that mobile devices don't always have Internet access. The user may run into a dead spot without 3G+ or WIFI connectivity. The Mozilla Firefox Mobile loads Javascript programs from "The Cloud" I would assume as to where the data is stored and the Firefox Mobile is the client.
In some places Internet access is forbidden, for example if I try to write a Docket Calendar application for Firefox Mobile and the lawyer takes it into a courtroom that blocks cellular signals and doesn't have Wifi, or he gets on a plane and has to have all electronic devices shut off or at least turn off networking so it wouldn't interfere with the equipment on the plane my Cloud based Docket Calendar app is useless to him as he couldn't connect and access my program and his data. If I wrote a native app with a native database he could download his Docket Calendar from his law firm servers and then go to court and access his data from the native database and while on the plane check his data with the networking feature switched off when he is told he can use electronic devices again. I've developed many web applications for lawyers and they work best on their Intranet, but on mobile devices and laptops it always has to have a native database on the hard drive or storage for when there is no Network access.
One more thing, you could have the Firefox developers develop a small Firefox Server app that runs on the Mobile device and serves up programs the user can download so that they work regardless of if they have a network signal or not and then caches the data when connected and syncs up with the main servers when it has network access again. It can mirror the main application site and download updates when connected and upload changes from when the mobile unit was offline. It would be cool if you did that as Netscape used to write web servers and the Mozilla Foundation should still have access to that code.
and sign their emails with public keys. That way you can store their public keys on your system to verify it is a valid email.
I really am not sure why PGP or GPG isn't added to Email servers to verify email. Most email clients work with them and if email clients and servers are modified to use PGP or GPG encryption to connect and send out messages and automatically sign them then the servers can verify the sender via the private key and passphrase and lock out the spammers and scammers. Anyone who does send scams or spams can be identified by their signature key which would be required to send an email.
Most scammers and spammers use Botnets that have built in SMTP servers that they can use via remote control to send email and fake the headers and SPF and fake being from a domain that isn't black listed. Not only would you have to change how email clients and servers work, but you'd have to find a way for millions of Microsoft Windows clients to avoid being infected with trojans to be part of a Botnet that fakes SMTP messages.
George Orwell was an ardent socialist and communist but gave them up after seeing how evil they were. Then he wrote Animal Farm afterwords. Your Diet Education didn't teach you that did it?
Iran never had capitalism it had a Kingdom with Islamic Law and controlled the economy that way via totalitarianism. Ask Jimmy Carter why he made the CIA put the Shah of Iran in power, and also ask why the Radical Fundamentalist Muslims who took over and overthrew the Shah of Iran are worse than the Shah were and are terrorists as well and now Iran is run by Islamic Law and terrorism. I blame a failed foreign policy in the US for that, not capitalism.
I hope you like communism when it comes to the USA, no more computers, no more iPods, no more cell phones, no more TV sets, no more cars, no more private property. That is capitalism and communism bans it. Your salary will be greatly reduced to be like those in China or Cuba for $1065 a year.
Not only does communism not work, but in an effort to make it work they have to murder off the "imperfect" or "those who don't contribute" or "those who are different" or "those who don't worship the state secular religion called communism" because too many people means social programs cost too much. So if they just off the "surplus population" they can hope to make the economics work even if they don't follow logic or reason or any sense at all.
George Orwell warned us about communism and socialism via Animal Farm where the farmer is capitalism and the animals establish a socialist/communist government. In the end they find out the socialists/communists are just as corrupt as the farmer and many animals lose their rights and freedoms and some end up dead.
The Black Book of Communism was written in France and is a picture book, it outlines the camps and the murders, the torture, the stealing, the crimes against humanity and other things that socialism/communism has done.
As an alternative try welfare capitalism or compassionate capitalism where social programs are insurance based, and based on logic, reason, and reality. The person gets out of it what they paid into it via taxes. Which was what FDR and others in the USA used to avoid socialism/communism and the evils that follow them.
Socialism is diet communism, would you like diet fascism or diet Nazism as a viable form of government? They don't work in practice either and are just as evil. Too much to the right is bad, and too much to the left is just as bad, people should really be in the middle.
one one hand you have to have an open mind for the theory and data that it could be true, but remember that it has to be falsifiable to fit with the scientific method. Anything that cannot be proven true or false or has a hard time being proven true or false possibly might not be falsifiable and thus not subject to the scientific method.
In order to get a true scientific skeptical mind you have to remove all bias, be it religious or political or both it could even be a non-religious bias or personal bias or the scientist just wants grant money and is biased in the report. You have to look for bias, anything that has a bias cannot follow the scientific method. When following the scientific method you have to be neutral and use logic, reason, and critical thinking, something most people don't do these days.
Any modern spreadsheet, Excel, Openoffice.Org Calc, Lotus Symphony, iWork, etc have statistics functions to calculate the margin of error and correlation so you can import the raw data into a row or column and then use the build in statistical functions to check the data. I use that to check a lot of "peer reviewed" reports when I was in college and I found a lot of them didn't even bother to do these things and when I checked them the margin of error was high and the correlation was low. Obvious the reports I reviewed were cherry picked or something was wrong and it wasn't a random sample and the hypothesis checking was done wrong.
More people will criticize religion and politics, but forget that religion and politics can corrupt science as can many other things corrupt science. Modern Science has turned into a secular religion that worships nature and the environment, Science isn't supposed to be a religion or like a religion, and it isn't the answer to everything and cannot be used for many things such as art, humanities, emotion, writing, relationships, etc. While it is good to use logic and reason, it is just as important to use emotions and imagination and balance the right and left sides of the human brain. Sometimes science skeptics tend to forget that.
Science like religion and politics needs major reform and seems to be a hybrid of politics and religion instead of what science used to be.
