Tell your kid your opinion and why you believe it, and let him come to his own conclusions.
My brother used to say how ironic it was that I didn't believe in copyright but followed the law scrupulously, while he did believe in copyright but he and all his musician friends violated it willy nilly. It's interesting how we grew up so differently. We can still be friends.
Right now it will cost you about.03 ETH, or $12 to buy the least expensive kitten in the game
Whenever you read a story about cryptocurrency, no matter how timely, know that the prices you read are always going to be out of date by the time you read. The cheapest cats right now are going for 0.06-0.07 ETH.
My son and I watched this last night and it was possible to get cats for 0.03 and below, but they were snatched up immediately. Now you don't even see them for that price.
These days, there are so many third-party resellers, who generally are allowed to resell goods they have lawfully acquired at whatever price they want, that companies see few ways to stop them.
Good. We'd all like to be able to stop people from competing with us, but nobody should have the power to do so.
I connected to google talk via pidgin via xmpp for years, up until the announcement came out that google talk was being replaced with hangouts. I think actually you can still connect to hangouts with xmpp, too.
. I think society would be much better off in the long run and the media on the internet would stop acting like the opinions of nobodies who live in their parents' basements were crucially important
I would rather that I feel trust than you feel trusted, but that's a feeling only you can create by acting in a trustworthy manner and inviting accountability. I welcome the boss being CC'ed on all emails to me if it makes someone feel better about me.
I worded my original post very carefully so that I wasn't saying what the word "free" does or does not mean, or should mean, or what other people should think, or anything like that. I'm not sure people are looking at my actual wording - I think they are reading something extra into what I said that isn't there.
I'm just a really dense unrelatable guy, because I don't get what I said that was wrong. Was I incorrect when I stated that I was at first confused? Was I incorrect when I said a lot of nerds her used to use "free software" to mean something other than "without cost"?
I found this headline confusing, because when I started out here on Slashdot many of us used "free" to mean "available under a license that preserves your freedom to view source code, modify, and redistribute for any purpose" rather than merely "gratis."
Well, no. Free still means both gratis and libre. When the word appears at the beginning of a sentence like that, it's difficult to tell which meaning is intended, because the opportunity to capitalize it for emphasis vanishes. You don't get to define the word for the world, and it would be stupid if we were to use the word so differently from everyone else. That would isolate us and make us even less relatable.
"Free Software" means what you want free to mean, but only among nerds. "Free" can mean a lot of things. One of them is libre, and you will find very few takers for changing that, because it would be dumb.
Well, I didn't argue that the word has only one correct definition, and I certainly agree that many of us including myself aren't very relatable, and those of us who use/used "free" to mean "libre" are certainly less so.
Everything I said is a statement of fact: some, but not all of us, back in the day used to use "free software" to mean something specific, and I got confused when I saw this headline because I briefly thought that's what it meant. Times sure have changed here if I'm the only one that's true for, and that gives me a bit of nostalgia for Slashdot back in the day, warts and unrelatable nerds and all.
I found this headline confusing, because when I started out here on Slashdot many of us used "free" to mean "available under a license that preserves your freedom to view source code, modify, and redistribute for any purpose" rather than merely "gratis."
There doesn't seem to be a license or source code available, so I'm thinking the article just means available with no charge.
But if there is one thing that unites us, it's a unifying desire to build new things, improve old things, learn when we can and avoid being stereotyped
So you're describing the new developer stereotype?
If 60 Minutes has made undercover videos in California that included audio recordings, and they were never prosecuted for it, then I have an objection again.
Yes; I really worry about laws or uneven enforcement of laws that create a special "media class" of people that have rights the rest of us don't have. That means that we'll end up with an entrenched media that doesn't face real competition and accountability.
What's the existing license? Is this a migration from copyleft to a more permissive license, or is this a migration from an unusual license (some kind of openbsd license?) to something more standard?
Also:
Oracle is proud to extend its collaboration with the OpenSSL Foundation by relicensing its contributions of elliptic curve cryptography
What company that Oracle has bought originally contributed this?
Bullshit. Modern diseases are not caused by foods that have been eaten for hundreds of thousands of years. They've been caused by modern processed crap such as sugar, white flour and industrial vegetable oils.
