How many early Monday morning lectures did I pray for something like this? Every teenager who reads about this is getting a read on their parent's voice(s).
Watch some late late late night TV and you might catch an old skit on brush or vaccuum cleaner salespeople with a foot in the door and a spiel spewing from their mouths. Many people, including my parents, see an intrusive sales person as the Monty Python Troop there to amuse the kitty. For the rest of us there's the chance for FS/OS to get it's footprint on the iron of more disgruntled users. Somewhere the ghost of PT Barnum is whooping it up... there are many, many more than just one born every minute. And, hey, I personally can't wait until it goes subliminal. Oh yea baby it's coming, it's coming.
Did your daddy make you eat your puke after you threw up from eating yucky stuff? Anyway, don't try to gross me out d00d; yesterday for the first time in my short second life as a/. poster I was modded a Troll. Now I'm bad.
Still, this Steve Mann thing sounds more like it should be coming from the South - is our security overcompensating, or is it just me?
Simply put, I don't know. I've had but one similar experience when returning via Seattle from Tokyo. Suffering from jet lag I approached an American security guard thinking him a clerk and offered him my documentation. My mistake took me to a small room for a half-hour quiz which went well and no farther than explaining to me that I had mistakenly approached security guard whose sole job was to cull suspicious characters. No strip search, just clarification and a polite explanation. Accordingly I have to think Mr. Mann had much to do with the length and details of his detainment. Excluding cases of mistaken identity I have to think it takes two to tango. Trained in statistics I try not to draw too much, if any, inferrence from any one instance.
cheers
P.S. I didn't know NY Fries sold poutaine... thnx for the tip although the one time I dined at one of their fine establishments I didn't think all that much of their chips.
"...the following words from your mother: "I still don't think Linus has any 'special' talent and certainly not 'for computers' - if it weren't that, it would be something else. In another day and age he would focus on some different challenge, and I think he will. (What I mean is, I hope he won't be stuck in Linux maintenance forever)."
No matter how big, how bad, how high your IQ your mom will always be there to ground you.
"MOM! I've just won 5 Noble prizes and been elected president of Earth for Life!"
"That's nice dear. Take out the garbage and then don't forget to wash your hands."
The bureaucracy comes from the refs. The rest is just any pickup game on any sheet of ice anywhere in the country. Could it be you don't *play hockey? Canajen you say eh? I wonder...quick which NHL goalie was the first to wear a mask?
We seem to be running away from the world, and much of the world hates us for it. Such forces make America not only the world's leading superpower, but probably its most feared and hated nation. As the U.S. evolved rapidly from an industrial to a data-based economy, much of the world hasn't come along, or doesn't want to.
Whether a large portion of the world doesn't want to tag along for the cyber ride is a complex question that, I suspect, runs the gamut of causes from arcane beflief systems and right versus left side of the brain issues to biochemistry. Because the questions that need answering are complex and of a sensitive nature it's unlikely there'll be a short term conclusive result. What is sure is that a crisis will arise when,or, if the industrialized first world realizes that a large portion of the world population will choose to hate it rather than reinvent itself to rid itself of the inherent barriers to their own development. A good part of that hatred might come from having to approach the industrialized world with hat in hand and hand out. Few things fester hatred in a person or group as much as dependence without hope of independence. If communication is seen to be the avenue via which benefical results can be achieved then we have to consider the now double trouble of a two layered illiteracy. First is the problem of conventional literacy as in being unable to read or write. Second is cyber illiteracy with it's far more prohibitive strictures of first an economic barrier followed by a technological/informational barrier requiring people to use technology and information rife with cultural bias.
America with it's allies are the world's cops.. it's real it's inescapable get over it and get on with it. Britian paid the price for being the world's policeman in the 19th century and now it's America's turn. As a Canadian who would like nothing more than to shut out the world's problems and return to an endless summer of vacation time at a pristine northern lake I don't like America's present position any more than I suspect most American's do. Frankly John Ashcroft scares me, (well he scares me when I'm not rolling on the floor laughing at him) but his time will pass as will the ugly head of religious fundamentalism that is too prevalent in both our societies. Anyway it's not going to go away and short of hiding from the world and leave it to terrorists and despots we're going to have to work through some very unpleasant things but for those of us who would see the full potential of science realized in an Open Society there is no option. BTW: I've not stayed current with Mr. Soros works although I did read his first two books. Then the foundation of his thinking had much to do with the works of Karl Poppper, most especially his three volume work 'The Open Society and It's Enemies'. The Critical Cafe on the net is a good introduction to the intricacies of the arguments of Darwinian Evolution and Capitalism etc... but be forwarned they don't suffer foolishness... lurk and read and learn.
