I'm on Arch Linux with no 32 bit libraries installed. I'd like to keep my system pure 64 bit. A 64 bit version would mean I wouldn't have to enable the "multilib" repository which just contains 32 bit stuff.
The USA sees its future in intellectual property. Non-tangible goods. With that directive the pendulum is swinging towards the absurd side right now. Eventually, say 10 to 15 years or so - government time, it'll swing back to a sane-middle.
I'll have some respect for copyright when the terms aren't life of the author plus 75 years. That's ridiculous. If someone makes a work today, I'll have been dead 50 odd years before it's in the public domain - assuming, a big assumption, that the shill maximalists don't get the terms extended even more towards perpetuity.
Current terms are also theft: they are the theft of things that could have been. If terms were 20 years then at that mark new works could be created by anyone who would wish and their work would then get 20 years. You want to see an explosion of culture? Look at that right there. Creative works that take ideas in ways the original author couldn't conceive of or didn't think was worth the money. 20 year term: and I will never infringe again, unjust terms bring all of copyright into contempt.
For a free (pdf download) of a book which explains the issue in detail, see: The Public Domain.
I still can't believe they spent 26 BILLION dollars on Linkedin. Like seriously, whatever they're smoking I want some too. That amount of money is so astronomical that even if they blew the budget by 10 times they could have seriously built their own Linkedin 5 times over. Whoever approved that dollar figure is fucking insane, stupid, trying to sink the company, or all of the above.
Currency is an abstraction of labor, we use it to manage the effort put into things during trade - it's a lot more convenient than carrying around four cows and a goat. So, robots come along and take all the jobs? Well, no more scarcity of labor. And the systems of currency and capitalism we have grown so far get upended. They won't go out the window but they will see massive restructurings. If labor is not scarce, want a house? Go pick one down the street where the machines built fifty of them. Free. Because there was no scarce labor involved. Capitalism? Well, in a post scarcity economy the invisible hand that makes it go remains to be seen how that adapts. In the short term however, say ten to thirty years, a transition system where perhaps everyone gets a guaranteed minimum income until our society fully adapts to machines could help to minimize social upheaval over the machines taking all the jobs.
This is plain double-speak. If Oracle had their way they'd kill GPL software. Innovation revolves around an application programming interface. The API is the "shape" of the program. The code inside the shape is the implementation. The GPL revolves around the implementation and has nothing to say about the shape. If shapes were always copyrightable then that would absolutely kill innovation. All of a sudden if you used someone else's shape in a way they didn't like they could totally shut you down with just the threat of a lawsuit - not everyone has deep pockets to fight that. Copyrighted API's would become just another kind of currency much in the way software patents already are. If you can't beat them with money then beat them, forced licensing, with other kinds of currency. In the Oracle world we wouldn't even enjoy the powerful computers we have today. Decades ago Phoenix clean-room reverse-engineered IBM's BIOS and made the same shape with a different implementation. If that shape had never been open we would have never experienced the rapid advancement of a bazaar that component manufacturers can revolve around. We would have been stuck with IBM's will and computing would have stagnated because they would not necessarily have had an interest in advancing it as much as competition does. At the time IBM's BIOS was reverse-engineered they weren't even the best computers. There were others that were much better like the Commodore Amiga, however, when the ecosystem around an open BIOS happened then the feedback effects from that made it win. Without a doubt.
How about Django, PHP, Ruby, Python, Wordpress, ASP, etc? Oracle has now demonstrated that Java is a toxic brand: they will try to extract money out of you by force if you use it. For existing projects you may have little choice to stick with Java for the time being. For new projects however you'd be a fool to trust the devil.
So, you're saying: "keep taking it up the ass because I can't imagine changing my tool chain?"
There are plenty of alternatives to Java,.Net is a valid one despite your claim, and others like Python or C/C++ are equally valid. The trick with C/C++ is to use an abstraction layer between your code and the operating system. Like GUI toolkits and such. Let the GUI toolkit implement the different back-ends, your code calls it the same on all platforms.
Another illustration from fiction is Dragon's Egg.
