If we're going to fix this problem, we need to stop acting like we're not at fault.
We're not. And I'm sorry your secret out-of-court settlement with the RIAA requires you to say we are.
This began no later than 1976, when Universal sued Sony to try to ban the VCR. They failed there, but they successfully destroyed home use of digital audio tape with the Audio Home Recording Act. They attempted to ban the MP3 player in 1998. And then there was the DMCA, also 1998. Were you violating copyright before 1976? Even Napster came after the DMCA. These laws were not reactions to mass copyright infringement; they could not be, because they _preceded_ such infringement. SOPA/PIPA are just the next salvo.
From your website:
We have to remind ourselves that copyright is a real valid agreement in society and that we have to either honor it, or decide to dismantle it.
If copyright ever was an "agreement", it has been violated, over and over again, by the other side. Not just with the laws above, but by interminable copyright extension and the re-copyrighting of out-of-copyright works. In fact, however, it's not an agreement at all; it's just an exercise of power. There's no dishonor in violating it.
And this is the way the new Dark Ages will begin. Not from where you'd expect, religious fundamentalists who are offended by the challenge reality presents to their mythology. But from easily-frightened handwringing "ethicists", who had they been around in the time of the caveman would have taken away Ugh's flint for fear he'd burn down the forest were he to succeed in starting a fire.
The problem is trying to negotiate for a raise but what was happening in the 1970s - you work for company A for six months and company B comes along and offers you 25% more. Six months later, company C offers 20% more. Six months after that, company A offers the same person another 25% raise to come back. Yes, this gets out of hand quickly and is something that just about everyone - including the employees - hate.
For that to happen, company A had to be woefully undervaluing the employee at the start. Either that, or by passing through B and C, the employee gained a significant amount of value to A.
Does everyone hate this? The employees that don't do it hate it, of course, because they get shafted. The companies involved hate it, because they have to pay more. The employees who do it, though... well, they may hate it, but they hate it less than being underpaid, or they wouldn't do it.
If this is stopped by mutual agreement between A,B, and C, who benefits and who loses? If the only problem was undervaluing the employees, then the companies benefit and the employees lose. If the issue was that by passing through the other companies, the employee gained value, then _everyone_ loses.
Seems to me that a better way of stopping this sort of thing is paying employees enough that they won't be willing to move in the first place. If you'd be willing to pay 87% more to get back a job-hopping employee, why wouldn't you be willing to pay as much to keep him in the first place?
Once Japan was the cheap knock-off country copying the west.
Indeed. And then came the Mitsubishi Zero and that was the end of that. But that doesn't mean China will follow the same pattern.
Oh, and how are those US trains doing by btw? Amtrak still the non-running joke?
No, it runs now, still a joke though. We had planes which did a much better job, but then along came the TSA to waste enough time to eliminate short flights.
I grew up in a house built then, they DID build them different.
My point is that in 1960 they didn't build them differently. And 1960 is more than 50 years ago, and there are many 1960 homes around today. Ergo, there is good reason to believe that homes built within the last 20 years WILL last 50 years.
The walls were plaster. They had little 1' wide and very thin boards that covered every wall, then they slathered on what was more or less a thin concrete. I've looked at dry wall funny and gotten holes in it. You could hit the wall as hard as you wanted in my house and it wasn't going anywhere.
Plaster has problems of its own; it cracks, and it pulls away from the lath. It's certainly a lot stronger than drywall, though.
Yes the insulation, windows and siding are sub par. But those can easily be upgraded, and even if they weren't the house (unless termines invaded) would probably stand for a much longer time than anything new.
Why? Not because it has plaster instead of drywall; that's not structural material in either case. Not because its structure is timber instead of lumber frame; either one will do the job.
I can actually see LightSquared perspective. In an ideal world, the solution would be to fix all those devices that are affected by things they shouldn't be affected by. Just not likely to happen.
Unfortunately, a "brick wall" filter with very high roll-off and attenuation turns out to be large and expensive.
That's old world thinking. I doubt there's been a house built in the last 20 years that is going to last even 50 years. (Aside from the guys that like the monolithic domes). As fast and as cheap as possible. You're just going to live in it for 10 years and flip it when it starts having major problems, that's the American way.
Common claim, but nostalgiac nonsense. I live in a house built in 1960, built basically the same as one would be built today. Except one built today would have better sealing and insulation, much better windows, and vinyl siding instead of wood. There's tons of them around here, and very few are in any danger of falling down.
