Puh-leese, that ship has already sailed. They worked hard to re-elect a guy who, according to the NYU/Stanford report has killed nearly a thousand civilians with drones, including 176 children, not to mention the number of injured.
If these programmers' work was actually influential in the election's outcome (I doubt it, but for the sake of argument...) then they share in the responsibility for every additional man, woman, and child who will be murdered in the next four years. They could have chosen to work for one of the peace candidates, but declined to.
There are no 'good people' in this equation. There are only political opponents.
getting a webcam which implements the UVC (USB Video device Class)
Agreed. I was going to recommend a high-res Logitech that I have but it's not currently made. However their C920 has a tripod mount (finally!) is well-reviewed and has a higher resolution with the reviewers talking about the stability of the autofocus on extreme close-ups, so I'd probably buy this one with a heavy wide-base tripod (like this if I were going to try to do this kind of build. A clip-on light with a gooseneck will probably make things look better too.
Was this a USENET post from '94? Mortgage systems using 32-bit time_t (if there ever were any) failed 5 years ago for 30-year mortgages. We did not hear an earth-shattering kaboom.
When the iPhone came out, there was no third-party native apps. People were expected to build web apps.
On that release yes, but if you recall Jobs's story about how the web apps were the future, etc. that was all just blowing smoke because an SDK wasn't ready.
It's not really civil disobedience unless what you're doing is a crime.
Fortunately, for the self-styled civ-dis people, everybody is almost always committing a crime of some sort. We might not know what those crimes are, but a determined prosecutor can find it.
Not to worry: anybody who has had the...pleasure... of VIA's totally bitchin' and definitely not unstable at all "Unichrome" graphics on the x86 side won't come in to this expecting much more than a serial console...
And do you walk around the VA going, "boom!" too? I thought I'd put Unichrome behind me.
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We want our servers to spend CPU time on delivering web pages and handling transactions; not recompiling the system.
I don't use Gentoo on web servers (only embedded) but if I did, the time it takes to compile a package at 2AM wouldn't be my concern (assuming I wasn't using the Gentoo binary distribution). It's not 1995 anymore.
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So what you're saying is that Apple will in your eyes, essentially, be abandoning the 'maker' market completely.
No, that's the opposite of what I said. Go read the comment again.
Apple will make more profit by renting the service 'in the cloud' and people will get faster video renders than they could ever afford, and maybe all the software Adobe produces will come included in the $30/mo base rental fee. Your iPhone will be the 'dongle' and include the ability to connect to your clients' system for demos, etc. as a built in feature.
The Mac is being phased out, not the creative market.
It may very well be a regulatory molecule that we don't know about and can't measure.
Possible, but the WP article says that even injections of human growth hormone had no discernible effect.
Based on that, it seems likely that she's either producing a receptor or hormone antagonist or that her hormone receptors are genetically faulty. The latter seems much less complex, so more likely true, and that wouldn't be treatable. If she really is producing some sort of antagonist, that could potentially lead to therapeutic possibilities.
Of course, I'm sure her docs know much more than those two articles talk about or my conjecture.
I suppose if it were possible to mimic the fault in the receptors through genetic engineering people really could have their "forever kittens".
Remember, MacOS is on the slow-kill list. It's been slowly merging with iOS and Apple doesn't want to develop two OS's. If 'Mac' still exists in 10 years, it might be the iPhone having a 'Mac Mode' where to goes full-screen to a wirelessly-connected K/V/M. But for 'pros' who need more CPU, rather than building it into the phone (where it will eat power and transistor budget) they might offer the option to buy compute power from the cloud (with Apple taking 30% of whatever anybody makes on it).
In fact, if a $50 Dell dongle has the CPU power to do a 'Mac Mode', we could even see this launching in June on the next iPhone from Apple. Sure, they make a good profit on every hardware Mac they sell, but if they can make the same profit by renting the hardware time and expand their userbase to every iPhone user (with seamless data sync, naturally) then they'll go for the better revenue stream. That will make the phase-out of the Mac that much easier.
