Gravatational rotation of the planet = Tesla tower Kinetic energy from the ocean waves = Salter's duck
Both would/could supply our energy needs but instead, our political process have been subverted by the nuclear lobby...
Jesus H. Christ, do you really think anyone would have gone through all the trouble of electrifying the entire world, laying all of that copper cabling when there was a plausible option for sending it wirelessly?!?!
Obligatory XKCD link. However, I must add, that I have walked through the halls of power, I know the people whom control the levers of society and they are all WAY to incompetent to pull off such a conspiracy.
Yeah, the greenies thought they could shut-down coal, etc like they had nuclear power and convert everything to green energy. Then Reagan got elected, ripped the solar panels off the White House and the Republicans have been able to use taxes as a kludge to prevent both Clinton and Obama from doing the necessary R&D with anything they deem inherently progressive.
There is no better gift than Oracle spending millions to shut down innovation only to shaft themselves out of the $150,000 Google was going to pay them for 9 lines of code.
Besides which, as far as I know, it's unlikely that the kernel *could* move to GPL3 even *if* Linus wanted it to, as it would require the permission of every single one of the countless contributors and/or the replacement of their code
You don't know:
"If the Program specifies a version number of this License which applies to it and "any later version", you have the option of following the terms and conditions either of that version or of any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. If the Program does not specify a version number of this License, you may choose any version ever published by the Free Software Foundation."
Ahem, explain to me why Tor doesn't treat P2P traffic as any sane administrator would? The BT people worked with ISP's to emphasize sharing within the ISP, Tor should do the same. Yes, I understand their concerns about the legitimacy of the protocol, but the whole thing is rendered a moot point when China and every other repressive nation-state is actively blocking the protocol. If they had piggy-backed on P2P traffic, it would be much harder for China to differentiate dissidents from pirates.
P.S. Citing that making a protocol indivisible form other traffic and how padding ends up in a mathematical dead-end doesn't invalidate my point.
And I would like to add that you shouldn't bother going to speak with the rep unless you are trying to inform them about a topic. Going there to change their mind on an issue is generally a fool's errand. Telling them that cutting education is a bad idea or pitching a new legislative strategy isn't worth anyone's time: they do this for a living, their position has been formed by hundreds of hours of wrestling with the issue.
There is a big difference between explaining why they are unable to legislate file sharing or the relative harm of DDOS attacks and blanket statements about funding or taxes.
As noted, emails are essentially worthless to representatives. PCATt attempts to address this, but it's basically an academic data/response coding system being shoe-horned into a general purpose product. PCAT doesn't get that legislative staffers are not research assistants. It might work within some major bureaucracies that have departments dedicated to handling public requests (like FOIA) or lots of solicitations for public comment (like the FCC) but it's waaaaay to complicated for occasional use.
I think that a simple challenge-response system like what your congress person set-up above is a good start, at least they are trying. I don't know how Gmail's priority and auto-tagging features would handle the load, but it is probably the best system you can find that an unpaid poly-sci intern could operate.
In terms of just communicating to your rep, if you really want to make a difference, I would suggest you arrange a face-to-face meeting either in their office during the legislative session or over coffee when they are back in your district. After asking around about their use of polling and feedback analysis, they mostly told me that their polling happens on the campaign trail while knocking on doors. Most state-level reps (at least around here) are not the blood sucking parasites they are made out to be, even the rich ones are doing it because they want to make a difference, not because they get any actual power.
Correct me if I am wrong, but encryption prevents caching. That is why Facebook and Google used to encrypt only user/password authentication. Forcing every connection to have encryption would prevent all caching as well...
This is quantum logic, so it is both the same time, until we measure it. I'm pretty sure that means that quantum mechanics figured out that we would respond and thus made !First_post == false;
Your signature is a lie, as "mathematics" simply refers to conceptual systems that we group together based on human categorization. Saying that "There is only one math" is like saying there is only one programming language. And yes, I understand what Turning completeness entails, but categories rely on human categorization. If you want to do any categorizing of anything, like math from general cognition, you must rely on human perceptual systems.
Although, the parent is a jerk: linguistic meaning, like mathematics, is based on what we put into it. Chomsky's magical separation of performance and abstract correctness falls apart on close examination. Calling others ignorant is pretty shallow considering the history of the English language.
