagger up times so that you only overlap with the nodes nearby you in the network.
At that point, it only takes one of the nodes being in contact with a western news agency to get the data out - whether by some sort of closed link, or by sneaker net (the eastern border is completely unguarded, CNN just walked right in).
Hell, use some micro servers and a solar panel and you're even immune to power disruption.
Information technology makes it really easy to make data persistent if you are determined to do so.
Yeah! Let's go get sushi and not pay!
Yes, but we will be drinking single malt scotch.
"It is better, and easier, to try to worldproof your children than to try to childproof the world."
As most people were able to understand, I was speaking of the scientific Nobel prizes and not the political ones. Einstein did not win the Nobel prize as a call to action in his work on the photoelectric effect, but for his achievement.
Cue comments about $20 Mil not paying the bill.
The prize is not intended to entirely pay for the effort, it is intended to lower the cost and provide a base level of return as well as publicize the effort. The X-Prize to "space" did not pay nearly enough to pay Rutan's costs, and people don't work at getting a Nobel for the cash prize.
No, that it a white-washing of the history. Stallman did (and probably still does privately, but I haven't talked to him privately for nearly 20 years) have problems with the BSD license. I have heard him, in person, go on and on about how he believes that it is wrong for companies to be able to provide software without giving programmers the ability to modify it, and the story of how he was inspired by his frustration with being unable to fix a print driver - and invented "Free Software" in the sense of programmer "freedom" to make those modifications and specifically railed aganst the fact that companies need not include source with BSD-licensed software (SunOS and Ultrix were prime examples back then).
He has softened his (and the FSF's) stance since for tactical reasons and focused his ire elsewhere, but that is the genesis. It is really funny what revisions of history one hears as time passes, but those of us who were in the BSD camp all those years ago can not fail to remember what actually happened.
Wrong. BSD is not "Free Software," but it is "Open Source.". Free Software is a very specific term that RMS invented specifically to differentiate GPL from BSD and to highlight his philosophical differences with the latter, while the term Open Source was invented to encompass both BSD and GPL (and a range of other licenses).
http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical
You keep repeating that - you are wrong. In fact, the term "Open Source" was invented to include BSD and GPL under the same general term.
http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical
Yes, but they are idiots. The protections in the USC are rooted in the enlightenment ideals of the natural rights of humans.