Not according to ZankerH. Telling it like it is somehow is divisive.
I'm going to further guess that you have no real interest in what ordinary folk considered "right wing" today actually think
What leads you to that conclusion?
Truth be known I have a great interest in what average politically right people think. Some of their notions are good ones - such as the whole second amendment thing. Others not so much. Like the whole tea party thing, which looks to me like a lot of intentionally misled not-terribly-bright people being very angry about something, but they aren't quite sure exactly what that something is.
It's not being divisive to diagnose the problem correctly. AC is spot on.
The problem with the radical left wing is that it is measured in distance from the right. Which keeps moving to the right. In the 1960's you had to be a hippie in a minivan or a communist or a black panther to be called radical left wing. These days all it takes is for you to say "gee blowing up children might not be a good thing."
If you want a serious dialog on this, I'll tell you what. We of the left will happily become more centrist. Just as soon as you put down the Fox news driven fear and paranoia, and really think about what is best. A good start would be to just simply head to youtube and watch a few recordings of the Dalai Lama speaking.
I've done my part. I'm a registered Democrat and I'm pro second amendment. And guess what? My head didn't explode. So that's my first step. What will yours be?
Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.
Yes...it's a good idea. Much fun. But if you really want to creep the guy out - go mental with it.
Tell the customs worker that you have a lot of porn on your laptop and you'd like to declare it. Then show him hundreds of pictures of feet. Just feet. Nothing else. And while he pages through them to determine their legality, act like you are fighting becoming aroused. Moan. Drool a little bit.
For bonus points make it something really odd. Bell towers or Volkswagen bugs or cigar smoking women cutting into birthday cakes.
Remember kids - what's porn for one person may not necessarily be porn for another.
An artificial market for underpowered devices has been created
Not really artificial. Worried about cheating, I'd guess. It wouldn't be too difficult with a laptop to hook up through a cell phone modem in your final and simply transmit the problems to a grad student friend.
You *want* an underpowered device. It guarantees that it's the student coming up with the answers. And for my two cents, even this Casio is overpowered for the task. First thing I thought when I saw those graphic overlay graphs is that it would be trivial to make crib sheets and scan them into the thing. Plus it probably has an ARM processor in it, which means eventually Linux will be running on it. Once you manage that, all bets are off. Some whacko will port Maxima to it and that'll be that.
Maybe I'm getting to that "get off my lawn" age, but if you study and have a 2 dollar calculator that can do trig...you really shouldn't need much of anything else.
Oh that's right - I forgot. Knoppix runs on unicorn farts and zero point energy to make pictures on the screen. Never even touches the CPU. I should have mentioned that.
If you need some decently secure web browsing, boot a Knoppix CD. By default it doesn't even mount your hard drives. And all changes to the ram side of the unionfs filesystem expire with a reboot.
Your argument is akin to saying that this word processor program has DRM in it because it won't work without this custom 'video card' board thingy in my machine.
Sure, the OS was tied to those chips. Because without them you wouldn't have video or audio.
DRM is a different animal. You have all the hardware you need, but there is a 'hurdle' you have to pass before something will decide to let you or not let you perform the given function.
Don't confuse necessary hardware with DRM. They're different.
Everything you do is a stop gap measure - we're not immortal.
Permanent in this case means the same as it does for me or you - until death. Which in this poor kid's definition is most likely shorter than what you or I will get. It's the last artificial heart he'll ever need. So for him, we can say it's permanent. He'll be buried with it.
Ok, two including the one we're standing on. But still, we've searched and found two within 20 light years of each other. That's a teensy tiny bit of space to use to extrapolate out to the other 156 billion light years.
All that finding does is give one hope and a good reason to keep looking. Find a few dozen nearby and maybe you could figure out a local density of goldilocks planets. And by nearby I mean a few hundred light years. And by local I mean our little slice of the milky way. Maybe the spiral arm we're in. Things will be drastically different as you near the galactic center. There may be no such thing as a habitable planet near the core with the change in radiation density and more frequent and closer supernovae and the like.
You know and I know, this is primarily a tool for piracy.
