Interesting sig. I'm not a physicist or anything, but it would seem that in absence of this arrow of time, that there needs to be another explanation for what we call "reality". The only one my feeble layman's mind can think of is that everybody is collapsing their own "reality" from the myriad of possible quantum states that they can potentially observe. Figuring out why these 6 billion "realities" never seem to conflict is the hard part though...
An absolute dimensionless time makes this easy, because all 3-D coordinates are on one time-plane (ok, I'm starting to make up words now). Although it would perhaps make you wonder if some of these "magical" formulas (forces varying by powers of two, etc.) are just artifacts of energy being consumed in some "invisible" dimension. Ok, I better stop talking out my ass...
And a surprising number of pedantic imbeciles actually object to others "using crappy invented words" like "USians."
Maybe I should say "Slashdot member" as opposed to Slashdotter.
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Looks like we wanted to spy on the populations of *other* countries, then realized that the governments of those countries might not allow it unless they were in on it *also*. Yay, exporting Big Brother everywhere.
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"That way they can stick their lunch trays to it."
And do they also duct tape their food to their lunch trays?
Through the net it's easier to have "code reviews" because any body can review somebody else's code without having ever to meet that person face to face, and many times without even corresponding directly with them. Having a "physical" code review on the other hand, has the effect of putting people on their guard, and inhibiting critiques they might otherwise have.
I wonder how to solve this. Perhaps make a "game" of code reviews...people who contribute get "points"...or other people can "vote up" contributions. Perhaps something like this. This way, ego sort of gets put on the shelf, because you're not really attacking the person sitting opposite of you, you're just "gaining points". I don't know if this would work in reality...but code reviews are almost universally dreaded, even though they should probably be practiced much more often.
They were doing their job, and the next time someone breaks their "zero-tolerance" policy, I hope they do the same.
A quick look at any history book will show you what usually happens when people stop thinking for themselves and assume that "doing their job" == "the ultimate good in and of itself".
The most immediate images to spring to mind are trains and furnaces...
"I personally love being cramped up in a 2-3 room house."
Cramped up in a 2-3 room house? Can you hear the sound of my teeth gritting? Sir, have you *ever* lived in an apartment? A poor-college-kid downtown studio 0-bedroom apartment?
Do you also have a Cadillac Escalade to go with your "cramped" 2-3 room house?
Ok, my first reaction was that this was a tragedy that could have been avoided if the school (and this whole society) would get it's head out of it's ass. It's unfortunate that "great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds". I'm still burning from the Columbine/Hellmouth/etc. fallout.
But the second reaction I had was: was this yet *another* kid that was pushed too far by his parents? I don't know if this has anything to do with being Indian. Perhaps it does. My father was Indian, and I suppose understandably from his dirt poor background growing up in Calcutta, he was constantly pushing his kids to do well in school. I was his first child, and only son, so that came down pretty heavy on me. Again he wondered "why-I-was-always-on-the-computer".
It seems like it could be that this kid was already pushed too far, and the "disgrace" of being suspended pushed him off the edge. So yeah, the school needs their heads kicked in...I wouldn't mind seeing people lose their jobs or being sued (although I typically hate frivolous lawsuits). But parents, and perhaps some of you Slashdotters out there are parents, need to be aware that you can't *always* push a kid and take no outward signs as everything being "OK".
Somehow you have to clue in successful kids that failing once in a while is OK. Otherwise you're just setting them up for a big fall.
only on slashdot...these parodies are sotrue. There was another one that was even funnier...in which sigs spread like memes through the comments, but I can't find it now.
I just don't get...if it is illegal to circumvent any arbitrary "anti-circumvention" device that somebody doesn't want you to circumvent...why the hell even have the extra law anyway? Why don't they have a law that says it is illegal to break locks, or remove a taped piece of hair from a dresser drawer. It's illegal to view this post because I ROT26ed it. You might as well rule that it is illegal to do illegal things.
"Exactly how has it not worked out for those in Africa dying of AIDS? The drug companies have certainly been willing to accomodate the needs of those governments by providing low cost drugs."