Really though, what matters for "life" is that whatever the substrate is is able to store information - DNA in our case - and have an ecosystem of related ways to raise and lower energy states in appropriate materials. If both those conditions are met then the process a specific set of material changes with can be called "alive."
The reason Europa looks like that is because Jupiter has enough mass that tidal force from them are constantly squeezing and stretching the moon. Creating those features.
It's a fact no matter how you try to weasel out of it: "enhanced interrogation" is actually torture. Which doing so in a time of war is a war crime. The stuff Japanese people were sentenced to death for shortly after their trials at the end of World War II.
Enjoy your police state creep you have going on there. Next thing you know you'll be arrested for climbing a tree or something. No, nothing to see here citizen.
It wasn't cool at all. I did it because I could, not because I understood the potential consequences. Which is the same case here. But, hey, who cares if a person's life is ruined? Especially over something so fucking petty.
"Damaging" a computer? Like he took a sledgehammer to it? Or just changed some information in a content management system? Something that has version control to roll back changes. "Damaging" sounds better in court though I guess - especially when the computer is "protected." Weasel words.
The actual crime was a defacement, credentials were just the vehicle. The 1984 law itself does not see the distinction between a prank and actual serious intrusions.
The thing is that the 1984 law in question is not just. It was written for people stealing proprietary information off of networks and such. Not a simple defacement, and the associated ruining of his entire life for a stupid prank.
25 years ago, when I was in high school, I hacked the computer network, got access to the administrative account and then changed it - locking out, completely, the actual administrators. The next day I was pulled out of class and brought to the principles office. They said "give us the password and you go back to class and that is the end or we expel you (and then they'd have to format and build the network back up)." I gave them the password and went back to class, end of story. Imagine if that was today, I'd be royally fucked.
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How will I get my C4 to where it needs to be then?
I'm on Arch Linux with no 32 bit libraries installed. I'd like to keep my system pure 64 bit. A 64 bit version would mean I wouldn't have to enable the "multilib" repository which just contains 32 bit stuff.
The USA sees its future in intellectual property. Non-tangible goods. With that directive the pendulum is swinging towards the absurd side right now. Eventually, say 10 to 15 years or so - government time, it'll swing back to a sane-middle.
I'll have some respect for copyright when the terms aren't life of the author plus 75 years. That's ridiculous. If someone makes a work today, I'll have been dead 50 odd years before it's in the public domain - assuming, a big assumption, that the shill maximalists don't get the terms extended even more towards perpetuity.
Current terms are also theft: they are the theft of things that could have been. If terms were 20 years then at that mark new works could be created by anyone who would wish and their work would then get 20 years. You want to see an explosion of culture? Look at that right there. Creative works that take ideas in ways the original author couldn't conceive of or didn't think was worth the money. 20 year term: and I will never infringe again, unjust terms bring all of copyright into contempt.
For a free (pdf download) of a book which explains the issue in detail, see: The Public Domain.
I still can't believe they spent 26 BILLION dollars on Linkedin. Like seriously, whatever they're smoking I want some too. That amount of money is so astronomical that even if they blew the budget by 10 times they could have seriously built their own Linkedin 5 times over. Whoever approved that dollar figure is fucking insane, stupid, trying to sink the company, or all of the above.
Currency is an abstraction of labor, we use it to manage the effort put into things during trade - it's a lot more convenient than carrying around four cows and a goat. So, robots come along and take all the jobs? Well, no more scarcity of labor. And the systems of currency and capitalism we have grown so far get upended. They won't go out the window but they will see massive restructurings. If labor is not scarce, want a house? Go pick one down the street where the machines built fifty of them. Free. Because there was no scarce labor involved. Capitalism? Well, in a post scarcity economy the invisible hand that makes it go remains to be seen how that adapts. In the short term however, say ten to thirty years, a transition system where perhaps everyone gets a guaranteed minimum income until our society fully adapts to machines could help to minimize social upheaval over the machines taking all the jobs.
