They still see everything that happens, and that too is BY DESIGN.
Agreed. Bitcoin died when they refuted Zerocoin. We won't return to the founders' ideals of currency with Bitcoin. Of course, many here would quickly characterize our founders as 'criminals' (and legally they would be - George Washington would be put away for life by the BATF on several counts).
According to this, Lessig was talking about a remix in one of this lectures, a music matcher downloaded his lecture, found it to contain the song 'owned' by this label, and the label sent out an automated harassment lawsuit threat to Larry.
So, he counter-sued. It's not clear if he got any concessions from the label about using automatic scanners directly (as the article said was one of his goals), or if just having somebody finally fight back is the signal to them to back down. One can imagine a group of people posting obviously protected content and waiting for their chance to file counter-suits, probably first against a bit player in the music label sphere (the ideal company to target for precedent is the least-well-off label that is using this scanning technology - being overseas is a bonus).
Note that this *isn't* about complaining though Google's no-help-desk.
why not take care of your own? I got news for you, every other country takes care of their own. why are we so 'open' to the point of killing our own people via slow starvation?
It's complicated. The reason H1B workers are desirable is because they're cheaper. They're cheaper for two reasons: 1) they can be threatened into working crazy hours. As if US IT workers don't, though. So, 2) they have much lower cost structures. In the US everything is so expensive due to taxes and mandates that workers have become just too expensive to afford in highly competitive businesses, especially global ones. H1B folks come here without much cost load, and due to their salary can't take one on before they get shipped back.
But fixing that problem requires backing down on Leviathan, and it's far easier to just add more H1B's.
They put acetaminophen/Tylenol in a lot of medications
This is so bad to the point that I've found it necessary to order some of the constituent ingredients of various cold remedies off Amazon because I can only get them locally compounded with acetaminophen (paracetamol for our overseas folks) in the big name brands and their store-brand copycats. Fortunately, you can get a couple hundred doses of, say, expectorant, for the cost of a dozen doses of compounded gelcaps. Mix and match in the others as needed - taking drugs you don't need is at best silly.
Sometimes regulating the hell out of things decreases its availability for good use and jump starts the black market for bad use.
Just look at the current refer madness - that's at least starting to somewhat abate. There was just a story yesterday about the Annapolis police chief, who quoted a DailyCurrant article to a State committee about a coroner who had to put five college students in body bags before breakfast (due to marijuana overdose). The Chief later apologized, half heartedly, but the level of rank incompetence is astonishing - he doesn't even know enough about the topic to spot satire, but he's happy to cage people for it anyway.
Meanwhile, suffering patients often can't even get a little bit of pain relief (without facing criminal charges).
He should really work on banning the USD. It's used for commission of trillions of dollars worth of crimes every year and there's no real means of enforcement for [bona fide] money laundering operations.
I wonder if his office knows that bitcoin isn't really anonymous?
What are your views on the recent NSA activities and how do you think it will change free software & the internet?
Along those lines, I've casually followed Richard's advocacy of open hardware for a while. I didn't truly understand the need until I started to read some of the Snowden briefings on things like SWAP, which is almost as terrifying as the undetectable router exploits they've been deploying for five years or more.
This leads to the inescapable conclusion that one cannot have a secure computing system unless the entire stack is open, possibly right down to the CPU. I long ago learned not to dismiss Richard's ideas, but this one took an example to understand.
But still, now that we're just getting people to understand that in order to have secure software, it has to be free and open, very few appreciate that the whole thing is still vulnerable to secret hardware, and yet, secret hardware predominates the market and perhaps even owns the entire middle and high-end.
Question, then: how do we get from here to a free hardware ecosystem that can compete in the market with secret hardware?
We have both people worried about space elevator cables crashing to earth if an airplane hits one and people concerned about SETI not picking up incidental radio leakage from alien civilizations on the same story.
Can I get somebody to please express concern about the LHC creating a black hole on Earth so I can go home for the day?
