Why shouldn't this be forgotten? I think it's high time we got over it.
I also think it's high time we got rid of the Patriot Act and the TSA -- Like that would ever happen --
So go ahead shrieking "9/11 NEVER FORGET!" To remind us how we let the terrorists win. Because they did.
Try not to feel like a criminal the next time you undress yourself at the airport while waiting in line to get your nads zapped with a healthy dose of radiation.
I think a 1,300' tall office building shaped like Maurizio Cattelan's L.O.V.E sculpture -- preferably in gold -- would have been both a National Symbol of defiance against those who would harm us and a proud display of the typical NYC manner of greeting.
Implying the the Name of the Device does not contain any form of description encoded in it's meaning. IMHO, "Sonic Screwdriver" is far more descriptive of the device's workings and operation than "Tricorder" is.
But please, don't let me dissuade you from thinking that they are working feverishly to make a device that does everything that it's fictional TV Show counterpart did.
There are some things so engrained in the human consciousness as bad or cursed and should not be brought up again, aside from reverence. Making a Liner called the Titanic 2 or Dirigible called the Hindenburg Zwei only stand to bring forth such horrific notions and blatantly invite self-fulfilling prophecy.
Sure, feel free to spit and damn "superstition" all you want, there is something to be said about the imaginings of a mass consciousness that can actually have an effect, if only on a purely psychosomatic level -- but that's all it takes to sink a ship all over again.
Can't tell you how helpful having some Middle-Manager type making an appearance in the interview room, proudly proclaiming his Stanford Alumni status and MENSA membership before laying out the all important "brain teaser" to save me from taking the interview any further. Funny how the recruiter mentioned beforehand that they were having such a hard time finding qualified candidates.
I wont ever use the GPL and prefer MIT and BSD style licensing. Simply because the GPL tries to FORCE me, the developer, to enforce Richard Stallman's restrictive ideals in the guise of "Freedom". While the GPL might be an ok way to ensure that a commercial application gives you due credit and continues to propagate your code - why should most developers care for such restrictions?
Personally, if I put code out on Github for people to use, I dont give a RATS ASS how another party distributes it. I am already protected by copyright and do not wish to be co-opted into Richard Stallman's Graybeard Army. If I put the code out there, it's out there for use for free, in any way others see fit and hope that it is simply found useful in one way or another.
Frankly, the GPL is ANTI-SOCIAL as it restricts freedom and creates a burden of enforcement upon those who put the license to use. Maybe I'd be more of a fan of the GPL if I was a socially awkward coder who viewed my code as a precious commodity to be jealously guarded. But, I'm not and with the advent of Networked APIs, Mobile Marketplaces, Social Coding and the rise of non-compiled languages such as PHP, Ruby and JavaScript, the GPL is being rightfully relegated to the narrow niche it truly serves and we are seeing a shift towards more open and actually FREE licensees that are more suitable for these Developed For-Profit Mobile Apps, Social Networking Applications and Script-based libraries and utilities that are being created.
Hi Iran, we here at the US DoD notice you're trying to build a Predator UAV. Of course Predators are pretty toothless without Hellfire missiles. So to show there's no hard feelings, we decided to send you some. An entire shipment of Hellfire Missiles should be arriving at your reverse engineering facility in just about... now.
Isn't asking not to be eaten what a Lion Tamer does? Sure, bring on the Siegfried & Roy remarks -- you should.
And that's exactly how it should be, Lion tamers working with the Lions and Tigers, hoping not to be eaten with casualties being the exception, NOT the rule. Else, we wouldn't have Lion Tamers.
The problem is, Internet Users are not Lion Tamers and have no way to control the actions and behavior of the Companies that collect their data. Perhaps what we need is an intermediary to be the Lion Tamer for us -- a secure and private OS and Browser that works to protect our privacy, secure and private credential systems ala OAuth that mask the identity and activity of the user.
However, that requires a party interested in creating and maintaining trust and accountability. And so far, no one's been able to make a case for profit around that and "The Powers That Be" such as the RIAA/MPAA, Google, Apple, Amazon see that as against their interest and would likely lobby hard against it, with the net result being less privacy for everyone.