I've been to Thailand in 2000 and 2007, last I checked they still had a growing VideoCD market of new movies. I don't know how they make them, but a van driver was playing VideoCD movies in a van we rented in 2007 to tour Thailand with. It was one of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies that had just come out and it was in Thai with no English subtitles. When I went back to the USA it was still playing in theaters so I paid movie tickets for my family to see it, in English and in big theater format. I didn't want to rip Disney off of the price of tickets and I didn't understand enough Thai to get the VideoCD format.
But they sell them in flee markets and mall tables in Thailand and I am told most Asian nations sell them. The VideoCD is in PAL format and wouldn't play on US NTSC systems and modern DVD players in the USA don't play VideoCD formats anymore.
I am told the Asian pirates use VideoCD formats because not everyone can afford the DVD players and VideoCD players are cheaper. In a bad third world country more people buy the cheaper VideoCD players than DVD players to save money and then buy cheap VideoCDs from the street, flee markets, or tables in a mall somewhere. A movie can take up to 3 or 4 VideoCDs because a VideoCD does not store as much as a DVD does.
Yes most people either don't know or don't care that it is illegal, and the local police don't crack down on it either nor does the national government. All they know is for $1 to $5 they can get cheap VideoCD movies in their own native language.
The Playstation systems were sold with a Mod-Chip already in them, and they sell cheap PS1, PS2, and I assume now PS3 games. But I heard that Sony of Japan cracked down on that and sued companies that installed mod chips in their Playstation units, which lead to the population stopping from buying Sony Playstations and switching to PC games that were easier to counterfeit and pirate.
Well the open source hardware can be sold in third world nations that cannot afford the $newthing which would help the local population earn enough money from it to eventually buy $newthing later to replace $thing that was open sourced. The potential here for cheap $things for schools and libraries that otherwise couldn't afford them would win good diplomatic relations with the nation that $company is in for open sourcing their hardware to make it more affordable. As a result the foreign government might buy a whole lot of $newthing from $company for helping out their poor people and poor schools and libraries.
I wasn't talking about nerds, and your trillion dollar nerds is a false analogy. Already in Europe there is a big market for Amiga technology and upgrading 68K Amiga systems to PowerPC processors to run AmigaOS 3.1 and up to 4.1 because they are tired of Microsoft and Apple and want an alternative to it. The PowerPC based SAM EP440 motherboards are also used in embedded Linux development and made in Italy and can run MorphOS and other operating systems as well. So there is a market for this, I couldn't say if it was a trillion dollar industry, but people got pissed off by Microsoft and moved to Apple only to get pissed off by Apple and then moved to the Amiga (In the USA people move to Linux or *BSD Unix for the same reasons).
But Open Source Hardware is so new, no company knows how to take advantage of it yet. It is a new technology frontier and hardly any research has been done on it. But Open Source Software and Open Source Content is more common and more popular and Open Source Software companies have proven to be profitable, and Open Source Content is successful as Wikipedia, Wikia, Wikibooks, etc have shown high success rates.
Yes the average business manager is using classic management which dates back to Slavery in ancient Egypt and aren't knowledgable, are unknowing, caught in a restrictive and inefficient bureaucracy, and you can tell because the US, EU, and global economies are suffering because classic management doesn't work and the only successes are being done by people using participative management, servant leadership, organizational behavior, six sigma quality control, and other advanced management skills that lead to better profits and adoption of open source software, content, and hardware.
I got a lot of stuff about me written all over the Internet. I've been accused of a lot of things, but nothing ever proven in a court of law. I am usually persecuted because I am mentally ill and my schizoaffective disorder causes behavior and actions that some people don't like and then post about it on the Internet or my own words on the Internet during one of my "bad cycles" makes me look bad.
What you should do is tell the potential employer the truth, that you got investigated but no charges were filed against you. That you learned from it and moved on so as to not make that mistake over again. Apparently since X years of not being investigated proves that you didn't do it ever again, and that you know enough about it to help prevent it on your employer's systems. You take a negative and turn it into a positive as Kevin Mitnik did after he was found guilty and he wrote books on the subject and got hired as a security consultant. Even if you do have a criminal record like Kevin Mitnik, you can still turn it around by doing what he did and owning up to it and finding a way to foil others who use the same methods.
If your potential employer still gives you a hard time about it, just say it was X years ago, really really old, and you have moved on from it and suggest that the employer move on from it as well as you'd rather focus on your skills and talents and ability to do the work for the job than dwell over mistakes of the past via ancient history that hardly anyone cares about anymore.
Worst possible case scenario is that nobody hires you, even then you can start up your own small business and take business management lessons at a community college to learn how to make it profitable and apply for a small business loan after writing up a business plan and earning enough money to get a bank's attention.
Because the company that open sources old technology gets goodwill from it that cannot be bought via money. That means people are more likely to buy new products from $company because they open sourced $thing and thus more people will buy $newthing from $company because they open sourced $thing and helped out the community and society to have legacy hardware at cheaper prices.
In the case of the Amiga et al, they can still sell AmigaDOS and AmigaOS for the open source Amiga and make a profit on it, where they normally wouldn't make any profit on sales old old AmigaDOS and AmigaOS.
In the case of the open source Intel Pentium and under CPUs Microsoft could sell old versions of MS-DOS and Windows, and IBM could sell old copies of OS/2 for systems that run them.
but in that politics has corrupted scientists and scientific reports in the same way politics has corrupted religion and churches.
Both science and religion were once pure and not corrupted by politics, but both the left and right corrupted both science and religion.
Science was the last thing untouched by politics, if there was one thing people could trust it was science. But now with the political corruption from the right and the left, who can trust science anymore?
