Every firearm I've ever purchased lays it out plane as day:
1) Know your target and what's behind it.
2) Assume every gun is loaded. 3) Do not aim at or pull the trigger on anything you don't want to kill or destroy.
Now all you have to do is find some way of ensuring that everyone in possession of a firearm actually does those things.
There's nothing stopping a separate legal entity from doing so however. So hypothetically, Sourceforge could fork into separately funded/controlled operations to get around the ban. Correct?
I expect that if SF is in any way related to the "separate legal entity" then they might be in some hot water.
Now, if someone in a properly free country mirrored SF without their permission, or without consulting them at all, and maintained no contact (other than to update the mirrored content, without SF's involvement), I expect that might be legally OK for SF .
Of course, whoever did that would probably be subject to arrest if they were found to be visiting the USA in the future
Frank Zappa had a good point. He claimed that the only thing art required was a frame.
With all due respect to Zappa, it's Marcel Duchamp who understood this first, around 1913.
Zappa didn't claim to have invented the theory, nor did he claim exclusivity on it.
He simply stated* that it is how he understands the question "what is art?"
Youtube has boob videos?
Any time I follow a link that claims to be a boob video (purely for research purposes, of course), it has been pulled for TOS violation.
Calling for the abandonment of IE isn't the whole answer. But it will help make more people aware that it's not the only browser out there, and that it is possible for the average user to make the change to another browser easily.
On the other hand, if they only suggest one alternative, then that only creates another monoculture.
Ultimately I'd like to so no one browser with more than 25% market share. Make the scum work harder for their exploits.
There's the problem. We know they will.
Everything the movie (actually, entertainment in general) industry has ever done tells me that they will always take the "more greedy" path.
They have already replaced expensive (and risky) original story ideas with rehash, written by people who don't seem to know how to write an entertaining story.
Now they are replacing expensive locations and expensive actors.
Maybe the whole shebang should be created using advanced Eliza software feeding into CGI and dialog synthesizers.
Historically and prehistorically we've demonstrated that we have a strong preference for, and, derive much benefit from inhabiting coastal areas.
Too true.
Even though my city is equidistant from the Atlantic and Pacific, the place was still built at the junction of 2 major rivers, on the floodplain.
At least we have built protective infrastructure to deal with the type of flooding that happens here.
If people continue to build in low-lying coastal areas, they had better take the initiative and spend some significant money to protect their land.
Unfortunately that's going to require a lot of forward thinking politicians. And we seem to have a grave shortage of those at the moment.
Something like a C.O.W?
Those are probably being deployed. already. Any smart network operator owns a few.
They do have to be compatible with the operator's existing hardware, though. Which means (in spite of standards) they have to be from the same vendor as the network's existing cell sites.
I have personal (and painful) experience trying to get Nortel GSM base station equipment to work with an Ericsson GSM BSC. Even though the interfaces were both designed to the same spec, the proprietary "enhancements" beyond the base standard meant that it was almost impossible to even get one to acknowledge the existence of the other, let alone be able to set up a call.
1) How do you propose to drive that truck load of food you donated from your location to Haiti? It's an island, y'know.
2) Money is a lot more portable than stuff. It will be used to buy supplies (at wholesale prices and quantities) close to where it's needed.
3) Like it or not, transportation of emergency supplies and volunteers into the disaster area costs money.
Actually, the more different things that become encrypted the better.
If encrypted traffic becomes the norm, then the act of encrypting something looks a lot less suspicious (whether or not you are actually doing something suspicious)
I see no justification for that microwave or stove with Android or any other computer non-sense except as an excuse to charge more for the item. It's amazing how just adding a few dollars of electronics boosts the retail price of an item by hundreds. And people scoop'em up!
Not to mention makes them more prone to failure and more difficult/expensive to repair.
Just try buying a stove with 100% electro-mechanical controls and any features at all (self clean, convection, etc).
Don't get me wrong, I live and breath electronics, but adding them to a perfectly functional object doesn't always improve that object.