And we wonder why the general public has a sense of distrust and suspicion regarding "hackers". Iran should be groveling before Allah that it's not the 40's and he wasn't trying to warn them about nukes.
Do you know who H.G. Wells is? Have you read his stories?
Exactly what about my comparison about Neal's statements about him being too dire to H.G. Wells' dark prognostications is idiotic? That was an Apple's to Apple's comparison. The fact that H.G Wells was not mentioned by Neal was my point. Neal isn't a speck on a turd compared to the Man who can lay claim to inventing the scifi genre and who's work is still relevant 150 years later.
Seriously -- Snow Crash was alright and had it's place but Neal Stephenson is far from the technological catalyst he thinks he is. And frankly Neal should get stuffed for failing to recognize the darkness and dire warnings embedded in many of H.G. Well's stories that still have relevance today. If H.G. Wells can't stall progress and innovation -- who the hell is Neal to say he's even partly to blame?
What I am convinced of is that I will never bother to read a single other book by Neal Stephenson -- I couldn't make it half way through Cryptonomicon before it got too boring and painfully long winded to read and Reamde, while at least starting out at a faster clip quickly devolved into a complete pile of contrived claptrap complete with Russian Mobsters who feel the need to explain themselves, a British Intelligence Agent who bangs everything she can and a Jihadi Terrorist who could double as a CNN Anchor.
Perhaps we should tattoo "Massive Ego" to Neal's forehead.
Well actually, if they'd anticipated this and pointed the heat dissipating surfaces to the rear, Pioneer would be going faster. What the article did not state was how long it would take for these forces to cease forward momentum -- or if that is an issue.
This blatant and unlawful activity must stop. Every day millions of post items are sent with Postal Codes illegally and unlawfully printed on them by people not under the employ or direction of the Postal Service.
We must start a campaign to get people to stop placing these postal codes on their post so that the Postal Service can rightfully keep their Postal Code System all to themselves.
The crux of the problem, as I learned in my years at the helm, is our wrongheaded approach
Considering the TSA is not even a decade old and is fraught with issues from top to bottom -- we'd do well to pay attention to these indicators and end the TSA. It is a failure that has served no useful purpose other than act as Security Theatre and subject law abiding Americans to indignities. Once a Company or Organization develops a mindset or culture, it is near impossible to change that. It's too late to change the TSA, and it's most likely that the TSA does not want to change.
The problem I have with this litigation is the detachment of the accused. While they may have made some insensitive, immature and inappropriate comments -- they had no real sense of the situation and behaved much as many other immature and insensitive internet forum users may have acted -- who hasn't seen plenty of posts made in jest saying "Do it faggot!" "AN HERO!"?
It's hard to know if a post on a forum is made in jest, a troll or is actually the real deal. Expecting everyone to behave and act to every forum post with utmost seriousness is simply unrealistic and I think this case needs to be summarily dismissed.
I haven't bought a book in ages -- yet have learned a couple new languages and technologies in the meantime without them. Every language will have a dedicated community site with tutorials covering most your essential topics and lots of code samples and user help forums, where most the questions any novice will have are already answered.
When I did buy books though, I found that ones that were lighter weight and focused more on the practice than the theory, because the dense ones, while a good resource of information has simply too much information to deal with for someone who just wants to get their feet wet and start wading deeper so they can seeing results quickly.
So in closing: Pick a language (Ruby, PHP, Java, Python) and a DB (MySQL is best for now) and associated framework or platform (Rails, Spring, Zend, jQuery), pick a specific and narrow focused problem such as "How to setup a basic Form to save data to my DB using Language X and Framework Y", search Google, start reading articles, chose one that makes the most sense and get busy coding and learning.
I don't recall those items ever being novelties, or casinos with poker tables and slot machines While the engineering and architecture to make a life sized Enterprise may have been a feat, it's raison d'être would have been as a mere attraction based on pop-culture.
