If self-regulation worked, UL would have gone out of business long ago.
I think jcr might have conflated self-regulation with voluntary regulation. UL is a great example of the latter. As they say, "good ideas don't require force".
Why would we want to eliminate limited liability? It's an extremely useful means for someone who has no role in operating a business to invest in a business.
Yeah, it's extremely useful for the investor because the risks are socialized while the gains are privatized. Meanwhile, this system has completely destroyed what used to be a promising system of government, at least in the US. It's far too high of a cost and unnecessary for the advancement of commerce (assuming a more reasonable judicial system can be established to make the handling of liability claims reasonable).
The price eBay payed was so astronomical that it could only have been with back-door funding from the Government. The point was to get Skype out of Estonian hands because there was no reliable way for the NSA to tap into it.
"It's better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier. Life should malleable and progressive; working from idea to idea permits that. Beliefs anchor you to certain points and limit growth; new ideas can't generate. Life becomes stagnant." - the Apostle Rufus
The basic technique has been used in the laboratory for ages
Yeah, a friend of mine worked for a private research lab a decade ago and they were curing MS in mice models using an HIV vector, as just SOP (the HIV vector part was already old at that point). BTW, they abandoned that work for something that could pay the bills as they didn't have a business model that could earn enough to pay for the FDA-mandated trials. He tells me this kind of thing happens at labs all over the country and when it's a for-profit lab, they don't publish if they're going to reuse part of the tech in their next endeavor.
Flamebait story titles are highly correlated with non-productive comment sections to a degree such that the click revenue from my views won't increase beyond this point. I wonder how many others behave similarly.
On the other hand distributions like Fedora, Arch, Mandriva forks or Gentoo did the right thing in following the "latest and greatest"
I think the trick here, for the governance of the distros, is when the latest isn't the greatest. "Follow upstream" is an easy approach, but some sort of criteria ought to be thought about for when doing so is going to cause damage.
My recent Fedora upgrade pain was around the MariaDB/mysql swap-out. Improper dependencies aside, that's the kind of change that was handled properly.
Riiiight.... I read Computer Shopper for the articles. Yeah, that's the ticket, the articles.
I used to buy quite a bit from NewEgg. Before they charged me a $350 restocking fee for an unopened extra switch that had been ordered for a project. Amazon Prime gets it here faster anyway.
This one might just go away due to market pressures. USPS won't bring a package to my house, but UPS and FedEx are here several times a week. At this point, USPS has no cost advantage for packages, so I actively avoid them whenever possible. The cost curves show USPS becoming far more expensive than UPS or FedEx in the next few years, so I'm not sure who will use them for package shipping anymore.
Seems to me the point is to ensure remote people get access, not to make the system have a higher utility overall.
There are places in my town that aren't on the plan to get broadband in the next 10-year window. None of them are more than three miles from a decent fiber and many of them are low-income. So it'll be 2024 and they'll still only have dial-up (especially those on the north side of hills).
Meanwhile the telecomm companies are charging $30-$60K per mile of cable pull if those people want to get hooked up, thanks to their monopolies. Seems like cronyism as usual to me.
You could run certainly run Ruby on any mobile device if it had a magic garbage collector that solved everybody's problems. Except there's no such thing that's immune to idiot developers who allocate memory or variables and leave reference to them hanging around. The same problems apply to java on Android.
TFS hasn't inspired me to read TFA, so sorry if it's explained there.
See, that's a very responsible attitude, but so rare. Even driving by the sea wall in Seabright always made me wary, especially when the crashers were coming onto the road.
When I was a kid, we'd walk the boardwalk in Point Pleasant and it was lined with bungalows. They all dated from before the National Flood Insurance Program. Nobody would insure those against water, so they weren't much more than shacks that could take some wind. My friend's grandmother owned one, and it was a place to go to hang out at the shore, but we always new a big hurricane might just make it disappear.
Fast forward to today, and Italianate mansions line that same boardwalk, all owned by millionaires. The poor people in the rest of the country now subsidize their high-life coastal living.
Wow! You mean a dodgy video (or other media file) can cause a player to stop execution and end in a controlled manner.
Is VLC actually exiting? It should put up a "this media file is corrupt" message with perhaps a backtrace under a disclosure pane. But that's a usability issue, not a security one.
VLC over-priced? What planet are you on, it's a free in both senses of the word, you plank!
Adjust the squelch on your sarcasm meter. He means that big expensive projects tend to pay exorbitant licensing fees to software companies and don't bother with free software.
Can the flight control system verify the sensor readings before launch? "Sensor 7 says the rocket is pointing towards the Earth on the launchpad - we might want to have a look".
/. has become ultra conservative when it comes to interface changes.
