The whole point of the second ammendment is that the individual citizen is allowed to arm themselves against a government that has gone bad. Any law prohibiting armaments within one's home violates that principle.
Granted, I would prefer my neighbor not have nukes. If he has guns, so long as I and everyone else can have them too, there should be no issue. That's where I scratch my head on concealed carry laws. You're not allowed to carry concealed weapons in some jurisdictions. In some cases, even open carry is an issue if the weapon is loaded.
You tell me - if someone is out to perpetrate a crime, are they going to care? They're going to conceal that weapon until they need it, then pull it out. If open carry were legal, and most people *did* open carry, one might think a bad guy might think twice before doing whatever stupid thing they were going to do.
Now the flip side is crimes of passion. If I'm not allowed to carry a gun, and am a law abiding person, won't carry. If you somehow get me angry enough to do something stupid, I might punch your lights out. If I've got a gun, I might do something a whole lot more stupid...
So, just for the sake of furthering the discussion, what about weight lifting? Especially the guys that go pro at it? The difference I see immediately is that they take a mandatory break week about once every 6-8 weeks without lifting at all.
Perhaps it's just that we all don't take enough, long enough, breaks from the keyboard/mouse/game controller? Go a week every couple of months without touching any of them? I know it's rough for me - started have RSI pains in my fingertips and a few knuckles a few weeks ago. The concept of not going to work, and when at home, not using any type of keyboard, mouse, or trackpad is darn near an impossible task.
Instead of losing my job over it, I'm now taking as many breaks a day as I can and popping 4 ibuprofen tablets every 8 hours until I can find a better solution. I'm only 32 - I have a long career ahead of me unless this derails me so early.:(
Yes, because the only way to have the ability to write to the root filesystem of your own desires is to find a vulnerability and exploit it first.
If you were able to do it on your own without their "permission" (which you'll never get), then you wouldn't have hackers (the good guys here) looking as hard. In fact, at the end of the day this is a win/win for apple. The only downside is that by smacking the unlockers down, situations like the 3.1.2 to 3.1.3 upgrade arise. A vulnerability has been found, but not publicly disclosed because they need to "sit on it" until the new hardware comes out so Apple won't fix it and can be utilized later.
From a security standpoint, this whole situation really is just that braindead. Pair this with the advent of iPhones "phoning home" to ask permission for whether or not you can load a specific firmware on your own device - I think the reporting here is the least of our concerns.
...though, I want to be there when when this charge of termites blows, and they scurry around trying to melt down the insides of your washer. Would make for a fun show.:)
So - a 6 foot cross cable between two machines with gigabit interfaces has exactly the same latency as two machines with a maximum length cross cable? Same throughput?
How about two machines with a similar media connection that allow for much greater distances?
BTW - most real-time stuff happens with UDP, not TCP.:P
Okay, this is where I look dumb - what on earth is the draw of the unified inbox? I have multiple mailboxes to keep things separate. What's the point of then jumbling them together?
This is quickly turning into a time-wasting recursion loop. We're now doing math *on Slashdot* on the amount of time people spending wasting time on Facebook.
The only thing missing here is for this to be on idle.slashdot.org, not tech.slashdot.org.:P
Checked out revision 1785. Garou:~/src tshadwick$ cd shotwell Garou:~/src/shotwell tshadwick$ ls AUTHORS Makefile apport minver sw-glade COPYING NEWS configure misc ui INSTALL README debian po vapi MAINTAINERS THANKS icons src windows Garou:~/src/shotwell tshadwick$./configure Configured. Type 'make' to build, 'make install' to install. Garou:~/src/shotwell tshadwick$ make /bin/sh: valac: command not found usage: minver <major.minor.revision> <minimum major.minor.revision> /bin/sh: valac: command not found Shotwell requires Vala compiler 0.8.0 or greater. You are running \b.
I must be losing it. I've ever even *heard* of the Vala compiler.
Okay, this is going to get a "cry me a river" response, but I don't care which - F-spot or Shotwell - can *anyone* get it to build on anything other than Linux?
I'm really big on having my stuff cross-platform, and since my laptop is a mac and my desktop is Ubuntu, I'd really like to have it work on both. You'd figure a mono app like F-spot would build without too much hassle on OSX. Wrong.:(
Shotwell - I guess we'll see. Anyone want to try today? I'll give it a go..
