Our society wasn't always like this and it doesn't have to remain this way.
And it cannot, long-term. The troubling aspect is that it appears to be a positive feedback loop, and those only get interrupted by an overload/collapse of the systems that supports them.
There's some hope that we can slipstream-replace unworking components of society with working ones, with the new opportunities that the Internet presents as a quantum leap forward. The trick is it's like changing the oil on a truck doing 80 on the Interstate while the truck driver is trying to shoot you for doing so (even though the oil is thick black syrup and he refuses to stop).
staunch free market fundamentalists (Milton Friedman trying to explain what externalities are, for instance).
FWIW, Friedman was a monetarist and believed in a partially-controlled economy. Not really a free marketeer, but not a fascist either.
Oh, and every time you talk about shutting down a corporation for a "jail" period as a punishment, you'll hear the whiny refrain, "but all the jobs!". These people view every corporation as "too big to fail", rather than seeing it as an incentive opportunity to enlist every worker as a guardian of fair behavior.
The only conclusion I can reach from this morass is that corporations are fundamentally unworkable in a free society. But most people don't care about a free society.
The result is that by elimination of dominated strategies, the best strategy in a world without patents is to not actually come up with anything new, but instead to just copy what everyone else is doing, as it gets you the same result with much lower cost.
It's not an unreasonable first guess, but that turns out to actually not be how people behave when the constraints are lifted.
A subscription ain't all it used to be cracked up to be. The 2-minute-between-comments plumb disappeared a few weeks ago. At 5 minutes I participate far less frequently than I used to.
Speaking of which, and to further erode comment quality (not going to wait 5 minutes to post on another thread), I'll just mention that the kde-redhat project has been doing this on Fedora for about seven years and it works well.
"mSATA solid state drives performs extremely well" It has no power loss protection capacitors, so if it performs extremely well, then it also lose data extremely well.
So use one of the filesystems that can deal with this situation quite reliably. Or if your filesystem can't deal, then don't use these drives. Right tool for the job and all that.
The best part of using SSD's? You learn to make your backups religiously, because they will die and they will die fast. I have some very long-lived SSD's in production (SLC) but each one that I've had fail (I have a stack of about 20 on my workbench which may or may not go back for 'lifetime warranty' claims - do I really want replacements of crappy SSD's?) has gone from perfect to unreadable in minutes.
So, yes, if you fuck with the clocks like an inconsiderate fucking fucker, I'll lose an hour of sleep.
Yes, but what you fail to understand is that people have to go to work, and the times of day and night shift over the year. It's not like businesses could just adopt "winter hours" and "summer hours" - everybody must upset their entire day to accommodate it.
Well, except for Home Depot, Walmart, all the parks, and all those businesses that do have different summer hours. But nobody else could possibly do that - it would be pure anarchy. I mean, children wouldn't even get to go to sleep while it's till light out in June if we did something crazy like keep the clocks the same all year!
Dozens of lives lost to heart attacks (and the few billion in admin time) is a small price to pay for the soothing hand of Congress regulating our clocks twice a year.
Thirdly, why did a shuttle pilot need to be sent out on what all the scientists believed to be a suicide mission? It's the 24th century. Why does it need to be piloted at all by anything other than the computer?
They live in a socialist utopia where scarcity has been eliminated and humanoid androids have existed since at least Kirk's time.
The only reasonable explanation is that they must execute android builders (err, re-program...) and they desperately need jobs for people to do.
SSL and CAs are far from perfect, but the situation is a hell of a lot better than if they weren't around...
And sooner or later (sooner, I hope) we're going to move to multiple-CA attestations in the web's use of TLS. Go ahead, NSA, compromise three out of five of my CA's whist I send them each a CSR...
I'll bet this is going to be patched in the git repositor within a half hour.
Reverting would be easy - I'm don't know enough about X to understand if the IsMaster(mouse) test can easily be augmented to not break StickyKeys, but fixing a null pointer dereference is something that needs to be done.
But for just the users' use case (and people will hate this) - this is where paying somebody to deal with the problem for you comes in.
A decent hacker would have done the work you did in the first hour, created a distro patch in the second, and put up a repo with the new packages in the third. Throw in an hour for testing.
It seems likely that there are enough people affected by this that if they all threw in a dollar it would have been done by the next day. What we might have here is a community coordination problem, not just a software bug.
I believe their argument is that flying is a privilege, much like driving a car or getting a visa.
It's not even arguable:
U.S. Code S. 40103 - Sovereignty and use of airspace (a) Sovereignty and Public Right of Transit. (2) A citizen of the United States has a public right of transit through the navigable airspace.
