I've started using multiple browser Safari with ClickToFlash handles nice sites fairly well, but any less well behaved site gets opened in FireFox with FlashBlock, AdBlock, and NoScript.
All internet users should use some Flash blocker that allows the user to accept specific flash content, period.
FireFox and Chrome have plugins called FlashBlock, Safari's is called ClickToFlash. IE8 provides this functionality from the Flash player add-on in Manage Add-ons under Tools, just select More informations and click Remove all sites. All these will let you reenable either individual Flash applets or whole sites when you browse those pages.
You realize the U.S. possesses three of the world's nine known supervolcanos right? In particular, Yellowstone park will eventually cover half the U.S. in three feet of ash and debris. Have a nice day.:)
Yes, the journals should start mostly ignoring articles from academics in China, very little alternative, journals simply cannot fact check every article. I'd imagine China's strongest academics would still publish once their papers were referred to the journal by a respected western academic, but that'll hopefully stay rare.
You know, the GPL v2 was never relevant to web service companies, desktop application companies, custom software companies, games companies. In fact, the only companies seriously effected were embedded systems, but they've always had many choices, yet still chosen Linux.
There are other problems with genetically modified food, like monocultures, but each individual problem would diminish significantly if life were unpatentable.
- Food safety would improve because non-profit organizations would care more about safety and cover up fuck ups less.
- Infecting other farmers does not matter nearly so much if their nolonger liable for seed piracy. Farmers have always faced some interbreeding amongst their crops. Yeah, past inbreeding didn't make the crops produce pesticide, but hey we've got civil courts.
I'd also support some system for national patent for government funded research and development. That'd help the drug situation enormously, both pushing more development resources towards more important drugs, and providing more pure fair capitalism amongst producers, i.e. their all now generics.
I'd say that national patents should usually mean any producer may use the patent provided all production occurs inside the country owning the patent. You'd pay royalties only if you produced the drug abroad. If a poor country like Brazil has generic drug makers that can produce the drug far below U.S. costs, they might ask that the royalties be waived as international aid.
I don't have any fundamental problem with other rich countries paying some royalties for patented lifeforms developed by another country, but private ownership of entire lifeforms will continually create problems. As we've no system for national patents now, the easy solution would simply be eliminating all patents on lifeforms.
We've had one serious rash of video game soothsayers predicting the end of exactly the business practices that make some facebook games so incredibly profitable. Sounds like these dumb asses see the industry changing, but lack any real comprehension.
If anything, the profitable future is giving away the game for free, but charging players for leveling, while encouraging payment through social factors.
You know, we'd very likely solve all problems with genetically modified food, monocultures, etc. if we simply declared life unpatentable. We might even see Monsanto rushing to congress with anti-monoculture laws designed to force farmers to buy the ten distinct products they've just developed recently.
Patents make sense when you must building a factory. Patents don't make sense when government grants paid for your R&D and your marginal cost is zero.
You're discussing operations that clearly fall into the domain of the CIA, military intelligence, etc., clearly NSA wouldn't even know about moving captured enemies. We're fairly sure that Drake disclosed the data for Siobhan Gorman's article simply because Drake should never have had need-to-know for anything outside the NSA.
Intelligence services often don't prosecute leaks because they fear the trial might cause further real damage, but they'll probably prosecute when the trial merely prolongs their embarrassment otoh.
We know the Gorman article was based upon classified NSA documents showing massive waste. To me, that says the source was not given strong enough internal recourses.
A strong measure would be granting all senators automatic clearance for budgetary issues, thus effectively granting employees like Drake the ability to discuss the matter with a senator.
Umm. Are you an American? They've been almost winning every legislative battle inside the U.S. If the world moves on, but American legislators block it, then the world will be moving on without America. I've watched many American TV shows on Chinese video sharing sites, usually via surfthechannel, which bods ill for America's future.
Americans who "get it" really must support the pirate parties in Europe. Europe has some real chance for finding a western model for relaxation of intellectual property, one the U.S. could adopt later, and then catch back up. We're kinda fucked though if China gains technological dominance though weak copyright rules.
An iPad doesn't require much more CPU than an iPhone. So why not deploy your own chip? You've got soo much more space and power, you'll easily out preform an iPhone's chip, even if your designers aren't nearly as clever, You avoid paying royalties. You get patents for leverage against other chip makers, well we know Apple are litigious bastards. etc. If your using multiple chips within the same architecture, there are definitely advantages to controlling the compilers.
Apple cannot make money by first deploying the A4 processor then switching away after another chip beats it, they'd lose that massive investment in chip development.
Apple might've noticed different constraints for the iPad and iPhone, deploying their own chip for the iPad while using other ARM chips for iPhones. Yes, maybe that's true, but agility doesn't matter there, correct forecasting matters.
