Two issues. Firstly Apple didn't just disable web applets. They disabled Java Web Start too, so whole corporations and government departments are suddently shut down. Secondly, they didn't provide any announcement, or a gui tool to re-enable at your own risk. It was just nuke everyone in silence.
I haven't researched the topic, but I kinda doubt they framed the constitution with the thought that private citizens MUST have the right to personal frigates, siege towers and so forth. I think they had in mind the kind of thing that citizens commonly owned at that time, which would be muscats, swords, etc.
Whether the blanket term "arms" should be interpreted the way you say, depends on one's theory of interpretation. Your way, the literalist way is not the only legitimate way.
Fare point. On the other hand, for people outside the company, it can be pretty useful to be able to guess, and for most companies it will work 99% of the time.
I think it works best when you give the user a little bit of input into it, within some bounds. You might have 3 james.smith users, but one really is called Jim, one is Jimmy, one is James. Give the users themselves a bit of leeway for resolving it, they'll be able to give you a better answer than just something lame like james1.smith or js2304@foo.com. Stop being such a control freak.
I mostly agree, except Windows is slowly getting hurt on the desktop, by Mac, by Linux, etc. It's quite slow sure, but the reasons for Windows dominance are evaporating quicker and quicker. They had a long run, but it may eventually disappear.
The difference with most of those dominances, is that they were all only still used by small portions of the population. That gave someone else a chance to flatten them by appealing to whole sections of the population that never even thought of using them. We are starting to move past that point.
Yeah, but that was when everything was a different device: GPS, mp3 player, camera. Now we have general purpose devices, and anything one manufacturer squeezes in their next model, everyone else will too.
The only thing I can think of that might upset this is a whole new device, like something built into your glasses, or wearable or something. It would have to be so different that a new player can get a new and large lead over the others. I wouldn't hold my breath on that though.
Apple could do it because they were flush with money from iPod success and flush with software talent from Mac success. I'm not seeing BB with those things. MS has those things, and even they are struggling with this.
No guidelines is what is damaging Android. Too many devices to test for, too many screen sizes, compbinations of buttons etc etc. The opposite is a better plan as far as I see - very strict guidelines, at least in early statges.
It should be obvious to anyone that you can't grow society forever without hitting some limit. Whether the limit is energy, or something else is rather moot. Talk about using all the energy in the galaxy is rather overboard.
So... at some point we have to stop growth. But there is no will anywhere to do so. Only when we run hard into the limits will growth stop, and then by necessity. So, all this talk about how we must change is itself just "visionary" fluff. There isn't going to be much actionary. We can't even agree on emissions to make much progress on that. He is asking for a lot more, and thus it is a lot less likely to happen.
The Fed is open about what it does, and everyone in the market is aware of the power it has, and that it intervenes when it chooses. Secret manipulation is a different thing.
I'd share my wi-fi if the router supported my setting the limit on guest bandwidth. My Apple one doesn't, and I didn't see any home style one that does.
Exactly. The battery might be fine, but if other things in the system can make it catch fire, its not much consolation that the fault wasn't in the battery. It still might be a bad idea to put Li-ion batteries on aeroplanes.
I suspect the system could be made fast by using the fact that not all connections must be a chain. The existence of chains provides plausible deniability, but SOME of your connections could be direct, just like current BitTorrent. So maybe there doesn't have to be any slowdown. Most of your download will come from direct and fast connections, just like now, but you also have some chained download packets too, for deniability. Maybe I didn't think this through enough, but there may be some solution.
Except that if every man and his dog used such software, and you can legitimately use it to download Linux distros, then you have real deniability. This is different to Pirate Bay who FOR SURE know that piracy happens on their site. But merely using software X, that lots of people use to download stuff, doesn't prove anything, not even close.
