Maybe this won't be a positive outcome for anyone's bottom line, but it very well may be that this is the best thing to ever happen to the GPL (assuming the courts don't ravage it).
None of this news is comforting to my ears at all. All that I hear is that some rogue program is about to be put on the shoulders of an even more secretive group. At least before we could put a name and an elected official behind each 'program'. This is no good.
Technology is begign by itself. It will only accelerate the motives of society, but never-the-less it must be a catalyst. Personally I'm curious as hell to see what society will do with it, although it seems to be primarily accelerating chit-chat which I think says more about society than it does about technology.
You can't see the forest through the trees. It's not the poloticians or the school boards that are going to save the future. Shouldn't it be us, the technologists? If not us, then who?
I've been thinking of writing this really cool SciFi novel. In it there's like this collective of brilliant minds trying to change the shape of the their planet's intellectual behavior. So they invent this machine that connects everyone's minds together in this huge matrix so they can figure out problems of incredible complexity and in the process they save the planet. And they do it all at light speed. And they come up with all these amazingly brilliant ideas and inventions to help them.
The structure is layed out very well, but I have some additions to recommend. Along with citizens should be "special interests", "big corporations". Included with government should be "alterier motives", "barred entrance via campaign costs". These X factors cannot be ignored, granted the scope of this paper isn't a digression on flaws in government, I do believe that flaws are big enough that they cannot be ignored.
I really like the E-Democracy conceptual model. It shows the cyclical role of citizens as they are applied to various facets of leadership.
All in all though I believe that a lack of communication is not the core of the problem in the government. Infact in a democracy a great majority of people don't care to give feedback (vote). Are you suggesting that if voting goes online more people will vote? If this is the case, the government may or may not be ready to embrace it for that reason alone. That's an interesting question.
If you don't know about Carmack or Romero then chances are you don't care about things like quincux anti-aliasing or old rasterization engines that used raycasting (raytracing) techniques when everything was rendered via software, am I right??? Chances are you were too busy re-inventing the wheel for some company. Chances are you're 'real-world' experience was nothing useful to society in the long run. Well good for you if you know what happened when. You're about as useful a Geek as a BigBoy sign is to the restaurant. But for all intensive purposes you may as well eat somewhere else.
Geeks die easily - Geeks' ideas die hard. INNOVATION RULES SUPREME! CARMACK, I LOVE YOU!
Some numbers I read were that somone with a Master's will average about $83k in full stride (not sure if that is a state or national average), while a PhD will typically hit about $50k (most likely because Academia pays less and they end up teaching).
I would suggest that a PhD only get a PhD when it's fair to say she is ready for it. In not so general terms let's say you get a PhD by the time you're 28. Unless you can show you're a genius in your field your employer will have a hard time believing that you can do anything other than write research papers.
Someone who goes after a PhD when they're 40 and has 20 years of IT experience will more readily be believed by an employer when they say "trust me I know what I'm doing" than a kid just out of college who hasn't ever done an interview.
Ultimately a PhD could do better, but only if they pay their dues to industry first and end up at the top of their field for a cutting edge company. But most likely the extra 5 to 7 years it took to get that degree would have been better spent at $80k/yr with a Master's.
... in the name INFMapPacks123FULL-MAN.zip is the word FULL. Now although this name was filtered with an expression like/pac.*man/i,I would venture to say it failed because the Bayesian filter saw the word "FULL" and noticed it is a common term used when pirating full versions of software. When using Bayesian filters scenarios like this are thankfuly the exception and not the rule.
yeah but ultimately it's like that episode of Get Smart where Max suggests that the highly top-secret secret code book be transferred by an agent who has memorizes the entire book:
Chief: "But what if the Agent dies?" Max: "... then we'll have a new plan where we have TWO agents memorize the book" Chief: "But what if both agents are killed?" Max: "... then we'll have a new plan where we have THREE agents memorize the book"...:)
But yeah, I see where you're coming from, and indeed the story is a bit lax on details.
It amazes me that a such a company would have such lax security as to allow an insider to browse supposedly private data at will.
You're kidding right? If you hired me for a DBA job as an administrator then told me that administrators aren't allowed to look at the database that would be kinduv rediculous wouldn't it?
Let's rephrase this scenario. Say an Air Force pilot goes AWOL and drops a devistating bomb causing lots of harm. Here's what that quote would sound like: "It amazes me that that the Army would have such lax security as to allow a pilot to use such weapons at will."
Does that sound rediculous to anyone else? DBA's need to do their job. And if this was an inside job it didn't require any actual "hacking" so the title of this story and its deliver are quite misleading.
