I question the ability of 1 man regardless of the fact that he is president to have such a huge effect. He is not a king. His policies have to be passed as law or interpreted in regulations. Well, now we have a new group of folks in control of the laws and by oversight in control of the regulations. I am willing to see what this new Congress does relative to environmental law or regulation.
His reasoning is that we can have computers as smart as people in 15 years. The problem with this is that the computer is a differences engine (eg. 1 is not 0). The human brain (and for that matter many animal brains) are wired as similarities engines (eg. a Kitten and a Lion are very different but both are Cats - human babies can tell this). Unless someone can figure out how to wire computers for this they will never be a "smart" as us.
He describes a process that we won't need to write computer programs in the future. We'll just tell the computer what we want and it will write the program. Well, duh! That is what computer programming is. Using a precise language, tell a computer program (a compiler) what we want done and it creates the program (a binary) for us.
That is not some future state. That is what we do today.
Ice breaks off Glaciers not because of melting but because of the glacier advancing. When the shear forces caused by the mass of the ice sheet exceed the forces holding the ice sheet together, that is when the ice breaks off. The fact that we are seeing ice breaking says that the glaciers are working exactly as we expect.
Allofmp3.com has not been found guilty of any law as of yet. We have U.S. trade delegates threatening WTO stuff over its existence.
On the other hand...
Microsoft has been found guilty of the Sherman Act (a felony in the U.S.) We have U.S. trade delegates threatening WTO stuff over people not using or using "copied" versions on Microsoft's stuff.
Canon ImageRunner Printers? Just use a postscript driver. Any printer that has postscript, just use a postscript driver. take a look up at http://www.linuxprinting.org/ for more information.
Again, using an extreme example. Eugenics is a possibility. So do we owe it to our future generations to do something about it because in the late 1800's and into the 1900's science thought eugenics was real. It was of course not real and turned out to be an abomination.
The single biggest contributor to atmospheric CO2 is "out-gassing" that happens in the mid-ocean plates. Mankind contributes some, but not much.
My issue with all of the Global Warming scare is that it based on computer modeling of temperatures 100+ years out. Our computer models, are only maybe good 10 days out at any given time.
I also want to see the evidence that the increase in atmospheric CO2 is causal to this warming trend. There are significant studies that show no statistical coreleation between CO2 increases and temperature changes.
Congress gave the FCC regulatory control of "indecency" over terrestrial television and radio. It is debatable if this control even is consitutional under the "promote general welfare" clause or the 9th and 10 amendments.
You are right on this. However the growth of "neo-conservatism" is a direct outgrowth of the dissatisfaction of the role fundamentalist are playing in the movement.
Most "Neo-Cons" will agree on only two things:
1) No or mimimal government intervention in people's lives is gennerally a good thing 2) Providing for a common defnese is a good thing
"right-wing conservative censorship" You got that wrong. True conservatism favors no or extremely minimal government intervention into peoples lives. Governmental censorship of any kind says that the people do not have the ability, or the smarts or the character to make choices about what they see or hear.
As a parent, I have the obligation to monitor and control what my kids see. Once they become adults, they get to make their own choices. This kind of censorship takes away my rights as a parent to make those choices. However, this is nothing right-wing or left-wing about censorship. It is just wrong.
Complaining about the rules to your congressman won't help because congress gave its "law-making" rights over this topic to the FCC. CBS must take this to court and show that the power that the FCC has is unconsitutional (which it clearly is under both the 9th and 10th amendments).
Typically, law enforcement types don't act against businesses without some form of complaint. If Mozilla did not complain then who did? Presumably somebody like the UK version of the Business Software Alliance. If, in the course of investigating said business for BSA type priracy, they also found Mozilla stuff, they might assume (wrongly) that the Mozilla stuff was also pirated.
There is more to this story. I wonder if we'll ever find out.
The source of this article is from an anti-RFID group. Security focus needs to do some fact checking. Maybe Slashdot, too. Did anyone call City Watcher to verify the facts?
Slashdot Mirror
I question the ability of 1 man regardless of the fact that he is president to have such a huge effect. He is not a king. His policies have to be passed as law or interpreted in regulations. Well, now we have a new group of folks in control of the laws and by oversight in control of the regulations. I am willing to see what this new Congress does relative to environmental law or regulation.
My bet: not much. Any takers?
Here is how:
I choose to use or not use Google. I buy a computer and the OS is already installed. I never get the chance to choose.
His reasoning is that we can have computers as smart as people in 15 years. The problem with this is that the computer is a differences engine (eg. 1 is not 0). The human brain (and for that matter many animal brains) are wired as similarities engines (eg. a Kitten and a Lion are very different but both are Cats - human babies can tell this). Unless someone can figure out how to wire computers for this they will never be a "smart" as us.