Driving is not a privilege either - it's essential to the right of Free Assembly (as is air travel in 2014, incidentally). Don't believe the claptrap in the driver's manual.
Yeah, I didn't realize until rob's reply that the link actually does contain a way to sign up for their pricing database/exchange. That does seem nifty but I didn't get that from the summary.
I think it's because this issue in particular is equated with fundamental freedom
Actually it's civil privilege. Fundamental freedom involves *not* having the State decide who may marry whom (as is the natural state of things). The next six oppressed groups in line aren't feeling the freedom quite yet.
Was Eich bigoted or extremely libertarian in his opposition? Could be either. The trick with demanding a particular political position on an issue is knowing first whether a political solution is even feasible or desirable.
FB admins - thank you for paying the developers for the open source work they do. I've been using flashcache with great success in one deployment for almost two years now and am looking to start with hhvm. I didn't even know about the block work.
Obviously kudos to the developers too for spending valuable years on it as well.
That sure doesn't sound like they're even pretending to be a research company they're patent trolls plain as day says it right on the first page of the site
Don't be silly - the patent system only promotes the progress of science and the useful arts. It says so right in the Constitution. Government-granted monopolies are good for the economy.
RDP can remote single applications and has been able to for years. No full desktop required.
Do you happen to know how RDP handles windows that occur outside the root of the first window in single application mode? Does it "just work" with a new client-side window?
Do you really care about remote X protocol, or do you want a remote window with the app on it? 'Cause Wayland checked in per-app RDP a year ago and making a chromeless RDP viewer ought to be pretty straightforward (if it doesn't exist already). ssh handles X specially - handling RDP specially could be something it adds.
For some people the distinction matters, but for others it's good enough (or better), depending on which needs more bandwidth, as X can sometimes be an unreasonable pig on the wire (see also LBX, NX, and x2go).
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Our society wasn't always like this and it doesn't have to remain this way.
And it cannot, long-term. The troubling aspect is that it appears to be a positive feedback loop, and those only get interrupted by an overload/collapse of the systems that supports them.
There's some hope that we can slipstream-replace unworking components of society with working ones, with the new opportunities that the Internet presents as a quantum leap forward. The trick is it's like changing the oil on a truck doing 80 on the Interstate while the truck driver is trying to shoot you for doing so (even though the oil is thick black syrup and he refuses to stop).
staunch free market fundamentalists (Milton Friedman trying to explain what externalities are, for instance).
FWIW, Friedman was a monetarist and believed in a partially-controlled economy. Not really a free marketeer, but not a fascist either.
Oh, and every time you talk about shutting down a corporation for a "jail" period as a punishment, you'll hear the whiny refrain, "but all the jobs!". These people view every corporation as "too big to fail", rather than seeing it as an incentive opportunity to enlist every worker as a guardian of fair behavior.
The only conclusion I can reach from this morass is that corporations are fundamentally unworkable in a free society. But most people don't care about a free society.
That keyboard looks like a blackberry keyboard to me. It's a blatant ripoff of the design.
That seems stupid - they should have ripped off the Treo design - straight rows of keys don't make sense for actual human thumbs.
The result is that by elimination of dominated strategies, the best strategy in a world without patents is to not actually come up with anything new, but instead to just copy what everyone else is doing, as it gets you the same result with much lower cost.
It's not an unreasonable first guess, but that turns out to actually not be how people behave when the constraints are lifted.
A subscription ain't all it used to be cracked up to be. The 2-minute-between-comments plumb disappeared a few weeks ago. At 5 minutes I participate far less frequently than I used to.
Speaking of which, and to further erode comment quality (not going to wait 5 minutes to post on another thread), I'll just mention that the kde-redhat project has been doing this on Fedora for about seven years and it works well.
http://mirror.unl.edu/kde-redh...
Rex and his crew do a great job.
"mSATA solid state drives performs extremely well" It has no power loss protection capacitors, so if it performs extremely well, then it also lose data extremely well.
So use one of the filesystems that can deal with this situation quite reliably. Or if your filesystem can't deal, then don't use these drives. Right tool for the job and all that.
The best part of using SSD's? You learn to make your backups religiously, because they will die and they will die fast. I have some very long-lived SSD's in production (SLC) but each one that I've had fail (I have a stack of about 20 on my workbench which may or may not go back for 'lifetime warranty' claims - do I really want replacements of crappy SSD's?) has gone from perfect to unreadable in minutes.
2014 and they're still Hot & Crazy.
So, yes, if you fuck with the clocks like an inconsiderate fucking fucker, I'll lose an hour of sleep.