No, it's primarily a tool. How you use it is up to the user.
Much like a gun is a tool. You can use it for target practice, hunting, home defense - and murder. The tool doesn't get to decide how it is used. The user does. The tool is blameless.
Another point. Most people aren't pirates, and most of the people "content protection" screws with are the paying customers. It absolutely is about rights. You buy it - you own it. That's how it used to be. Now the industry is trying to change that. It is important to let those people know they are selling snake oil. That's how I see this event. It's not about a BluRay player for Linux, it's not about piracy. It's about stopping snake oil salesmen from infringing on our rights with these increasingly bogus copy protection schemes.
That's why I love watching things like this happen. I love it when people who are clearly in the wrong (both philosophically and mathematically) get called on their hubris. It fills me with joy.
Stealing shit left and right is okay but stopping people from stealing shit is completely illegal and immoral.
That's not the case at all and you know it.
DOS is illegal. Period. But the claim here is that if you're doing good works it's not illegal. That's bullshit. Otherwise the pirates they're taking down could make the same claim.
That's the way the law is. Something is illegal, or it isn't. If you claim to be on the side of right and good, you follow the law. Or you don't. That lets you know what the real gist of this battle is all about. This isn't about good versus evil. This is my interest versus your interest. There aren't any good guys in white hats in this battle.
The description of memristers is very well aligned with the functional description of a neuron. Given how we pack zillions of transistors into cheap, commodity hardware, this discovery will lead to a whole different level and type of computing... and even life,... itself!
It's a step closer, sure. But you're not going to see a HAL-9000 anytime soon.
A pond full of algae is a gigantic pile of single celled life, but it won't quote Shakespeare. It's not the individual neurons that are the problem. It's the arrangement.
When the I-Team asked him if the cable industry drew up the bill, Senator Hoyle responded, 'Yes, along with my help.' When asked about criticism that he was 'carrying water' for the cable companies, Hoyle replied, 'I've carried more water than Gunga Din for the business community — the people who pay the taxes.'"
Apparently it's business that pays all the taxes in this country and not the citizens!
Wooohoo! All that tax I've been paying every year around April 15 is an error! There has been some huge oversight and I've been being billed incorrectly.
I'll take a check for the balance Senator. Pay me when you can.
Exactly. A fee is a tax. In my town - and I'm not kidding - panhandlers have to have a permit. Seriously. Uncle Sam knows they're not reporting income on 1040s, so they have to have an expensive permit instead. That's how they are taxed.
If you see a cop in my town walk up to a panhandler, they'll reach into their shirt and yank out a plastic tag on a necklace. If they don't produce one they get a ticket.
Uncle Sam WILL get money out of you, one way or another.
No, the fee is a fee. That's how they work. If you want to do something, and that something has a fee attached to it - you must pay the fee. Drive on a toll road? Pay a fee. It's not a punishment for using the road, it's a fee.
If you don't like it, raise awareness. Circulate petitions. Petition your government. Vote.
But until then, the law is what it is. There is a fee to operate a business in PA. There is nothing in the law that says "unless you don't make a lot of money." Sucks, but it is what it is.
It isn't a punishment though. It is an impersonal law. That's all.
She was honest and listed the blog. Now, she's basically being punished for being honest.
Let's say you work as a waiter instead of a blogger. If you report accurately your tips and are taxed on them, are you being punished for being honest?
This is nothing new folks. You tell Uncle Sam "I made X amount of money last year", and Uncle Sam will tax you on X. Surprise surprise.
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No, all that proves is that you're not Hezbollah.
Not according to ZankerH. Telling it like it is somehow is divisive.
I'm going to further guess that you have no real interest in what ordinary folk considered "right wing" today actually think
What leads you to that conclusion?
Truth be known I have a great interest in what average politically right people think. Some of their notions are good ones - such as the whole second amendment thing. Others not so much. Like the whole tea party thing, which looks to me like a lot of intentionally misled not-terribly-bright people being very angry about something, but they aren't quite sure exactly what that something is.