Even though there are logical fallacies, cherry picked numbers, political corruption, climate change can still be true, but just flawed. But we'll never know that until an unbiased and random sample (not cherry picked) third party neutral tests are done with a scientific model that works and is understood and a proper hypothesis that can be proven true or false and is thus falsifiable.
Well then you are neither with the Democrats nor Republicans as neither one of them wants to help anyone but themselves. You'd be like me, an independent who is upset that the failure of both the Democrats and Republicans to help anyone but themselves. Bailouts and stimulus money for the rich and corporations, meanwhile 10% unemployment, all stock markets are down, people are losing their houses left and right, the poor get poorer, the middle-class lose their jobs and become poor, the rich get richer, etc.
People in the Democrat and Republican parties are not intelligent, nor do they use that intelligence to help out the less fortunate. They are the most popular, the most charismatic, the most emotional intelligent, and both of them promise to help out the less fortunate, the poor, the non-intelligent, but instead only help out themselves by helping out "special interest" lobbyists so they can get more campaign money to get re-elected.
The people that just have enough intelligence to get by haven't really met their potential due to bad schooling, lack of education, being lazy, not trying hard enough, slacking off, or being forced into a stereotype subculture that is counter-productive to critical thinking, logic, reason, etc.
Yeah like you invented the term. Next you'll accuse the submitter of this Slashdot story to have re-purposed content from your Kuro5hin diary.
Kuro5hin is a troll site that hardly anyone cares about anymore. It is subject to the dupe hordes carrying out Sybil Attacks on it every day, and this is hardly new news as we've known it since 1999.
Kuro5hin started out as a Slashdot alternative, but turned into a trashcan and toilet bowel for trolls, dupes, wannabe writers, victims, mental patents, aspies, ultra-left wingers, neocons with drug habits, and usually posts the same material over and over again in new formats.
Your Sybil Attack diary is nothing new, I've been posting about it since 1999 and nobody takes me seriously about it. Thanks for letting some light into the subject, but you should have submitted it as a story here instead of a K5 diary there. So really you re-purposed a decade of my content about it to write your K5 diary.
Got any other free web hosting companies I can switch to then? Geocities went out of business. I had to move my web site somewhere but Google was the only free option for me.
to let the small start ups and big companies use the old technology and see who can make a better system with it.
The old MOS 6502 and 65816 series CPUs should be open sourced hardware so that companies can make cheap 8 bit computers based on them, or even design new computers using them in a creative way. Commodore should open source the VIC-20, Commodore 64/128, Commodore 16/Plus4. Atari should open source the 400/800/800XL.1200XL, Apple should open source the Apple// and//gs line of computers.
The old Motorola 6800/6809 and 68K series should be open sourced so we can have old Motorola based systems recreated for a low cost. Apple should open source the 68K Macs, Atari open source the Atari ST, Radio Shack open source the COCO (Color Computer) line, Amiga open source the 68K Amiga line and let the best company reproduce the old systems.
Intel should open source the 8088/8086, 80286, 80386, 80486, and Pentium chips and IBM and Compaq open source their old systems that used the 486 and under processors. Then we can use MS-DOS on them or FreeDOS and see who can build the better DOS based computer. OpenGEM is already open sourced DRI GEM, and I'd like to see 386MOS, Taskview, Desqview, IBM PC-DOS, DR-DOS, etc open sourced as well. I know OS/2 cannot be open sourced due to 300+ third party code IP, but OSFree is an open source project to create an open source alternative to OS/2 and IBM needs to contribute to it to develop it further.
The AM/FM Cassette players, 8 Track Tape players, VHS Video Recorders, etc should be open sourced so that cheaper versions can be made. I know it is old tech but media for them still exists and people have a need to play and listen to their old media.
The old cars that aren't made anymore need to be open sourced as well. The 1890 to 1950's cars should be released to open source so that people can put modern engines in them and make parts to replace those on existing cars that need repairs and upgrades. The auto companies cannot afford to upgrade them and replace parts for them anymore, so let the others deal with it.
Someone needs to create an open source hardware plugin hybrid engine for cars, and then adapt them to any vehicle to swap out the gas powered engine for the plugin hybrid one. We need this to convert old gas guzzler cars to hybrids as cheaply as possible. If not most people won't be able to afford new Hybrids. We need to be able to take the $500 car that gets 10 MPG and convert it for under $500 to a Hybrid engine.
teach Monkeys how to write computer code. I am sure they can do a better job at it than the average human being. The modern languages have built in garbage collection, removal of pointers, memory management, and other features built in because comp sci graduates couldn't understand how to do it. Now the computer languages are so easy to use a monkey can use them. That was how Steve Jobs made the Macintosh by making it so easy to use a monkey could use it, which we called them Chimp Boxes way back in 1984 to show that even monkeys can use them.
Yes and now that monkeys are shown to have syntax, they are considered intelligent enough to have civil rights.
So along with intellectual property rights for Monkey-speak and Monkey-syntax they also want the right to vote, collect welfare and social security, hold a job, get married, buy cars and houses, run for public office (can't do any worse than the politicians he had in office for the past 30 years anyway, a monkey might be an improvement?), send their kids to public school, and also serve in the military (man those terrorists almost won, until we sent in the 268th Monkey Brigade after them, those terrorists couldn't crack their monkey code or figure out their monkey tactics and they took the terrorists by surprise and got the location of Osama bin Laden out of them using monkey logic and reason to interrogate them but not torture them). What until humankind learns that they are obsolete and now the monkeys are the one on top of evolution. Hey we might even splice their genes to have them talk and understand as humans do, or they might do it via evolution and natural selection. After all, what is the worst that can happen?
since steroid use is illegal, the gene therapy to get stronger muscles should be legal if it passes FDA tests, etc.
Every Baseball player will want it to always hit home runs and throw the ball farther.