Yes, but what you fail to understand is that people have to go to work, and the times of day and night shift over the year. It's not like businesses could just adopt "winter hours" and "summer hours" - everybody must upset their entire day to accommodate it.
Well, except for Home Depot, Walmart, all the parks, and all those businesses that do have different summer hours. But nobody else could possibly do that - it would be pure anarchy. I mean, children wouldn't even get to go to sleep while it's till light out in June if we did something crazy like keep the clocks the same all year!
Dozens of lives lost to heart attacks (and the few billion in admin time) is a small price to pay for the soothing hand of Congress regulating our clocks twice a year.
some busy bodies
Beware the Little Eichmanns.
Thirdly, why did a shuttle pilot need to be sent out on what all the scientists believed to be a suicide mission? It's the 24th century. Why does it need to be piloted at all by anything other than the computer?
They live in a socialist utopia where scarcity has been eliminated and humanoid androids have existed since at least Kirk's time.
The only reasonable explanation is that they must execute android builders (err, re-program...) and they desperately need jobs for people to do.
SSL and CAs are far from perfect, but the situation is a hell of a lot better than if they weren't around...
And sooner or later (sooner, I hope) we're going to move to multiple-CA attestations in the web's use of TLS. Go ahead, NSA, compromise three out of five of my CA's whist I send them each a CSR...
I'll bet this is going to be patched in the git repositor within a half hour.
Reverting would be easy - I'm don't know enough about X to understand if the IsMaster(mouse) test can easily be augmented to not break StickyKeys, but fixing a null pointer dereference is something that needs to be done.
But for just the users' use case (and people will hate this) - this is where paying somebody to deal with the problem for you comes in.
A decent hacker would have done the work you did in the first hour, created a distro patch in the second, and put up a repo with the new packages in the third. Throw in an hour for testing.
It seems likely that there are enough people affected by this that if they all threw in a dollar it would have been done by the next day. What we might have here is a community coordination problem, not just a software bug.
I believe their argument is that flying is a privilege, much like driving a car or getting a visa.
It's not even arguable:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/usc...
Driving is not a privilege either - it's essential to the right of Free Assembly (as is air travel in 2014, incidentally). Don't believe the claptrap in the driver's manual.
If the next Justice had to come from sitting judges, he'd be on my short list.
Isn't carbon fiber the magical Space Elevator material
No, that's carbon nanotubes - nobody even knows how to make them long enough to use in a bike rim yet nor how to use them in groups.
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Whoa. The kids can catch up with Slashdot nerd culture.
Yeah, I didn't realize until rob's reply that the link actually does contain a way to sign up for their pricing database/exchange. That does seem nifty but I didn't get that from the summary.
I think it's because this issue in particular is equated with fundamental freedom
Actually it's civil privilege. Fundamental freedom involves *not* having the State decide who may marry whom (as is the natural state of things). The next six oppressed groups in line aren't feeling the freedom quite yet.
Was Eich bigoted or extremely libertarian in his opposition? Could be either. The trick with demanding a particular political position on an issue is knowing first whether a political solution is even feasible or desirable.
FB admins - thank you for paying the developers for the open source work they do. I've been using flashcache with great success in one deployment for almost two years now and am looking to start with hhvm. I didn't even know about the block work.
Obviously kudos to the developers too for spending valuable years on it as well.
The never-attainable struggle for perfection and certainty is the source of much of human suffering.
Netflix has plenty of shows - you can have a lot of fun watching them. It's a good value. Other shows can be had from other sources.
There are also mountains to climb, people to see, and hungry to feed.
How is that not probable cause for a warrant?
So Nortel was not advancing the sciences and useful arts?
hey, that's the USPTO's job! Nortel couldn't have done it without them.
That sure doesn't sound like they're even pretending to be a research company they're patent trolls plain as day says it right on the first page of the site
Don't be silly - the patent system only promotes the progress of science and the useful arts. It says so right in the Constitution. Government-granted monopolies are good for the economy.
RDP can remote single applications and has been able to for years. No full desktop required.
Do you happen to know how RDP handles windows that occur outside the root of the first window in single application mode? Does it "just work" with a new client-side window?
Do you really care about remote X protocol, or do you want a remote window with the app on it? 'Cause Wayland checked in per-app RDP a year ago and making a chromeless RDP viewer ought to be pretty straightforward (if it doesn't exist already). ssh handles X specially - handling RDP specially could be something it adds.
For some people the distinction matters, but for others it's good enough (or better), depending on which needs more bandwidth, as X can sometimes be an unreasonable pig on the wire (see also LBX, NX, and x2go).