Apple dropped "computer" from its name in 2007, when the iPhone was just starting its upward trajectory and the iPod was on fire. A lot changed that year, as the company changed its primary focus to mobile and outlined a long-term plan to leave the desktop market.
give me a modern SLC quarter gig drive for 150 bucks then I might start looking, otherwise I am not looking to replace my expensive drive every 2-7 years while counting every write, I have 3.5inch drives as early as 1986 damit, I expect more for the investment.
And the seek performance on your 1986 hard drive sucks. That's all SSD is really good for - low-seek optimizations. Boot drives, caches in front of spinning rust. OK, tiny ones for low-power embedded work, but even at that the low reliability makes them a liability (IDE to CF adapters seem to work better...).
I have some database servers with a pair of SLC SSD'd in front of the data store and write-ahead logs, with RAID-1 on top of them. The performance improvement is amazing, and worth the $250/yr it's going to cost to keep replacing the SSD's.
If the performance/power/utility boost isn't worth the money for a given application, then there's not a valid use-case for SSD. But that holds for all technology.
it has value and isn't a waste product to be dealt with
the interests that control the USG are against the development of thorium-cycle reactors. And the USG will kill people to see to it that thorium-cycle reactors aren't available on a commercial scale anytime soon. Anybody who thinks this is incorrect is welcome to go ahead and start building one without their permission - if you have a way to succeed let me know and I'll invest!
What's the problem? Does the employee contract have a clause against subcontracting?
A primary reason to have an employee instead of a set of contractors is that the employer values the institutional knowledge gained by having employees. There's some hit when one leaves, which is why there are usually many.
Without that, just outsource the whole development staff (but that's often not good for the company). Either way, that's an ownership/board level call, not authority delegated to leaf node employees.
Put more succinctly: the code isn' t the only product of an employee programmer, and this employee was short-changing the employer on the delta.
How is 'commerical use' the criteria here? The delineation should be use within the Twitter system (nobody is copying the image, just perpetuating links to it, and within the ToS) or outside the Twitter system, where the image needs to be copied so copyright applies.
Commerical use might help frame damages sought, but copyright (however antiquated and silly in today's world it might be) isn't about intended use.
The final thing that should really happen IMO is that the OSS community should get off the java upgrade treadmill. The IcedTea project should designate some version such as 1.6 as a high-security, stable version and focus some real effort on making that version secure. Distros should stop packaging 1.7+ until the dust settles -- and if that take a couple of years, who the heck cares? Hell, I wouldn't care if it took a decade, or forever.
Is the problem with OpenJDK or just Oracle Java? Doesn't OpenJDK have a reasonable patch procedure? Why don't all the corps that are tied to Java apps fund the development of an OpenJDK port/plugin for Windows and leave Oracle to run their own Java ghetto?
Justice is a nice meaningless (or with a real meaning that have no relation with what people think it means) word by now.
Justice can only be defined as a negative - the lack of injustice. Check out Bastiat's The Law for a very clear exposition of what is Justice and Injustice. Free audiobook version: Part 1Part 2 (under two hours).
The system is built to promote people that screw others and exploit things/people for themselves, and punish the ones that does things for others. Maybe is is capitalism, or human nature, don't know.
It's called 'government', a system of societal control based on coercion through violence. There are other mechanisms for governing human behavior - at least religion and markets (check out the free audiobook of The Market for Liberty - compare their 1970 proposal for education to Coursera), probably other mechanisms exist as well, especially with an Internet. After all, a Republic is just a compromise arrangement based on available transportation and communications technology.
The entire system needs a purge and re-boot, tossing a few bad apples out of the bushel now won't fix the problem.
Sometimes you have to reinstall a version that doesn't suffer from the recent regressions. Or terrible architectural decisions made a few versions back that wind up with insurmountable problems, requiring a fork of the old version to regain usability.
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including 176 children
Correction: 178 children, and that was as of August, 2012.
(and for entertainment value, let's see how many 'flamebait' points the above post gets from those who can't stand that 'their team' kills children).
Open source and 'bad people' can use your code.
Puh-leese, that ship has already sailed. They worked hard to re-elect a guy who, according to the NYU/Stanford report has killed nearly a thousand civilians with drones, including 176 children, not to mention the number of injured.
If these programmers' work was actually influential in the election's outcome (I doubt it, but for the sake of argument...) then they share in the responsibility for every additional man, woman, and child who will be murdered in the next four years. They could have chosen to work for one of the peace candidates, but declined to.
