A person is INNOCENT until proven guilty, not the other way around.
I think you are a little bit confused about this.
If a person committed a crime he is not innocent no matter if this was proven or not.
Just because his innocence or non-innocence is not known, he doesn't become magically innocent. The same way a criminal does not magically change his state from innocent to non-innocent just because a judge read his verdict.
This is why people are presumed innocent - to avoid hardship for the suspect who are indeed innocent. However, since fumbling in their mouth with a cotton swap can hardly account of "hardship" taking their DNA is a reasonable measure, in particular since it helps fighting crimes.
Secondly, exactly who is it who says (or can demonstrate) that cracking a Mac or Linux box is easier than a Windows box? My experience is exactly the opposite.
So you say.
But I found that a sledgehammer works for cracking any system.
You can indeed take the literal meaning as a fundamentalist.
The gates of Jerusalem (don't know if other cities, too...) were closed during nighttime for obvious reasons. If a traveller wanted to enter the city, he had to pass trough a small door in the gate called "eye of the needle". You could get a camel through this door by making it kneel down and somehow crawl through this gate. I'm not sure how this worked exactly, as I'm no camel expert.
But the key point is: the literal meaning of the statements says the ricks suckers can get into heaven, but it's fucking hard. Fundamentalists can and will agree to this.
While the handling of this issue was 100 percent correct and it's of course hard to catch such fraudsters in the hiring process, such issues do indeed have a negative effect on the reputation of the institution. The effect of one single case might not be very big. Single exception, blablabla... But if there are more cases (e.g. 2-3) like this people would start to wonder if the hot research institute is producing more hot air than hot results. Especially with a PR-centric institute like MIT. And papers submitted will be suddenly read very, very thoroughly.
This is to pay the German equivalent of the BBC. It has nothing to do with copyright. You must pay the fee if you own a TV set anyways, so it won't mean much for most people. However companies have to pay, too. But they are only charged once for each separate building with a computer, so it doesn't mean much for them. And the GEZ is the organization of the public broadcasters to get this fee. It has not a very good reputation - you can add someone basically anonymously to their "owns a TV"-list (like the neighbour you don't like) but it's very hard to get rid of them (and paying). And from a legal point of view it's not really a tax as the money doesn't go to the government. This should in theory lead to more independent news services.
Some people hate the GEZ because they have a significant amount of money to them (about 100 Euro per year) and you have to pay just for owning a TV even if you watch never the public channels. Even if you made technically sure that you can't watch them (this went through courts and the GEZ won).
Infantilization of the Western society ?
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The rise of these infantile doll-house type simulations seems to me to be one of the first signs of the degeneration of the Western society.
Instead of having a realistic day-to-day world view more and more people escape into imaginary worlds where they don't have to deal with real live problems.
This trend can not only be observed in computer games but also in modern TV entertainment (the rise of fantasy and SCI-FI movies), literature (do I have to mention H.P. and anime ?) and music.
This seems to be to beginning of a long degeneration phase of the Western societies which would end in downfall to third world level.
In the rising Asian and Arabic countries these disturbing trends aren't observable - people rather stick to traditional family and religious values.
And indeed these Western world has even lost the ability to protect themselves from strikes into their very capital. Even worse, the fact that such strikes are even considered to be feasible by our enemies shows how much power we have already lost.
While it's unlikely that most readers will withness this downfall to it's full extend in their lifetime, we can however be sure that the Western world will play an subordinate role in the world at the end of this century.
In other words poverty is relative, and in the U.S. a large 45.9% of the "poor" own their homes, 72.8% have a car and almost 77% have air conditioning, which remains a luxury in most of Western Europe. The average living space for poor American households is 1,200 square feet. In Europe, the average space for all households, not just the poor, is 1,000 square feet.
This is very amusing. Obviously population density is higher in Europe which makes living space more expensive. Do the 45.9% of the poor own houses is Yew York or Silicon Valley ?
But that's not the main point. The point is that what is call a "house" is the US is called "forrest hunting hut" or "joke" in Europe.