It's not being divisive to diagnose the problem correctly. AC is spot on.
The problem with the radical left wing is that it is measured in distance from the right. Which keeps moving to the right. In the 1960's you had to be a hippie in a minivan or a communist or a black panther to be called radical left wing. These days all it takes is for you to say "gee blowing up children might not be a good thing."
If you want a serious dialog on this, I'll tell you what. We of the left will happily become more centrist. Just as soon as you put down the Fox news driven fear and paranoia, and really think about what is best. A good start would be to just simply head to youtube and watch a few recordings of the Dalai Lama speaking.
I've done my part. I'm a registered Democrat and I'm pro second amendment. And guess what? My head didn't explode. So that's my first step. What will yours be?
Yeah, what AC there said. A foot fetish is odd, but fairly common as far as these things go.
Here, read this. An entire country with a foot fetish.
Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.
Yes...it's a good idea. Much fun. But if you really want to creep the guy out - go mental with it.
Tell the customs worker that you have a lot of porn on your laptop and you'd like to declare it. Then show him hundreds of pictures of feet. Just feet. Nothing else. And while he pages through them to determine their legality, act like you are fighting becoming aroused. Moan. Drool a little bit.
For bonus points make it something really odd. Bell towers or Volkswagen bugs or cigar smoking women cutting into birthday cakes.
Remember kids - what's porn for one person may not necessarily be porn for another.
Drat! You're right! It would be far too difficult to get 500 people Gmail accounts.
You got me.
I'll install OpenOffice 500 times and you can pay me the $36k. Deal?
Yeah, Dennis rocks. A few more like him and we would actually have representative government. Go Dennis!
An artificial market for underpowered devices has been created
Not really artificial. Worried about cheating, I'd guess. It wouldn't be too difficult with a laptop to hook up through a cell phone modem in your final and simply transmit the problems to a grad student friend.
You *want* an underpowered device. It guarantees that it's the student coming up with the answers. And for my two cents, even this Casio is overpowered for the task. First thing I thought when I saw those graphic overlay graphs is that it would be trivial to make crib sheets and scan them into the thing. Plus it probably has an ARM processor in it, which means eventually Linux will be running on it. Once you manage that, all bets are off. Some whacko will port Maxima to it and that'll be that.
Maybe I'm getting to that "get off my lawn" age, but if you study and have a 2 dollar calculator that can do trig...you really shouldn't need much of anything else.
Oh that's right - I forgot. Knoppix runs on unicorn farts and zero point energy to make pictures on the screen. Never even touches the CPU. I should have mentioned that.
Thanks for the reminder.
If you need some decently secure web browsing, boot a Knoppix CD. By default it doesn't even mount your hard drives. And all changes to the ram side of the unionfs filesystem expire with a reboot.
That's necessary hardware, not DRM.
Your argument is akin to saying that this word processor program has DRM in it because it won't work without this custom 'video card' board thingy in my machine.
Sure, the OS was tied to those chips. Because without them you wouldn't have video or audio.
DRM is a different animal. You have all the hardware you need, but there is a 'hurdle' you have to pass before something will decide to let you or not let you perform the given function.
Don't confuse necessary hardware with DRM. They're different.
Everything you do is a stop gap measure - we're not immortal.
Permanent in this case means the same as it does for me or you - until death. Which in this poor kid's definition is most likely shorter than what you or I will get. It's the last artificial heart he'll ever need. So for him, we can say it's permanent. He'll be buried with it.
Statistically, one planet doesn't make a trend.
Ok, two including the one we're standing on. But still, we've searched and found two within 20 light years of each other. That's a teensy tiny bit of space to use to extrapolate out to the other 156 billion light years.
All that finding does is give one hope and a good reason to keep looking. Find a few dozen nearby and maybe you could figure out a local density of goldilocks planets. And by nearby I mean a few hundred light years. And by local I mean our little slice of the milky way. Maybe the spiral arm we're in. Things will be drastically different as you near the galactic center. There may be no such thing as a habitable planet near the core with the change in radiation density and more frequent and closer supernovae and the like.