So... buy WoW, create lvl 1 character, buy expansion, instant level 90? Sounds to me like you don't have to accomplish much...
If the game is any good, those level 90 players won't survive without skills anyway.
I don't play this game, so I can't really say if it's any good or not, but as a general rule, if the level does not equate to actual skills, then it's not a very useful measure (except perhaps of time or money spent).
Why is that "artificial"? If anything, the "natural" level of wages would be in a free market with no constraints on the movement of labor, which would be even lower.
Not necessarily. Imagine if some government had capped the number of jobs in Silicon Valley in the early 70's, in order to ensure that the existing jobs maintained a high wage.
Some(many?) employers are sociopaths and will take you for a ride on future promises.
And they have legal systems for doing so - how many times have we heard of developers promised 2% of the company, only to find out that their shares were in a dilutable class and wound up with next to nothing?
I once had a friend who was offered a relatively large chunk (~5%) of shares in a company with an interesting premise but very little pay. I suggested he ask for a portion (1/5th) of those promised shares as undilutable since he'd be one of the first 10 employees.
The managers hung up the phone on him immediately and never called him back. Bullet dodged.
So all this stuff he's imagining is basically him creating his own stories to stave off his fear of death."
What makes you think it's his imagination? He claims to only be applying Moore's Law and similar scientific trend observations to technology. I'd have to check his 2015 predictions from the 90's, but last I looked he was pretty close.
SMS and iMessage are the same app on iPhones; the phone chooses the cheaper iMessage alternative when available. It's too bad that Apple have not implemented iMessage on Android though.
The way little girls text on iMessage, that would force the Android user into an unlimited plan. Which I suppose is what Apple is counting on.
What's mind blowing is that Apple has not released an iMessage app for Android, so iPhone users aren't forced to ditch it when one of their friends switches.
The heretics just get shunned and ostracised from the social circle. At least in upper-middle-class grade-school cliques.
Seriously, $240? If the connections could be made for $240, customers would be paying for it themselves.
I'm in a similar area and the cost for extending cable broadband is quoted by the incumbent at $60,000 per mile. That works out to about $5K per household in the typical area.
Oh, and I've had a cable contractor spec out the build cost* - the lines themselves are under $12K per mile, fully installed to spec and terminated. Still, that's closer to $1000 per household, before cabinet costs.
Don't believe for a minute that the cabinet costs $48K or that the provider should have $0 investment (since they'll be collecting monthly fees), but still $240 doesn't do much at all.
* we were looking to DIY the neighborhood but ultimately could not get/rent pole space from the ILEC. There is currently 1 wire on the pole, owned by the ILEC. Supposedly the Town probably had lease rights on the pole, but the contracts burned in a Town Hall fire 60 years ago.
I have issues with them, too; but I'd rather a non-corporate entity build out and even own our infrastructure than profitmongers!
Non-corporate is good, profit-less is bad. Profit is the information signal that things are being done correctly. Take profit out of the system and it's very difficult to know what customers want and what they don't. Humans are famous for saying they want this or will do that, but when you ask them to pay for it or to do something, their true feelings become evident.
roads, water, electricity, bridges: all were started by government and that was the major funder.
What, no. Most infrastructure that is government-owned was originally privately owned and taken over by government, often seized (e.g. the turnpikes). Your instincts are right, but get the history right too.
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Your currency is one for criminals.
Wait, I thought the USD was the preferred currency of criminals?
They still see everything that happens, and that too is BY DESIGN.
Agreed. Bitcoin died when they refuted Zerocoin. We won't return to the founders' ideals of currency with Bitcoin. Of course, many here would quickly characterize our founders as 'criminals' (and legally they would be - George Washington would be put away for life by the BATF on several counts).
According to this, Lessig was talking about a remix in one of this lectures, a music matcher downloaded his lecture, found it to contain the song 'owned' by this label, and the label sent out an automated harassment lawsuit threat to Larry.