Every Soccer player will want stronger leg muscles to kick the ball farther and run faster.
Every Professional Wrestler will sign up for it to look like a Greek God without using steroids and lifting a lot of weights.
I'll bet that even fat people will want it because a side-effect is losing weight and turning it into muscle.
Charles Atlas will be out of business as there is a cheaper and easier way to gain muscles other than "Dynamic Tension"(TM).
Some could say this could be the way to produce our own Super Soldier Serum and make our own Captain America Super Soldiers, by taking the skinny Steve Rogers and turning them into Captain America clones. I am sure the military will want this very badly.
A Sybil Attack is from multiple if not more personalities (sockpuppets of the same person or group) that use the reputation system to gave favor in one person's or group's favor.
Any good security system should have a countermeasure for detecting a Sybil Attack, and it looks like Apple's App Store just implemented such a thing to detect more Sybil Attacks in the future.
Yes it is also Astro Turfing. Now if the Sybil Attacks rated other applications at random ratings, they might have gone undetected and passed off as just another user. But because they only rate one group of applications, they can be detected and thus action be taken by Apple et al to deal with it.
There is one project called SWGEmu that is based on Star Wars Galaxies PreCU. It is the old version of Star Wars Galaxies and it is an open source server replacement for the original Star Wars Galaxies server.
It is rare to see such a project, and it is still under development, but has a lot of promises. The Star Wars Galaxies client CD-ROM costs $10 these days and one needs the original client to hook up to this new server.
The same could be done for Tabula Rasa, Auto Assault and others but it would take a lot of beta testing to make sure it is done right.
Nonsense I scored 189 in my IQ test and became a member of MENSA. I got almost perfect scores on my ACT and SAT tests for college. I graduated near the top of my class in college with a 3.91 grade point average and made the honor roll.
Meanwhile you aren't smart enough to figure out how to log on, or aren't brave enough to leave your real user ID to be held accountable for your own words.
Well those are exceptions to the theory. People with a functioning brain that don't have an illness that destroys memory or limits thinking should be able to be intelligent at least at one thing if not more.
Those who are intelligent should use their gifts to serve others who are not so fortunate. That is supposed to be the very basis for modern civilization and governments. But often the people who are not so intelligent are used as political pawns and used and abused by intelligent people who ought to know better.
Irrelevant, everything you learn in college is stored in your subconscious mind even if you cannot recall it. Eventually it will come back to you and the Engineer will remember how to do differential equations after reading a book on it to refresh his/her memory, and every other class as well.
Just that while some subjects such as math and English stay the same mostly, science, computer science, programming languages, CPUs, technology, and other things will continue to change and evolve and progress so that the college graduate will have to continue learning them to stay effective at a job.
For example, I learned Turbo Pascal, but my knowledge of Visual BASIC that I learned on the side and not in college got me my jobs. Visual BASIC replaced Turbo Pascal after I graduated, and then they moved on to Java and C++ and in some cases C#. You have to keep on learning and subscribe to magazines (or RSS feeds of magazines and other sources of information on your subjects) to stay updated to changes.
Change management, research, innovation, those are important skills to learn because you will be called to use them every day to adapt to the many changes and evolution of your skills and knowledge.
Yes I agree having a family can be a drain on your career, I was always asked to stay extra hours and work for no extra pay, but I had to leave to pick up my son from the babysitter because she would only work to 5pm or 6pm and no later. My wife worked late as a nurse at a later shift and couldn't do it. Had I worked the extra hours, it would have lead to promotions and pay raises, but I chose family over career. When I got sick, from the stress caused from management and coworkers from not working extra hours with them, the stress of technology changing, the stress of debugging everyone's code as they didn't keep up the quality that I did (I did quality many others did quantity and thus wrote sloppy code I had to fix later), and me not knowing how to handle anger management or stress management made me physically and mentally ill. Part of it is my fault for choosing family and health over career, and not knowing how to handle the stress of extra work and other things which made me sicker and sicker until I went on disability. While I was discriminated against at work for being sick, when I was sick I couldn't do as well a job as when I was well, so eventually I couldn't handle any job at all and had to quit and go on disability and try to heal up. That was 2002, and I am still trying to heal up as my illnesses go deep. But had I not been married and not had any offspring, I'd might still be working today putting in the extra hours needed to keep my job and not go sick. Then again I might have worked myself sick and gone on disability anyway. But it should strive the importance of learning anger management and stress management for a career as well as learning to adapt to change and other things.
#1 e-Ink saves power over the Netbook LCD screen. #2 eBook reader is easier to use and has twin screens to simulate a book which usually has two pages open at once. Netbooks only have one LCD screen. #3 Not everyone wants to learn how to use a Netbook computer with Windows, Linux, etc in order to read books. Last thing someone wants is a Windows BSOD while reading an eBook, or have the screen saver come up due to inactivity. #4 Eventually when mass produced the eBook readers will come down in price as technology advances and becomes cheaper due to spreading out the cost from thousands to millions of unit sales. #5 eBook sellers want the DRM features to control how their book is accessed and used. #6 The eBook reader is more compatible with the library system of checking out books. I expect libraries to carry eBooks and either one checks out an eBook via the library's web site or visits the library and checks out the eBook from their wireless network. #7 The eBook reader is platform agnostic and should work with any operating system it hooks up to and accesses to convert eBooks over to it. #8 Just like the iPod made music and videos sales over the Internet popular and profitable, so too will the eBook reader make eBooks over the Internet popular and profitable. The company that can do with eBooks what Apple did with music and video media should be the winner in this category. No iPods and iPhones are not as suitable as eBook readers with e-Ink, but yes Apple should strive to develop their own e-Ink based eBook reader.