Yeah, right. Drug companies have been fighting this tooth and nail.
http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=af ri ca%20aids%20pharmaceuticals
http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/misc/aids01.html http://www.africapolicy.org/docs99/aids9908.htm
Problems With Current U.S. Policy
Key Problems
* Without access to existing HIV/AIDS treatments, millions of people in developing countries are sentenced to preventable deaths.
* Washington is pressuring developing countries not to adopt compulsory licensing and other intellectual property policies that could
make HIV/AIDS drugs more affordable.
* U.S. government positions on intellectual property questions are responsive to corporate greed, not public health needs.
"Without the IP laws those drugs would not even exist to begin with."
Questionable at best...but let's see what a founding father thought about patents:
"Considering the exclusive right to invention as given not of natural right, but for the benefit of society, I know well the difficulty of drawing a line between the things which are worth to the public the embarrassment of an exclusive patent, and those which are not."
--Jefferson
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3acde9fe0d36. ht m
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitu ti on.articlei.html#science and useful arts
"You seem to be of the notion that the world owes you a favor, and should be forced to donate their money to your cause, either through tax dollars or tithes."
And you seem to be of the notion that the intangible and artifical concept of "intellectual property", to support the profits of pharmaceutical corporations overrides millions of unnecessary human deaths. And that's shameful. I wonder if the same would be true if these weren't Africans dying, but Europeans.
When millions of people are dying unnecessarily, yes, they are owed a fucking favor by the rest of humanity.
Somebody explain to me why a handheld computer needs a multiuser operating system...or system-level security at all for that matter (I'd go so far as memory protection, etc.).
"Then when the starving children in Africa come looking for help, you can explain how much better Linux is and why they should support the GPL."
Man, what a troll. Is your point really that it is better to allow corporations in a laissez faire capitalist economy to build empires on intellectual property? Um, that *sure* worked out for all those Africans dying of AIDS didn't it?
And herein is exhibited the difference between Open Source and Free Software. The GPL, written by Stallman to protect Free Software, says nothing about a guarantee of the ability to make money off software. That's totally orthogonal to the GPL and Free Software. They don't care.
But everybody swarming around the Open Source movement, which has been using the GPL for so long now more or less because it was most convenient, are now shocked *shocked* to find that software based on the GPL, itself, may not be a sufficient business model. Yeah, so? Who ever said it was?
If you want to make money off software in which the source is merely *viewable*, call it "Open Source" or "Shared Source" or some other damned thing, but don't pretend it is Free Software and then get your panties in a knot when you realize you will have trouble integrating with GPL software (well, if you refuse to do it "correctly"). Hey Mr. Businessman: GPL was not written for you, sorry; it was written for average joe citizen and consumer. Yes, that may be sad, because there are indeed some very cool people trying to run Open Source businesses. But if you intend to make money from software *itself*, as opposed to services and t-shirts, well, I guess then your choice has to be to make up a new license.
Sorry this sounds rantish. I'm really not an FSF troll...but I don't see why people are so amazed about this. It was inevitable that people running software businesses would realize that they couldn't capitalize on GPL-based software.
Wow. I'm amazed. Does Atheos have any "official" sponsorship or support yet...e.g., from FSF, or something? This *definately* should be supported. Just awesome.
You forget, us Americans *deserve* cheap and unlimited fuel. It's our God given *right*, nay, a *responsibility*, to burn tons of energy carefree. You Europeans sacrificed it when you turned your back on manifest destiny at the Atlantic.
"RMS's vision of community is about subverting the institutions of US democracy in order to advance the cause of socialism."
*Yawn* Oh no, the commies, socialists, run for your guns red-blooded Americans!! RMS's "vision" can be concisely stated as against exclusive intellectual property rights. Oh no! Society will crumble! Bleh. Patent and copyright in this country is blatently abused and exploited by large corporations. If your definition of capitalism allows for conglomerations of monopolies around absolute information hoarding, well, it's you that has the problem.
None...they should be allowed to make all the drugs they want themselves for cheap. Millions of human lives, or MegaCo's "intellectual property"? Decision made.