According to the Pentagon report given to Bush in 2004, the shit will hit the fan by 2020 with raising sea levels wiping out large parts of Europe, Asia and the US Coastal Areas. Along with the collapse of major financial markets, we will face severe shortages in food, raw material and potable water. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2004/feb/22/usnews.theobserver
"The planet is carrying a higher population than it can sustain. By 2020 'catastrophic' shortages of water and energy supply will become increasingly harder to overcome, plunging the planet into war. They warn that 8,200 years ago climatic conditions brought widespread crop failure, famine, disease and mass migration of populations that could soon be repeated." -- Pentagon Report 2004
From reading the vague and confusing article which talked more about a report drafted in 1972 than these new findings, it seems the Pentagon's findings conflict with MIT citing the consumption rates of our resources rather than climate change as the catalyst for collapse and that this outcome is preventable by behavior change.
... "unlimited economic growth" is still possible if world governments enact policies and invest in green technologies that help limit the expansion of our ecological footprint. -- MIT 2004
But, who says these dire predictions have to be mutually exclusive? When taken together they seem to cast some real doubt on the MIT reports finding that collapse may be averted by Green Technology.
So it's probably safe to predict that around 2025, the rise of sea levels, climate change and over-consumption will cause for global wars over limited resources such as water and mineral rights with the resulting market collapse causing a sudden plummet in the global population back to more sustainable levels.
Gross-exaggeration is a tool for humor. And really -- is such exaggeration so off the mark with some of the shit we see pulled in the Mainstream Media to incite fear in the populace as a control mechanism? Better used for chuckles than deception.
We here at the Clean Alternative Fuels Committee see this as just too dangerous to allow and plead to the US Government to outlaw this potentially dangerous technology. We simply can not trust the public with the ability to produce Hydrogen which could lead to the creation of Mini-H bombs. We propose the advancement of existing Hybrid technology as the clean energy alternative for a successful future and is wholeheartedly endorsed by our Charter Members: Chevron, Exxon-Mobile and Shell.
Seems fanatical support is coming back around to bite them in the ass. Ohh - you want root access to one of our customer's server accounts? Let me bend over backwards to help you with that!
Slashdot Mirror
Jesus, how's the air traffic up there?
I propose we call these "Attractive and Successful Markets of Alternative Economy"
Why shouldn't this be forgotten?
I think it's high time we got over it.
I also think it's high time we got rid of the Patriot Act and the TSA
-- Like that would ever happen --
So go ahead shrieking "9/11 NEVER FORGET!" To remind us how we let the terrorists win.
Because they did.
Try not to feel like a criminal the next time you undress yourself at the airport while waiting in line to get your nads zapped with a healthy dose of radiation.
I think a 1,300' tall office building shaped like Maurizio Cattelan's L.O.V.E sculpture -- preferably in gold -- would have been both a National Symbol of defiance against those who would harm us and a proud display of the typical NYC manner of greeting.
Implying the the Name of the Device does not contain any form of description encoded in it's meaning.
IMHO, "Sonic Screwdriver" is far more descriptive of the device's workings and operation than "Tricorder" is.
But please, don't let me dissuade you from thinking that they are working feverishly to make a device that does everything that it's fictional TV Show counterpart did.
There are some things so engrained in the human consciousness as bad or cursed and should not be brought up again, aside from reverence.
Making a Liner called the Titanic 2 or Dirigible called the Hindenburg Zwei only stand to bring forth such horrific notions and blatantly invite self-fulfilling prophecy.
Sure, feel free to spit and damn "superstition" all you want, there is something to be said about the imaginings of a mass consciousness that can actually have an effect, if only on a purely psychosomatic level -- but that's all it takes to sink a ship all over again.
Want to know how I know you're full of shit?
The password is Nigel.
You no like the kidney??
No kidney for you!
Can't tell you how helpful having some Middle-Manager type making an appearance in the interview room, proudly proclaiming his Stanford Alumni status and MENSA membership before laying out the all important "brain teaser" to save me from taking the interview any further. Funny how the recruiter mentioned beforehand that they were having such a hard time finding qualified candidates.
I wont ever use the GPL and prefer MIT and BSD style licensing. Simply because the GPL tries to FORCE me, the developer, to enforce Richard Stallman's restrictive ideals in the guise of "Freedom". While the GPL might be an ok way to ensure that a commercial application gives you due credit and continues to propagate your code - why should most developers care for such restrictions?