He describes a process that we won't need to write computer programs in the future. We'll just tell the computer what we want and it will write the program. Well, duh! That is what computer programming is. Using a precise language, tell a computer program (a compiler) what we want done and it creates the program (a binary) for us.
That is not some future state. That is what we do today.
OSDL does not claim to be anything more than what is listed here:
http://www.osdl.org/about_osdl
Ice breaks off Glaciers not because of melting but because of the glacier advancing. When the shear forces caused by the mass of the ice sheet exceed the forces holding the ice sheet together, that is when the ice breaks off. The fact that we are seeing ice breaking says that the glaciers are working exactly as we expect.
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!!
A quick comparison:
Allofmp3.com has not been found guilty of any law as of yet. We have U.S. trade delegates threatening WTO stuff over its existence.
On the other hand...
Microsoft has been found guilty of the Sherman Act (a felony in the U.S.) We have U.S. trade delegates threatening WTO stuff over people not using or using "copied" versions on Microsoft's stuff.
Things that make you say: "hmmmmm..."
Canon ImageRunner Printers? Just use a postscript driver. Any printer that has postscript, just use a postscript driver. take a look up at http://www.linuxprinting.org/ for more information.
Automatix has not been ported to Dapper yet. Use BUMPS. Its is simple and just works.
It is very simple: 6.06 = 2006 June
...
The previous Ubuntu version was released in 2005 October and its version was
(wait for it)
"5.10"!
BUMPS is easier.
Again, using an extreme example. Eugenics is a possibility. So do we owe it to our future generations to do something about it because in the late 1800's and into the 1900's science thought eugenics was real. It was of course not real and turned out to be an abomination.
http://www.columbia.edu/~vjd1/carbon.htm
Here is a very simple explanation.
http://ndrd.gsfc.nasa.gov/ndrdres/natural-disaster s/Atmospheric_Carbon_Dioxide.html
= ecolog-l&P=5239
https://listserv.umd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0505d&L
You might want to check these out.
The single biggest contributor to atmospheric CO2 is "out-gassing" that happens in the mid-ocean plates. Mankind contributes some, but not much.
My issue with all of the Global Warming scare is that it based on computer modeling of temperatures 100+ years out. Our computer models, are only maybe good 10 days out at any given time.
I also want to see the evidence that the increase in atmospheric CO2 is causal to this warming trend. There are significant studies that show no statistical coreleation between CO2 increases and temperature changes.
"Germany during World War II switched to hydrogen for its cars when its petroleum supplies were cut off."
No, that is not correct. Germany switched to methane for everything other than avitaion fuel during WW II.
Congress gave the FCC regulatory control of "indecency" over terrestrial television and radio.
It is debatable if this control even is consitutional under the "promote general welfare" clause or the 9th and 10 amendments.
You are right on this. However the growth of "neo-conservatism" is a direct outgrowth of the dissatisfaction of the role fundamentalist are playing in the movement.
Most "Neo-Cons" will agree on only two things:
1) No or mimimal government intervention in people's lives is gennerally a good thing
2) Providing for a common defnese is a good thing
Everything else is up for negotiation.
Ok, Follow my logic.
Assume at the beginning of the 2005 there are 100 million marriages
During 2005 1 Million weddings and 500,000 divorces happen
At the end of the year there are 100,500,000 marriages not 50 million
"right-wing conservative censorship" You got that wrong. True conservatism favors no or extremely minimal government intervention into peoples lives. Governmental censorship of any kind says that the people do not have the ability, or the smarts or the character to make choices about what they see or hear.
As a parent, I have the obligation to monitor and control what my kids see. Once they become adults, they get to make their own choices. This kind of censorship takes away my rights as a parent to make those choices. However, this is nothing right-wing or left-wing about censorship. It is just wrong.
Complaining about the rules to your congressman won't help because congress gave its "law-making" rights over this topic to the FCC. CBS must take this to court and show that the power that the FCC has is unconsitutional (which it clearly is under both the 9th and 10th amendments).
No, 50% of marriages end in divorce is a mis-quote of the statistic. The correct statistic is:
The annual divorce rate is 50% of the annual wedding rate.
These are fundamentally different statistics.
Typically, law enforcement types don't act against businesses without some form of complaint. If Mozilla did not complain then who did? Presumably somebody like the UK version of the Business Software Alliance. If, in the course of investigating said business for BSA type priracy, they also found Mozilla stuff, they might assume (wrongly) that the Mozilla stuff was also pirated.
There is more to this story. I wonder if we'll ever find out.
The source of this article is from an anti-RFID group. Security focus needs to do some fact checking. Maybe Slashdot, too. Did anyone call City Watcher to verify the facts?