As part of this, it seems that everyone has forgotten that "normal" is not a single definition. Normal fits on a bell curve, like almost everything else.
Intervention can be appropriate for the extreme edges of the bell curve, but it creates exactly the problems you talk about when applied to people not in the middle 1%
The article makes a couple of leaps and doesn't seem to understand tech.
First off, the number of tasks in front of the tv. Is this a generation difference OR an age difference? They seem to claim that young people do more tasks because they are exposed to more modern technology at a younger age.
Indeed.
10 years ago I could be watching 2 different TVs and surfing the net simultaneously, often with my guitar on my lap.
These days, I spend a lot less time trying to multi-task. Both in my leisure time and at work. I find myself much more satisfied with my quality of life.
Perhaps that's part of the wisdom which comes with a bit of age?
Last year my wife did a contract publishing a newsletter for a non-profit.
She used Scribus for the desktop publishing, and OO.O for editing the articles, maintaining the mailing lists (including mail merge), and tracking the costs (and reporting same). All the graphics were done in Gimp and (by me) in Inkscape.
She had not used any of these programs before (having worked in MS only government offices) but was willing to give it a try. The first month was a bit of a learning curve, but she was able to handle all the required tasks with a bit of help from the software's included docs and a few on-line tutorials.
Yes, the software was different from what she had used in the past, but she was able to adapt
Yes, she did use several advanced features, and didn't end up in a frustrated rage
And she got un-solicited compliments on how good the finished product looked from several members of the org she was working for. As well as from the treasurer, who asked her how she got so much flexibility in the reports she submitted to the board. He's now using OO.o for his spreadsheets and reports.
While they are still technically online, their entire content (at least as viewed from my Canadian ISP) seems to consist of:
Website suspended.
Serverloft closed the IP-range for this server because of the content of the client's website and only re-opened the IP-range if we suspended the website.
Serverloft did so without a warrant and without calling us and thus affected 4500 of our customers until we discovered the problem, and convinced Serverloft to re-open.
For more information: contact Ole Tange
Why is everyone on here assuming that making the broadcasts 'better' 'spruced up' and 'more interesting' equates to them being dumbed down?
Because we have seen that particular experiment done many times, and to expect a different result the next time seems crazy?
When "Robot Wars" first started (back when Jamie H and Grant I were competitors), there were some interesting interviews with the builders. They actually talked about what made their machines work. After a couple of seasons they hired some former pro wrestler to add "excitement". And they encouraged the contestants to spend most of their time trash talking the opposition.
I stopped watching soon after.
When Junkyard Wars (re-branded versions of the UK Scrapheap Challenge) was first aired, they actually spent some time explaining the history of the type of machines they were trying to build, and talked about the physics and trade-offs of the designs.
After they started producing the US made shows, they upped the trash talk, and cut the "how and why it works" content to about 30 seconds in the hour show.
The Pope's argument would be, of course, that(while God is certainly the ultimate owner of the copyright in question, among a large number of other things) he is God's authorized agent/distributor for this territory.
[Examining Yellowbeard's treasure]
El Nebuloso: Who is it more important to please: the King of Spain, or God?
El Segundo: Why, God, of course.
El Nebuloso: And who is God's personal representative in these parts?
El Segundo: Why, you, your holy ruthlessness.
El Nebuloso: Well, God wants to keep all of it.
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...the Middle East, a region far from stable due to the influence of extremist religions and backwards cultures of nomadic races.
Don't forget the destabalising influence of self-interested foreigners...
Every firearm I've ever purchased lays it out plane as day:
1) Know your target and what's behind it.
2) Assume every gun is loaded.
3) Do not aim at or pull the trigger on anything you don't want to kill or destroy.
Now all you have to do is find some way of ensuring that everyone in possession of a firearm actually does those things.
There's nothing stopping a separate legal entity from doing so however. So hypothetically, Sourceforge could fork into separately funded/controlled operations to get around the ban. Correct?