Apple's most likely benefits from the A4 are : (1) processor related intellectual property gives them an advantage when buying other chips, i.e. Apple has proven themselves litigious assholes over the last few years (2) iPads are far less constrained than iPhones, i.e. save money deploying a slightly faster but overall inferior chip, also cut out the real chip designers when you can get away with designing them yourself.
Donald Knuth once complained about how quickly computer science was advancing, saying we need more bad ideas like java. ActionScript and JavaScript are quite evidently even worse than Java. C, C++, and Perl code ain't exactly elegant, but sanity prevails. Python and Ruby are actually usable, effective and elegant.
Blizzard succeeded with WarCraft III largely by improving upon the in-game RPGs developed players created in StarCraft maps, but you know WarCraft I & II were never anything special. StarCraft otoh was just too hard an act to follow. As Blizzard knows StarCraft II simply won't live up to the hype, they've set all this mess up to help transition the layer community.;)
iPhone, iTouch, and iPad are information appliances with an incredibly well designed App Store, yes. As they are touch screen based, they are not particularly useful for business users that might need to write polite emails. So who uses them? We'll people browse the web and use web site apps, but the apps not oriented towards media consumption are GAMES !!!
I don't see why game consoles cannot have application stores that are every bit as successful as the iTunes Store, perhaps games requiring more storage will require different content models, like a cheap social initial game with costly running add-ons ala farmville, but the locked down hardware and distribution model historically occupied by consoles has actually expanded, not retracted.
I sure hope the iPad costs Rupert Murdoch billions in lost viewership, but maybe there are enough iDiots that Murdoch increases revenue despite losing viewers, which would be unfortunate. Worse, the iPad might help create an opportunity for them to install tiered access.
That said, you'd avoid these touch screen keyboard devices anyways if you've ever actually compared them with physical keyboard devices, like Blackberrys and Nokias. Blackberry and Nokia make drastic design choices optimized around typing email messages. Apple sells a video game platform with email on the side.
I think the unix philosophy says that life's complex tasks should be accomplished by a collection of independent utilities that interact well together. In particular, the library and player functionality must be separated. In fact, you want the same basic library tools managing all your big file sets, ala ebooks, pictures, music, movies, porn, etc., albeit using different column sets.
How can one best achieve this? Do we even have a good separate file library system that'll track diverse file attributes? ReiserFS was perhaps one good underlying "data base". Otoh, iTunes doesn't even use the Mac filesystem's metadata facility. How about specialized MySQL storage engines?
DNA evidence isn't nearly so strong as police imagine, especially if they're using the evidence for finding the suspects. We'll eventually see courts overturning convictions that depend too heavily upon DNA evidence.
If you read the article, they say "the only evidence was blood at the scene which the police tracked to the twins through DNA tests." I'd say that's an acceptable method for finding your suspect, but you've just invalidated your DNA evidence once you've used it for picking out a suspect from a massive database. So you best find more evidence like CCTV, finger prints, shaking down his fence, etc. A competent defense attorney should get their client off if you've only got DNA evidence that's been "statistically contaminated" by a database search.
I'm pretty sure a fully open source distribution for the N900 already exists, although I'm not sure how well they've reimplemented Nokia's proprietary packages. You could likewise repackage the new MeeGo distribution using.deb files.
Afaik, MeeGo is a new distribution based around the existing MobLin and Maemo projects, not RedHat. So ARM should have solid support just like under Maemo. I doubt that Nokia will expect that Intel handles their ARM support, not while their aging Symbian platform gets attacked by Android, iPhone OS, Web OS, etc.
Intel's MobLin project was originally based upon Debian too, but they switched to RPMs for various reasons, like the LSB and packaging ease. Nokia then signed on with Intel knowing they were switching package manager.
I'm sure most hard core users will happily follow Intel and Nokia's lead. We need one well-supported true linux distribution for mobile devices with a viable market place, otherwise all the polished apps will run on Android instead.
The N900 supports reading Word Processor and Spreadsheet files just fine under Maemo, probably even edits them, but you must buy the app for that from Nokia's Ovi Store. Can't you just see the positive impact Apple has had already? Btw, you've also got several other free readers based around various Linux office suites, but Nokia doesn't polish those.
I'm pretty happy with my N900 over all, especially ssh, rsync, and x11vnc. Very solid VoIP integration. Awesome unixy apps like python, latex, vpnc, etc. You'll find the phone quite "raw" of course, like most apps don't support rotation, but overall worthwhile. I'd expect the next hardware revision from Nokia will give you a considerably more polished experience of course.
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I've started using multiple browser Safari with ClickToFlash handles nice sites fairly well, but any less well behaved site gets opened in FireFox with FlashBlock, AdBlock, and NoScript.