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that mobile devices don't always have Internet access. The user may run into a dead spot without 3G+ or WIFI connectivity. The Mozilla Firefox Mobile loads Javascript programs from "The Cloud" I would assume as to where the data is stored and the Firefox Mobile is the client.
In some places Internet access is forbidden, for example if I try to write a Docket Calendar application for Firefox Mobile and the lawyer takes it into a courtroom that blocks cellular signals and doesn't have Wifi, or he gets on a plane and has to have all electronic devices shut off or at least turn off networking so it wouldn't interfere with the equipment on the plane my Cloud based Docket Calendar app is useless to him as he couldn't connect and access my program and his data. If I wrote a native app with a native database he could download his Docket Calendar from his law firm servers and then go to court and access his data from the native database and while on the plane check his data with the networking feature switched off when he is told he can use electronic devices again. I've developed many web applications for lawyers and they work best on their Intranet, but on mobile devices and laptops it always has to have a native database on the hard drive or storage for when there is no Network access.
One more thing, you could have the Firefox developers develop a small Firefox Server app that runs on the Mobile device and serves up programs the user can download so that they work regardless of if they have a network signal or not and then caches the data when connected and syncs up with the main servers when it has network access again. It can mirror the main application site and download updates when connected and upload changes from when the mobile unit was offline. It would be cool if you did that as Netscape used to write web servers and the Mozilla Foundation should still have access to that code.
and sign their emails with public keys. That way you can store their public keys on your system to verify it is a valid email.
I really am not sure why PGP or GPG isn't added to Email servers to verify email. Most email clients work with them and if email clients and servers are modified to use PGP or GPG encryption to connect and send out messages and automatically sign them then the servers can verify the sender via the private key and passphrase and lock out the spammers and scammers. Anyone who does send scams or spams can be identified by their signature key which would be required to send an email.
Most scammers and spammers use Botnets that have built in SMTP servers that they can use via remote control to send email and fake the headers and SPF and fake being from a domain that isn't black listed. Not only would you have to change how email clients and servers work, but you'd have to find a way for millions of Microsoft Windows clients to avoid being infected with trojans to be part of a Botnet that fakes SMTP messages.
George Orwell was an ardent socialist and communist but gave them up after seeing how evil they were. Then he wrote Animal Farm afterwords. Your Diet Education didn't teach you that did it?
Iran never had capitalism it had a Kingdom with Islamic Law and controlled the economy that way via totalitarianism. Ask Jimmy Carter why he made the CIA put the Shah of Iran in power, and also ask why the Radical Fundamentalist Muslims who took over and overthrew the Shah of Iran are worse than the Shah were and are terrorists as well and now Iran is run by Islamic Law and terrorism. I blame a failed foreign policy in the US for that, not capitalism.
I hope you like communism when it comes to the USA, no more computers, no more iPods, no more cell phones, no more TV sets, no more cars, no more private property. That is capitalism and communism bans it. Your salary will be greatly reduced to be like those in China or Cuba for $1065 a year.
The hidden communist holocaust murdered about 100 million people in less than 100 years.
Not only does communism not work, but in an effort to make it work they have to murder off the "imperfect" or "those who don't contribute" or "those who are different" or "those who don't worship the state secular religion called communism" because too many people means social programs cost too much. So if they just off the "surplus population" they can hope to make the economics work even if they don't follow logic or reason or any sense at all.
George Orwell warned us about communism and socialism via Animal Farm where the farmer is capitalism and the animals establish a socialist/communist government. In the end they find out the socialists/communists are just as corrupt as the farmer and many animals lose their rights and freedoms and some end up dead.
The Black Book of Communism was written in France and is a picture book, it outlines the camps and the murders, the torture, the stealing, the crimes against humanity and other things that socialism/communism has done.
As an alternative try welfare capitalism or compassionate capitalism where social programs are insurance based, and based on logic, reason, and reality. The person gets out of it what they paid into it via taxes. Which was what FDR and others in the USA used to avoid socialism/communism and the evils that follow them.
Socialism is diet communism, would you like diet fascism or diet Nazism as a viable form of government? They don't work in practice either and are just as evil. Too much to the right is bad, and too much to the left is just as bad, people should really be in the middle.
one one hand you have to have an open mind for the theory and data that it could be true, but remember that it has to be falsifiable to fit with the scientific method. Anything that cannot be proven true or false or has a hard time being proven true or false possibly might not be falsifiable and thus not subject to the scientific method.
In order to get a true scientific skeptical mind you have to remove all bias, be it religious or political or both it could even be a non-religious bias or personal bias or the scientist just wants grant money and is biased in the report. You have to look for bias, anything that has a bias cannot follow the scientific method. When following the scientific method you have to be neutral and use logic, reason, and critical thinking, something most people don't do these days.
Any modern spreadsheet, Excel, Openoffice.Org Calc, Lotus Symphony, iWork, etc have statistics functions to calculate the margin of error and correlation so you can import the raw data into a row or column and then use the build in statistical functions to check the data. I use that to check a lot of "peer reviewed" reports when I was in college and I found a lot of them didn't even bother to do these things and when I checked them the margin of error was high and the correlation was low. Obvious the reports I reviewed were cherry picked or something was wrong and it wasn't a random sample and the hypothesis checking was done wrong.
More people will criticize religion and politics, but forget that religion and politics can corrupt science as can many other things corrupt science. Modern Science has turned into a secular religion that worships nature and the environment, Science isn't supposed to be a religion or like a religion, and it isn't the answer to everything and cannot be used for many things such as art, humanities, emotion, writing, relationships, etc. While it is good to use logic and reason, it is just as important to use emotions and imagination and balance the right and left sides of the human brain. Sometimes science skeptics tend to forget that.
Science like religion and politics needs major reform and seems to be a hybrid of politics and religion instead of what science used to be.
