Well, no, obviously not; even at the most pessimistic extreme, you'd have to convince a lot of cynics just like yourself that thinking negatively is necessarily a bad thing and that they should shell out biggish bucks to fix it.
Of course not. Cynicism is what you get after optimism smacks into the shoals of reality for the Nth time, provided you have this gene variant. If you have the other gene variant, you remain positive no matter how often your optimism fails.
Architects in the early 20th century came up with an interesting solution to this: use a third dimension, and install elevators. Now you can walk horizontally in two dimensions, and travel up/down, bringing a large company's employees all within relatively short distances of each other.
Yes, but then in the 1930s, the Port of New York Authority built their Inland Terminal #1, 15 complete floors, many banks of elevators, and a complex three-dimensional maze-solving problem required to get from one place to another. All large multi-story buildings built ever since have included this feature, for reasons only the cabal of building engineers know. Apple, in an typically minimalist attempt to break this pattern, has decided to reduce the building to one dimension.
Anyway, Apple's building resembles a tape about as much as any toroidal object does. The proportions are all wrong. It's actually more like an Aerobie. Besides, there's already a Silicon Valley building meant to look like a storage device -- Oracle HQ. Apple wouldn't want to be accused of copying them, Ellison would keep them tied up in court forever just for lulz.
When you are doing "private performances" for anyone among the general public who is interested in seeing them, the argument that the performance is still "private" becomes pretty tenuous.
Not really.
Suppose Patrick Stewart was a bit hard up for money, and offered a service to the general public where he'd come to anyone's home to read Harry Potter to the family living there for a fee. That's private performances to anyone among the general public who is interested in seeing them, and 100% legal whether J.K. Rowling likes it or not.
Now suppose Brent Spiner wants to get in on the action, and rents an auditorium in which he will read Harry Potter to anyone who pays an admission fee -- that's a public performance, and he'd need to clear it with Rowling.
That Aereo is jumping through hoops to make multiple private performances rather than one public one is undeniable. But they're entitled to jump through hoops to follow the law, even if it is rather silly.
Where do you get a "rusted old beater" from? Classified ads...?
Uhuh.
I'm told the way it works in Amsterdam is that when you move there, you buy a new bike (because you don't know any better). You ride this bike around until it is inevitably stolen. By then, you've found out about the bicycle flea markets, where you can get bikes dirt cheap (because, of course, they are stolen bikes). You buy a bike there. Eventually it is stolen (again), so back to the flea market.
Someone cannot apply for credit, file their taxes, or vote under another's identity, even with the rightful identity holder's complicity.
That's only true for voting. You can delegate someone else to file taxes on your behalf (though if they are paid for it they have to sign off as well), and you can give someone power of attorney which would allow them to apply for credit on your behalf.
You didn't make an argument, you just said people will ignore the rules. And those people should be fired.
This is the problem with authoritarian security assholes in a nutshell. They figure out the most expedient way they can get their job -- security -- done. And they don't care how much harder it makes everyone else's job, because they figure if those people resist, they can just be fired.
The DEA is much more interested in the poster above's irrigation system.
Of course, that provides some serious opportunities for mischief... trick people who are crazy about their houseplants to install such a system, and set the timing in a way which would be appropriate for cannabis. Then wait for the raid.
It's not a carbon-12 nucleus at ground state. However, it could decay to that by emitting a gamma (instead of breaking apart), or it could spit out a neutron (oops) and become a carbon-11, which then spits out a positron to give you boron-11 back.
It only gave an answer because you asked an extremely common question that it was programmed to answer. Restate the question as 'Based on today's forecast, should I wear a Polo shirt or a sweater' and see what the 'answer' is.
It's your slashdot comment. I'm not sure if that helps.
It's not ethical to force an animal to move left and right by attaching electrodes to its head. Not at all. The ethical way is to put a metal bar in its mouth and pull on THAT to force it to move left and right.
"The Iron Law of Wages is a proposed law of economics that asserts that real wages always tend, in the long run, toward the minimum wage necessary to sustain the life of the worker."
This is merely a special case of the Zero Profit theorem: Competition tends to reduce economic profit to zero.
Economics has certainly earned its moniker of "the dismal science".
The techno-libertarian community seemed to get a big dose of it when we saw those leaks from Snowden and friends. All of a sudden, we were the Devil incarnate, despite:
1) surveillance being subject to judicial and legislative oversight
The Right Honorable Judge Rubberstamp and Diane Fiendstein don't really count as "oversight".
2) not being anywhere near as far-reaching as SORM or the Chinese systems, or
Not nearly as VISIBLE as SORM or the Chinese systems -- but that's just a political thing. The Russians and Chinese want the plebes to know they're being watched.
3) anybody being hauled away in the dead of night for offending the sensibilities of anybody in power.
Yes, it is simple. Don't do illegal stuff. For most people when the do illegal stuff it stays on their record.