My question is what the fuck is wrong with Europe? Vaccines just teach your immune system how to fight off the virus, it doesn't letting you off the hook for general healthcare. You should still eat right, exercise, etc. If you are eating pills to deal with constant headaches, then you should reassess your stress levels and lifestyle. But is smashing your head against the wall a few times a good idea? Fuck no, so why wouldn't you be willing to take couple of pills for the occasional headache? You do realize that everything we eat is made out of chemicals right? Medications just have better quality control.
Anti-medication people remind me of a friend who can't get an erection. He constantly talks about the need to really trust someone, have a mature relationship, blah, blah, blah. While he sits around and rationalizes his way out of letting his ego get bruised, everyone else is having a great time fucking. Get over it, pop a couple of pills, have a meaningful sex life.
My family doctor will give new patients 6 months to stop smoking or he refers them elsewhere. His line is that his job is to keep patients healthy and that he can't do that if they are smoking. These are caretakers, and they will inevitably come to care about their patients. If they wanted to make money, they would have gone into a specialized field.
Too bad we can't just hire a lawyer to go after the guy. Are there any state or territorial legislatures that might be willing to do this, even if it's just to make the point?
That there will be an ironic post about 20 top predictions from 100 years prior and snarky commentators will smugly wonder how we took any of this seriously.
They could have at least used their own damn implementation of the NX protocol and got work going around porting it to Windows and Mac. Maybe then NX would finally start to replace VNC and the FLOSS community would have a high quality remote desktop environment (and by high quality I mean HDX responsiveness). Or, god forbid, an HTML 5 client -like Ericom's AccessNow which is marketed for Chromebooks. You know, anything other than reinventing the damn wheel.
Except that their revenues are actually UP. They bought a lot of stuff and hired a lot of people. Profit money taken in, it's money AFTER you paid for everything they are doing. So, as of now, they are quite sustainable.
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Gravatational rotation of the planet = Tesla tower
Kinetic energy from the ocean waves = Salter's duck
Both would/could supply our energy needs but instead, our political process have been subverted by the nuclear lobby...
Jesus H. Christ, do you really think anyone would have gone through all the trouble of electrifying the entire world, laying all of that copper cabling when there was a plausible option for sending it wirelessly?!?!
Obligatory XKCD link. However, I must add, that I have walked through the halls of power, I know the people whom control the levers of society and they are all WAY to incompetent to pull off such a conspiracy.
Yeah, the greenies thought they could shut-down coal, etc like they had nuclear power and convert everything to green energy. Then Reagan got elected, ripped the solar panels off the White House and the Republicans have been able to use taxes as a kludge to prevent both Clinton and Obama from doing the necessary R&D with anything they deem inherently progressive.
Except when an Edsel or Packard throws a rod, it wouldn't render entire cities uninhabitable for thousands of years.
This is total fucking bullshit, CL hasn't evolved in it's basic user interaction since it began. PadMapper makes their service useful!
There is no better gift than Oracle spending millions to shut down innovation only to shaft themselves out of the $150,000 Google was going to pay them for 9 lines of code.
Besides which, as far as I know, it's unlikely that the kernel *could* move to GPL3 even *if* Linus wanted it to, as it would require the permission of every single one of the countless contributors and/or the replacement of their code
You don't know:
"If the Program specifies a version number of this License which applies to it and "any later version", you have the option of following the terms and conditions either of that version or of any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. If the Program does not specify a version number of this License, you may choose any version ever published by the Free Software Foundation."
It was only a matter of time until Hollywood swapped barcodes on the necks of prisoners in sci-fi movies for QR codes... I'll totally get one.
Other US companies providing the same services receive have no such problems.
The Kademlia network, the DHT BT uses, should be resistant to these types of attacks. Maybe they just haven't bothered to tune it...
That would be a require a fix so trivial that every client distro could roll-out a patch in 24 hours.
As this is a service, I would be surprised if their code isn't 99.99% FLOSS software anyway.
Ahem, explain to me why Tor doesn't treat P2P traffic as any sane administrator would? The BT people worked with ISP's to emphasize sharing within the ISP, Tor should do the same. Yes, I understand their concerns about the legitimacy of the protocol, but the whole thing is rendered a moot point when China and every other repressive nation-state is actively blocking the protocol. If they had piggy-backed on P2P traffic, it would be much harder for China to differentiate dissidents from pirates.
P.S. Citing that making a protocol indivisible form other traffic and how padding ends up in a mathematical dead-end doesn't invalidate my point.
Java ME (a version of Java for mobile phones) doesn't include the classpath exception, so ALL Android software would have had to be GPLv2.