Personally, if I put code out on Github for people to use, I dont give a RATS ASS how another party distributes it. I am already protected by copyright and do not wish to be co-opted into Richard Stallman's Graybeard Army. If I put the code out there, it's out there for use for free, in any way others see fit and hope that it is simply found useful in one way or another.
Frankly, the GPL is ANTI-SOCIAL as it restricts freedom and creates a burden of enforcement upon those who put the license to use.
Maybe I'd be more of a fan of the GPL if I was a socially awkward coder who viewed my code as a precious commodity to be jealously guarded. But, I'm not and with the advent of Networked APIs, Mobile Marketplaces, Social Coding and the rise of non-compiled languages such as PHP, Ruby and JavaScript, the GPL is being rightfully relegated to the narrow niche it truly serves and we are seeing a shift towards more open and actually FREE licensees that are more suitable for these Developed For-Profit Mobile Apps, Social Networking Applications and Script-based libraries and utilities that are being created.
Hi Iran, we here at the US DoD notice you're trying to build a Predator UAV. Of course Predators are pretty toothless without Hellfire missiles. So to show there's no hard feelings, we decided to send you some. An entire shipment of Hellfire Missiles should be arriving at your reverse engineering facility in just about ... now.
Isn't asking not to be eaten what a Lion Tamer does?
Sure, bring on the Siegfried & Roy remarks -- you should.
And that's exactly how it should be, Lion tamers working with the Lions and Tigers, hoping not to be eaten with casualties being the exception, NOT the rule. Else, we wouldn't have Lion Tamers.
The problem is, Internet Users are not Lion Tamers and have no way to control the actions and behavior of the Companies that collect their data. Perhaps what we need is an intermediary to be the Lion Tamer for us -- a secure and private OS and Browser that works to protect our privacy, secure and private credential systems ala OAuth that mask the identity and activity of the user.
However, that requires a party interested in creating and maintaining trust and accountability. And so far, no one's been able to make a case for profit around that and "The Powers That Be" such as the RIAA/MPAA, Google, Apple, Amazon see that as against their interest and would likely lobby hard against it, with the net result being less privacy for everyone.
And we wonder why the general public has a sense of distrust and suspicion regarding "hackers".
Iran should be groveling before Allah that it's not the 40's and he wasn't trying to warn them about nukes.
Do you know who H.G. Wells is? Have you read his stories?
Exactly what about my comparison about Neal's statements about him being too dire to H.G. Wells' dark prognostications is idiotic? That was an Apple's to Apple's comparison. The fact that H.G Wells was not mentioned by Neal was my point. Neal isn't a speck on a turd compared to the Man who can lay claim to inventing the scifi genre and who's work is still relevant 150 years later.
Seriously -- Snow Crash was alright and had it's place but Neal Stephenson is far from the technological catalyst he thinks he is.
And frankly Neal should get stuffed for failing to recognize the darkness and dire warnings embedded in many of H.G. Well's stories that still have relevance today. If H.G. Wells can't stall progress and innovation -- who the hell is Neal to say he's even partly to blame?
What I am convinced of is that I will never bother to read a single other book by Neal Stephenson -- I couldn't make it half way through Cryptonomicon before it got too boring and painfully long winded to read and Reamde, while at least starting out at a faster clip quickly devolved into a complete pile of contrived claptrap complete with Russian Mobsters who feel the need to explain themselves, a British Intelligence Agent who bangs everything she can and a Jihadi Terrorist who could double as a CNN Anchor.
Perhaps we should tattoo "Massive Ego" to Neal's forehead.
Well actually, if they'd anticipated this and pointed the heat dissipating surfaces to the rear, Pioneer would be going faster.
What the article did not state was how long it would take for these forces to cease forward momentum -- or if that is an issue.
This blatant and unlawful activity must stop. Every day millions of post items are sent with Postal Codes illegally and unlawfully printed on them by people not under the employ or direction of the Postal Service.
We must start a campaign to get people to stop placing these postal codes on their post so that the Postal Service can rightfully keep their Postal Code System all to themselves.