So, he counter-sued. It's not clear if he got any concessions from the label about using automatic scanners directly (as the article said was one of his goals), or if just having somebody finally fight back is the signal to them to back down. One can imagine a group of people posting obviously protected content and waiting for their chance to file counter-suits, probably first against a bit player in the music label sphere (the ideal company to target for precedent is the least-well-off label that is using this scanning technology - being overseas is a bonus).
Note that this *isn't* about complaining though Google's no-help-desk.
why not take care of your own? I got news for you, every other country takes care of their own. why are we so 'open' to the point of killing our own people via slow starvation?
It's complicated. The reason H1B workers are desirable is because they're cheaper. They're cheaper for two reasons: 1) they can be threatened into working crazy hours. As if US IT workers don't, though. So, 2) they have much lower cost structures. In the US everything is so expensive due to taxes and mandates that workers have become just too expensive to afford in highly competitive businesses, especially global ones. H1B folks come here without much cost load, and due to their salary can't take one on before they get shipped back.
But fixing that problem requires backing down on Leviathan, and it's far easier to just add more H1B's.
They put acetaminophen/Tylenol in a lot of medications
This is so bad to the point that I've found it necessary to order some of the constituent ingredients of various cold remedies off Amazon because I can only get them locally compounded with acetaminophen (paracetamol for our overseas folks) in the big name brands and their store-brand copycats. Fortunately, you can get a couple hundred doses of, say, expectorant, for the cost of a dozen doses of compounded gelcaps. Mix and match in the others as needed - taking drugs you don't need is at best silly.
stilted non-denials from people who should have known better and vicious mockery from everybody else
Oh, you've had to speak with Exchange admins who can't figure out what HELO is too?
To be fair, he said 'blue', not purple.
Sometimes regulating the hell out of things decreases its availability for good use and jump starts the black market for bad use.
Just look at the current refer madness - that's at least starting to somewhat abate. There was just a story yesterday about the Annapolis police chief, who quoted a DailyCurrant article to a State committee about a coroner who had to put five college students in body bags before breakfast (due to marijuana overdose). The Chief later apologized, half heartedly, but the level of rank incompetence is astonishing - he doesn't even know enough about the topic to spot satire, but he's happy to cage people for it anyway.
Meanwhile, suffering patients often can't even get a little bit of pain relief (without facing criminal charges).
He should really work on banning the USD. It's used for commission of trillions of dollars worth of crimes every year and there's no real means of enforcement for [bona fide] money laundering operations.
I wonder if his office knows that bitcoin isn't really anonymous?
What are your views on the recent NSA activities and how do you think it will change free software & the internet?
Along those lines, I've casually followed Richard's advocacy of open hardware for a while. I didn't truly understand the need until I started to read some of the Snowden briefings on things like SWAP, which is almost as terrifying as the undetectable router exploits they've been deploying for five years or more.
This leads to the inescapable conclusion that one cannot have a secure computing system unless the entire stack is open, possibly right down to the CPU. I long ago learned not to dismiss Richard's ideas, but this one took an example to understand.
But still, now that we're just getting people to understand that in order to have secure software, it has to be free and open, very few appreciate that the whole thing is still vulnerable to secret hardware, and yet, secret hardware predominates the market and perhaps even owns the entire middle and high-end.
Question, then: how do we get from here to a free hardware ecosystem that can compete in the market with secret hardware?
Why is it postmodern technology? Because it deconstructs the cells?
Nah, 'cause it was barely 'modern' six years ago when PBS did a special on the process.
We have both people worried about space elevator cables crashing to earth if an airplane hits one and people concerned about SETI not picking up incidental radio leakage from alien civilizations on the same story.
Can I get somebody to please express concern about the LHC creating a black hole on Earth so I can go home for the day?
So... buy WoW, create lvl 1 character, buy expansion, instant level 90? Sounds to me like you don't have to accomplish much...
If the game is any good, those level 90 players won't survive without skills anyway.
I don't play this game, so I can't really say if it's any good or not, but as a general rule, if the level does not equate to actual skills, then it's not a very useful measure (except perhaps of time or money spent).