Here is an actual letter I sent to SCO. I'm hoping to receive a response soon:
COUNTRY: United States CONCERNING: Lost/Replacement Licences MESSAGE: I\'de like to buy a license for Linux... not so I can use Linux, just so I can hang it on my wall and laugh when I tell my grand-kids how stupid you guys are. Thank God your shareholders aren\'t programmers, or lawyers for that matter. Please send me information on how to obtain one of these modern antiques. And also if you could, a good re-seller of picture frames so I can frame it. OH! and an autograph too... I\'de like it to be autographed by one of your lawyers... I think if you did that and sold the framed licenses on eBay you\'e make more money selling them that way. But that\'s just my $.02... you should continue to grant new and exciting opportunities as you see fit. Please send more information on how to purchase ASAP.
I wonder what percent of the industry robots have already taken. But beyond job numbers I'de be willing to bet that robots commandingly control our efficiency percentages and we don't even know it. Our infrastructure as it exists today may not be able to handle itself without the aid of robots and maintain anything resembling modern productivity. Robots aren't even sentient yet and they've already been crammed into every nook and cranny. Sounds to me like humans don't like humans to do their work - which is a fair trade-off I suppose because most bosses are hardly human.
Best theme park on the planet! SERIOUSLY! Top Thrill Dragster will blow your mind... or atleast your cheeks to your ears. As a matter of fact, there's not too many rides there that won't blow your mind. Also, stop at the 50's diner and request "Respect" on the juke box and watch all the waiters put down their trays and start dancing, it's awesome.
Get a Zaurus. not only can you run SSH on a konsole, but you can also run sshd and control your handheld using your desktop. They even have X11 and an Xserver for the Zaurus. You can even use VNC and take control of your windows GUI with a Zaurus. The Zaurus rules.
Lunatics aside, what infrastructure of "official" fax numbers does eBay mine to keep out private citizens? I don't hear them boasting about a secure infrastructure and that's THE primary concern. Not to mention, I'm sure there are ways to spoof fax numbers. The whole thing is shoddy at best.
Just remember: "You can have freedom, or you can have security, but you can never have both"
expect even more feeders to follow. Where there's money there's greedy people - a necessary evil that goes with the creation of a new paradigm for software.
Pull out the duct-tape and expect the herd to move in and trample everything. By next year David Letterman will be making lame jokes about Linus' hair.
We've kept our heads down and worked tirelessly to no end. And you know what it's gotten us?
One is the most powerful army the world has ever seen. Two are health instruments that let otherwise deaf, partially-blind humans experience life without the overhead from their surroundings or genetics. Three is Automobiles that sing to us and massage our asses and blow on us when we feel a tad warm or chilly. Four is personal simulators that can simulate almost anything on a screen right in front of you. Damn... and all I have to do to get all of this is sit in a chair and learn new things for a living. Sounds like a bum deal.
Pull your head out of your ass and look at the hill we've built. After having Lasik surgeory, or getting contacts you'll surely notice THE VIEW FROM UP HERE IS GREAT!
Keep moving down the list and somewhere around Starbucks give me a call... on my cell phone.
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe this won't be a positive outcome for anyone's bottom line, but it very well may be that this is the best thing to ever happen to the GPL (assuming the courts don't ravage it).
None of this news is comforting to my ears at all. All that I hear is that some rogue program is about to be put on the shoulders of an even more secretive group. At least before we could put a name and an elected official behind each 'program'. This is no good.
Look at the DARPA grants that have been awarded. They list several recent accepted entries.
That's a good point.
Technology is begign by itself. It will only accelerate the motives of society, but never-the-less it must be a catalyst. Personally I'm curious as hell to see what society will do with it, although it seems to be primarily accelerating chit-chat which I think says more about society than it does about technology.
You can't see the forest through the trees. It's not the poloticians or the school boards that are going to save the future. Shouldn't it be us, the technologists? If not us, then who?
I've been thinking of writing this really cool SciFi novel. In it there's like this collective of brilliant minds trying to change the shape of the their planet's intellectual behavior. So they invent this machine that connects everyone's minds together in this huge matrix so they can figure out problems of incredible complexity and in the process they save the planet. And they do it all at light speed. And they come up with all these amazingly brilliant ideas and inventions to help them.
geek1: any ideas for a title?
geek2: ummm... how about "Slashdot"?
The structure is layed out very well, but I have some additions to recommend. Along with citizens should be "special interests", "big corporations". Included with government should be "alterier motives", "barred entrance via campaign costs". These X factors cannot be ignored, granted the scope of this paper isn't a digression on flaws in government, I do believe that flaws are big enough that they cannot be ignored.
I really like the E-Democracy conceptual model. It shows the cyclical role of citizens as they are applied to various facets of leadership.
All in all though I believe that a lack of communication is not the core of the problem in the government. Infact in a democracy a great majority of people don't care to give feedback (vote). Are you suggesting that if voting goes online more people will vote? If this is the case, the government may or may not be ready to embrace it for that reason alone. That's an interesting question.
dually noted, thanx
If you don't know about Carmack or Romero then chances are you don't care about things like quincux anti-aliasing or old rasterization engines that used raycasting (raytracing) techniques when everything was rendered via software, am I right??? Chances are you were too busy re-inventing the wheel for some company. Chances are you're 'real-world' experience was nothing useful to society in the long run. Well good for you if you know what happened when. You're about as useful a Geek as a BigBoy sign is to the restaurant. But for all intensive purposes you may as well eat somewhere else.