I expect that if SF is in any way related to the "separate legal entity" then they might be in some hot water.
Now, if someone in a properly free country mirrored SF without their permission, or without consulting them at all, and maintained no contact (other than to update the mirrored content, without SF's involvement), I expect that might be legally OK for SF
. Of course, whoever did that would probably be subject to arrest if they were found to be visiting the USA in the future
Frank Zappa had a good point. He claimed that the only thing art required was a frame .
With all due respect to Zappa, it's Marcel Duchamp who understood this first, around 1913.
Zappa didn't claim to have invented the theory, nor did he claim exclusivity on it.
He simply stated* that it is how he understands the question "what is art?"
* stated in The Real Frank Zappa Book, if you feel like lookig it up
Er, I mean how many boob videos I watch?
Youtube has boob videos?
Any time I follow a link that claims to be a boob video (purely for research purposes, of course), it has been pulled for TOS violation.
"You may also have web-based applications that don't work well, or even at all, unless they are accessed with Internet Explorer.
And I ask yet again, why does business use any mission-critical web-apps that can only deal with a specific browser (or worse, a specific version)
*sigh*
My employer's payroll department still won't answer this question. Idiots
Calling for the abandonment of IE isn't the whole answer. But it will help make more people aware that it's not the only browser out there, and that it is possible for the average user to make the change to another browser easily.
On the other hand, if they only suggest one alternative, then that only creates another monoculture.
Ultimately I'd like to so no one browser with more than 25% market share. Make the scum work harder for their exploits.
as long as the industry does not get too greedy
There's the problem. We know they will.
Everything the movie (actually, entertainment in general) industry has ever done tells me that they will always take the "more greedy" path.
They have already replaced expensive (and risky) original story ideas with rehash, written by people who don't seem to know how to write an entertaining story.
Now they are replacing expensive locations and expensive actors.
Maybe the whole shebang should be created using advanced Eliza software feeding into CGI and dialog synthesizers.
Historically and prehistorically we've demonstrated that we have a strong preference for, and, derive much benefit from inhabiting coastal areas.
Too true.
Even though my city is equidistant from the Atlantic and Pacific, the place was still built at the junction of 2 major rivers, on the flood plain.
At least we have built protective infrastructure to deal with the type of flooding that happens here.
If people continue to build in low-lying coastal areas, they had better take the initiative and spend some significant money to protect their land.
Unfortunately that's going to require a lot of forward thinking politicians. And we seem to have a grave shortage of those at the moment.
Something like a C.O.W?
Those are probably being deployed. already. Any smart network operator owns a few.
They do have to be compatible with the operator's existing hardware, though. Which means (in spite of standards) they have to be from the same vendor as the network's existing cell sites.
I have personal (and painful) experience trying to get Nortel GSM base station equipment to work with an Ericsson GSM BSC. Even though the interfaces were both designed to the same spec, the proprietary "enhancements" beyond the base standard meant that it was almost impossible to even get one to acknowledge the existence of the other, let alone be able to set up a call.
1) How do you propose to drive that truck load of food you donated from your location to Haiti? It's an island, y'know.
2) Money is a lot more portable than stuff. It will be used to buy supplies (at wholesale prices and quantities) close to where it's needed.
3) Like it or not, transportation of emergency supplies and volunteers into the disaster area costs money.
Actually, the more different things that become encrypted the better.
If encrypted traffic becomes the norm, then the act of encrypting something looks a lot less suspicious (whether or not you are actually doing something suspicious)
I see no justification for that microwave or stove with Android or any other computer non-sense except as an excuse to charge more for the item. It's amazing how just adding a few dollars of electronics boosts the retail price of an item by hundreds. And people scoop'em up!
Not to mention makes them more prone to failure and more difficult/expensive to repair.
Just try buying a stove with 100% electro-mechanical controls and any features at all (self clean, convection, etc).
Don't get me wrong, I live and breath electronics, but adding them to a perfectly functional object doesn't always improve that object.