There are no 'good people' in this equation. There are only political opponents.
getting a webcam which implements the UVC (USB Video device Class)
Agreed. I was going to recommend a high-res Logitech that I have but it's not currently made. However their C920 has a tripod mount (finally!) is well-reviewed and has a higher resolution with the reviewers talking about the stability of the autofocus on extreme close-ups, so I'd probably buy this one with a heavy wide-base tripod (like this if I were going to try to do this kind of build. A clip-on light with a gooseneck will probably make things look better too.
Was this a USENET post from '94? Mortgage systems using 32-bit time_t (if there ever were any) failed 5 years ago for 30-year mortgages. We did not hear an earth-shattering kaboom.
I would be equally upset if I had discovered it was 100% beef, but that they used only cow rectums, snouts and bladders to make my hamburger.
Nah, save that for the hot dogs. Or McBurgers.
When the iPhone came out, there was no third-party native apps. People were expected to build web apps.
On that release yes, but if you recall Jobs's story about how the web apps were the future, etc. that was all just blowing smoke because an SDK wasn't ready.
It's not really civil disobedience unless what you're doing is a crime.
Fortunately, for the self-styled civ-dis people, everybody is almost always committing a crime of some sort. We might not know what those crimes are, but a determined prosecutor can find it.
We're all civil disobeyers now.
Not to worry: anybody who has had the...pleasure... of VIA's totally bitchin' and definitely not unstable at all "Unichrome" graphics on the x86 side won't come in to this expecting much more than a serial console...
And do you walk around the VA going, "boom!" too? I thought I'd put Unichrome behind me.
We want our servers to spend CPU time on delivering web pages and handling transactions; not recompiling the system.
I don't use Gentoo on web servers (only embedded) but if I did, the time it takes to compile a package at 2AM wouldn't be my concern (assuming I wasn't using the Gentoo binary distribution). It's not 1995 anymore.
lmgtfy
Half the population is below-average.
So what you're saying is that Apple will in your eyes, essentially, be abandoning the 'maker' market completely.
No, that's the opposite of what I said. Go read the comment again.
Apple will make more profit by renting the service 'in the cloud' and people will get faster video renders than they could ever afford, and maybe all the software Adobe produces will come included in the $30/mo base rental fee. Your iPhone will be the 'dongle' and include the ability to connect to your clients' system for demos, etc. as a built in feature.
The Mac is being phased out, not the creative market.
It may very well be a regulatory molecule that we don't know about and can't measure.
Possible, but the WP article says that even injections of human growth hormone had no discernible effect.
Based on that, it seems likely that she's either producing a receptor or hormone antagonist or that her hormone receptors are genetically faulty. The latter seems much less complex, so more likely true, and that wouldn't be treatable. If she really is producing some sort of antagonist, that could potentially lead to therapeutic possibilities.
Of course, I'm sure her docs know much more than those two articles talk about or my conjecture.
I suppose if it were possible to mimic the fault in the receptors through genetic engineering people really could have their "forever kittens".
The Internet as Hamlet and Microsoft as Polonius?
Remember, MacOS is on the slow-kill list. It's been slowly merging with iOS and Apple doesn't want to develop two OS's. If 'Mac' still exists in 10 years, it might be the iPhone having a 'Mac Mode' where to goes full-screen to a wirelessly-connected K/V/M. But for 'pros' who need more CPU, rather than building it into the phone (where it will eat power and transistor budget) they might offer the option to buy compute power from the cloud (with Apple taking 30% of whatever anybody makes on it).
In fact, if a $50 Dell dongle has the CPU power to do a 'Mac Mode', we could even see this launching in June on the next iPhone from Apple. Sure, they make a good profit on every hardware Mac they sell, but if they can make the same profit by renting the hardware time and expand their userbase to every iPhone user (with seamless data sync, naturally) then they'll go for the better revenue stream. That will make the phase-out of the Mac that much easier.
Apple dropped "computer" from its name in 2007, when the iPhone was just starting its upward trajectory and the iPod was on fire. A lot changed that year, as the company changed its primary focus to mobile and outlined a long-term plan to leave the desktop market.
give me a modern SLC quarter gig drive for 150 bucks then I might start looking, otherwise I am not looking to replace my expensive drive every 2-7 years while counting every write, I have 3.5inch drives as early as 1986 damit, I expect more for the investment.
