The idea is that a limited monopoly for copying enables the artist to derive some (non-joyous) benefit from their endeavour, thus allowing them to create more art, since they're not busy using all their time working on something else simply so they can eat.
Joy is a wonderful byproduct of being an artist, but it doesn't feed anyone.
Alternatively, (as far as I understand it) if you can figure out how to bypass inertia, you don't need acceleration. If we can find a way to manipulate our inertial reference frame directly, we can skip the whole 'acceleration' business altogether and change velocities instantaneously.
Interestingly, this ability would also enable us to ignore gravity completely. So I think we should get started on it immediately.
This is my single biggest complaint about the iPhone - there is NO option to prevent a device from requesting play to start. I rented a Camry recently (though I've had the exact same issue with Ford/Lincoln, GM, and other brands) and had to add an Activator trigger upon bluetooth connection to enable StopPlayin', wait 15 seconds, and disable it so it wouldn't blow my ears out and scare the shite out of me when I started the car.
Of course, I'd also like to draw and quarter the langering fuckwanks who decided that the appropriate behaviour when an audio source is disconnected is to IMMEDIATELY START BLASTING THE RADIO AT THE SAME VOLUME AS THE LAST SOURCE with no option to disable it.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the Mophie Space case yet... battery and storage for iPhones in one.
Unfortunately, the Mophie app (which is required for file management, same as the SanDisk) is a broken piece of absolute shit. My mophie has 64GB of storage, but will only manage 10k photos. (I have over 13k on my phone.) But it runs poorly even in the best of conditions.
I am horribly disappointed that SanDisk is only making this for the 6 series phones. It could have been a contender...
Well-put. Perhaps the caveat should be the number of contributors, rather than simple popularity. (Though I do imagine those numbers are somewhat correlated in open-source projects.)
Some software faults are tremendously obscure. In fact, there are many that exist that will *never* be discovered. It's just a fact of life.
But I think we agree that open-source software has the inherent potential to be more secure by its nature than its closed-source counterparts.
The most popular open- and closed-source packages have had severe bugs lay latent - FOR DECADES.
FTFY.
And speaking of myths... the Heartbleed vulnerability was committed to the OpenSSL source on 31 December, 2011. If 'DECADES' have passed since then, there's something seriously wrong with my NTP server.
You are absolutely correct - the iPhone is a first-world device, no question.
The problem is that Apple is a trend-setter and leader in the mobile space. Other companies and manufacturers will follow suit and make it more difficult for those who need inexpensive options. At the very least, they will fracture the market, and at worst, significantly degrade the experience of those who have no say in the matter.
Actually, this is anything but a first world problem.
Many third-world countries bypassed POTS infrastructure because it was too expensive, but have adopted mobile technology instead. The mobile phones in those countries are their lifelines. Removing inexpensive, ubiquitous technology that isn't broken for no reason except to pad their already unobtanium-lined pockets is ultimately a purely greed-motivated move in Apple's part that will end up harming those third-world people. (A $30 dongle costs the average person two weeks' gross pay in Chad.)
The first world can suck up the cost. But could end up truly being a problem for the third-world.
It isn't the openness of code that makes bugs shallow. In fact, as I remember the original quote, it went something like: 'given enough eyes, all bugs are shallow'.
It has nothing to do with the state of the code and everything to do with how many people are analysing the code.
With open source, the opportunity exists for many more people to examine the code and discover the faults, and that increases hugely with the popularity of the software and its development. With closed-source development, only the people authorised to see the code will examine it.
So the number of lines of code (x) divided by the number of developers looking at it (y) gives the real "shallowness" value. As x:y decreases, more faults tend to be discovered in a given time period. (This does not account for the complexity of the faults, obviously.)
A popular open-source project will be much more likely to have a lower x:y ratio than a comparable closed-source project, even if for no other reason than it is in the company's best interest to increase x:y for profit.
What's more, not only are faults found more easily with more eyes, but the fixes for those faults are also more easily written and applied with more minds working on it.
I hope this helps explain the 'REALITY' you speak of a bit better to you. There is real security value in open-source software.