I've been to Thailand in 2000 and 2007, last I checked they still had a growing VideoCD market of new movies. I don't know how they make them, but a van driver was playing VideoCD movies in a van we rented in 2007 to tour Thailand with. It was one of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies that had just come out and it was in Thai with no English subtitles. When I went back to the USA it was still playing in theaters so I paid movie tickets for my family to see it, in English and in big theater format. I didn't want to rip Disney off of the price of tickets and I didn't understand enough Thai to get the VideoCD format.
But they sell them in flee markets and mall tables in Thailand and I am told most Asian nations sell them. The VideoCD is in PAL format and wouldn't play on US NTSC systems and modern DVD players in the USA don't play VideoCD formats anymore.
I am told the Asian pirates use VideoCD formats because not everyone can afford the DVD players and VideoCD players are cheaper. In a bad third world country more people buy the cheaper VideoCD players than DVD players to save money and then buy cheap VideoCDs from the street, flee markets, or tables in a mall somewhere. A movie can take up to 3 or 4 VideoCDs because a VideoCD does not store as much as a DVD does.
Yes most people either don't know or don't care that it is illegal, and the local police don't crack down on it either nor does the national government. All they know is for $1 to $5 they can get cheap VideoCD movies in their own native language.
The Playstation systems were sold with a Mod-Chip already in them, and they sell cheap PS1, PS2, and I assume now PS3 games. But I heard that Sony of Japan cracked down on that and sued companies that installed mod chips in their Playstation units, which lead to the population stopping from buying Sony Playstations and switching to PC games that were easier to counterfeit and pirate.
Well the open source hardware can be sold in third world nations that cannot afford the $newthing which would help the local population earn enough money from it to eventually buy $newthing later to replace $thing that was open sourced. The potential here for cheap $things for schools and libraries that otherwise couldn't afford them would win good diplomatic relations with the nation that $company is in for open sourcing their hardware to make it more affordable. As a result the foreign government might buy a whole lot of $newthing from $company for helping out their poor people and poor schools and libraries.
I wasn't talking about nerds, and your trillion dollar nerds is a false analogy. Already in Europe there is a big market for Amiga technology and upgrading 68K Amiga systems to PowerPC processors to run AmigaOS 3.1 and up to 4.1 because they are tired of Microsoft and Apple and want an alternative to it. The PowerPC based SAM EP440 motherboards are also used in embedded Linux development and made in Italy and can run MorphOS and other operating systems as well. So there is a market for this, I couldn't say if it was a trillion dollar industry, but people got pissed off by Microsoft and moved to Apple only to get pissed off by Apple and then moved to the Amiga (In the USA people move to Linux or *BSD Unix for the same reasons).
But Open Source Hardware is so new, no company knows how to take advantage of it yet. It is a new technology frontier and hardly any research has been done on it. But Open Source Software and Open Source Content is more common and more popular and Open Source Software companies have proven to be profitable, and Open Source Content is successful as Wikipedia, Wikia, Wikibooks, etc have shown high success rates.
Yes the average business manager is using classic management which dates back to Slavery in ancient Egypt and aren't knowledgable, are unknowing, caught in a restrictive and inefficient bureaucracy, and you can tell because the US, EU, and global economies are suffering because classic management doesn't work and the only successes are being done by people using participative management, servant leadership, organizational behavior, six sigma quality control, and other advanced management skills that lead to better profits and adoption of open source software, content, and hardware.
I got a lot of stuff about me written all over the Internet. I've been accused of a lot of things, but nothing ever proven in a court of law. I am usually persecuted because I am mentally ill and my schizoaffective disorder causes behavior and actions that some people don't like and then post about it on the Internet or my own words on the Internet during one of my "bad cycles" makes me look bad.
What you should do is tell the potential employer the truth, that you got investigated but no charges were filed against you. That you learned from it and moved on so as to not make that mistake over again. Apparently since X years of not being investigated proves that you didn't do it ever again, and that you know enough about it to help prevent it on your employer's systems. You take a negative and turn it into a positive as Kevin Mitnik did after he was found guilty and he wrote books on the subject and got hired as a security consultant. Even if you do have a criminal record like Kevin Mitnik, you can still turn it around by doing what he did and owning up to it and finding a way to foil others who use the same methods.
If your potential employer still gives you a hard time about it, just say it was X years ago, really really old, and you have moved on from it and suggest that the employer move on from it as well as you'd rather focus on your skills and talents and ability to do the work for the job than dwell over mistakes of the past via ancient history that hardly anyone cares about anymore.
Worst possible case scenario is that nobody hires you, even then you can start up your own small business and take business management lessons at a community college to learn how to make it profitable and apply for a small business loan after writing up a business plan and earning enough money to get a bank's attention.
Because the company that open sources old technology gets goodwill from it that cannot be bought via money. That means people are more likely to buy new products from $company because they open sourced $thing and thus more people will buy $newthing from $company because they open sourced $thing and helped out the community and society to have legacy hardware at cheaper prices.
In the case of the Amiga et al, they can still sell AmigaDOS and AmigaOS for the open source Amiga and make a profit on it, where they normally wouldn't make any profit on sales old old AmigaDOS and AmigaOS.
In the case of the open source Intel Pentium and under CPUs Microsoft could sell old versions of MS-DOS and Windows, and IBM could sell old copies of OS/2 for systems that run them.
but in that politics has corrupted scientists and scientific reports in the same way politics has corrupted religion and churches.
Both science and religion were once pure and not corrupted by politics, but both the left and right corrupted both science and religion.
Science was the last thing untouched by politics, if there was one thing people could trust it was science. But now with the political corruption from the right and the left, who can trust science anymore?