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Interesting sig. I'm not a physicist or anything, but it would seem that in absence of this arrow of time, that there needs to be another explanation for what we call "reality". The only one my feeble layman's mind can think of is that everybody is collapsing their own "reality" from the myriad of possible quantum states that they can potentially observe. Figuring out why these 6 billion "realities" never seem to conflict is the hard part though...
An absolute dimensionless time makes this easy, because all 3-D coordinates are on one time-plane (ok, I'm starting to make up words now). Although it would perhaps make you wonder if some of these "magical" formulas (forces varying by powers of two, etc.) are just artifacts of energy being consumed in some "invisible" dimension. Ok, I better stop talking out my ass...
And a surprising number of pedantic imbeciles actually object to others "using crappy invented words" like "USians."
Maybe I should say "Slashdot member" as opposed to Slashdotter.
Or how about:
Unbeatable MLM Scheme
Mod this post up. Put your name on a list and forward it to 10 people, with the instructions that they should mod a post of yours up, and put their names at the bottom of the list. Keep only the last 5 names in the list. Sure way to tons of free karma!!
At the same time though, Americans are reading less and less.
Looks like we wanted to spy on the populations of *other* countries, then realized that the governments of those countries might not allow it unless they were in on it *also*. Yay, exporting Big Brother everywhere.
"That way they can stick their lunch trays to it."
And do they also duct tape their food to their lunch trays?
Make your frivolous patents enforcable *everywhere in the world*, immediately!!
Through the net it's easier to have "code reviews" because any body can review somebody else's code without having ever to meet that person face to face, and many times without even corresponding directly with them. Having a "physical" code review on the other hand, has the effect of putting people on their guard, and inhibiting critiques they might otherwise have.
I wonder how to solve this. Perhaps make a "game" of code reviews...people who contribute get "points"...or other people can "vote up" contributions. Perhaps something like this. This way, ego sort of gets put on the shelf, because you're not really attacking the person sitting opposite of you, you're just "gaining points". I don't know if this would work in reality...but code reviews are almost universally dreaded, even though they should probably be practiced much more often.
The most immediate images to spring to mind are trains and furnaces...
"I personally love being cramped up in a 2-3 room house."
Cramped up in a 2-3 room house? Can you hear the sound of my teeth gritting? Sir, have you *ever* lived in an apartment? A poor-college-kid downtown studio 0-bedroom apartment?
Do you also have a Cadillac Escalade to go with your "cramped" 2-3 room house?
I say we send Yahoo Serious.
Ok, my first reaction was that this was a tragedy that could have been avoided if the school (and this whole society) would get it's head out of it's ass. It's unfortunate that "great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds". I'm still burning from the Columbine/Hellmouth/etc. fallout.
But the second reaction I had was: was this yet *another* kid that was pushed too far by his parents? I don't know if this has anything to do with being Indian. Perhaps it does. My father was Indian, and I suppose understandably from his dirt poor background growing up in Calcutta, he was constantly pushing his kids to do well in school. I was his first child, and only son, so that came down pretty heavy on me. Again he wondered "why-I-was-always-on-the-computer".
It seems like it could be that this kid was already pushed too far, and the "disgrace" of being suspended pushed him off the edge. So yeah, the school needs their heads kicked in...I wouldn't mind seeing people lose their jobs or being sued (although I typically hate frivolous lawsuits). But parents, and perhaps some of you Slashdotters out there are parents, need to be aware that you can't *always* push a kid and take no outward signs as everything being "OK".
Somehow you have to clue in successful kids that failing once in a while is OK. Otherwise you're just setting them up for a big fall.
CVS done right.
...I didn't think Trek could get any geekier...but Trek += Quantum Leap...?
only on slashdot...these parodies are so true. There was another one that was even funnier...in which sigs spread like memes through the comments, but I can't find it now.