Please show me where I can opt out of 'disclosing' this information.
If you're forced to do something to access a service, have no say over the terms and conditions of said service, and are functionally crippled in modern society without the service, you'll have a hard time making the case that you shouldn't have some extraordinary protections against people abusing the resulting aspects of the service.
That the court could even keep a straight face when calling the disclosure voluntary (which is the crux of their argument) is impressive.
An excellent read - thanks for that! So my intuition was not altogether wrong, though I did find it fascinating (and unexpected) that suspended particles are required for the blue hue of water to be scattered back to the surface.
And it seems the GP of my original post was correct that a high Fe content may well have rendered Mars' oceans much greener in colour than what we observe on Earth.
I was not aware of the combination precedent. I'll have to read up on it, though at least on the surface, I take issue with the entire concept... how is it all right to force someone to do something that would incriminate themselves in any way? I don't understand the reasoning.
That's actually precisely what the fifth amendment is about - that the courts do not (and should not!) have the power to compel the accused to produce evidence that would be incriminating or harmful to themselves or their case.
This is fairly clearly an abuse of judicial power. Abstracting the incrimination one level does not suddenly make it acceptable.
I can't speak for anyone else, but for my own purposes, I have avoided the latest generation of consoles for reasons that have nothing to do with mobile gaming.
Wii: If Nintendo had released a more-powerful, HD version of the original Wii for a similar price point, I would have bought three. Instead they added and required that ridiculous controller, which IMHO completely ruined the experience.
Xbox: Requires a subscription for playing on-line, which I simply won't do.
Playstation: I own three PS3s, but the PS4 went the MS route to require a subscription for on-line play, so I've refused. And Sony's repeated feature regression over the years isn't exactly enticing.
For myself, the draw of console gaming has always been 1) the real-time interaction (including audio) with other gamers throughout the world and 2) and off-line (i.e., completely-disconnected) single-player mode. Both of those experiences have grown steadily worse of late.
If any manufacturer releases a console that allows for offline play and free interactive online play, and doesn't require an absurd controller, I'll buy it in a heartbeat.
Agreed, absolutely. But patents must be original and non-obvious, both criteria that should be easily met by having it apply to your own software. Prior art is often cited within new patents, if only to show how yours is different. So while you're right, you couldn't patent a generic sql vulnerability, I would think it fairly easy to file one specifically for your own implementation.
Both the EU and US have first-to-file patent systems now. They don't have to create it first - they only have to patent it first.
This is actually an interesting legal strategy. If someone were to patent a general method for, say, sql injection or a buffer overflow, they could theoretically sue anyone who used it. I wonder how that might play out.
Civilisation is essentially an effort to educate the instinct out of people and animals. Training and conditioning, behavioural or otherwise, is the attempt to supersede instinctual responses with ones that are conducive to reducing societal friction.
Parental input - guiding, punishing, and correcting - is essential to mould teenagers into fully-functioning adults. If Microsoft wanted a real-world scenario, they should have been correcting the child in near-real-time.
Given what little I know, I'd say their simulation was a raging success... with the caveat that Microsoft, as it should surprise no one, are terrible parents.
Bollocks to that. I would give anything to have my tap-to-text, 12-key keypad phone back again. I would much rather have a phone that does phone things - and only phone things - well, and a separate device that does all the other business.
So stuff the 'cooler' mobile phones. Give me something that doesn't have to guess what I'm trying to type because it isn't designed for anyone with fingers bigger than a six-year-old's.
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The idea is that a limited monopoly for copying enables the artist to derive some (non-joyous) benefit from their endeavour, thus allowing them to create more art, since they're not busy using all their time working on something else simply so they can eat.
Joy is a wonderful byproduct of being an artist, but it doesn't feed anyone.
Alternatively, (as far as I understand it) if you can figure out how to bypass inertia, you don't need acceleration. If we can find a way to manipulate our inertial reference frame directly, we can skip the whole 'acceleration' business altogether and change velocities instantaneously.
Interestingly, this ability would also enable us to ignore gravity completely. So I think we should get started on it immediately.