Even though there are logical fallacies, cherry picked numbers, political corruption, climate change can still be true, but just flawed. But we'll never know that until an unbiased and random sample (not cherry picked) third party neutral tests are done with a scientific model that works and is understood and a proper hypothesis that can be proven true or false and is thus falsifiable.
Well then you are neither with the Democrats nor Republicans as neither one of them wants to help anyone but themselves. You'd be like me, an independent who is upset that the failure of both the Democrats and Republicans to help anyone but themselves. Bailouts and stimulus money for the rich and corporations, meanwhile 10% unemployment, all stock markets are down, people are losing their houses left and right, the poor get poorer, the middle-class lose their jobs and become poor, the rich get richer, etc.
People in the Democrat and Republican parties are not intelligent, nor do they use that intelligence to help out the less fortunate. They are the most popular, the most charismatic, the most emotional intelligent, and both of them promise to help out the less fortunate, the poor, the non-intelligent, but instead only help out themselves by helping out "special interest" lobbyists so they can get more campaign money to get re-elected.
The people that just have enough intelligence to get by haven't really met their potential due to bad schooling, lack of education, being lazy, not trying hard enough, slacking off, or being forced into a stereotype subculture that is counter-productive to critical thinking, logic, reason, etc.
Yeah like you invented the term. Next you'll accuse the submitter of this Slashdot story to have re-purposed content from your Kuro5hin diary.
Kuro5hin is a troll site that hardly anyone cares about anymore. It is subject to the dupe hordes carrying out Sybil Attacks on it every day, and this is hardly new news as we've known it since 1999.
Kuro5hin started out as a Slashdot alternative, but turned into a trashcan and toilet bowel for trolls, dupes, wannabe writers, victims, mental patents, aspies, ultra-left wingers, neocons with drug habits, and usually posts the same material over and over again in new formats.
Your Sybil Attack diary is nothing new, I've been posting about it since 1999 and nobody takes me seriously about it. Thanks for letting some light into the subject, but you should have submitted it as a story here instead of a K5 diary there. So really you re-purposed a decade of my content about it to write your K5 diary.
several. :)
Then his ghost runs this web site in his honor?
Got any other free web hosting companies I can switch to then? Geocities went out of business. I had to move my web site somewhere but Google was the only free option for me.
to let the small start ups and big companies use the old technology and see who can make a better system with it.
The old MOS 6502 and 65816 series CPUs should be open sourced hardware so that companies can make cheap 8 bit computers based on them, or even design new computers using them in a creative way. Commodore should open source the VIC-20, Commodore 64/128, Commodore 16/Plus4. Atari should open source the 400/800/800XL.1200XL, Apple should open source the Apple // and //gs line of computers.
The old Motorola 6800/6809 and 68K series should be open sourced so we can have old Motorola based systems recreated for a low cost. Apple should open source the 68K Macs, Atari open source the Atari ST, Radio Shack open source the COCO (Color Computer) line, Amiga open source the 68K Amiga line and let the best company reproduce the old systems.
Intel should open source the 8088/8086, 80286, 80386, 80486, and Pentium chips and IBM and Compaq open source their old systems that used the 486 and under processors. Then we can use MS-DOS on them or FreeDOS and see who can build the better DOS based computer. OpenGEM is already open sourced DRI GEM, and I'd like to see 386MOS, Taskview, Desqview, IBM PC-DOS, DR-DOS, etc open sourced as well. I know OS/2 cannot be open sourced due to 300+ third party code IP, but OSFree is an open source project to create an open source alternative to OS/2 and IBM needs to contribute to it to develop it further.
The AM/FM Cassette players, 8 Track Tape players, VHS Video Recorders, etc should be open sourced so that cheaper versions can be made. I know it is old tech but media for them still exists and people have a need to play and listen to their old media.
The old cars that aren't made anymore need to be open sourced as well. The 1890 to 1950's cars should be released to open source so that people can put modern engines in them and make parts to replace those on existing cars that need repairs and upgrades. The auto companies cannot afford to upgrade them and replace parts for them anymore, so let the others deal with it.
Someone needs to create an open source hardware plugin hybrid engine for cars, and then adapt them to any vehicle to swap out the gas powered engine for the plugin hybrid one. We need this to convert old gas guzzler cars to hybrids as cheaply as possible. If not most people won't be able to afford new Hybrids. We need to be able to take the $500 car that gets 10 MPG and convert it for under $500 to a Hybrid engine.
teach Monkeys how to write computer code. I am sure they can do a better job at it than the average human being. The modern languages have built in garbage collection, removal of pointers, memory management, and other features built in because comp sci graduates couldn't understand how to do it. Now the computer languages are so easy to use a monkey can use them. That was how Steve Jobs made the Macintosh by making it so easy to use a monkey could use it, which we called them Chimp Boxes way back in 1984 to show that even monkeys can use them.
Yes and now that monkeys are shown to have syntax, they are considered intelligent enough to have civil rights.
So along with intellectual property rights for Monkey-speak and Monkey-syntax they also want the right to vote, collect welfare and social security, hold a job, get married, buy cars and houses, run for public office (can't do any worse than the politicians he had in office for the past 30 years anyway, a monkey might be an improvement?), send their kids to public school, and also serve in the military (man those terrorists almost won, until we sent in the 268th Monkey Brigade after them, those terrorists couldn't crack their monkey code or figure out their monkey tactics and they took the terrorists by surprise and got the location of Osama bin Laden out of them using monkey logic and reason to interrogate them but not torture them). What until humankind learns that they are obsolete and now the monkeys are the one on top of evolution. Hey we might even splice their genes to have them talk and understand as humans do, or they might do it via evolution and natural selection. After all, what is the worst that can happen?
since steroid use is illegal, the gene therapy to get stronger muscles should be legal if it passes FDA tests, etc.
Every Baseball player will want it to always hit home runs and throw the ball farther.