Honestly, i don't believe in the drug laws, but I do think following laws, at least enough to not get caught is a sign of discipline and intelligence, characteristics that employers want. I suspect that the vast majority of us do not end up in booking.
I've been arrested twice and of those, booked (with mugshot) once. In neither case was I convicted of a crime. So what's your advice for those who are arrested despite not committing a crime?
But if you don't partner up or learn how to do those parts yourself, you still won't succeed.
That's right. So, if you have an idea, and can't manage to do the business and people stuff yourself, the best thing to do is just sit on it. Why let a douchebag get rich off your idea while you get shut out?
But then, as was said earlier, ideas are cheap; the value is virtually entirely in the execution.
The business people use this sentiment to justify what they do. To which I say they can come up with the damn ideas (and all the technical details they disdain as well) themselves.
6 months.... and a felony conviction. From the point of view of "special deterrence", the felony conviction was the major point. You can't do much reforming as a felon; surviving takes all your effort.
Orin Kerr's major point seems to be that they screw people over this way all the time and we're fine with it, we only complain when it's a rich white nerd, so he got his just desserts. Of course, the fact is that no, we're NOT all fine with it. And even if we were, one injustice wouldn't justify another.
If I have one tiny suggestion: partner with someone who is good at business and people. Let them handle things like setting deadlines and persuading people.
Bad idea. The person who is good with business and people will use his skills to take nearly all the money and all the credit. That's just the way they're wired. If you think otherwise about a particular business person, remember the fable of the scorpion and the frog.
Please explain the difference between the 2 million people currently in prison and Aaron Swartz that meant he had to kill himself, and they didn't.
Most felons will spend their lives in and out of prisons, committing crimes for gain in between terms. I don't think Swartz was up for that kind of life. There's not really much else you can do; most white collar employers and many blue collar employers do not hire felons (and those that do tend to pay very poorly), most professional licenses and certifications are unavailable to felons, and Swartz probably wasn't as business-savvy as Kevin Mitnick.
Ah, that explains it, concrete in the U.S.A means something else than what we mean in Western Europe.
No, it's the same thing. We have both concrete block (nowadays called CMUs -- concrete masonry units -- because everyone likes acronyms) and poured-in-place concrete like you are describing. And certainly for a given thickness a poured-in-place wall will be much stronger. But I'd still take a concrete block wall over a typical plywood one.
Oh boy, the logic of "just because it hasn't worked means it will never work." So you're claiming that Lessig, the EFF, the free culture movements, and everyone else that works to raise awareness and try for reform are pursuing a fool's errand?
Yes. The EFF was founded in 1990 and we've been going backwards in terms of "electronic freedom" ever since. Aside from that very first one, the EFF has lost most of its important cases.
If you think so, then at least be clear that you're more or less a latter-day revolutionary who believes that the only way to reform the system is to destroy it first.
I think that working within the system cannot reform it. Either the system will expel you, or you'll be co-opted by the system. I'm more a fatalist than a revolutionary, though; I don't think anything's going to work.
He was hacking at a time when hacking (in any sense of the word) was not demonized anything like the way it is today; further, as people gain position within the establishment, they tend to adopt the establishment point of view. By claiming Swartz "destroyed himself", and by focusing on what MIT can do to prevent students from following in his footsteps (rather than what it can do to prevent prosecutors from crushing those who do), he shows he has completely adopted the establishment point of view.
He has not shied away from standing up for freedom of information, even if there are heavy legal consequences involved.
So how much time has he spent in jail? How much jail time has he been threatened with? That kind of credential comes with a price, and I don't see that he's paid it.
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Of course not. Cynicism is what you get after optimism smacks into the shoals of reality for the Nth time, provided you have this gene variant. If you have the other gene variant, you remain positive no matter how often your optimism fails.
Yes, but then in the 1930s, the Port of New York Authority built their Inland Terminal #1, 15 complete floors, many banks of elevators, and a complex three-dimensional maze-solving problem required to get from one place to another. All large multi-story buildings built ever since have included this feature, for reasons only the cabal of building engineers know. Apple, in an typically minimalist attempt to break this pattern, has decided to reduce the building to one dimension.
Anyway, Apple's building resembles a tape about as much as any toroidal object does. The proportions are all wrong. It's actually more like an Aerobie. Besides, there's already a Silicon Valley building meant to look like a storage device -- Oracle HQ. Apple wouldn't want to be accused of copying them, Ellison would keep them tied up in court forever just for lulz.
Not really.
Suppose Patrick Stewart was a bit hard up for money, and offered a service to the general public where he'd come to anyone's home to read Harry Potter to the family living there for a fee. That's private performances to anyone among the general public who is interested in seeing them, and 100% legal whether J.K. Rowling likes it or not.
Now suppose Brent Spiner wants to get in on the action, and rents an auditorium in which he will read Harry Potter to anyone who pays an admission fee -- that's a public performance, and he'd need to clear it with Rowling.