Why is that "artificial"? If anything, the "natural" level of wages would be in a free market with no constraints on the movement of labor, which would be even lower.
Not necessarily. Imagine if some government had capped the number of jobs in Silicon Valley in the early 70's, in order to ensure that the existing jobs maintained a high wage.
Some(many?) employers are sociopaths and will take you for a ride on future promises.
And they have legal systems for doing so - how many times have we heard of developers promised 2% of the company, only to find out that their shares were in a dilutable class and wound up with next to nothing?
I once had a friend who was offered a relatively large chunk (~5%) of shares in a company with an interesting premise but very little pay. I suggested he ask for a portion (1/5th) of those promised shares as undilutable since he'd be one of the first 10 employees.
The managers hung up the phone on him immediately and never called him back. Bullet dodged.
I was expecting Brian May.
Just like planets had to orbit in circles because circles are beautiful?
That's just 3D confusion. Planets' orbits are 'beautiful' straight lines in 4D spacetime.
We can forgive previous generations for not seeing that part of the universe for its true nature. Future generations will say the same about us.
SHIELD demands a tool that costs less than a penny per unit
They should also demand a replacement eye for Nick Fury, for all the good it'll do.
the dime only has value because it can hire someone else
That might also indicate a problem with current dimes.
enchanting the relevant classes.
?UNDEFINED VALUE
So all this stuff he's imagining is basically him creating his own stories to stave off his fear of death."
What makes you think it's his imagination? He claims to only be applying Moore's Law and similar scientific trend observations to technology. I'd have to check his 2015 predictions from the 90's, but last I looked he was pretty close.
SMS and iMessage are the same app on iPhones; the phone chooses the cheaper iMessage alternative when available. It's too bad that Apple have not implemented iMessage on Android though.
The way little girls text on iMessage, that would force the Android user into an unlimited plan. Which I suppose is what Apple is counting on.
What's mind blowing is that Apple has not released an iMessage app for Android, so iPhone users aren't forced to ditch it when one of their friends switches.
The heretics just get shunned and ostracised from the social circle. At least in upper-middle-class grade-school cliques.
That's pretty much guaranteed to show up tomorrow, or at least the next time a new discovery is made (so maybe 5 minutes from now?).
Oh, but it's Ray - we have to say something to indicate that it's "Crazy Uncle Ray", right? Try harder - Ray is looking pretty smart right about now.
Seriously, $240? If the connections could be made for $240, customers would be paying for it themselves.
I'm in a similar area and the cost for extending cable broadband is quoted by the incumbent at $60,000 per mile. That works out to about $5K per household in the typical area.
Oh, and I've had a cable contractor spec out the build cost* - the lines themselves are under $12K per mile, fully installed to spec and terminated. Still, that's closer to $1000 per household, before cabinet costs.
Don't believe for a minute that the cabinet costs $48K or that the provider should have $0 investment (since they'll be collecting monthly fees), but still $240 doesn't do much at all.
* we were looking to DIY the neighborhood but ultimately could not get/rent pole space from the ILEC. There is currently 1 wire on the pole, owned by the ILEC. Supposedly the Town probably had lease rights on the pole, but the contracts burned in a Town Hall fire 60 years ago.
Really, putting a locks on cockpit doors was just about the right response.
How do cockpit doors achieve behavioral compliance conditioning?
I have issues with them, too; but I'd rather a non-corporate entity build out and even own our infrastructure than profitmongers!
Non-corporate is good, profit-less is bad. Profit is the information signal that things are being done correctly. Take profit out of the system and it's very difficult to know what customers want and what they don't. Humans are famous for saying they want this or will do that, but when you ask them to pay for it or to do something, their true feelings become evident.
roads, water, electricity, bridges: all were started by government and that was the major funder.
What, no. Most infrastructure that is government-owned was originally privately owned and taken over by government, often seized (e.g. the turnpikes). Your instincts are right, but get the history right too.