And the seek performance on your 1986 hard drive sucks. That's all SSD is really good for - low-seek optimizations. Boot drives, caches in front of spinning rust. OK, tiny ones for low-power embedded work, but even at that the low reliability makes them a liability (IDE to CF adapters seem to work better...).
I have some database servers with a pair of SLC SSD'd in front of the data store and write-ahead logs, with RAID-1 on top of them. The performance improvement is amazing, and worth the $250/yr it's going to cost to keep replacing the SSD's.
If the performance/power/utility boost isn't worth the money for a given application, then there's not a valid use-case for SSD. But that holds for all technology.
Gun control is, unfortunately (or not, depending on your point of view) the only way to keep guns out of the hands of crazy people.
Do you have a proposal that can prevent crazy people from stealing guns?
The most dangerous wild animals here are badgers, and there is no big game.
That's not relevant to anything. The 2nd Amendment is about shooting tyrants, not wild animals.
it has value and isn't a waste product to be dealt with
the interests that control the USG are against the development of thorium-cycle reactors. And the USG will kill people to see to it that thorium-cycle reactors aren't available on a commercial scale anytime soon. Anybody who thinks this is incorrect is welcome to go ahead and start building one without their permission - if you have a way to succeed let me know and I'll invest!
I think backslashdot's talking about the sudden rise after the fall.
agreed, the gp misunderstood his argument (but didn't let that get in the way of ranting about ranting about government)
the days of hope for reasonable SSD prices will be (if not are) over.
In 2020, a 2TB SDD will be under $60 USD(2012).
What's the problem? Does the employee contract have a clause against subcontracting?
A primary reason to have an employee instead of a set of contractors is that the employer values the institutional knowledge gained by having employees. There's some hit when one leaves, which is why there are usually many.
Without that, just outsource the whole development staff (but that's often not good for the company). Either way, that's an ownership/board level call, not authority delegated to leaf node employees.
Put more succinctly: the code isn' t the only product of an employee programmer, and this employee was short-changing the employer on the delta.
How is 'commerical use' the criteria here? The delineation should be use within the Twitter system (nobody is copying the image, just perpetuating links to it, and within the ToS) or outside the Twitter system, where the image needs to be copied so copyright applies.
Commerical use might help frame damages sought, but copyright (however antiquated and silly in today's world it might be) isn't about intended use.
The final thing that should really happen IMO is that the OSS community should get off the java upgrade treadmill. The IcedTea project should designate some version such as 1.6 as a high-security, stable version and focus some real effort on making that version secure. Distros should stop packaging 1.7+ until the dust settles -- and if that take a couple of years, who the heck cares? Hell, I wouldn't care if it took a decade, or forever.
Is the problem with OpenJDK or just Oracle Java?
Doesn't OpenJDK have a reasonable patch procedure?
Why don't all the corps that are tied to Java apps fund the development of an OpenJDK port/plugin for Windows and leave Oracle to run their own Java ghetto?
Justice is a nice meaningless (or with a real meaning that have no relation with what people think it means) word by now.
Justice can only be defined as a negative - the lack of injustice. Check out Bastiat's The Law for a very clear exposition of what is Justice and Injustice. Free audiobook version: Part 1 Part 2 (under two hours).
The system is built to promote people that screw others and exploit things/people for themselves, and punish the ones that does things for others. Maybe is is capitalism, or human nature, don't know.
It's called 'government', a system of societal control based on coercion through violence. There are other mechanisms for governing human behavior - at least religion and markets (check out the free audiobook of The Market for Liberty - compare their 1970 proposal for education to Coursera), probably other mechanisms exist as well, especially with an Internet. After all, a Republic is just a compromise arrangement based on available transportation and communications technology.
The entire system needs a purge and re-boot, tossing a few bad apples out of the bushel now won't fix the problem.
Sometimes you have to reinstall a version that doesn't suffer from the recent regressions. Or terrible architectural decisions made a few versions back that wind up with insurmountable problems, requiring a fork of the old version to regain usability.