A large part of US houses aren't made of masonry or stone.
Even if you want to build such crap in Europe, because you are e.g. masocistic, you have a hard time to do it: it's extremely difficult to meet modern security standards - which are enforced in Europe - with such houses. No flat houses just when a tornado comes here.
Of course everybody can "own" a home, when you define home as "upgraded cardboard box".
But we don't consider this as high living standards here. And it's always good to pay for depts your whole life just to get a cardboard box...
Simulates economy and so on...
P2P might be very useful for certain apps bit will be utterly useless for others.
P2P will be much more affected by spam and security issues etc. than centralized approaches.
And there scalability issues.
Do you think a P2P search engine would work ?
Do you think you can get any service with QoS on a pure P2P system ?
Do you think you could build a PKI on P2P basis ?
Because of the enforced compatibility with C the object system consists basically of structs with a virtual method array instead of a real object system. As we have no object orientated instructions at pseudo-code level there is no possibility of optimizing at object call dispatch level we can only tackle with the lower stack calls and register handling. And at this point the 2 decades old architecture of the Intel processors shoots the compiler into the foot.
I wouldn't be surprised if the same results would be completely different on a mac, possibly running Yellow Dog Linux (Java couldn't exploit the threading system so much in this configuration).
Further I think that the exessive use of function inlining used in C++ is harming.
It blows the code up s.th. it doesn't fit into the cache anymore which leads to tremendous slowdowns. This won't happen with Java as people aren't so inline-fixated there.
Sorry, but that's just parsing the credits file and doing some DNS lookups for the IP adresses.
This might be considered a fun project on sourceforge but not serious research.
You might ask now why I'm bitching about this.
But that's really an important issue.
Dead tree journals are getting more and more expensive and serious scientists are trying to biuld up a royality-free alternative.
When self acclaimed "peer-reviewed" electronic journals like First Monday are publishing such human insterest stuff as "research" then they are harming the reputation of all electronic scientific journals and especially the projects to create a royalty-free peer-reviewed publication chain.
And thus they are in fact harming science.
Slashdot should in no way encourage such behavior.
Translation of the article in plain english: We have problems with power consumption and not able to get around them. Thus our PR department tries to convince people that slower processors are indeed faster.
As MD5 compresses magically 2GB into a hand full of 128 numbers we can now savely assume that the images are identical.
This makes me wonder why stupid people download the Isos instead of just getting the MD5 files...
after they read my trolls on slashdot. BTW, have I mentioned that 67 % percent of all Mensa members don't use HP computers ? We did a poll at our local Mensa charter...
6 days later I will have a newly compiled system.
Honestly, what's the point when you can have binary packages. Sourcecode distribution is so 1980ies...
In a few years with TCPA and PATRIOT ACT III nobody will be haxoring without being moved to/dev/guantanamo or perhaps getting a mv/dev/micronuke/home/haxor.
The music industry decides what licensing scheme to choose.
And they'll surely take the one with which they can squeeze out a maximum of profit out of the hip-hop and goth kids.
Honestly, I've never seen such stuff in a well reputated journal.
Programming languages are something that must be understood by computers - besides humans.
If you want a "natural" language for computers then it would have to be necessarily of Chomsky-0 type.
Thus Turing-complete. And therefore not decidable which implies that a computer cannot parse it.
The author fails to realize that human languages are completely different from programming languages. Furthermore his main point is frankly rubbish: it's well known that the grammar for all human languages follows the same basic rules (Chomsky's hypothesis) thus nothing would be lost when old languages die out. Additionally it has been proven that new languages are created all the time.
We have these problems mainly due to the huge Japanese fishing fleet.
They use nets illegal in most other countries and usually ignore any fishing limits. Furthermore they are usually cutting the nets off in stroms so that these ghost nets float around in the sea killing huge numbers of animals.
I think that I don't have the mention that they kill whales and dolphins.
If you want to stop this madness then you should join the PETA's boycott of Japanese products. Yes, this includes anime.
If they would do this to an European software company like SAP or Nokia.