A lot of them have been caused by the fact that without modern medicine, we wouldn't survive long enough to experience them.
If every bank involved agrees the invalid signature is valid, what happens to the money?
Stealing a coin here or there from a wallet that hasn't been touched in a while would be more "practical", and for all we know, is being done now.
Anyone can audit the blockchain, not just miners.
It'd be possible to find every bitcoin not traded in the past 3 years, assert it "lost" then the attacker fraudulently claim them with the attack given, and it's possible he could liquidate after the theft without anyone noticing until he's cashed out.
I do understand Bitcoin, and what you are describing is impossible. Bitcoins cannot be transferred from one account to another unless you have the private keys to the account that currently holds them. It's like a signed check - it can't be transferred to another account without a valid signature.
I know it was demonstrated awhile back that a rabbit kidney could be cryopreserved and then restored to function.
Seriously, the longer I live, the more it seems plausible that one day it will be possible to cryopreserve a human brain and restore it to function later. One day human lifespan may be greatly extended in a way that looks like this:
McCoy: "He's dead, Jim."
Kirk: "Bones, do something!"
McCoy: "Sorry, Jim, there isn't anything I can do."
KirK: "Why?"
McCoy: "Because he's dead."
Kirk: "How do you know he's dead?"
McCoy: "Because there's nothing I can do."
Kirk: "Because he's dead?"
McCoy: "That's right."
Kirk: "But I was talking to him just one minute ago!"
McCoy: "Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor not a spiritual medium! I can't bring back the dead anymore than I can cure a common cold."
Spock: "Doctor, we could take him back to the ship, dissolve any blood clots, restore circulation, and restore homeostasis by molecular repair. He could fully resume duty within days."
McCoy: "Spock, leave doctoring to doctors! What this man needs is a decent burial."
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I think it's well thought out by those who want a police state where we view law enforcement as holy priests in blue. I don't want it, either.
Tell your kid your opinion and why you believe it, and let him come to his own conclusions.
My brother used to say how ironic it was that I didn't believe in copyright but followed the law scrupulously, while he did believe in copyright but he and all his musician friends violated it willy nilly. It's interesting how we grew up so differently. We can still be friends.
Right now it will cost you about .03 ETH, or $12 to buy the least expensive kitten in the game
Whenever you read a story about cryptocurrency, no matter how timely, know that the prices you read are always going to be out of date by the time you read. The cheapest cats right now are going for 0.06-0.07 ETH.
My son and I watched this last night and it was possible to get cats for 0.03 and below, but they were snatched up immediately. Now you don't even see them for that price.
These days, there are so many third-party resellers, who generally are allowed to resell goods they have lawfully acquired at whatever price they want, that companies see few ways to stop them.
Good. We'd all like to be able to stop people from competing with us, but nobody should have the power to do so.
I connected to google talk via pidgin via xmpp for years, up until the announcement came out that google talk was being replaced with hangouts. I think actually you can still connect to hangouts with xmpp, too.
. I think society would be much better off in the long run and the media on the internet would stop acting like the opinions of nobodies who live in their parents' basements were crucially important
Right, we should stop allowing voting.
I'm pro free market, and pro-uber, but I'm opposed to bigger governments having the authority to override local governments.
Basically this says that they take more money from the rich. Scary, I know!
I would rather that I feel trust than you feel trusted, but that's a feeling only you can create by acting in a trustworthy manner and inviting accountability. I welcome the boss being CC'ed on all emails to me if it makes someone feel better about me.
I worded my original post very carefully so that I wasn't saying what the word "free" does or does not mean, or should mean, or what other people should think, or anything like that. I'm not sure people are looking at my actual wording - I think they are reading something extra into what I said that isn't there.
I'm just a really dense unrelatable guy, because I don't get what I said that was wrong. Was I incorrect when I stated that I was at first confused? Was I incorrect when I said a lot of nerds her used to use "free software" to mean something other than "without cost"?
I found this headline confusing, because when I started out here on Slashdot many of us used "free" to mean "available under a license that preserves your freedom to view source code, modify, and redistribute for any purpose" rather than merely "gratis."