Interestingly, that conservatism also leaks over into 'vendor' loyalty. Rightly, GNOME 3 should never have been integrated into the major desktop linux distros. The idea that "we like what upstream has done with v2, and now they're going to v3, so we need to go to v3" is a degree of loyalty that ought to be proven, not granted.
It's probably a hard lesson to learn, but perhaps a necessary step for the ecosystem. Given the decision again, I wonder how many might have switched to LXDE, XFCE, or KDE as their default GUI.
I hope the rigor that was missed on GNOME 3 is applied to the Wayland/et. al. stack progression (and others making very large changes). That's a bit conservative too, but good progressivism in any field of endeavor ought to have a merit filter and not merely embrace change for the sake of change.
That's a good insight. I wish the governors of the major linux desktop distros would have realized this much earlier (or even today in some cases) and either not gone along with GNOME 3 or relegated it to a niche spin (which it does deserve as an interesting alternative technology).
I am only concerned with whether individual rights are being upheld or violated.
Except we're talking about the "rights" of corporations here, which are government fictions. If Apple wants to give up its corporate form, I'm right there with you. But I rather suspect what they want are the rights of a natural person without the liabilities that come with it. The (theoretical) trade for the corporate protection is the subjugation to regulation that natural persons (should) avoid.
And yes, I realize that many companies form a corporation to avoid the ravages of a dysfunctional court system. SNAFU.
There's a category of neighborhood electric vehicles [wikipedia.org] that are basically glorified golf carts. They can go about 30 mph, in some states can legally go on roads up to posted speed limits of 45 mph, and don't weigh much.
Yeah, so banned from the same roads that motorcycles can drive on. I was looking at one of those Italian enclosed scooters for commuting to work (10 miles of country road), but I'd rather have 4-wheel stability.
I think it's like alcohol and tobacco - if they weren't grandfathered, the Nanny State would never approve them today. It's the government's job to protect people from themselves, dontcha know?
I'm doing my part by tagging everyone in my vicinity.
Sounds like my neighborhood, mostly upper middle class folk. "You don't have a gun? Are you poor?" That's just the culture. We also have the among the lowest crime rates in the country here.
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A nasty accident, but nobody died
Not yet anyway. I assume most of those cargo containers are floating around the Indian Ocean at this point?
If self-regulation worked, UL would have gone out of business long ago.
I think jcr might have conflated self-regulation with voluntary regulation. UL is a great example of the latter. As they say, "good ideas don't require force".
Why would we want to eliminate limited liability? It's an extremely useful means for someone who has no role in operating a business to invest in a business.
Yeah, it's extremely useful for the investor because the risks are socialized while the gains are privatized. Meanwhile, this system has completely destroyed what used to be a promising system of government, at least in the US. It's far too high of a cost and unnecessary for the advancement of commerce (assuming a more reasonable judicial system can be established to make the handling of liability claims reasonable).
The price eBay payed was so astronomical that it could only have been with back-door funding from the Government. The point was to get Skype out of Estonian hands because there was no reliable way for the NSA to tap into it.
<neo>whoa</neo>
you're basically left with no beliefs at all.
The basic technique has been used in the laboratory for ages
Yeah, a friend of mine worked for a private research lab a decade ago and they were curing MS in mice models using an HIV vector, as just SOP (the HIV vector part was already old at that point). BTW, they abandoned that work for something that could pay the bills as they didn't have a business model that could earn enough to pay for the FDA-mandated trials. He tells me this kind of thing happens at labs all over the country and when it's a for-profit lab, they don't publish if they're going to reuse part of the tech in their next endeavor.
confirming for the bandwidth challenged. Also firefighting foam on the pavement.
There are interesting longitudinal lines across the scorched area - is the composite body laid down in strips?
Flamebait story titles are highly correlated with non-productive comment sections to a degree such that the click revenue from my views won't increase beyond this point. I wonder how many others behave similarly.
On the other hand distributions like Fedora, Arch, Mandriva forks or Gentoo did the right thing in following the "latest and greatest"
I think the trick here, for the governance of the distros, is when the latest isn't the greatest. "Follow upstream" is an easy approach, but some sort of criteria ought to be thought about for when doing so is going to cause damage.
My recent Fedora upgrade pain was around the MariaDB/mysql swap-out. Improper dependencies aside, that's the kind of change that was handled properly.
and a cry went up from the dark corners of campus, "woo-hoo, strip-search the co-eds."
Yes, but ComputerShopper at articles too...
Riiiight .... I read Computer Shopper for the articles. Yeah, that's the ticket, the articles.
I used to buy quite a bit from NewEgg. Before they charged me a $350 restocking fee for an unopened extra switch that had been ordered for a project. Amazon Prime gets it here faster anyway.
This one might just go away due to market pressures. USPS won't bring a package to my house, but UPS and FedEx are here several times a week. At this point, USPS has no cost advantage for packages, so I actively avoid them whenever possible. The cost curves show USPS becoming far more expensive than UPS or FedEx in the next few years, so I'm not sure who will use them for package shipping anymore.