And one might also speculate if there is any connections to the latest steel and Galileo-related trade wars.
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A person is INNOCENT until proven guilty, not the other way around.
I think you are a little bit confused about this. If a person committed a crime he is not innocent no matter if this was proven or not. Just because his innocence or non-innocence is not known, he doesn't become magically innocent. The same way a criminal does not magically change his state from innocent to non-innocent just because a judge read his verdict. This is why people are presumed innocent - to avoid hardship for the suspect who are indeed innocent. However, since fumbling in their mouth with a cotton swap can hardly account of "hardship" taking their DNA is a reasonable measure, in particular since it helps fighting crimes.
Secondly, exactly who is it who says (or can demonstrate) that cracking a Mac or Linux box is easier than a Windows box? My experience is exactly the opposite.
So you say. But I found that a sledgehammer works for cracking any system.
I can control my Apple computer by talking to it, so where is the innovation ?
You can indeed take the literal meaning as a fundamentalist. The gates of Jerusalem (don't know if other cities, too...) were closed during nighttime for obvious reasons. If a traveller wanted to enter the city, he had to pass trough a small door in the gate called "eye of the needle". You could get a camel through this door by making it kneel down and somehow crawl through this gate. I'm not sure how this worked exactly, as I'm no camel expert. But the key point is: the literal meaning of the statements says the ricks suckers can get into heaven, but it's fucking hard. Fundamentalists can and will agree to this.
While the handling of this issue was 100 percent correct and it's of course hard to catch such fraudsters in the hiring process, such issues do indeed have a negative effect on the reputation of the institution.
The effect of one single case might not be very big. Single exception, blablabla... But if there are more cases (e.g. 2-3) like this people would start to wonder if the hot research institute is producing more hot air than hot results. Especially with a PR-centric institute like MIT. And papers submitted will be suddenly read very, very thoroughly.
This is to pay the German equivalent of the BBC.
It has nothing to do with copyright.
You must pay the fee if you own a TV set anyways, so it won't mean much for most people.
However companies have to pay, too. But they are only charged once for each separate building with a computer, so it doesn't mean much for them.
And the GEZ is the organization of the public broadcasters to get this fee. It has not a very good reputation - you can add someone basically anonymously to their "owns a TV"-list (like the neighbour you don't like) but it's very hard to get rid of them (and paying).
And from a legal point of view it's not really a tax as the money doesn't go to the government. This should in theory lead to more independent news services.
Some people hate the GEZ because they have a significant amount of money to them (about 100 Euro per year) and you have to pay just for owning a TV even if you watch never the public channels.
Even if you made technically sure that you can't watch them (this went through courts and the GEZ won).
Didn't the ESA claim that they discovered water on Mars ?
It doesn't help if you eat this stuff.
The rise of these infantile doll-house type simulations seems to me to be one of the first signs of the degeneration of the Western society.
Instead of having a realistic day-to-day world view more and more people escape into imaginary worlds where they don't have to deal with real live problems.
This trend can not only be observed in computer games but also in modern TV entertainment (the rise of fantasy and SCI-FI movies), literature (do I have to mention H.P. and anime ?) and music.
This seems to be to beginning of a long degeneration phase of the Western societies which would end in downfall to third world level.
In the rising Asian and Arabic countries these disturbing trends aren't observable - people rather stick to traditional family and religious values.
And indeed these Western world has even lost the ability to protect themselves from strikes into their very capital. Even worse, the fact that such strikes are even considered to be feasible by our enemies shows how much power we have already lost.
While it's unlikely that most readers will withness this downfall to it's full extend in their lifetime, we can however be sure that the Western world will play an subordinate role in the world at the end of this century.
What problem do you have with Mensa members ?
This is very amusing. Obviously population density is higher in Europe which makes living space more expensive. Do the 45.9% of the poor own houses is Yew York or Silicon Valley ?