Point taken - I left rational actors out of the equation, but still - I think even without rational actors my example stands. I don't think trash collection will just "go away" because no one wants to do it. Sure, someone might come up with a fully automated solution, but I don't think these "dirty jobs" just wind up going undone just because we're all better educated.
The larger concern here is that people are, whether they realize it or not, hawking darn-near outright socialistic behavior. If they would calm down and think through this logically, the capitalistic side of this will correct for itself over time, *PRESUMING* the anti-trust mechanism of our government does the job it should.
I'm not one of the socialism fear-mongers. Obama's playing the hand he was dealt, and it sucks. But I have another post in this thread - it lays out exactly how this will play out.
At the end of the day - people HATE capitalistic correction, and rightfully so, because it always puts us in our place (or darn near always). It's not a happy thing when a company goes out of business because they were inefficient, but it is likely the right thing to happen. Sucks when a mall goes desolate - but if we build too many malls, it will inevitably happen. This is partly why trade unions are so evil - they force inefficiency to "protect jobs", yet the reality is that unions (I'm looking at you, auto workers) will persist in making it cheaper to manufacture elsewhere, and forcing companies to stay here will only force them to be inefficient, quite possibly to the end of going out of business.
Fact is that man/most manufacturing jobs could and should be automated out of existence. It really sucks when friends/family/coworkers lose their job and can't find work. It *has* to happen. Society will adapt - we don't get to skip out on taking our medicine just because we don't like it.
The trick here is holding those on the high dollar end of this inefficiency responsible for the failures that they create. When only the bottom end pays dearly - that's inefficient too.
I wasn't going to comment in this thread - I really wasn't, but I couldn't ignore this.
I've studied enough economics that, well, my college education can debunk this right away.;)
Supply and demand. Let's say "no one wants to pick up garbage". What you're saying is that "no one wants to pick up garbage at such a low pay rate and no respect". (Actually, the truth is, *really* - no one wants to pick up garbage, not even the guys that do it, but that's besides the point...)
Trash company suddenly can't find anyone to pick up trash at the rate they're asking. What do they do? Well - they could go out recruiting (unlikely), or they could up the pay rate. Cycle continues until either the trash company goes out of business, or they find someone willing to work at that pay rate. If enough people are working at the higher pay rate, if the trash company can't turn a profit, they will raise the rate of what they charge their customers. If customers switch trash companies as a result, that one might go out of business, but someone else will step in - the cycle continues. Actually, we're describing rudimentary inflation to an end - but the basic point is this: society won't collapse from too many well-educated people. Sure, I like to work in my field of choice, but at the end of the day I kind of like to eat, have clothes on my back, and a roof over my head. Push comes to shove, even I would go pick up trash if I had to in order to make ends meet. Would I be happy with it? Heck no! Society WILL find a way to adapt. That's the beauty of unmitigated capitalism. The ugliness of it however is that it breeds monopolies over time. That's why we have anti-trust laws, which are clearly socialistic. We have grown into an amalgamatic socialistic/capitalistic state.
Anyway - your point is moot.:P Our infrastructure may crumble - for a time. Pride will eventually give way to necessity. Always does.
What needs to exist somehow is a zero-knowledge data approach that nothing is viewable to the provider beyond that which is explicitly marked as "public" profile information. Of course that requires effort.:\
There's a program out now for the iPhone via an external cydia repo that emulates a usb drive at whatever size and specs you like. It's all stored in a virtual container. Let them set this up however they like - emulating that setup on the iphone will happen in 3, 2,...
I'd not be too quick to judge here. I'm of course not doing a whole lot of math here, but let's apply some common sense...
Any time you apply energy to water, it generally winds up expressed as heat - so you get evaporation, and that's before we even start talking about the crystals doing the work that they do. You could of course presume you have an airtight container trapping the vapors, but now you're talking about a pressure vessel. In either case, you're not going to get a pure hydrogen - you're going to get hydroxy *at best* because of the water vapor in the mix.
Would certainly like to see this in action, even on small scale. If it's even remotely reasonable, they have the potential to turn the whole "hydrogen isn't a viable energy source/container" right on it's head, because now you have a renewable way of producing it (noise won't just go away), and plentiful supply. Production rate vs volumes of water and crystals required would be good to know too.
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The whole point of the second ammendment is that the individual citizen is allowed to arm themselves against a government that has gone bad. Any law prohibiting armaments within one's home violates that principle.