All internet users should use some Flash blocker that allows the user to accept specific flash content, period.
FireFox and Chrome have plugins called FlashBlock, Safari's is called ClickToFlash. IE8 provides this functionality from the Flash player add-on in Manage Add-ons under Tools, just select More informations and click Remove all sites. All these will let you reenable either individual Flash applets or whole sites when you browse those pages.
Doesn't your university have a VPN? Wouldn't that allow for servers that are not accessible from outside?
Awesome story, thanks!
You realize the U.S. possesses three of the world's nine known supervolcanos right? In particular, Yellowstone park will eventually cover half the U.S. in three feet of ash and debris. Have a nice day. :)
Yes, the journals should start mostly ignoring articles from academics in China, very little alternative, journals simply cannot fact check every article. I'd imagine China's strongest academics would still publish once their papers were referred to the journal by a respected western academic, but that'll hopefully stay rare.
You know, the GPL v2 was never relevant to web service companies, desktop application companies, custom software companies, games companies. In fact, the only companies seriously effected were embedded systems, but they've always had many choices, yet still chosen Linux.
There are other problems with genetically modified food, like monocultures, but each individual problem would diminish significantly if life were unpatentable.
- Food safety would improve because non-profit organizations would care more about safety and cover up fuck ups less.
- Infecting other farmers does not matter nearly so much if their nolonger liable for seed piracy. Farmers have always faced some interbreeding amongst their crops. Yeah, past inbreeding didn't make the crops produce pesticide, but hey we've got civil courts.
I'd also support some system for national patent for government funded research and development. That'd help the drug situation enormously, both pushing more development resources towards more important drugs, and providing more pure fair capitalism amongst producers, i.e. their all now generics.
I'd say that national patents should usually mean any producer may use the patent provided all production occurs inside the country owning the patent. You'd pay royalties only if you produced the drug abroad. If a poor country like Brazil has generic drug makers that can produce the drug far below U.S. costs, they might ask that the royalties be waived as international aid.
I don't have any fundamental problem with other rich countries paying some royalties for patented lifeforms developed by another country, but private ownership of entire lifeforms will continually create problems. As we've no system for national patents now, the easy solution would simply be eliminating all patents on lifeforms.
We've had one serious rash of video game soothsayers predicting the end of exactly the business practices that make some facebook games so incredibly profitable. Sounds like these dumb asses see the industry changing, but lack any real comprehension.
If anything, the profitable future is giving away the game for free, but charging players for leveling, while encouraging payment through social factors.
You know, we'd very likely solve all problems with genetically modified food, monocultures, etc. if we simply declared life unpatentable. We might even see Monsanto rushing to congress with anti-monoculture laws designed to force farmers to buy the ten distinct products they've just developed recently.
Patents make sense when you must building a factory. Patents don't make sense when government grants paid for your R&D and your marginal cost is zero.
You're discussing operations that clearly fall into the domain of the CIA, military intelligence, etc., clearly NSA wouldn't even know about moving captured enemies. We're fairly sure that Drake disclosed the data for Siobhan Gorman's article simply because Drake should never have had need-to-know for anything outside the NSA.
Intelligence services often don't prosecute leaks because they fear the trial might cause further real damage, but they'll probably prosecute when the trial merely prolongs their embarrassment otoh.
We know the Gorman article was based upon classified NSA documents showing massive waste. To me, that says the source was not given strong enough internal recourses.
A strong measure would be granting all senators automatic clearance for budgetary issues, thus effectively granting employees like Drake the ability to discuss the matter with a senator.
Umm. Are you an American? They've been almost winning every legislative battle inside the U.S. If the world moves on, but American legislators block it, then the world will be moving on without America. I've watched many American TV shows on Chinese video sharing sites, usually via surfthechannel, which bods ill for America's future.
Americans who "get it" really must support the pirate parties in Europe. Europe has some real chance for finding a western model for relaxation of intellectual property, one the U.S. could adopt later, and then catch back up. We're kinda fucked though if China gains technological dominance though weak copyright rules.
An iPad doesn't require much more CPU than an iPhone. So why not deploy your own chip? You've got soo much more space and power, you'll easily out preform an iPhone's chip, even if your designers aren't nearly as clever, You avoid paying royalties. You get patents for leverage against other chip makers, well we know Apple are litigious bastards. etc. If your using multiple chips within the same architecture, there are definitely advantages to controlling the compilers.
Apple cannot make money by first deploying the A4 processor then switching away after another chip beats it, they'd lose that massive investment in chip development.
Apple might've noticed different constraints for the iPad and iPhone, deploying their own chip for the iPad while using other ARM chips for iPhones. Yes, maybe that's true, but agility doesn't matter there, correct forecasting matters.