The bills are massively unpopular on the internet but we are still losing the spin war on this. The blackouts are being covered on main stream media in droves (a good thing!), but every MSM reference that i have seen describes the bills as the 'anti-piracy' SOPA/PIPA bills.
We can't win in the mainstream media: they are the enemy. Not in some figurative or symbolic sense, but quite literally. Those behind the bills own the mainstream media.
We also probably can't do anything about SOPA/PIPA. They're going to pass them, by hook or by crook. We can protest all we want, black out web pages, complain to representatives, what have you. Doesn't matter. The other side has more power (being the mainstream media); that's all there is to it.
My home network already is running IPv6. Know what I had to do to make it so? Nothing. It just works. A few Macs, a couple of Linux machines, a DDWRT access point, and a Zyxel access point all handle IPv6 just fine. The only device which doesn't work is the FIOS gateway, and that's up to Verizon, not much I can do about it.
Just try to leave out that population in your mental model and you'll see the core disparity: the common programmer story (you'll need to scroll down a bit) that led to the love in the first place.
From your link:
In their stories, programmers tend to ignore all the social and demographic factors that makes their story possible, such as being Caucasian, male, middle- to upper class, and having parents who encouraged them to use the computers, and going to schools that had access to computers.
Unfortunately, the original research of Ms. Ames is apparently not available online. I don't know what this story is which requires one to be Caucasian or male. Middle to upper class -- yes, computers were expensive when I started programming them. The schools I went to didn't even have them until much later. And yes, my parents encouraged me and I wouldn't deny it. They also encouraged my sisters, though.
For geek misogynism to explain the gender disparity in software in general or open source in particular, it does have to be the worst. Because the gender disparity in software is more than in advertising, more than in sales, more than in almost any occupation you can think of that's full of loudmouth sexists:
Software engineers: 20.6% women Computer programmers: 22.4% women Computer scientists and systems analysts: 30.4% women Computer support specialists: 27.1% women Database administrators: 32.2% women Network and computer systems administrators: 17.2% women Network systems and data communications analysts: 23.2% women
Compare: Bailiffs, correctional officers, jailers: 26.9% women Sports reporters: 38.8% women Advertising sales agents: 45.3% women Marketing and sales managers: 43.1% women Lawyers: 35.0% women
There are professions with fewer women -- e.g. tv and radio announcers, 18% women. And many of the construction trades are near zero. Truckers, very low. But still, it strains credulity that a bunch of geeks could drive women out of a field through sheer obnoxiousness, when salespeople, advertising people, sports reporters, and lawyers couldn't.
Oh, the "hostile environment" idea. Any environment where the boys grossly outnumber the girls is automatically hostile to the girls. I should think however, that nerdy though we are, we are a tiny bit more respectful than other boys clubs such as the military, and the average sport. But maybe we are worse because we're so starved for a bit of affection. And we certainly don't have neat uniforms.
Indeed, the whole reason this keeps coming up on slashdot seems to be to kick the (male) geeks in the shorts for being sexist pigs. And of course like Pavlov's dogs a few sexists and a few trolls (and probably some sexist trolls) show up to prove the point. The problem with the "sexist pig" theory is it requires computer programmers to not only be sexist, but to be the most sexist of all professions excluding sports. More sexist than men in the military. More sexist that salespeople. More sexist than advertising people. This is a bit hard to believe.
Note in another post the typecast dig at RMS for supposedly being smelly.
No, he's really smelly. I only have that information secondhand, but it's from a female programmer, so it's reliable:-)
One of the most common cultural memes in existence is that women should beware of creepy men, for definitions of "creepy" that vary by culture and individual experience. Given what creepy men can do, it's tough to blame women for that. But it's so deeply ingrained that for many, avoiding creepy men becomes a powerful (if not always conscious) factor in decisions both major and minor. Every time you see someone who might have had promise in this industry turn away saying that she wasn't "nerdy enough" for it or that she "couldn't deal with the geeks," you're seeing someone for whom avoiding creepy men played a role in that decision. Every time you see someone online yelling "TITS OR GTFO" or "Make me a sammich," her decision is vindicated.
What is "creepy", though? Beyond those obvious examples mostly posted by trolls and other such trash. Here's a working definition of "creepy": Interest evinced in a woman by a man the woman would never be interested in. This explains why women are much more well-represented in professions which contain far worse out-and-out louts, such as sales.
The good news is the drone guided the fuel delivery to the town. The bad news is the delivery was done by aerosolizing the fuel over the town, then igniting it. Oops, must have left some of the military code in there by mistake.