Granted, I would prefer my neighbor not have nukes. If he has guns, so long as I and everyone else can have them too, there should be no issue. That's where I scratch my head on concealed carry laws. You're not allowed to carry concealed weapons in some jurisdictions. In some cases, even open carry is an issue if the weapon is loaded.
You tell me - if someone is out to perpetrate a crime, are they going to care? They're going to conceal that weapon until they need it, then pull it out. If open carry were legal, and most people *did* open carry, one might think a bad guy might think twice before doing whatever stupid thing they were going to do.
Now the flip side is crimes of passion. If I'm not allowed to carry a gun, and am a law abiding person, won't carry. If you somehow get me angry enough to do something stupid, I might punch your lights out. If I've got a gun, I might do something a whole lot more stupid...
Two sides to every story.
So, just for the sake of furthering the discussion, what about weight lifting? Especially the guys that go pro at it? The difference I see immediately is that they take a mandatory break week about once every 6-8 weeks without lifting at all.
Perhaps it's just that we all don't take enough, long enough, breaks from the keyboard/mouse/game controller? Go a week every couple of months without touching any of them? I know it's rough for me - started have RSI pains in my fingertips and a few knuckles a few weeks ago. The concept of not going to work, and when at home, not using any type of keyboard, mouse, or trackpad is darn near an impossible task.
Instead of losing my job over it, I'm now taking as many breaks a day as I can and popping 4 ibuprofen tablets every 8 hours until I can find a better solution. I'm only 32 - I have a long career ahead of me unless this derails me so early. :(
Yes, because the only way to have the ability to write to the root filesystem of your own desires is to find a vulnerability and exploit it first.
If you were able to do it on your own without their "permission" (which you'll never get), then you wouldn't have hackers (the good guys here) looking as hard. In fact, at the end of the day this is a win/win for apple. The only downside is that by smacking the unlockers down, situations like the 3.1.2 to 3.1.3 upgrade arise. A vulnerability has been found, but not publicly disclosed because they need to "sit on it" until the new hardware comes out so Apple won't fix it and can be utilized later.
From a security standpoint, this whole situation really is just that braindead. Pair this with the advent of iPhones "phoning home" to ask permission for whether or not you can load a specific firmware on your own device - I think the reporting here is the least of our concerns.
A large step in the right direction would be to search by email address, just like Facebook did/does.
...though, I want to be there when when this charge of termites blows, and they scurry around trying to melt down the insides of your washer. Would make for a fun show. :)
Oh...THERMITE! Silly me. :P
So - a 6 foot cross cable between two machines with gigabit interfaces has exactly the same latency as two machines with a maximum length cross cable? Same throughput?
How about two machines with a similar media connection that allow for much greater distances?
BTW - most real-time stuff happens with UDP, not TCP. :P
I still don't get how you make money. I guess my use of noscript+adblock leaves me bewildered. :P
Okay, this is where I look dumb - what on earth is the draw of the unified inbox? I have multiple mailboxes to keep things separate. What's the point of then jumbling them together?
My kingdom for some mod points. Come *ON* people.
This is quickly turning into a time-wasting recursion loop. We're now doing math *on Slashdot* on the amount of time people spending wasting time on Facebook.
The only thing missing here is for this to be on idle.slashdot.org, not tech.slashdot.org. :P
Somehow I had the misconception that all API data went through Google. My mistake. Thank you for clarifying! :)
Even worse, you're "collaboration" will have a serious case of "data lock". Don't want it at Google? Tough.
Sadly, there is no app for that app (infinite recursion loop - null pointer exception, segmentation fault, core dumped)
I'd agree with you, but your forced use of fixed-width font distracted me enough to want to complain about that instead. :P
You mean sort of how I use Readability to clean things up before clipping to Evernote?
http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
Well, that went well. :(
I must be losing it. I've ever even *heard* of the Vala compiler.
Okay, this is going to get a "cry me a river" response, but I don't care which - F-spot or Shotwell - can *anyone* get it to build on anything other than Linux?
I'm really big on having my stuff cross-platform, and since my laptop is a mac and my desktop is Ubuntu, I'd really like to have it work on both. You'd figure a mono app like F-spot would build without too much hassle on OSX. Wrong. :(
Shotwell - I guess we'll see. Anyone want to try today? I'll give it a go..
dugg.
CRAP - wrong site, sorry about that. :P
Point taken - I left rational actors out of the equation, but still - I think even without rational actors my example stands. I don't think trash collection will just "go away" because no one wants to do it. Sure, someone might come up with a fully automated solution, but I don't think these "dirty jobs" just wind up going undone just because we're all better educated.
