We already have them. Modern tractors have GPS guidance to spray pesticides or herbicides or harvest crops essentially automatically. The driver is more or less just watching out in case something goes wrong.
Not quite, you can get payout of 100.7% if you pick the right machine and strategy. Add on comps and free drinks, and you can end up well ahead. Not my idea of a good time, but some people love that.
video poker where if you play perfectly, you can expect a small profit over time.
Perfect strategy in video poker is actually counter to how most people would play - it often means throwing away a winning, but low paying hand for a chance at a higher payout.
There's a big difference - even on a computerized plane, all the inputs come from somewhere aboard the plane. You can't log in and tell it to bomb somewhere else. Drones are remotely controlled by design.
No, there's actually a documented history of names being used for other purposes. This kind of thing has been going on for over a decade. FordReallySucks.com is all about the quest of big companies to squelch critical sites that use their name.
In a democracy, you can't get away with having a small minority with all the knowledge. The whole population needs to be informed enough to do basic math and critical thinking. A basic grasp of statistics, algebra, and how to do a budget would make a huge difference in the ability to evaluate what politicians say and have a well-functioning democracy. If you can't decide for yourself, the facts just become another political football with competing claims.
What makes you think the causation goes the way you suggest? Generally places with strict gun control do it in response to crime, rather than crime rising in response to gun control.
Wow, this is a really hostile, cynical, and destructive attitude.
Seriously, you're blaming these people for engaging in a private activity that's fairly common? And you're saying this is some "weirdness" on their part? 1/3rd of teens have sent naked pictures to each other. Millions of people participate in everything from sending some cheesecake to a significant other to posting pictures publicly. You've never written an email or text message with personal information, or taken a risque photo, or engaged in some activity that you would prefer not being broadcast to the public?
I thought Slashdot was all about privacy rights, and protesting the abuses of email companies that would fold to the government, or social networks that would track without your consent. Suddenly, the victim of a privacy violation is the one at fault?
They don't lose their right to have private lives, and they aren't all cynical publicity-hounds. They've got their public lives, and they've got their private lives, just like the rest of us. They weren't 'leaking' a sex tape for the publicity, they were violated by someone who preyed on them. We all go to the bathroom sometimes, but it doesn't mean we were asking to have pictures of it posted to the web.
Much more likely than fraud by individuals is a systematic effort to exclude voters unlikely to vote for your party, and the usage of methods to purge legitimate voters from the rolls, add additional hurdles (the modern poll test), or gerrymander districts so voting doesn't work at all.
It's not a "special interest" to want democracy to work for everyone, not just the well off.
There are actually some copyleft licenses intended to address exactly this situation. The Affero GPL is one. It adds a provision that "requires that the complete source code be made available to any network user of the AGPL-licensed work, typically a Web application."
This research was published in July and presented at Defcon in august. The original Wired story is here.
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He goes into a level of needless detail that makes it obvious how he can be obsessive and self-absorbed. He uses paragraphs to say what a sentence could. He focuses on little distractions and loses sight of how people actually work. It reflects a lot of problems with the FSF's approach and RMS's shortcomings as a public face.
This is a man who eats things off of his foot while giving a speech. He's shockingly out of touch with the world and sometimes all you can do is laugh.
That's why there's a one-house exemption in capital gains. If you have multiple houses that you're buying and flipping, it's different than your primary residence in the tax code. Investments are different from a primary residence.
1. Everybody thinks they're the highest performers. You have to be smart enough to know when you're being dumb, and most of the dumb performers aren't smart enough to realize it.
2. You assume there's a good reason for doing things a certain way, and that reason hasn't been invalidated. Programmers used COBOL, FORTRAN, and Assembly for a good reason, and now very few programmers use them, for smaller good reasons. This is a move to a higher level language. People did raw pointer math in C, in part because it was fast and in part because there wasn't a better way to do it. Now we have higher-level languages that handle that material, and they are slower to run, but much faster to code.
The basic fact about higher level, more insulated languages is that programmer time is much more expensive than computer time, and programmer mistakes are even more expensive. The narrowing opportunity that this produces means less ability for high-performance, hacky, unmaintainable code that no one else is smart enough to understand, but much more opportunity for building powerful applications. The explosive growth of web apps is directly tied to the power of the languages they're built on.
I know nothing about this particular implementation, but the concept of protecting the programmer from himself is actually a sound one, and I think you need to avoid being so defensive about it.
...They can do what they want with it. Generally, code that you created while employed by a company, on their time, becomes the property of the company. Because they own it, it's their choice whether to license it out as open source or hold it as proprietary. You're not at the company any more, so you have no leverage of being a part of the company, leaving your complaints as your only tool at this point. You can approach your former bosses and coworkers (assuming you left on good terms) and remind them of why you thought it was valuable to release it in the first place. You can go public with a name-and-shame campaign. (but that may burn bridges) Or you can fork the old version (since they can't retract the license already granted) and move on with your life.
http://bible.cc/ezekiel/23-20.htm Ezekiel 23-20: "There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses."
Editing could be anything from changing color levels and cropping to full-on forgery. Simply the fact that some software was used doesn't indicate that it was maliciously edited.
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We already have them. Modern tractors have GPS guidance to spray pesticides or herbicides or harvest crops essentially automatically. The driver is more or less just watching out in case something goes wrong.
Not quite, you can get payout of 100.7% if you pick the right machine and strategy. Add on comps and free drinks, and you can end up well ahead. Not my idea of a good time, but some people love that.
Perfect strategy in video poker is actually counter to how most people would play - it often means throwing away a winning, but low paying hand for a chance at a higher payout.