But that's not the main point. The point is that what is call a "house" is the US is called "forrest hunting hut" or "joke" in Europe. A large part of US houses aren't made of masonry or stone. Even if you want to build such crap in Europe, because you are e.g. masocistic, you have a hard time to do it: it's extremely difficult to meet modern security standards - which are enforced in Europe - with such houses. No flat houses just when a tornado comes here.
Of course everybody can "own" a home, when you define home as "upgraded cardboard box". But we don't consider this as high living standards here. And it's always good to pay for depts your whole life just to get a cardboard box...
Simulates economy and so on...
P2P might be very useful for certain apps bit will be utterly useless for others. P2P will be much more affected by spam and security issues etc. than centralized approaches. And there scalability issues. Do you think a P2P search engine would work ? Do you think you can get any service with QoS on a pure P2P system ? Do you think you could build a PKI on P2P basis ?
Because of the enforced compatibility with C the object system consists basically of structs with a virtual method array instead of a real object system. As we have no object orientated instructions at pseudo-code level there is no possibility of optimizing at object call dispatch level we can only tackle with the lower stack calls and register handling. And at this point the 2 decades old architecture of the Intel processors shoots the compiler into the foot.
I wouldn't be surprised if the same results would be completely different on a mac, possibly running Yellow Dog Linux (Java couldn't exploit the threading system so much in this configuration).
Further I think that the exessive use of function inlining used in C++ is harming. It blows the code up s.th. it doesn't fit into the cache anymore which leads to tremendous slowdowns. This won't happen with Java as people aren't so inline-fixated there.
Sorry, but that's just parsing the credits file and doing some DNS lookups for the IP adresses. This might be considered a fun project on sourceforge but not serious research. You might ask now why I'm bitching about this. But that's really an important issue. Dead tree journals are getting more and more expensive and serious scientists are trying to biuld up a royality-free alternative. When self acclaimed "peer-reviewed" electronic journals like First Monday are publishing such human insterest stuff as "research" then they are harming the reputation of all electronic scientific journals and especially the projects to create a royalty-free peer-reviewed publication chain. And thus they are in fact harming science. Slashdot should in no way encourage such behavior.
Translation of the article in plain english:
We have problems with power consumption and not able to get around them.
Thus our PR department tries to convince people that slower processors are indeed faster.
did you read teh article ?
As MD5 compresses magically 2GB into a hand full of 128 numbers we can now savely assume that the images are identical. This makes me wonder why stupid people download the Isos instead of just getting the MD5 files...
It's very common that cats get under the hood.
Which will be welded shut.
Meow.
after they read my trolls on slashdot.
BTW, have I mentioned that 67 % percent of all Mensa members don't use HP computers ? We did a poll at our local Mensa charter...
6 days later I will have a newly compiled system. Honestly, what's the point when you can have binary packages. Sourcecode distribution is so 1980ies...
In a few years with TCPA and PATRIOT ACT III nobody will be haxoring without being moved to /dev/guantanamo or perhaps getting a mv /dev/micronuke /home/haxor.
The music industry decides what licensing scheme to choose. And they'll surely take the one with which they can squeeze out a maximum of profit out of the hip-hop and goth kids.
Honestly, I've never seen such stuff in a well reputated journal. Programming languages are something that must be understood by computers - besides humans.
If you want a "natural" language for computers then it would have to be necessarily of Chomsky-0 type. Thus Turing-complete. And therefore not decidable which implies that a computer cannot parse it.
The author fails to realize that human languages are completely different from programming languages. Furthermore his main point is frankly rubbish: it's well known that the grammar for all human languages follows the same basic rules (Chomsky's hypothesis) thus nothing would be lost when old languages die out. Additionally it has been proven that new languages are created all the time.
They use nets illegal in most other countries and usually ignore any fishing limits. Furthermore they are usually cutting the nets off in stroms so that these ghost nets float around in the sea killing huge numbers of animals.
I think that I don't have the mention that they kill whales and dolphins.
If you want to stop this madness then you should join the PETA's boycott of Japanese products.
Yes, this includes anime.
If they would do this to an European software company like SAP or Nokia.
And one might also speculate if there is any connections to the latest steel and Galileo-related trade wars.