Every Soccer player will want stronger leg muscles to kick the ball farther and run faster.
Every Professional Wrestler will sign up for it to look like a Greek God without using steroids and lifting a lot of weights.
I'll bet that even fat people will want it because a side-effect is losing weight and turning it into muscle.
Charles Atlas will be out of business as there is a cheaper and easier way to gain muscles other than "Dynamic Tension"(TM).
Some could say this could be the way to produce our own Super Soldier Serum and make our own Captain America Super Soldiers, by taking the skinny Steve Rogers and turning them into Captain America clones. I am sure the military will want this very badly.
A Sybil Attack is from multiple if not more personalities (sockpuppets of the same person or group) that use the reputation system to gave favor in one person's or group's favor.
Any good security system should have a countermeasure for detecting a Sybil Attack, and it looks like Apple's App Store just implemented such a thing to detect more Sybil Attacks in the future.
Yes it is also Astro Turfing. Now if the Sybil Attacks rated other applications at random ratings, they might have gone undetected and passed off as just another user. But because they only rate one group of applications, they can be detected and thus action be taken by Apple et al to deal with it.
There is one project called SWGEmu that is based on Star Wars Galaxies PreCU. It is the old version of Star Wars Galaxies and it is an open source server replacement for the original Star Wars Galaxies server.
It is rare to see such a project, and it is still under development, but has a lot of promises. The Star Wars Galaxies client CD-ROM costs $10 these days and one needs the original client to hook up to this new server.
The same could be done for Tabula Rasa, Auto Assault and others but it would take a lot of beta testing to make sure it is done right.
Nonsense I scored 189 in my IQ test and became a member of MENSA. I got almost perfect scores on my ACT and SAT tests for college. I graduated near the top of my class in college with a 3.91 grade point average and made the honor roll.
Meanwhile you aren't smart enough to figure out how to log on, or aren't brave enough to leave your real user ID to be held accountable for your own words.
Well those are exceptions to the theory. People with a functioning brain that don't have an illness that destroys memory or limits thinking should be able to be intelligent at least at one thing if not more.
Those who are intelligent should use their gifts to serve others who are not so fortunate. That is supposed to be the very basis for modern civilization and governments. But often the people who are not so intelligent are used as political pawns and used and abused by intelligent people who ought to know better.
Irrelevant, everything you learn in college is stored in your subconscious mind even if you cannot recall it. Eventually it will come back to you and the Engineer will remember how to do differential equations after reading a book on it to refresh his/her memory, and every other class as well.
Just that while some subjects such as math and English stay the same mostly, science, computer science, programming languages, CPUs, technology, and other things will continue to change and evolve and progress so that the college graduate will have to continue learning them to stay effective at a job.
For example, I learned Turbo Pascal, but my knowledge of Visual BASIC that I learned on the side and not in college got me my jobs. Visual BASIC replaced Turbo Pascal after I graduated, and then they moved on to Java and C++ and in some cases C#. You have to keep on learning and subscribe to magazines (or RSS feeds of magazines and other sources of information on your subjects) to stay updated to changes.
Change management, research, innovation, those are important skills to learn because you will be called to use them every day to adapt to the many changes and evolution of your skills and knowledge.
Yes I agree having a family can be a drain on your career, I was always asked to stay extra hours and work for no extra pay, but I had to leave to pick up my son from the babysitter because she would only work to 5pm or 6pm and no later. My wife worked late as a nurse at a later shift and couldn't do it. Had I worked the extra hours, it would have lead to promotions and pay raises, but I chose family over career. When I got sick, from the stress caused from management and coworkers from not working extra hours with them, the stress of technology changing, the stress of debugging everyone's code as they didn't keep up the quality that I did (I did quality many others did quantity and thus wrote sloppy code I had to fix later), and me not knowing how to handle anger management or stress management made me physically and mentally ill. Part of it is my fault for choosing family and health over career, and not knowing how to handle the stress of extra work and other things which made me sicker and sicker until I went on disability. While I was discriminated against at work for being sick, when I was sick I couldn't do as well a job as when I was well, so eventually I couldn't handle any job at all and had to quit and go on disability and try to heal up. That was 2002, and I am still trying to heal up as my illnesses go deep. But had I not been married and not had any offspring, I'd might still be working today putting in the extra hours needed to keep my job and not go sick. Then again I might have worked myself sick and gone on disability anyway. But it should strive the importance of learning anger management and stress management for a career as well as learning to adapt to change and other things.
Plenty of reasons:
#1 e-Ink saves power over the Netbook LCD screen.
#2 eBook reader is easier to use and has twin screens to simulate a book which usually has two pages open at once. Netbooks only have one LCD screen.
#3 Not everyone wants to learn how to use a Netbook computer with Windows, Linux, etc in order to read books. Last thing someone wants is a Windows BSOD while reading an eBook, or have the screen saver come up due to inactivity.
#4 Eventually when mass produced the eBook readers will come down in price as technology advances and becomes cheaper due to spreading out the cost from thousands to millions of unit sales.
#5 eBook sellers want the DRM features to control how their book is accessed and used.
#6 The eBook reader is more compatible with the library system of checking out books. I expect libraries to carry eBooks and either one checks out an eBook via the library's web site or visits the library and checks out the eBook from their wireless network.
#7 The eBook reader is platform agnostic and should work with any operating system it hooks up to and accesses to convert eBooks over to it.
#8 Just like the iPod made music and videos sales over the Internet popular and profitable, so too will the eBook reader make eBooks over the Internet popular and profitable. The company that can do with eBooks what Apple did with music and video media should be the winner in this category. No iPods and iPhones are not as suitable as eBook readers with e-Ink, but yes Apple should strive to develop their own e-Ink based eBook reader.