Well, no. Free still means both gratis and libre. When the word appears at the beginning of a sentence like that, it's difficult to tell which meaning is intended, because the opportunity to capitalize it for emphasis vanishes. You don't get to define the word for the world, and it would be stupid if we were to use the word so differently from everyone else. That would isolate us and make us even less relatable.
"Free Software" means what you want free to mean, but only among nerds. "Free" can mean a lot of things. One of them is libre, and you will find very few takers for changing that, because it would be dumb.
Well, I didn't argue that the word has only one correct definition, and I certainly agree that many of us including myself aren't very relatable, and those of us who use/used "free" to mean "libre" are certainly less so.
Everything I said is a statement of fact: some, but not all of us, back in the day used to use "free software" to mean something specific, and I got confused when I saw this headline because I briefly thought that's what it meant. Times sure have changed here if I'm the only one that's true for, and that gives me a bit of nostalgia for Slashdot back in the day, warts and unrelatable nerds and all.
Some of us were posting on slashdot before there was an "open source community."
I found this headline confusing, because when I started out here on Slashdot many of us used "free" to mean "available under a license that preserves your freedom to view source code, modify, and redistribute for any purpose" rather than merely "gratis."
There doesn't seem to be a license or source code available, so I'm thinking the article just means available with no charge.
That's what I gave my boys for Christmas.
But if there is one thing that unites us, it's a unifying desire to build new things, improve old things, learn when we can and avoid being stereotyped
So you're describing the new developer stereotype?
If 60 Minutes has made undercover videos in California that included audio recordings, and they were never prosecuted for it, then I have an objection again.
Yes; I really worry about laws or uneven enforcement of laws that create a special "media class" of people that have rights the rest of us don't have. That means that we'll end up with an entrenched media that doesn't face real competition and accountability.
So the basic problem is the obnoxious advertising clause?
What's the existing license? Is this a migration from copyleft to a more permissive license, or is this a migration from an unusual license (some kind of openbsd license?) to something more standard?
Also:
Oracle is proud to extend its collaboration with the OpenSSL Foundation by relicensing its contributions of elliptic curve cryptography
What company that Oracle has bought originally contributed this?
Bullshit. Modern diseases are not caused by foods that have been eaten for hundreds of thousands of years. They've been caused by modern processed crap such as sugar, white flour and industrial vegetable oils.
A lot of them have been caused by the fact that without modern medicine, we wouldn't survive long enough to experience them.
If every bank involved agrees the invalid signature is valid, what happens to the money?
Stealing a coin here or there from a wallet that hasn't been touched in a while would be more "practical", and for all we know, is being done now.
Anyone can audit the blockchain, not just miners.
It'd be possible to find every bitcoin not traded in the past 3 years, assert it "lost" then the attacker fraudulently claim them with the attack given, and it's possible he could liquidate after the theft without anyone noticing until he's cashed out.
It's not just miners checking the transactions.
I do understand Bitcoin, and what you are describing is impossible. Bitcoins cannot be transferred from one account to another unless you have the private keys to the account that currently holds them. It's like a signed check - it can't be transferred to another account without a valid signature.
When a single person has control of the blockchain long enough ... a single entity could transfer all coins to themselves
How would they do that without the private keys?
I know it was demonstrated awhile back that a rabbit kidney could be cryopreserved and then restored to function.
Seriously, the longer I live, the more it seems plausible that one day it will be possible to cryopreserve a human brain and restore it to function later. One day human lifespan may be greatly extended in a way that looks like this:
McCoy: "He's dead, Jim."
Kirk: "Bones, do something!"
McCoy: "Sorry, Jim, there isn't anything I can do."
KirK: "Why?"
McCoy: "Because he's dead."
Kirk: "How do you know he's dead?"
McCoy: "Because there's nothing I can do."
Kirk: "Because he's dead?"
McCoy: "That's right."
Kirk: "But I was talking to him just one minute ago!"
McCoy: "Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor not a spiritual medium! I can't bring back the dead anymore than I can cure a common cold."
Spock: "Doctor, we could take him back to the ship, dissolve any blood clots, restore circulation, and restore homeostasis by molecular repair. He could fully resume duty within days."
McCoy: "Spock, leave doctoring to doctors! What this man needs is a decent burial."
Step outside of the pedantic bubble and experience causal conversation.
In his defense, that's hard for nearly all of us here, myself included!