There's a big difference - even on a computerized plane, all the inputs come from somewhere aboard the plane. You can't log in and tell it to bomb somewhere else. Drones are remotely controlled by design.
Re-entry vehicles from ICBMs do.
No, there's actually a documented history of names being used for other purposes. This kind of thing has been going on for over a decade. FordReallySucks.com is all about the quest of big companies to squelch critical sites that use their name.
http://www.fordreallysucks.com/more_info.html
In a democracy, you can't get away with having a small minority with all the knowledge. The whole population needs to be informed enough to do basic math and critical thinking. A basic grasp of statistics, algebra, and how to do a budget would make a huge difference in the ability to evaluate what politicians say and have a well-functioning democracy. If you can't decide for yourself, the facts just become another political football with competing claims.
Also, the UK uses significantly different reporting standards. If you compare on homicide, the rate is lower.
What makes you think the causation goes the way you suggest? Generally places with strict gun control do it in response to crime, rather than crime rising in response to gun control.
Wow, this is a really hostile, cynical, and destructive attitude.
Seriously, you're blaming these people for engaging in a private activity that's fairly common? And you're saying this is some "weirdness" on their part? 1/3rd of teens have sent naked pictures to each other. Millions of people participate in everything from sending some cheesecake to a significant other to posting pictures publicly. You've never written an email or text message with personal information, or taken a risque photo, or engaged in some activity that you would prefer not being broadcast to the public?
I thought Slashdot was all about privacy rights, and protesting the abuses of email companies that would fold to the government, or social networks that would track without your consent. Suddenly, the victim of a privacy violation is the one at fault?
They don't lose their right to have private lives, and they aren't all cynical publicity-hounds. They've got their public lives, and they've got their private lives, just like the rest of us. They weren't 'leaking' a sex tape for the publicity, they were violated by someone who preyed on them. We all go to the bathroom sometimes, but it doesn't mean we were asking to have pictures of it posted to the web.
Individual voter fraud is extremely rare. The sort of fraud that would be prevented by photo ID is almost nonexistent. On the other hand, the requirement to obtain a photo ID excludes a nontrivial percentage of the population, and creates an additional burden that falls disproportionately on poor and/or nonwhite voters. Voters who usually vote democratic, making this a partisan issue.
Much more likely than fraud by individuals is a systematic effort to exclude voters unlikely to vote for your party, and the usage of methods to purge legitimate voters from the rolls, add additional hurdles (the modern poll test), or gerrymander districts so voting doesn't work at all.
It's not a "special interest" to want democracy to work for everyone, not just the well off.
There are actually some copyleft licenses intended to address exactly this situation. The Affero GPL is one. It adds a provision that "requires that the complete source code be made available to any network user of the AGPL-licensed work, typically a Web application."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License
how many foreign bases the US has.
This comment is currently marked (Score:2, Redundant). I like to think that's a commentary on the bases.
Slashdot ate the link. here:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/07/prison-plc-vulnerabilities/
This research was published in July and presented at Defcon in august. The original Wired story is here.
He goes into a level of needless detail that makes it obvious how he can be obsessive and self-absorbed. He uses paragraphs to say what a sentence could. He focuses on little distractions and loses sight of how people actually work. It reflects a lot of problems with the FSF's approach and RMS's shortcomings as a public face.
This is a man who eats things off of his foot while giving a speech. He's shockingly out of touch with the world and sometimes all you can do is laugh.
That's why there's a one-house exemption in capital gains. If you have multiple houses that you're buying and flipping, it's different than your primary residence in the tax code. Investments are different from a primary residence.
There are a couple of problems with this:
1. Everybody thinks they're the highest performers. You have to be smart enough to know when you're being dumb, and most of the dumb performers aren't smart enough to realize it.
2. You assume there's a good reason for doing things a certain way, and that reason hasn't been invalidated. Programmers used COBOL, FORTRAN, and Assembly for a good reason, and now very few programmers use them, for smaller good reasons. This is a move to a higher level language. People did raw pointer math in C, in part because it was fast and in part because there wasn't a better way to do it. Now we have higher-level languages that handle that material, and they are slower to run, but much faster to code.
The basic fact about higher level, more insulated languages is that programmer time is much more expensive than computer time, and programmer mistakes are even more expensive. The narrowing opportunity that this produces means less ability for high-performance, hacky, unmaintainable code that no one else is smart enough to understand, but much more opportunity for building powerful applications. The explosive growth of web apps is directly tied to the power of the languages they're built on.
I know nothing about this particular implementation, but the concept of protecting the programmer from himself is actually a sound one, and I think you need to avoid being so defensive about it.
...They can do what they want with it. Generally, code that you created while employed by a company, on their time, becomes the property of the company. Because they own it, it's their choice whether to license it out as open source or hold it as proprietary. You're not at the company any more, so you have no leverage of being a part of the company, leaving your complaints as your only tool at this point. You can approach your former bosses and coworkers (assuming you left on good terms) and remind them of why you thought it was valuable to release it in the first place. You can go public with a name-and-shame campaign. (but that may burn bridges) Or you can fork the old version (since they can't retract the license already granted) and move on with your life.
http://bible.cc/ezekiel/23-20.htm
Ezekiel 23-20:
"There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses."
Editing could be anything from changing color levels and cropping to full-on forgery. Simply the fact that some software was used doesn't indicate that it was maliciously edited.
I've researched this topic before. Not all Voip providers support T.38 and the availability of SIP doesn't mean they have T.38 support.
You can't fax over a standard VoIP connection - the compression is meant for voice and won't reproduce the data.
Those unfunded liabilities are spread over many years, so it's disingenuous to compare them to a single year of GDP.
You're actually thinking of something that appeared in "The Way Things REALLY Work".