Seems to me the point is to ensure remote people get access, not to make the system have a higher utility overall.
There are places in my town that aren't on the plan to get broadband in the next 10-year window. None of them are more than three miles from a decent fiber and many of them are low-income. So it'll be 2024 and they'll still only have dial-up (especially those on the north side of hills).
Meanwhile the telecomm companies are charging $30-$60K per mile of cable pull if those people want to get hooked up, thanks to their monopolies. Seems like cronyism as usual to me.
You could run certainly run Ruby on any mobile device if it had a magic garbage collector that solved everybody's problems. Except there's no such thing that's immune to idiot developers who allocate memory or variables and leave reference to them hanging around. The same problems apply to java on Android.
TFS hasn't inspired me to read TFA, so sorry if it's explained there.
Who's worked out the relative energy costs of towing an ice shelf vs. doing desalinization?
I knew I was renting the place I lived
See, that's a very responsible attitude, but so rare. Even driving by the sea wall in Seabright always made me wary, especially when the crashers were coming onto the road.
When I was a kid, we'd walk the boardwalk in Point Pleasant and it was lined with bungalows. They all dated from before the National Flood Insurance Program. Nobody would insure those against water, so they weren't much more than shacks that could take some wind. My friend's grandmother owned one, and it was a place to go to hang out at the shore, but we always new a big hurricane might just make it disappear.
Fast forward to today, and Italianate mansions line that same boardwalk, all owned by millionaires. The poor people in the rest of the country now subsidize their high-life coastal living.
Wow! You mean a dodgy video (or other media file) can cause a player to stop execution and end in a controlled manner.
Is VLC actually exiting? It should put up a "this media file is corrupt" message with perhaps a backtrace under a disclosure pane. But that's a usability issue, not a security one.
VLC over-priced? What planet are you on, it's a free in both senses of the word, you plank!
Adjust the squelch on your sarcasm meter. He means that big expensive projects tend to pay exorbitant licensing fees to software companies and don't bother with free software.
Can the flight control system verify the sensor readings before launch? "Sensor 7 says the rocket is pointing towards the Earth on the launchpad - we might want to have a look".
/. has become ultra conservative when it comes to interface changes.
Interestingly, that conservatism also leaks over into 'vendor' loyalty. Rightly, GNOME 3 should never have been integrated into the major desktop linux distros. The idea that "we like what upstream has done with v2, and now they're going to v3, so we need to go to v3" is a degree of loyalty that ought to be proven, not granted.
It's probably a hard lesson to learn, but perhaps a necessary step for the ecosystem. Given the decision again, I wonder how many might have switched to LXDE, XFCE, or KDE as their default GUI.
I hope the rigor that was missed on GNOME 3 is applied to the Wayland/et. al. stack progression (and others making very large changes). That's a bit conservative too, but good progressivism in any field of endeavor ought to have a merit filter and not merely embrace change for the sake of change.
Gnome wanted to shift its target market.
That's a good insight. I wish the governors of the major linux desktop distros would have realized this much earlier (or even today in some cases) and either not gone along with GNOME 3 or relegated it to a niche spin (which it does deserve as an interesting alternative technology).
I am only concerned with whether individual rights are being upheld or violated.
Except we're talking about the "rights" of corporations here, which are government fictions. If Apple wants to give up its corporate form, I'm right there with you. But I rather suspect what they want are the rights of a natural person without the liabilities that come with it. The (theoretical) trade for the corporate protection is the subjugation to regulation that natural persons (should) avoid.
And yes, I realize that many companies form a corporation to avoid the ravages of a dysfunctional court system. SNAFU.
There's a category of neighborhood electric vehicles [wikipedia.org] that are basically glorified golf carts. They can go about 30 mph, in some states can legally go on roads up to posted speed limits of 45 mph, and don't weigh much.
Yeah, so banned from the same roads that motorcycles can drive on. I was looking at one of those Italian enclosed scooters for commuting to work (10 miles of country road), but I'd rather have 4-wheel stability.
I think it's like alcohol and tobacco - if they weren't grandfathered, the Nanny State would never approve them today. It's the government's job to protect people from themselves, dontcha know?
Amen to that - he was a very sharp and gifted fellow.
I'm going to miss arguing with him about the yum patch I need to send in that adds sub-version support to .repo files. :(
Hadn't you heard? After a persistent astroturfing campaign, more Americans think Edward Snowden is a traitor than otherwise.
Depends on how you ask the question.
I'm doing my part by tagging everyone in my vicinity.
Sounds like my neighborhood, mostly upper middle class folk. "You don't have a gun? Are you poor?" That's just the culture. We also have the among the lowest crime rates in the country here.