You seem to assume that users are intimately familiar with what their software does at the network packet level. If I use a piece of software that allows me to download, say a Linux distro, and behind the scenes it does some other crap, like exchange chunks of unknown files, is a sane judge going to convict copyright infringment? I don't think so, but then we are in uncharted territory. Anyway, the situation is basically like Freenet which makes your machine a node for all sorts of stuff you don't know about, like child porn. Didn't hear about a conviction for that yet, but I guess we have to wait till real MPAA money gets behind attacking it.
Excuse my ignorance, but how does this happen? Big companies have firewalls and NAT, and everyday people have wi-fi routers and NAT. What sort of people have big swarths of IP address space, but no clue how to manage it?
He might have done something wrong, but the real problem is nobody taught him properly it was wrong. They are running a computer science course there, they should have taught him CS ethics. When his CS instincts were wrong, they should have fired themselves for failing to teach.
Rather than spending his money on lawyers he might be better off spamming Google with other autocompletes until it wipes out this one. Things like Guy Hingston, greatest surgeon ever! And Guy Hingston saves the planet from alien invasion! and Guy Hingston cures cancer and AIDS, saves baby seals!
While I don't doubt there are programs out there with these bugs, it seems a lot different to the Y2K bug in that the fix is to just change your variables to 64 bit. The Y2K problems in large part involved LOGIC changes, and user interface changes, which was a whole different ball game in complexity. This is just fixing some silly little declarations and recompiling.
If they're going to dump LTS, they need to be REAL careful about what shit they push out. I used Linux for many many years, but finally I just got tired of stuff breaking all the time, and switched to Mac OS, where Apple seems to be reasonably careful not to annoy me too much with their updates. Maybe Linux got better since then, but I doubt it judging by some of the discussions I read about on Slashdot, like massive controversies still going on about KDE vs Gnome, as well as major about faces going on WITHIN KDE and Gnome, AND talk of distros even going away from KDE and Gnone entirely. I don't mind things changing, even largish changes, but you ought to be REAL careful to make it smooth, and I don't see it happening.
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Two issues. Firstly Apple didn't just disable web applets. They disabled Java Web Start too, so whole corporations and government departments are suddently shut down. Secondly, they didn't provide any announcement, or a gui tool to re-enable at your own risk. It was just nuke everyone in silence.
I haven't researched the topic, but I kinda doubt they framed the constitution with the thought that private citizens MUST have the right to personal frigates, siege towers and so forth. I think they had in mind the kind of thing that citizens commonly owned at that time, which would be muscats, swords, etc.
Whether the blanket term "arms" should be interpreted the way you say, depends on one's theory of interpretation. Your way, the literalist way is not the only legitimate way.
It assumes the weapons are so primitive that they can't change direction.
Also, if some weapons are smart and advanced, and some are primitive, can you recognise which is which in mid air?
Fare point. On the other hand, for people outside the company, it can be pretty useful to be able to guess, and for most companies it will work 99% of the time.
I think it works best when you give the user a little bit of input into it, within some bounds. You might have 3 james.smith users, but one really is called Jim, one is Jimmy, one is James. Give the users themselves a bit of leeway for resolving it, they'll be able to give you a better answer than just something lame like james1.smith or js2304@foo.com. Stop being such a control freak.
I mostly agree, except Windows is slowly getting hurt on the desktop, by Mac, by Linux, etc. It's quite slow sure, but the reasons for Windows dominance are evaporating quicker and quicker. They had a long run, but it may eventually disappear.
The difference with most of those dominances, is that they were all only still used by small portions of the population. That gave someone else a chance to flatten them by appealing to whole sections of the population that never even thought of using them. We are starting to move past that point.
Yeah, but that was when everything was a different device: GPS, mp3 player, camera. Now we have general purpose devices, and anything one manufacturer squeezes in their next model, everyone else will too.
The only thing I can think of that might upset this is a whole new device, like something built into your glasses, or wearable or something. It would have to be so different that a new player can get a new and large lead over the others. I wouldn't hold my breath on that though.
Apple could do it because they were flush with money from iPod success and flush with software talent from Mac success. I'm not seeing BB with those things. MS has those things, and even they are struggling with this.
Well if you know: start shorting MSFT and RIM stock, then you will be.