This is my single biggest complaint about the iPhone - there is NO option to prevent a device from requesting play to start. I rented a Camry recently (though I've had the exact same issue with Ford/Lincoln, GM, and other brands) and had to add an Activator trigger upon bluetooth connection to enable StopPlayin', wait 15 seconds, and disable it so it wouldn't blow my ears out and scare the shite out of me when I started the car.
Of course, I'd also like to draw and quarter the langering fuckwanks who decided that the appropriate behaviour when an audio source is disconnected is to IMMEDIATELY START BLASTING THE RADIO AT THE SAME VOLUME AS THE LAST SOURCE with no option to disable it.
Learning the American style of trying to stuff all punctuation inside quotes always seemed like a sort of madness to me.
Here is an interesting read that might broaden your stylo-linguistic horizons.
There are so many instances when placing punctuation outside the quotation punctuation makes infinitely more sense, 'style guides' be damned.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the Mophie Space case yet... battery and storage for iPhones in one.
Unfortunately, the Mophie app (which is required for file management, same as the SanDisk) is a broken piece of absolute shit. My mophie has 64GB of storage, but will only manage 10k photos. (I have over 13k on my phone.) But it runs poorly even in the best of conditions.
I am horribly disappointed that SanDisk is only making this for the 6 series phones. It could have been a contender...
Well-put. Perhaps the caveat should be the number of contributors, rather than simple popularity. (Though I do imagine those numbers are somewhat correlated in open-source projects.)
Some software faults are tremendously obscure. In fact, there are many that exist that will *never* be discovered. It's just a fact of life.
But I think we agree that open-source software has the inherent potential to be more secure by its nature than its closed-source counterparts.
The most popular open- and closed-source packages have had severe bugs lay latent - FOR DECADES.
FTFY.
And speaking of myths... the Heartbleed vulnerability was committed to the OpenSSL source on 31 December, 2011. If 'DECADES' have passed since then, there's something seriously wrong with my NTP server.
You are absolutely correct - the iPhone is a first-world device, no question.
The problem is that Apple is a trend-setter and leader in the mobile space. Other companies and manufacturers will follow suit and make it more difficult for those who need inexpensive options. At the very least, they will fracture the market, and at worst, significantly degrade the experience of those who have no say in the matter.
Only MHO.
Actually, this is anything but a first world problem.
Many third-world countries bypassed POTS infrastructure because it was too expensive, but have adopted mobile technology instead. The mobile phones in those countries are their lifelines. Removing inexpensive, ubiquitous technology that isn't broken for no reason except to pad their already unobtanium-lined pockets is ultimately a purely greed-motivated move in Apple's part that will end up harming those third-world people. (A $30 dongle costs the average person two weeks' gross pay in Chad.)
The first world can suck up the cost. But could end up truly being a problem for the third-world.
It isn't the openness of code that makes bugs shallow. In fact, as I remember the original quote, it went something like: 'given enough eyes, all bugs are shallow'.
It has nothing to do with the state of the code and everything to do with how many people are analysing the code.
With open source, the opportunity exists for many more people to examine the code and discover the faults, and that increases hugely with the popularity of the software and its development. With closed-source development, only the people authorised to see the code will examine it.
So the number of lines of code (x) divided by the number of developers looking at it (y) gives the real "shallowness" value. As x:y decreases, more faults tend to be discovered in a given time period. (This does not account for the complexity of the faults, obviously.)
A popular open-source project will be much more likely to have a lower x:y ratio than a comparable closed-source project, even if for no other reason than it is in the company's best interest to increase x:y for profit.
What's more, not only are faults found more easily with more eyes, but the fixes for those faults are also more easily written and applied with more minds working on it.
I hope this helps explain the 'REALITY' you speak of a bit better to you. There is real security value in open-source software.
This was true once upon a time, but no longer. The United States taxes former citizens (even ones who have renounced their citizenship), or indefinitely without renouncement.
So no, you do not have a choice.
Please show me where I can opt out of 'disclosing' this information.
If you're forced to do something to access a service, have no say over the terms and conditions of said service, and are functionally crippled in modern society without the service, you'll have a hard time making the case that you shouldn't have some extraordinary protections against people abusing the resulting aspects of the service.