The larger concern here is that people are, whether they realize it or not, hawking darn-near outright socialistic behavior. If they would calm down and think through this logically, the capitalistic side of this will correct for itself over time, *PRESUMING* the anti-trust mechanism of our government does the job it should.
I'm not one of the socialism fear-mongers. Obama's playing the hand he was dealt, and it sucks. But I have another post in this thread - it lays out exactly how this will play out.
At the end of the day - people HATE capitalistic correction, and rightfully so, because it always puts us in our place (or darn near always). It's not a happy thing when a company goes out of business because they were inefficient, but it is likely the right thing to happen. Sucks when a mall goes desolate - but if we build too many malls, it will inevitably happen. This is partly why trade unions are so evil - they force inefficiency to "protect jobs", yet the reality is that unions (I'm looking at you, auto workers) will persist in making it cheaper to manufacture elsewhere, and forcing companies to stay here will only force them to be inefficient, quite possibly to the end of going out of business.
Fact is that man/most manufacturing jobs could and should be automated out of existence. It really sucks when friends/family/coworkers lose their job and can't find work. It *has* to happen. Society will adapt - we don't get to skip out on taking our medicine just because we don't like it.
The trick here is holding those on the high dollar end of this inefficiency responsible for the failures that they create. When only the bottom end pays dearly - that's inefficient too.
I wasn't going to comment in this thread - I really wasn't, but I couldn't ignore this.
I've studied enough economics that, well, my college education can debunk this right away. ;)
Supply and demand. Let's say "no one wants to pick up garbage". What you're saying is that "no one wants to pick up garbage at such a low pay rate and no respect". (Actually, the truth is, *really* - no one wants to pick up garbage, not even the guys that do it, but that's besides the point...)
Trash company suddenly can't find anyone to pick up trash at the rate they're asking. What do they do? Well - they could go out recruiting (unlikely), or they could up the pay rate. Cycle continues until either the trash company goes out of business, or they find someone willing to work at that pay rate. If enough people are working at the higher pay rate, if the trash company can't turn a profit, they will raise the rate of what they charge their customers. If customers switch trash companies as a result, that one might go out of business, but someone else will step in - the cycle continues. Actually, we're describing rudimentary inflation to an end - but the basic point is this: society won't collapse from too many well-educated people. Sure, I like to work in my field of choice, but at the end of the day I kind of like to eat, have clothes on my back, and a roof over my head. Push comes to shove, even I would go pick up trash if I had to in order to make ends meet. Would I be happy with it? Heck no! Society WILL find a way to adapt. That's the beauty of unmitigated capitalism. The ugliness of it however is that it breeds monopolies over time. That's why we have anti-trust laws, which are clearly socialistic. We have grown into an amalgamatic socialistic/capitalistic state.
Anyway - your point is moot. :P Our infrastructure may crumble - for a time. Pride will eventually give way to necessity. Always does.
ssh -D 1080 me@myhouse
Firefox, socks proxy, localhost 1080.
Done. :P For extra credit, set Firefox to resolve DNS across the sock proxy, and exclude your work internal LAN.
What was the alternative? Amiga? BeOS? :)
Couldn't have been Linux as a desktop for a good long while. 1997 Linux's desktop was still lagging waaaay behind.
What needs to exist somehow is a zero-knowledge data approach that nothing is viewable to the provider beyond that which is explicitly marked as "public" profile information. Of course that requires effort. :\
There's a program out now for the iPhone via an external cydia repo that emulates a usb drive at whatever size and specs you like. It's all stored in a virtual container. Let them set this up however they like - emulating that setup on the iphone will happen in 3, 2,...
I'd not be too quick to judge here. I'm of course not doing a whole lot of math here, but let's apply some common sense...
Any time you apply energy to water, it generally winds up expressed as heat - so you get evaporation, and that's before we even start talking about the crystals doing the work that they do. You could of course presume you have an airtight container trapping the vapors, but now you're talking about a pressure vessel. In either case, you're not going to get a pure hydrogen - you're going to get hydroxy *at best* because of the water vapor in the mix.
Would certainly like to see this in action, even on small scale. If it's even remotely reasonable, they have the potential to turn the whole "hydrogen isn't a viable energy source/container" right on it's head, because now you have a renewable way of producing it (noise won't just go away), and plentiful supply. Production rate vs volumes of water and crystals required would be good to know too.