You know and I know, this is primarily a tool for piracy.
No, it's primarily a tool. How you use it is up to the user.
Much like a gun is a tool. You can use it for target practice, hunting, home defense - and murder. The tool doesn't get to decide how it is used. The user does. The tool is blameless.
Another point. Most people aren't pirates, and most of the people "content protection" screws with are the paying customers. It absolutely is about rights. You buy it - you own it. That's how it used to be. Now the industry is trying to change that. It is important to let those people know they are selling snake oil. That's how I see this event. It's not about a BluRay player for Linux, it's not about piracy. It's about stopping snake oil salesmen from infringing on our rights with these increasingly bogus copy protection schemes.
That's why I love watching things like this happen. I love it when people who are clearly in the wrong (both philosophically and mathematically) get called on their hubris. It fills me with joy.
Stealing shit left and right is okay but stopping people from stealing shit is completely illegal and immoral.
That's not the case at all and you know it.
DOS is illegal. Period. But the claim here is that if you're doing good works it's not illegal. That's bullshit. Otherwise the pirates they're taking down could make the same claim.
That's the way the law is. Something is illegal, or it isn't. If you claim to be on the side of right and good, you follow the law. Or you don't. That lets you know what the real gist of this battle is all about. This isn't about good versus evil. This is my interest versus your interest. There aren't any good guys in white hats in this battle.
Realize you're about to die like everyone else and enjoy your last few years.
Go volunteer a few weeks in an oncology ward before you make that statement.
The description of memristers is very well aligned with the functional description of a neuron. Given how we pack zillions of transistors into cheap, commodity hardware, this discovery will lead to a whole different level and type of computing... and even life, ... itself!
It's a step closer, sure. But you're not going to see a HAL-9000 anytime soon.
A pond full of algae is a gigantic pile of single celled life, but it won't quote Shakespeare. It's not the individual neurons that are the problem. It's the arrangement.
Unfortunately, I'm not a government. Asking nicely is the best I can manage.
When the I-Team asked him if the cable industry drew up the bill, Senator Hoyle responded, 'Yes, along with my help.' When asked about criticism that he was 'carrying water' for the cable companies, Hoyle replied, 'I've carried more water than Gunga Din for the business community — the people who pay the taxes.'"
Apparently it's business that pays all the taxes in this country and not the citizens!
Wooohoo! All that tax I've been paying every year around April 15 is an error! There has been some huge oversight and I've been being billed incorrectly.
I'll take a check for the balance Senator. Pay me when you can.
Has anyone got a link to a story of a pedestrian being hit by a hybrid car because they didn't hear it?
Exactly. A fee is a tax. In my town - and I'm not kidding - panhandlers have to have a permit. Seriously. Uncle Sam knows they're not reporting income on 1040s, so they have to have an expensive permit instead. That's how they are taxed.
If you see a cop in my town walk up to a panhandler, they'll reach into their shirt and yank out a plastic tag on a necklace. If they don't produce one they get a ticket.
Uncle Sam WILL get money out of you, one way or another.
No, the fee is a fee. That's how they work. If you want to do something, and that something has a fee attached to it - you must pay the fee. Drive on a toll road? Pay a fee. It's not a punishment for using the road, it's a fee.
If you don't like it, raise awareness. Circulate petitions. Petition your government. Vote.
But until then, the law is what it is. There is a fee to operate a business in PA. There is nothing in the law that says "unless you don't make a lot of money." Sucks, but it is what it is.
It isn't a punishment though. It is an impersonal law. That's all.
I'll admit I'm a corner case - I write drivers for a living. Mostly for Windows CE but occasionally I get a Linux task.
True, a "vast majority" of users won't do this. But with open source, a small minority can. With closed source that number is zero.
Which is better?
She was honest and listed the blog. Now, she's basically being punished for being honest.
Let's say you work as a waiter instead of a blogger. If you report accurately your tips and are taxed on them, are you being punished for being honest?
This is nothing new folks. You tell Uncle Sam "I made X amount of money last year", and Uncle Sam will tax you on X. Surprise surprise.