No guidelines is what is damaging Android. Too many devices to test for, too many screen sizes, compbinations of buttons etc etc. The opposite is a better plan as far as I see - very strict guidelines, at least in early statges.
It should be obvious to anyone that you can't grow society forever without hitting some limit. Whether the limit is energy, or something else is rather moot. Talk about using all the energy in the galaxy is rather overboard.
So... at some point we have to stop growth. But there is no will anywhere to do so. Only when we run hard into the limits will growth stop, and then by necessity. So, all this talk about how we must change is itself just "visionary" fluff. There isn't going to be much actionary. We can't even agree on emissions to make much progress on that. He is asking for a lot more, and thus it is a lot less likely to happen.
The Fed is open about what it does, and everyone in the market is aware of the power it has, and that it intervenes when it chooses. Secret manipulation is a different thing.
You would think so, but the apple DVD drives only allow you to change DVD region 3 times, and this is deliberate.
I'd share my wi-fi if the router supported my setting the limit on guest bandwidth. My Apple one doesn't, and I didn't see any home style one that does.
Exactly. The battery might be fine, but if other things in the system can make it catch fire, its not much consolation that the fault wasn't in the battery. It still might be a bad idea to put Li-ion batteries on aeroplanes.
I suspect the system could be made fast by using the fact that not all connections must be a chain. The existence of chains provides plausible deniability, but SOME of your connections could be direct, just like current BitTorrent. So maybe there doesn't have to be any slowdown. Most of your download will come from direct and fast connections, just like now, but you also have some chained download packets too, for deniability. Maybe I didn't think this through enough, but there may be some solution.
Except that if every man and his dog used such software, and you can legitimately use it to download Linux distros, then you have real deniability. This is different to Pirate Bay who FOR SURE know that piracy happens on their site. But merely using software X, that lots of people use to download stuff, doesn't prove anything, not even close.
You seem to assume that users are intimately familiar with what their software does at the network packet level. If I use a piece of software that allows me to download, say a Linux distro, and behind the scenes it does some other crap, like exchange chunks of unknown files, is a sane judge going to convict copyright infringment? I don't think so, but then we are in uncharted territory. Anyway, the situation is basically like Freenet which makes your machine a node for all sorts of stuff you don't know about, like child porn. Didn't hear about a conviction for that yet, but I guess we have to wait till real MPAA money gets behind attacking it.
Excuse my ignorance, but how does this happen? Big companies have firewalls and NAT, and everyday people have wi-fi routers and NAT. What sort of people have big swarths of IP address space, but no clue how to manage it?
I think the point is, at least it wouldn't be advertised on Google.
He might have done something wrong, but the real problem is nobody taught him properly it was wrong. They are running a computer science course there, they should have taught him CS ethics. When his CS instincts were wrong, they should have fired themselves for failing to teach.
Rather than spending his money on lawyers he might be better off spamming Google with other autocompletes until it wipes out this one. Things like Guy Hingston, greatest surgeon ever! And Guy Hingston saves the planet from alien invasion! and Guy Hingston cures cancer and AIDS, saves baby seals!
While I don't doubt there are programs out there with these bugs, it seems a lot different to the Y2K bug in that the fix is to just change your variables to 64 bit. The Y2K problems in large part involved LOGIC changes, and user interface changes, which was a whole different ball game in complexity. This is just fixing some silly little declarations and recompiling.
If they're going to dump LTS, they need to be REAL careful about what shit they push out. I used Linux for many many years, but finally I just got tired of stuff breaking all the time, and switched to Mac OS, where Apple seems to be reasonably careful not to annoy me too much with their updates. Maybe Linux got better since then, but I doubt it judging by some of the discussions I read about on Slashdot, like massive controversies still going on about KDE vs Gnome, as well as major about faces going on WITHIN KDE and Gnome, AND talk of distros even going away from KDE and Gnone entirely. I don't mind things changing, even largish changes, but you ought to be REAL careful to make it smooth, and I don't see it happening.