Geeks die easily - Geeks' ideas die hard.
INNOVATION RULES SUPREME! CARMACK, I LOVE YOU!
Some numbers I read were that somone with a Master's will average about $83k in full stride (not sure if that is a state or national average), while a PhD will typically hit about $50k (most likely because Academia pays less and they end up teaching).
I would suggest that a PhD only get a PhD when it's fair to say she is ready for it. In not so general terms let's say you get a PhD by the time you're 28. Unless you can show you're a genius in your field your employer will have a hard time believing that you can do anything other than write research papers.
Someone who goes after a PhD when they're 40 and has 20 years of IT experience will more readily be believed by an employer when they say "trust me I know what I'm doing" than a kid just out of college who hasn't ever done an interview.
Ultimately a PhD could do better, but only if they pay their dues to industry first and end up at the top of their field for a cutting edge company. But most likely the extra 5 to 7 years it took to get that degree would have been better spent at $80k/yr with a Master's.
I guess my controlled experiment failed :-(
I didn't know you could get +5 for being a Troll. Let's see if it works. Let's experiment with yet another controlled example:
C'mon guys... umm you suck.
yeah but ultimately it's like that episode of Get Smart where Max suggests that the highly top-secret secret code book be transferred by an agent who has memorizes the entire book:
... :)
Chief: "But what if the Agent dies?"
Max: "... then we'll have a new plan where we have TWO agents memorize the book"
Chief: "But what if both agents are killed?"
Max: "... then we'll have a new plan where we have THREE agents memorize the book"
But yeah, I see where you're coming from, and indeed the story is a bit lax on details.
loading kernel modules
You're kidding right? If you hired me for a DBA job as an administrator then told me that administrators aren't allowed to look at the database that would be kinduv rediculous wouldn't it?
Let's rephrase this scenario.
Say an Air Force pilot goes AWOL and drops a devistating bomb causing lots of harm. Here's what that quote would sound like:
"It amazes me that that the Army would have such lax security as to allow a pilot to use such weapons at will."
Does that sound rediculous to anyone else? DBA's need to do their job. And if this was an inside job it didn't require any actual "hacking" so the title of this story and its deliver are quite misleading.
I wonder what percent of the industry robots have already taken. But beyond job numbers I'de be willing to bet that robots commandingly control our efficiency percentages and we don't even know it. Our infrastructure as it exists today may not be able to handle itself without the aid of robots and maintain anything resembling modern productivity. Robots aren't even sentient yet and they've already been crammed into every nook and cranny. Sounds to me like humans don't like humans to do their work - which is a fair trade-off I suppose because most bosses are hardly human.
Best theme park on the planet!
SERIOUSLY! Top Thrill Dragster will blow your mind... or atleast your cheeks to your ears. As a matter of fact, there's not too many rides there that won't blow your mind.
Also, stop at the 50's diner and request "Respect" on the juke box and watch all the waiters put down their trays and start dancing, it's awesome.
Get a Zaurus.
not only can you run SSH on a konsole, but you can also run sshd and control your handheld using your desktop. They even have X11 and an Xserver for the Zaurus. You can even use VNC and take control of your windows GUI with a Zaurus.
The Zaurus rules.
I do the same thing. The wireless drivers are great too. My only complaint is the 1hr wireless battery life.
Lunatics aside, what infrastructure of "official" fax numbers does eBay mine to keep out private citizens? I don't hear them boasting about a secure infrastructure and that's THE primary concern. Not to mention, I'm sure there are ways to spoof fax numbers. The whole thing is shoddy at best.
Just remember: "You can have freedom, or you can have security, but you can never have both"
expect even more feeders to follow.
Where there's money there's greedy people - a necessary evil that goes with the creation of a new paradigm for software.
Pull out the duct-tape and expect the herd to move in and trample everything. By next year David Letterman will be making lame jokes about Linus' hair.
" We ran a link to the petition supporting this Act a few weeks back. "
/.'ers!!!!!!!!!!!
A few weeks later it gets officially put on the table. Coincidence? I think not.
WAY TO GO
We've kept our heads down and worked tirelessly to no end. And you know what it's gotten us?
One is the most powerful army the world has ever seen. Two are health instruments that let otherwise deaf, partially-blind humans experience life without the overhead from their surroundings or genetics. Three is Automobiles that sing to us and massage our asses and blow on us when we feel a tad warm or chilly. Four is personal simulators that can simulate almost anything on a screen right in front of you. Damn... and all I have to do to get all of this is sit in a chair and learn new things for a living. Sounds like a bum deal.
Pull your head out of your ass and look at the hill we've built. After having Lasik surgeory, or getting contacts you'll surely notice THE VIEW FROM UP HERE IS GREAT!
Keep moving down the list and somewhere around Starbucks give me a call... on my cell phone.