There's "the US" and there's "the US empire". The British, French, and Spanish empires had nation-states ruling over a bunch of colonies; the colonies split off, but the nation-state remained. (Well, perhaps the jury's still out on Britain.) The Russian/Soviet empire was somewhat similar, but without the overseas colonies; Russia still exists as a nation.
Which makes the US imperial possessions American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Phillippines (oops, no, we gave that up), Kuwait, Iraq (oops, no, we gave them up too), the US Virgin Islands, the US Minor Outlying Islands (uninhabited), the Panama Canal Zone (nope, gave it up), Grenada (nope, gave that up too), and arguably Puerto Rico.
Not much of an empire, for all the cries of imperialism.
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Hard to figure why the government subsidizes it so much. I'm sure someone will say, is there a huge corn lobby? Who pays them?
The answer to the last question is easy: You do, and I do, and we all do. That's the great thing about rent-seeking, it's self-sustaining. You use your rent to obtain more rent.
And yes, there is a huge corn-products lobby, headed by the Archer Daniels Midland company (motto: "We're not quite as evil as Monsanto.").
Try this - they're introducing it this time before this election round. Then once the people are re-elected "now they have nothing to lose" so they'll resurrect it next year. Or some such variations on a theme.
They'll dust this thing off and pass it during the lame duck session after the election.
Copper-clad steel is nothing new. Some of this is just marketroid hype (though to be fair, I don't think anyone has ever made clad *telcom* cable before). But other types of clad conductors have been common for some time -- not just to deter theft, but because of the price of copper.
There's lots of copper-clad aluminum telcom cable. I haven't heard of copper-clad steel being used for it, though.
It's not new, and while it increases resistance to cutting, it also increases resistance to the flow of electricity (especially at lower frequencies). So you need a heavier and bulkier cable to do the job.
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We're not. And I'm sorry your secret out-of-court settlement with the RIAA requires you to say we are.
This began no later than 1976, when Universal sued Sony to try to ban the VCR. They failed there, but they successfully destroyed home use of digital audio tape with the Audio Home Recording Act. They attempted to ban the MP3 player in 1998. And then there was the DMCA, also 1998. Were you violating copyright before 1976? Even Napster came after the DMCA. These laws were not reactions to mass copyright infringement; they could not be, because they _preceded_ such infringement. SOPA/PIPA are just the next salvo.
From your website:
If copyright ever was an "agreement", it has been violated, over and over again, by the other side. Not just with the laws above, but by interminable copyright extension and the re-copyrighting of out-of-copyright works. In fact, however, it's not an agreement at all; it's just an exercise of power. There's no dishonor in violating it.
And this is the way the new Dark Ages will begin. Not from where you'd expect, religious fundamentalists who are offended by the challenge reality presents to their mythology. But from easily-frightened handwringing "ethicists", who had they been around in the time of the caveman would have taken away Ugh's flint for fear he'd burn down the forest were he to succeed in starting a fire.
For that to happen, company A had to be woefully undervaluing the employee at the start. Either that, or by passing through B and C, the employee gained a significant amount of value to A.
Does everyone hate this? The employees that don't do it hate it, of course, because they get shafted. The companies involved hate it, because they have to pay more. The employees who do it, though... well, they may hate it, but they hate it less than being underpaid, or they wouldn't do it.
If this is stopped by mutual agreement between A,B, and C, who benefits and who loses? If the only problem was undervaluing the employees, then the companies benefit and the employees lose. If the issue was that by passing through the other companies, the employee gained value, then _everyone_ loses.
Seems to me that a better way of stopping this sort of thing is paying employees enough that they won't be willing to move in the first place. If you'd be willing to pay 87% more to get back a job-hopping employee, why wouldn't you be willing to pay as much to keep him in the first place?
Indeed. And then came the Mitsubishi Zero and that was the end of that. But that doesn't mean China will follow the same pattern.
No, it runs now, still a joke though. We had planes which did a much better job, but then along came the TSA to waste enough time to eliminate short flights.
My point is that in 1960 they didn't build them differently. And 1960 is more than 50 years ago, and there are many 1960 homes around today. Ergo, there is good reason to believe that homes built within the last 20 years WILL last 50 years.
Plaster has problems of its own; it cracks, and it pulls away from the lath. It's certainly a lot stronger than drywall, though.
Why? Not because it has plaster instead of drywall; that's not structural material in either case. Not because its structure is timber instead of lumber frame; either one will do the job.
Unfortunately, a "brick wall" filter with very high roll-off and attenuation turns out to be large and expensive.