If it's going to damage my liver, I'm switching to scotch. I'm sorry, Jack, but I just can't take the chance...
Unfortunately, your scotch and bourbon is likely fortified with a corn product.
Single Malt Scotch must (by Scottish law) be made exclusively from barley.
/farm kid who is annoyed at the existence of Monsanto
Now there's no saying if it's proper barley, or Monsanto patent encumbered, genetically mutated barley...
As part of this, it seems that everyone has forgotten that "normal" is not a single definition. Normal fits on a bell curve, like almost everything else.
Intervention can be appropriate for the extreme edges of the bell curve, but it creates exactly the problems you talk about when applied to people not in the middle 1%
The article makes a couple of leaps and doesn't seem to understand tech.
First off, the number of tasks in front of the tv. Is this a generation difference OR an age difference? They seem to claim that young people do more tasks because they are exposed to more modern technology at a younger age.
Indeed.
10 years ago I could be watching 2 different TVs and surfing the net simultaneously, often with my guitar on my lap.
These days, I spend a lot less time trying to multi-task. Both in my leisure time and at work. I find myself much more satisfied with my quality of life.
Perhaps that's part of the wisdom which comes with a bit of age?
Got bought out and turned into an even cheesier version of K-Tel.
I think that's the common theme in all companies who go from being kings of their niche to a bad memory on some year-end list
Anyone want to place a bet on how long before companies are accused of "gaming" the financial reporting system with their press releases?
I've got some cash that says it's already being done.
Doesn't anyone actually invest any more? The stock market is about as honest as a backroom poker game.
Sounds like this story is still in a state of flux.
Last year my wife did a contract publishing a newsletter for a non-profit.
She used Scribus for the desktop publishing, and OO.O for editing the articles, maintaining the mailing lists (including mail merge), and tracking the costs (and reporting same). All the graphics were done in Gimp and (by me) in Inkscape.
She had not used any of these programs before (having worked in MS only government offices) but was willing to give it a try. The first month was a bit of a learning curve, but she was able to handle all the required tasks with a bit of help from the software's included docs and a few on-line tutorials.
Yes, the software was different from what she had used in the past, but she was able to adapt
Yes, she did use several advanced features, and didn't end up in a frustrated rage
And she got un-solicited compliments on how good the finished product looked from several members of the org she was working for. As well as from the treasurer, who asked her how she got so much flexibility in the reports she submitted to the board. He's now using OO.o for his spreadsheets and reports.
Why is everyone on here assuming that making the broadcasts 'better' 'spruced up' and 'more interesting' equates to them being dumbed down?
Because we have seen that particular experiment done many times, and to expect a different result the next time seems crazy?
When "Robot Wars" first started (back when Jamie H and Grant I were competitors), there were some interesting interviews with the builders. They actually talked about what made their machines work.
After a couple of seasons they hired some former pro wrestler to add "excitement". And they encouraged the contestants to spend most of their time trash talking the opposition.
I stopped watching soon after.
When Junkyard Wars (re-branded versions of the UK Scrapheap Challenge) was first aired, they actually spent some time explaining the history of the type of machines they were trying to build, and talked about the physics and trade-offs of the designs.
After they started producing the US made shows, they upped the trash talk, and cut the "how and why it works" content to about 30 seconds in the hour show.
The Pope's argument would be, of course, that(while God is certainly the ultimate owner of the copyright in question, among a large number of other things) he is God's authorized agent/distributor for this territory.
[Examining Yellowbeard's treasure]
El Nebuloso: Who is it more important to please: the King of Spain, or God?
El Segundo: Why, God, of course.
El Nebuloso: And who is God's personal representative in these parts?
El Segundo: Why, you, your holy ruthlessness.
El Nebuloso: Well, God wants to keep all of it.
EtherPad: a web-based realtime collaborative document editor.
There, was it really so hard to post that?
I thought it looked familiar.
They refer to this type of car as a porcupine.
and yes, other hams laugh at the guys who do this too.