I just don't get...if it is illegal to circumvent any arbitrary "anti-circumvention" device that somebody doesn't want you to circumvent...why the hell even have the extra law anyway? Why don't they have a law that says it is illegal to break locks, or remove a taped piece of hair from a dresser drawer. It's illegal to view this post because I ROT26ed it. You might as well rule that it is illegal to do illegal things.
Yeah, right. Drug companies have been fighting this tooth and nail.
http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=a
http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/misc/aids01.htm
http://www.africapolicy.org/docs99/aids9908.htm
"Without the IP laws those drugs would not even exist to begin with."
Questionable at best...but let's see what a founding father thought about patents:
"Considering the exclusive right to invention as given not of natural right, but for the benefit of society, I know well the difficulty of drawing a line between the things which are worth to the public the embarrassment of an exclusive patent, and those which are not."
--Jefferson
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3acde9fe0d36
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constit
"You seem to be of the notion that the world owes you a favor, and should be forced to donate their money to your cause, either through tax dollars or tithes."
And you seem to be of the notion that the intangible and artifical concept of "intellectual property", to support the profits of pharmaceutical corporations overrides millions of unnecessary human deaths. And that's shameful. I wonder if the same would be true if these weren't Africans dying, but Europeans.
When millions of people are dying unnecessarily, yes, they are owed a fucking favor by the rest of humanity.
Somebody explain to me why a handheld computer needs a multiuser operating system...or system-level security at all for that matter (I'd go so far as memory protection, etc.).
"Then when the starving children in Africa come looking for help, you can explain how much better Linux is and why they should support the GPL."
Man, what a troll. Is your point really that it is better to allow corporations in a laissez faire capitalist economy to build empires on intellectual property? Um, that *sure* worked out for all those Africans dying of AIDS didn't it?
And herein is exhibited the difference between Open Source and Free Software. The GPL, written by Stallman to protect Free Software, says nothing about a guarantee of the ability to make money off software. That's totally orthogonal to the GPL and Free Software. They don't care.
But everybody swarming around the Open Source movement, which has been using the GPL for so long now more or less because it was most convenient, are now shocked *shocked* to find that software based on the GPL, itself, may not be a sufficient business model. Yeah, so? Who ever said it was?
If you want to make money off software in which the source is merely *viewable*, call it "Open Source" or "Shared Source" or some other damned thing, but don't pretend it is Free Software and then get your panties in a knot when you realize you will have trouble integrating with GPL software (well, if you refuse to do it "correctly"). Hey Mr. Businessman: GPL was not written for you, sorry; it was written for average joe citizen and consumer. Yes, that may be sad, because there are indeed some very cool people trying to run Open Source businesses. But if you intend to make money from software *itself*, as opposed to services and t-shirts, well, I guess then your choice has to be to make up a new license.
Sorry this sounds rantish. I'm really not an FSF troll...but I don't see why people are so amazed about this. It was inevitable that people running software businesses would realize that they couldn't capitalize on GPL-based software.
Wow. I'm amazed. Does Atheos have any "official" sponsorship or support yet...e.g., from FSF, or something? This *definately* should be supported. Just awesome.
You forget, us Americans *deserve* cheap and unlimited fuel. It's our God given *right*, nay, a *responsibility*, to burn tons of energy carefree. You Europeans sacrificed it when you turned your back on manifest destiny at the Atlantic.
"RMS insults Linus by comparing him to Han Solo"
Hans Solo was the best character anyway...
"RMS's vision of community is about subverting the institutions of US democracy in order to advance the cause of socialism."
*Yawn* Oh no, the commies, socialists, run for your guns red-blooded Americans!! RMS's "vision" can be concisely stated as against exclusive intellectual property rights. Oh no! Society will crumble! Bleh. Patent and copyright in this country is blatently abused and exploited by large corporations. If your definition of capitalism allows for conglomerations of monopolies around absolute information hoarding, well, it's you that has the problem.
None...they should be allowed to make all the drugs they want themselves for cheap. Millions of human lives, or MegaCo's "intellectual property"? Decision made.
= You have been marked for pyschological cleansing. =
= Please sit tight while we remove all free will. =
= You will be a much happier, more productive worker then. =