Common claim, but nostalgiac nonsense. I live in a house built in 1960, built basically the same as one would be built today. Except one built today would have better sealing and insulation, much better windows, and vinyl siding instead of wood. There's tons of them around here, and very few are in any danger of falling down.
It was. Then facebook came around, and it was cyberhighschool.
We can't win in the mainstream media: they are the enemy. Not in some figurative or symbolic sense, but quite literally. Those behind the bills own the mainstream media.
We also probably can't do anything about SOPA/PIPA. They're going to pass them, by hook or by crook. We can protest all we want, black out web pages, complain to representatives, what have you. Doesn't matter. The other side has more power (being the mainstream media); that's all there is to it.
My home network already is running IPv6. Know what I had to do to make it so? Nothing. It just works. A few Macs, a couple of Linux machines, a DDWRT access point, and a Zyxel access point all handle IPv6 just fine. The only device which doesn't work is the FIOS gateway, and that's up to Verizon, not much I can do about it.
From your link:
For geek misogynism to explain the gender disparity in software in general or open source in particular, it does have to be the worst. Because the gender disparity in software is more than in advertising, more than in sales, more than in almost any occupation you can think of that's full of loudmouth sexists:
Software engineers: 20.6% women
Computer programmers: 22.4% women
Computer scientists and systems analysts: 30.4% women
Computer support specialists: 27.1% women
Database administrators: 32.2% women
Network and computer systems administrators: 17.2% women
Network systems and data communications analysts: 23.2% women
Compare:
Bailiffs, correctional officers, jailers: 26.9% women
Sports reporters: 38.8% women
Advertising sales agents: 45.3% women
Marketing and sales managers: 43.1% women
Lawyers: 35.0% women
There are professions with fewer women -- e.g. tv and radio announcers, 18% women. And many of the construction trades are near zero. Truckers, very low. But still, it strains credulity that a bunch of geeks could drive women out of a field through sheer obnoxiousness, when salespeople, advertising people, sports reporters, and lawyers couldn't.
Indeed, the whole reason this keeps coming up on slashdot seems to be to kick the (male) geeks in the shorts for being sexist pigs. And of course like Pavlov's dogs a few sexists and a few trolls (and probably some sexist trolls) show up to prove the point. The problem with the "sexist pig" theory is it requires computer programmers to not only be sexist, but to be the most sexist of all professions excluding sports. More sexist than men in the military. More sexist that salespeople. More sexist than advertising people. This is a bit hard to believe.
No, he's really smelly. I only have that information secondhand, but it's from a female programmer, so it's reliable :-)
What is "creepy", though? Beyond those obvious examples mostly posted by trolls and other such trash. Here's a working definition of "creepy": Interest evinced in a woman by a man the woman would never be interested in. This explains why women are much more well-represented in professions which contain far worse out-and-out louts, such as sales.
Seems to me the likely way for the Israelis to handle a threat like this is to track down the attackers in meatspace, and kill them.
The good news is the drone guided the fuel delivery to the town. The bad news is the delivery was done by aerosolizing the fuel over the town, then igniting it. Oops, must have left some of the military code in there by mistake.
Which makes the US imperial possessions American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Phillippines (oops, no, we gave that up), Kuwait, Iraq (oops, no, we gave them up too), the US Virgin Islands, the US Minor Outlying Islands (uninhabited), the Panama Canal Zone (nope, gave it up), Grenada (nope, gave that up too), and arguably Puerto Rico.
Not much of an empire, for all the cries of imperialism.
The answer to the last question is easy: You do, and I do, and we all do. That's the great thing about rent-seeking, it's self-sustaining. You use your rent to obtain more rent.
And yes, there is a huge corn-products lobby, headed by the Archer Daniels Midland company (motto: "We're not quite as evil as Monsanto.").
My car was made before the Fukushima radiation release. In Hiroshima. Oh well, at least it's AMERICAN radioactivity.
ROTFL. They're talking about California breaking off politically, not physically.
Their predictions are still so much bunk, and calling them sci-fi authors smears the good name of actual sci-fi authors.
They'll dust this thing off and pass it during the lame duck session after the election.
There's lots of copper-clad aluminum telcom cable. I haven't heard of copper-clad steel being used for it, though.
It's not new, and while it increases resistance to cutting, it also increases resistance to the flow of electricity (especially at lower frequencies). So you need a heavier and bulkier cable to do the job.
Long term effects? I'd be more worried about shooting high pressure water down there and getting a faceful of hot lava coming right back up.
True, but if the US hadn't taken it on, the whole peninsula would be what the North is today.
Not so powerful as to be able to win a land war with China on their own doorstep.