This is plain double-speak. If Oracle had their way they'd kill GPL software. Innovation revolves around an application programming interface. The API is the "shape" of the program. The code inside the shape is the implementation. The GPL revolves around the implementation and has nothing to say about the shape. If shapes were always copyrightable then that would absolutely kill innovation. All of a sudden if you used someone else's shape in a way they didn't like they could totally shut you down with just the threat of a lawsuit - not everyone has deep pockets to fight that. Copyrighted API's would become just another kind of currency much in the way software patents already are. If you can't beat them with money then beat them, forced licensing, with other kinds of currency. In the Oracle world we wouldn't even enjoy the powerful computers we have today. Decades ago Phoenix clean-room reverse-engineered IBM's BIOS and made the same shape with a different implementation. If that shape had never been open we would have never experienced the rapid advancement of a bazaar that component manufacturers can revolve around. We would have been stuck with IBM's will and computing would have stagnated because they would not necessarily have had an interest in advancing it as much as competition does. At the time IBM's BIOS was reverse-engineered they weren't even the best computers. There were others that were much better like the Commodore Amiga, however, when the ecosystem around an open BIOS happened then the feedback effects from that made it win. Without a doubt.
Nobody uses Python? Really?
I think you were blinded before even trying Python and therefore did not "get how it works."
How about Django, PHP, Ruby, Python, Wordpress, ASP, etc? Oracle has now demonstrated that Java is a toxic brand: they will try to extract money out of you by force if you use it. For existing projects you may have little choice to stick with Java for the time being. For new projects however you'd be a fool to trust the devil.
So, you're saying: "keep taking it up the ass because I can't imagine changing my tool chain?"
There are plenty of alternatives to Java, .Net is a valid one despite your claim, and others like Python or C/C++ are equally valid. The trick with C/C++ is to use an abstraction layer between your code and the operating system. Like GUI toolkits and such. Let the GUI toolkit implement the different back-ends, your code calls it the same on all platforms.
Another illustration from fiction is Dragon's Egg.
Really though, what matters for "life" is that whatever the substrate is is able to store information - DNA in our case - and have an ecosystem of related ways to raise and lower energy states in appropriate materials. If both those conditions are met then the process a specific set of material changes with can be called "alive."
The reason Europa looks like that is because Jupiter has enough mass that tidal force from them are constantly squeezing and stretching the moon. Creating those features.
Dammit, "Code of the Lifemaker." Not "Lifemake."
Life is a process and any substrate that facilitates that process qualifies as "alive." See: Code of the Lifemake for a illustration of that.
Hey, the USA should put back-doors in all encryption solutions! Then China could use them too..
It's a fact no matter how you try to weasel out of it: "enhanced interrogation" is actually torture. Which doing so in a time of war is a war crime. The stuff Japanese people were sentenced to death for shortly after their trials at the end of World War II.
And therein lies the problem. Yahoo! isn't relevant any longer. I don't even know the last time I even thought of it.
Waiting for my cheque to implement an entire alternate back-end in 3.. 2.. 1..
Enjoy your police state creep you have going on there. Next thing you know you'll be arrested for climbing a tree or something. No, nothing to see here citizen.
It wasn't cool at all. I did it because I could, not because I understood the potential consequences. Which is the same case here. But, hey, who cares if a person's life is ruined? Especially over something so fucking petty.
"Damaging" a computer? Like he took a sledgehammer to it? Or just changed some information in a content management system? Something that has version control to roll back changes. "Damaging" sounds better in court though I guess - especially when the computer is "protected." Weasel words.
Lock everyone up and throw away the key is the American way.
The actual crime was a defacement, credentials were just the vehicle. The 1984 law itself does not see the distinction between a prank and actual serious intrusions.
The thing is that the 1984 law in question is not just. It was written for people stealing proprietary information off of networks and such. Not a simple defacement, and the associated ruining of his entire life for a stupid prank.
25 years ago, when I was in high school, I hacked the computer network, got access to the administrative account and then changed it - locking out, completely, the actual administrators. The next day I was pulled out of class and brought to the principles office. They said "give us the password and you go back to class and that is the end or we expel you (and then they'd have to format and build the network back up)." I gave them the password and went back to class, end of story. Imagine if that was today, I'd be royally fucked.