That the court could even keep a straight face when calling the disclosure voluntary (which is the crux of their argument) is impressive.
An excellent read - thanks for that! So my intuition was not altogether wrong, though I did find it fascinating (and unexpected) that suspended particles are required for the blue hue of water to be scattered back to the surface.
And it seems the GP of my original post was correct that a high Fe content may well have rendered Mars' oceans much greener in colour than what we observe on Earth.
This seems like an overly-simplistic... em... view... to me.
This may be relevant, though I'm second-guessing my intuition now.
I'm curious. Could someone with some advanced scientific knowledge on the subject chime in here?
Hey KGIII, the other thread is closed, so I'm replying here. Did you ever make it to Cuba?
I was not aware of the combination precedent. I'll have to read up on it, though at least on the surface, I take issue with the entire concept... how is it all right to force someone to do something that would incriminate themselves in any way? I don't understand the reasoning.
That's actually precisely what the fifth amendment is about - that the courts do not (and should not!) have the power to compel the accused to produce evidence that would be incriminating or harmful to themselves or their case.
This is fairly clearly an abuse of judicial power. Abstracting the incrimination one level does not suddenly make it acceptable.
I can't speak for anyone else, but for my own purposes, I have avoided the latest generation of consoles for reasons that have nothing to do with mobile gaming.
Wii: If Nintendo had released a more-powerful, HD version of the original Wii for a similar price point, I would have bought three. Instead they added and required that ridiculous controller, which IMHO completely ruined the experience.
Xbox: Requires a subscription for playing on-line, which I simply won't do.
Playstation: I own three PS3s, but the PS4 went the MS route to require a subscription for on-line play, so I've refused. And Sony's repeated feature regression over the years isn't exactly enticing.
For myself, the draw of console gaming has always been 1) the real-time interaction (including audio) with other gamers throughout the world and 2) and off-line (i.e., completely-disconnected) single-player mode. Both of those experiences have grown steadily worse of late.
If any manufacturer releases a console that allows for offline play and free interactive online play, and doesn't require an absurd controller, I'll buy it in a heartbeat.
Why would the Catholic Church be interested in that? The Church has openly stated that the concept of alien life is not inconsistent with Catholic theology.
Agreed, absolutely. But patents must be original and non-obvious, both criteria that should be easily met by having it apply to your own software. Prior art is often cited within new patents, if only to show how yours is different. So while you're right, you couldn't patent a generic sql vulnerability, I would think it fairly easy to file one specifically for your own implementation.
Both the EU and US have first-to-file patent systems now. They don't have to create it first - they only have to patent it first.
This is actually an interesting legal strategy. If someone were to patent a general method for, say, sql injection or a buffer overflow, they could theoretically sue anyone who used it. I wonder how that might play out.
I blame the parent.
(Quite seriously, actually.)
Civilisation is essentially an effort to educate the instinct out of people and animals. Training and conditioning, behavioural or otherwise, is the attempt to supersede instinctual responses with ones that are conducive to reducing societal friction.
Parental input - guiding, punishing, and correcting - is essential to mould teenagers into fully-functioning adults. If Microsoft wanted a real-world scenario, they should have been correcting the child in near-real-time.
Given what little I know, I'd say their simulation was a raging success... with the caveat that Microsoft, as it should surprise no one, are terrible parents.
But the GP's question was how much does the physical manifestation differ from pi? And in that case, spatial distortion has a very real effect.
Pi is the ideal. But nothing in spacetime is ideal - chaos theory and resulting fractals down to the Planck length see to that.
Bollocks to that. I would give anything to have my tap-to-text, 12-key keypad phone back again. I would much rather have a phone that does phone things - and only phone things - well, and a separate device that does all the other business.
So stuff the 'cooler' mobile phones. Give me something that doesn't have to guess what I'm trying to type because it isn't designed for anyone with fingers bigger than a six-year-old's.
Isn't bilking the keystone of tourism? That's precisely why I despise 'tourist-y' things.
Good luck getting your approval tomorrow. Sounds like great craic!