And I would like to add that you shouldn't bother going to speak with the rep unless you are trying to inform them about a topic. Going there to change their mind on an issue is generally a fool's errand. Telling them that cutting education is a bad idea or pitching a new legislative strategy isn't worth anyone's time: they do this for a living, their position has been formed by hundreds of hours of wrestling with the issue.
There is a big difference between explaining why they are unable to legislate file sharing or the relative harm of DDOS attacks and blanket statements about funding or taxes.
As noted, emails are essentially worthless to representatives. PCATt attempts to address this, but it's basically an academic data/response coding system being shoe-horned into a general purpose product. PCAT doesn't get that legislative staffers are not research assistants. It might work within some major bureaucracies that have departments dedicated to handling public requests (like FOIA) or lots of solicitations for public comment (like the FCC) but it's waaaaay to complicated for occasional use.
I think that a simple challenge-response system like what your congress person set-up above is a good start, at least they are trying. I don't know how Gmail's priority and auto-tagging features would handle the load, but it is probably the best system you can find that an unpaid poly-sci intern could operate.
In terms of just communicating to your rep, if you really want to make a difference, I would suggest you arrange a face-to-face meeting either in their office during the legislative session or over coffee when they are back in your district. After asking around about their use of polling and feedback analysis, they mostly told me that their polling happens on the campaign trail while knocking on doors. Most state-level reps (at least around here) are not the blood sucking parasites they are made out to be, even the rich ones are doing it because they want to make a difference, not because they get any actual power.
Correct me if I am wrong, but encryption prevents caching. That is why Facebook and Google used to encrypt only user/password authentication. Forcing every connection to have encryption would prevent all caching as well...
This is quantum logic, so it is both the same time, until we measure it. I'm pretty sure that means that quantum mechanics figured out that we would respond and thus made !First_post == false;
Or something.
Your signature is a lie, as "mathematics" simply refers to conceptual systems that we group together based on human categorization. Saying that "There is only one math" is like saying there is only one programming language. And yes, I understand what Turning completeness entails, but categories rely on human categorization. If you want to do any categorizing of anything, like math from general cognition, you must rely on human perceptual systems.
Although, the parent is a jerk: linguistic meaning, like mathematics, is based on what we put into it. Chomsky's magical separation of performance and abstract correctness falls apart on close examination. Calling others ignorant is pretty shallow considering the history of the English language.
"omg, I have a headache, let's eat these 3 pills"
My question is what the fuck is wrong with Europe? Vaccines just teach your immune system how to fight off the virus, it doesn't letting you off the hook for general healthcare. You should still eat right, exercise, etc. If you are eating pills to deal with constant headaches, then you should reassess your stress levels and lifestyle. But is smashing your head against the wall a few times a good idea? Fuck no, so why wouldn't you be willing to take couple of pills for the occasional headache? You do realize that everything we eat is made out of chemicals right? Medications just have better quality control.
Anti-medication people remind me of a friend who can't get an erection. He constantly talks about the need to really trust someone, have a mature relationship, blah, blah, blah. While he sits around and rationalizes his way out of letting his ego get bruised, everyone else is having a great time fucking. Get over it, pop a couple of pills, have a meaningful sex life.
My family doctor will give new patients 6 months to stop smoking or he refers them elsewhere. His line is that his job is to keep patients healthy and that he can't do that if they are smoking. These are caretakers, and they will inevitably come to care about their patients. If they wanted to make money, they would have gone into a specialized field.
Too bad we can't just hire a lawyer to go after the guy. Are there any state or territorial legislatures that might be willing to do this, even if it's just to make the point?
That there will be an ironic post about 20 top predictions from 100 years prior and snarky commentators will smugly wonder how we took any of this seriously.
They could have at least used their own damn implementation of the NX protocol and got work going around porting it to Windows and Mac. Maybe then NX would finally start to replace VNC and the FLOSS community would have a high quality remote desktop environment (and by high quality I mean HDX responsiveness). Or, god forbid, an HTML 5 client -like Ericom's AccessNow which is marketed for Chromebooks. You know, anything other than reinventing the damn wheel.
Grr, that should read "Profit != money taken in" -Slashdot apparently filters the does-not-equal character.
Except that their revenues are actually UP. They bought a lot of stuff and hired a lot of people. Profit money taken in, it's money AFTER you paid for everything they are doing. So, as of now, they are quite sustainable.