Well, I don't see how you're going to grow the cells without generating all the same waste products that cattle do. Cellular respiration produces CO2, etc.
Horrific security holes don't usually take ten years to become apparent, do they?
It didn't take ten years for the autoplay vulnerability to become apparent, either. Apple remedied that mistake as of the first developer preview of OS X, about five years ago. What's MS's excuse?
Neither did Korematsu, and neither did Dred Scott. This proves my point, which is that the document is not a guarantee, but simply a statement of wishful thinking unless we demand that our government comply with it.
The purpose of term limits is to try keep elected office from being a career. The model here is the colonial Virginia House of Burgesses, who were all pepole who had real jobs back home, and therefore didn't need to pander to anyone to keep their seat in the legislature.
This kind of thing is very clearly illegal under the fourth and fifth amendments. The lesson here, is that the constitution is no guarantee of our liberty. Freedon ultimately depends on the will of people to demand and enforce limits on government's continuous attempts to expand its power.
This will go on until someone who is presented with a "national security letter" says, "Fuck you, get a warrant", and is preparted to fight the case all the way to the supreme court.
The truth is, private enterprise has so far been pretty bad about architecting anything with interoperability in mind
Excuse me? I can show you examples from standard railroad guages to plumbing fixtures to the Universal Serial Bus that prove otherwise. There are all kinds of standards which have been adopted in all kinds of industries, without any kind of government mandate.
Since when is it the job of the government to promote open source?
It isn't, per se. It's the job of the government to expand ad infinitum, looking for any plausible rationale for doing so. Personally, I think this one's not going to get as much support as Corporate Welfare, or the War on Drugs.
Yeah, because there's no such thing as bloated, inefficient private-sector software companies.
Of course there are, but the key difference is that you have a choice whether or not to pay for them. I don't get to opt out of paying for NASA and Amtrak.
Pretty soon, cutting costs comes at the expense of things like customer service, R&D, and other things that are required to maintain a viable, growing business.
I'd have to say that for Dell, that point came at least a decade ago.
I hope this is the SOB that's been sending me those goddamned "online pharmacy" ads. They're just about the only ones that are getting through my filters, but I'm seeing 5-10 of them every day.
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If you can't ever fire anyone, I'd expect that the "we're closing shop" situation must come up frequently.
-jcr
Well, I don't see how you're going to grow the cells without generating all the same waste products that cattle do. Cellular respiration produces CO2, etc.
-jcr
Horrific security holes don't usually take ten years to become apparent, do they?
It didn't take ten years for the autoplay vulnerability to become apparent, either. Apple remedied that mistake as of the first developer preview of OS X, about five years ago. What's MS's excuse?
-jcr
Sony's rootkit is designed for windows, autoplay, etc and so on, but you really can't blame Microsoft in this case.
Like hell we can't!
As for autoplay being a bad idea, it is and it isn't
No, autoplay is a bad idea, period. It's a horrific security hole, as this whole Sony rootkit debacle shows.
-jcr
And anything else the botnet operator who uses Sony's holes to own your machine wants to know.
-jcr
What happens if it phones home with a really big packet?
-jcr
Jose {adilla certainly did not get any justice.
Neither did Korematsu, and neither did Dred Scott. This proves my point, which is that the document is not a guarantee, but simply a statement of wishful thinking unless we demand that our government comply with it.
-jcr
To be precise, the oil business is very adept at buying what it wants from the legislature. So yes, the fault lies at least 50% with the government.
-jcr
The examples you cite are two of the most heavily government-regulated industries around.
-jcr
Remember the Unabomber graduated from Harvard, for all that's worth.
His devices worked, didn't they?
-jcr
Arguing is pointless. If the good Doctor can provide a device, it's simple enough to prove whether it's generating or consuming power.
-jcr
I don't see why they couldn't just fire the whiner. Ability to get along with your co-workers is a perfectly valid criterion of job performance.
-jcr
The purpose of term limits is to try keep elected office from being a career. The model here is the colonial Virginia House of Burgesses, who were all pepole who had real jobs back home, and therefore didn't need to pander to anyone to keep their seat in the legislature.
-jcr
This kind of thing is very clearly illegal under the fourth and fifth amendments. The lesson here, is that the constitution is no guarantee of our liberty. Freedon ultimately depends on the will of people to demand and enforce limits on government's continuous attempts to expand its power.
This will go on until someone who is presented with a "national security letter" says, "Fuck you, get a warrant", and is preparted to fight the case all the way to the supreme court.
-jcr
The truth is, private enterprise has so far been pretty bad about architecting anything with interoperability in mind
Excuse me? I can show you examples from standard railroad guages to plumbing fixtures to the Universal Serial Bus that prove otherwise. There are all kinds of standards which have been adopted in all kinds of industries, without any kind of government mandate.
-jcr
Since when is it the job of the government to promote open source?
It isn't, per se. It's the job of the government to expand ad infinitum, looking for any plausible rationale for doing so. Personally, I think this one's not going to get as much support as Corporate Welfare, or the War on Drugs.
-jcr
This sounds rather nifty, since it would allow folks to "pay" for the projects they find most useful personally.
What's stopping you from doing that right now? We already have these things called "dollars", which you can "spend" as you see fit.
-jcr
Yeah, because there's no such thing as bloated, inefficient private-sector software companies.
Of course there are, but the key difference is that you have a choice whether or not to pay for them. I don't get to opt out of paying for NASA and Amtrak.
-jcr
that DARPANet thing?
It does not follow that because a particular thing is done with government funding, that it wouldn't have happened otherwise.
-jcr
The catch is that it's tax-funded.
-jcr
Dell does well because they make decent stuff cheapl
Not exactly. Dell cuts it too close, and that's why their stuff is crap.
-jcr
Dell does R&D?
They do, but it tends to go to researching ways to reduce production costs.
-jcr
Pretty soon, cutting costs comes at the expense of things like customer service, R&D, and other things that are required to maintain a viable, growing business.
I'd have to say that for Dell, that point came at least a decade ago.
-jcr
I hope this is the SOB that's been sending me those goddamned "online pharmacy" ads. They're just about the only ones that are getting through my filters, but I'm seeing 5-10 of them every day.
-jcr
Are you saying that OSX won't support generic graphics cards?
It doesn't support generic graphics cards now. Why would it in the future?
-jcr