Apple's most likely benefits from the A4 are :
(1) processor related intellectual property gives them an advantage when buying other chips, i.e. Apple has proven themselves litigious assholes over the last few years
(2) iPads are far less constrained than iPhones, i.e. save money deploying a slightly faster but overall inferior chip, also cut out the real chip designers when you can get away with designing them yourself.
Donald Knuth once complained about how quickly computer science was advancing, saying we need more bad ideas like java. ActionScript and JavaScript are quite evidently even worse than Java. C, C++, and Perl code ain't exactly elegant, but sanity prevails. Python and Ruby are actually usable, effective and elegant.
Blizzard succeeded with WarCraft III largely by improving upon the in-game RPGs developed players created in StarCraft maps, but you know WarCraft I & II were never anything special. StarCraft otoh was just too hard an act to follow. As Blizzard knows StarCraft II simply won't live up to the hype, they've set all this mess up to help transition the layer community. ;)
iPhone, iTouch, and iPad are information appliances with an incredibly well designed App Store, yes. As they are touch screen based, they are not particularly useful for business users that might need to write polite emails. So who uses them? We'll people browse the web and use web site apps, but the apps not oriented towards media consumption are GAMES !!!
I don't see why game consoles cannot have application stores that are every bit as successful as the iTunes Store, perhaps games requiring more storage will require different content models, like a cheap social initial game with costly running add-ons ala farmville, but the locked down hardware and distribution model historically occupied by consoles has actually expanded, not retracted.
I sure hope the iPad costs Rupert Murdoch billions in lost viewership, but maybe there are enough iDiots that Murdoch increases revenue despite losing viewers, which would be unfortunate. Worse, the iPad might help create an opportunity for them to install tiered access.
That said, you'd avoid these touch screen keyboard devices anyways if you've ever actually compared them with physical keyboard devices, like Blackberrys and Nokias. Blackberry and Nokia make drastic design choices optimized around typing email messages. Apple sells a video game platform with email on the side.
I think the unix philosophy says that life's complex tasks should be accomplished by a collection of independent utilities that interact well together. In particular, the library and player functionality must be separated. In fact, you want the same basic library tools managing all your big file sets, ala ebooks, pictures, music, movies, porn, etc., albeit using different column sets.
How can one best achieve this? Do we even have a good separate file library system that'll track diverse file attributes? ReiserFS was perhaps one good underlying "data base". Otoh, iTunes doesn't even use the Mac filesystem's metadata facility. How about specialized MySQL storage engines?
DNA evidence isn't nearly so strong as police imagine, especially if they're using the evidence for finding the suspects. We'll eventually see courts overturning convictions that depend too heavily upon DNA evidence.
If you read the article, they say "the only evidence was blood at the scene which the police tracked to the twins through DNA tests." I'd say that's an acceptable method for finding your suspect, but you've just invalidated your DNA evidence once you've used it for picking out a suspect from a massive database. So you best find more evidence like CCTV, finger prints, shaking down his fence, etc. A competent defense attorney should get their client off if you've only got DNA evidence that's been "statistically contaminated" by a database search.
No civilized country would charge even the guilt party for obstruction of justice for failure to confess. duh!
I'm pretty sure a fully open source distribution for the N900 already exists, although I'm not sure how well they've reimplemented Nokia's proprietary packages. You could likewise repackage the new MeeGo distribution using .deb files.
Afaik, MeeGo is a new distribution based around the existing MobLin and Maemo projects, not RedHat. So ARM should have solid support just like under Maemo. I doubt that Nokia will expect that Intel handles their ARM support, not while their aging Symbian platform gets attacked by Android, iPhone OS, Web OS, etc.
Intel's MobLin project was originally based upon Debian too, but they switched to RPMs for various reasons, like the LSB and packaging ease. Nokia then signed on with Intel knowing they were switching package manager.
I'm sure most hard core users will happily follow Intel and Nokia's lead. We need one well-supported true linux distribution for mobile devices with a viable market place, otherwise all the polished apps will run on Android instead.
The N900 supports reading Word Processor and Spreadsheet files just fine under Maemo, probably even edits them, but you must buy the app for that from Nokia's Ovi Store. Can't you just see the positive impact Apple has had already? Btw, you've also got several other free readers based around various Linux office suites, but Nokia doesn't polish those.
I'm pretty happy with my N900 over all, especially ssh, rsync, and x11vnc. Very solid VoIP integration. Awesome unixy apps like python, latex, vpnc, etc. You'll find the phone quite "raw" of course, like most apps don't support rotation, but overall worthwhile. I'd expect the next hardware revision from Nokia will give you a considerably more polished experience of course.
.. our natural ability detection mechanisms like IQ tests all suck ass.