That Aereo is jumping through hoops to make multiple private performances rather than one public one is undeniable. But they're entitled to jump through hoops to follow the law, even if it is rather silly.
I'm told the way it works in Amsterdam is that when you move there, you buy a new bike (because you don't know any better). You ride this bike around until it is inevitably stolen. By then, you've found out about the bicycle flea markets, where you can get bikes dirt cheap (because, of course, they are stolen bikes). You buy a bike there. Eventually it is stolen (again), so back to the flea market.
If I were a thief, I'd just post a wrong serial number. Just switch two digits or some other "honest" error. Most likely, no one would ever check.
You probably enjoy Vogon poetry as well.
That's only true for voting. You can delegate someone else to file taxes on your behalf (though if they are paid for it they have to sign off as well), and you can give someone power of attorney which would allow them to apply for credit on your behalf.
This is the problem with authoritarian security assholes in a nutshell. They figure out the most expedient way they can get their job -- security -- done. And they don't care how much harder it makes everyone else's job, because they figure if those people resist, they can just be fired.
So I was trying to think about who would be Gollum in this scenario... and came up with Dick Cheney. We're doomed.
Bill Gates's mom is dead, you insensitive clod!
The DEA is much more interested in the poster above's irrigation system.
Of course, that provides some serious opportunities for mischief... trick people who are crazy about their houseplants to install such a system, and set the timing in a way which would be appropriate for cannabis. Then wait for the raid.
It's not a carbon-12 nucleus at ground state. However, it could decay to that by emitting a gamma (instead of breaking apart), or it could spit out a neutron (oops) and become a carbon-11, which then spits out a positron to give you boron-11 back.
Iran has been circulating these new $100s since last week.
It's your slashdot comment. I'm not sure if that helps.
It's not ethical to force an animal to move left and right by attaching electrodes to its head. Not at all. The ethical way is to put a metal bar in its mouth and pull on THAT to force it to move left and right.
This is merely a special case of the Zero Profit theorem: Competition tends to reduce economic profit to zero.
Economics has certainly earned its moniker of "the dismal science".
The Right Honorable Judge Rubberstamp and Diane Fiendstein don't really count as "oversight".
Not nearly as VISIBLE as SORM or the Chinese systems -- but that's just a political thing. The Russians and Chinese want the plebes to know they're being watched.
How would I know?
I've been arrested twice and of those, booked (with mugshot) once. In neither case was I convicted of a crime. So what's your advice for those who are arrested despite not committing a crime?
That's right. So, if you have an idea, and can't manage to do the business and people stuff yourself, the best thing to do is just sit on it. Why let a douchebag get rich off your idea while you get shut out?
The business people use this sentiment to justify what they do. To which I say they can come up with the damn ideas (and all the technical details they disdain as well) themselves.
6 months.... and a felony conviction. From the point of view of "special deterrence", the felony conviction was the major point. You can't do much reforming as a felon; surviving takes all your effort.
Orin Kerr's major point seems to be that they screw people over this way all the time and we're fine with it, we only complain when it's a rich white nerd, so he got his just desserts. Of course, the fact is that no, we're NOT all fine with it. And even if we were, one injustice wouldn't justify another.
Bad idea. The person who is good with business and people will use his skills to take nearly all the money and all the credit. That's just the way they're wired. If you think otherwise about a particular business person, remember the fable of the scorpion and the frog.
Most felons will spend their lives in and out of prisons, committing crimes for gain in between terms. I don't think Swartz was up for that kind of life. There's not really much else you can do; most white collar employers and many blue collar employers do not hire felons (and those that do tend to pay very poorly), most professional licenses and certifications are unavailable to felons, and Swartz probably wasn't as business-savvy as Kevin Mitnick.
No, it's the same thing. We have both concrete block (nowadays called CMUs -- concrete masonry units -- because everyone likes acronyms) and poured-in-place concrete like you are describing. And certainly for a given thickness a poured-in-place wall will be much stronger. But I'd still take a concrete block wall over a typical plywood one.
Yes. The EFF was founded in 1990 and we've been going backwards in terms of "electronic freedom" ever since. Aside from that very first one, the EFF has lost most of its important cases.
I think that working within the system cannot reform it. Either the system will expel you, or you'll be co-opted by the system. I'm more a fatalist than a revolutionary, though; I don't think anything's going to work.
He was hacking at a time when hacking (in any sense of the word) was not demonized anything like the way it is today; further, as people gain position within the establishment, they tend to adopt the establishment point of view. By claiming Swartz "destroyed himself", and by focusing on what MIT can do to prevent students from following in his footsteps (rather than what it can do to prevent prosecutors from crushing those who do), he shows he has completely adopted the establishment point of view.
So how much time has he spent in jail? How much jail time has he been threatened with? That kind of credential comes with a price, and I don't see that he's paid it.