The crux of the problem, as I learned in my years at the helm, is our wrongheaded approach
Considering the TSA is not even a decade old and is fraught with issues from top to bottom -- we'd do well to pay attention to these indicators and end the TSA. It is a failure that has served no useful purpose other than act as Security Theatre and subject law abiding Americans to indignities. Once a Company or Organization develops a mindset or culture, it is near impossible to change that. It's too late to change the TSA, and it's most likely that the TSA does not want to change.
The problem I have with this litigation is the detachment of the accused. While they may have made some insensitive, immature and inappropriate comments -- they had no real sense of the situation and behaved much as many other immature and insensitive internet forum users may have acted -- who hasn't seen plenty of posts made in jest saying "Do it faggot!" "AN HERO!"?
It's hard to know if a post on a forum is made in jest, a troll or is actually the real deal. Expecting everyone to behave and act to every forum post with utmost seriousness is simply unrealistic and I think this case needs to be summarily dismissed.
I haven't bought a book in ages -- yet have learned a couple new languages and technologies in the meantime without them.
Every language will have a dedicated community site with tutorials covering most your essential topics and lots of code samples and user help forums, where most the questions any novice will have are already answered.
When I did buy books though, I found that ones that were lighter weight and focused more on the practice than the theory, because the dense ones, while a good resource of information has simply too much information to deal with for someone who just wants to get their feet wet and start wading deeper so they can seeing results quickly.
So in closing: Pick a language (Ruby, PHP, Java, Python) and a DB (MySQL is best for now) and associated framework or platform (Rails, Spring, Zend, jQuery), pick a specific and narrow focused problem such as "How to setup a basic Form to save data to my DB using Language X and Framework Y", search Google, start reading articles, chose one that makes the most sense and get busy coding and learning.
I don't recall those items ever being novelties, or casinos with poker tables and slot machines
While the engineering and architecture to make a life sized Enterprise may have been a feat, it's raison d'être would have been as a mere attraction based on pop-culture.
According to the Pentagon report given to Bush in 2004, the shit will hit the fan by 2020 with raising sea levels wiping out large parts of Europe, Asia and the US Coastal Areas. Along with the collapse of major financial markets, we will face severe shortages in food, raw material and potable water. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2004/feb/22/usnews.theobserver
"The planet is carrying a higher population than it can sustain. By 2020 'catastrophic' shortages of water and energy supply will become increasingly harder to overcome, plunging the planet into war. They warn that 8,200 years ago climatic conditions brought widespread crop failure, famine, disease and mass migration of populations that could soon be repeated."
-- Pentagon Report 2004
From reading the vague and confusing article which talked more about a report drafted in 1972 than these new findings, it seems the Pentagon's findings conflict with MIT citing the consumption rates of our resources rather than climate change as the catalyst for collapse and that this outcome is preventable by behavior change.
... "unlimited economic growth" is still possible if world governments enact policies and invest in green technologies that help limit the expansion of our ecological footprint.
-- MIT 2004
But, who says these dire predictions have to be mutually exclusive? When taken together they seem to cast some real doubt on the MIT reports finding that collapse may be averted by Green Technology.
So it's probably safe to predict that around 2025, the rise of sea levels, climate change and over-consumption will cause for global wars over limited resources such as water and mineral rights with the resulting market collapse causing a sudden plummet in the global population back to more sustainable levels.
Gross-exaggeration is a tool for humor. And really -- is such exaggeration so off the mark with some of the shit we see pulled in the Mainstream Media to incite fear in the populace as a control mechanism? Better used for chuckles than deception.
We here at the Clean Alternative Fuels Committee see this as just too dangerous to allow and plead to the US Government to outlaw this potentially dangerous technology. We simply can not trust the public with the ability to produce Hydrogen which could lead to the creation of Mini-H bombs. We propose the advancement of existing Hybrid technology as the clean energy alternative for a successful future and is wholeheartedly endorsed by our Charter Members: Chevron, Exxon-Mobile and Shell.
Seems fanatical support is coming back around to bite them in the ass.
Ohh - you want root access to one of our customer's server accounts? Let me bend over backwards to help you with that!