For crying out loud, you people are fucking addicted to this place and all you can do is bitch about it....uhmm... that's about all addicts do do aboot it:)
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This just out
It never ceases to amaze me how angry and venomous, yet utterly clueless a few people can be...
CmdrTaco
The/. potentate nefariously plays across the collective psyche of his readership in a vain attempt to hang onto a wanning membership while leading a salesteam intent on selling/. to AOL as the web's greatest blog.
It could be worse. You could be an editor posting this stuff. The empty styrofoam coffee cups crushed underfoot mixed to the crunch of the drained beer cans. All the while the/. editors' mantra whines on... "I'm funny, I know funny...". Eyeing a roach and wondering why the intern is bogarting the last joint and thinking of joining the desperate in the staffroom sucking the last gas vapors from the whipping creme dispenser.
My semesters in business law were natively centred on Canadian Law but I can't see where American law would differ. I think in both the Canadian and the American case a legal corporation is just that a legal entity entitled to rights and remedies under existing legislation. Because of its existence as a legal entity a Corporate Citizen is different from the employees and investors that produce and direct the Corporation's resources. You're argument was specious. You lose. You have to go far away and never return. Bye.:)
to just violate the laws for your own selfish reasons, concealing your actions if not from the world at large, at least from thoe who would punish you, and being ready and willing to do whatever legal manuevering is necessary to minimize the punishment if you are caught is not civil disobediance in the name of a cause, it is just a lack of respect for the authority of the government, and that is something that both Martin Luther King and the Christ he followed would disdain.
yah... that one... I'll go the second way every time... thanks:)
Interesting to note that these laws place a large segment of otherwise lawful citizens in breach of the law to the benefit, generally, of Corporate Citizens
Now that we've been told, yet again, how limited AI is can we take away their moderator privledges? The AIs keep moding me offtopic...damn metaphorically challenged silicone... Oh no here they come again...
Re:Algorithm to understand what's an algorithm.
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I'm not trolling, but wouldn't your injunction: 'until understood', fail as a step in an anlgorithm?
Thnx... with effort both my spelling and grammar are barely acceptable but in this case the culprit is my attempt to type fast, faster, fastest; and, once I type the sig I tend not to notice it. But thnx anyway.
It's an easy mistake to make. If over a prehistoric land bridge, ( I actually own the now undersea land bridge that the original people migrated to North America over and am willing to sell it to anyone who thinks the claims of Native North Americans will ever get a fair hearing ), or, a few hit and miss attempts at far reaching exploration by one culture or another are of little significance to the fact that Europeans Laid Claim to the Land by the Divine Right of Their Monarchs and with God on their side. They came to claim and to conquer. And they did.
In terms of world demographic, if the infrastructure of the net continues to spread, then Open Source Operating Systems and Apps will win by dint of being more readily available to the less affluent states. In the long run the file types of Open Source will predominate. But as Keynes pointed out, 'In the long run we're all dead.' Put in this perspective the battle between MicroSoft and Open Source becomes a tug of war between two factions of the Industrialized First World Nations.
It may seem mean and low and ugly but at least it's being played out in a supposed open and transparent fashion in the courts of the land rather than say, what might have been the case, a century ago, or the larger portion of the geopolitical world today. Who knows maybe we'll all learn to play nice and share?.... Yea, right.
One of my cats deposited a half eaten snake at the foot of my bed throughout the summer months at the cottage. It's really a sign of affection and a willingness to share prey (well sometimes, sometimes you get clawed). Cats pretty much see us as big cats but not as cool as they are.
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Brahhhhhaaaaa! What morsels these mortals be.
How many early Monday morning lectures did I pray for something like this? Every teenager who reads about this is getting a read on their parent's voice(s).
Watch some late late late night TV and you might catch an old skit on brush or vaccuum cleaner salespeople with a foot in the door and a spiel spewing from their mouths. Many people, including my parents, see an intrusive sales person as the Monty Python Troop there to amuse the kitty. For the rest of us there's the chance for FS/OS to get it's footprint on the iron of more disgruntled users. Somewhere the ghost of PT Barnum is whooping it up... there are many, many more than just one born every minute. And, hey, I personally can't wait until it goes subliminal. Oh yea baby it's coming, it's coming.
cheersDid your daddy make you eat your puke after you threw up from eating yucky stuff? Anyway, don't try to gross me out d00d; yesterday for the first time in my short second life as a /. poster I was modded a Troll. Now I'm bad.
Still, this Steve Mann thing sounds more like it should be coming from the South - is our security overcompensating, or is it just me?
Simply put, I don't know. I've had but one similar experience when returning via Seattle from Tokyo. Suffering from jet lag I approached an American security guard thinking him a clerk and offered him my documentation. My mistake took me to a small room for a half-hour quiz which went well and no farther than explaining to me that I had mistakenly approached security guard whose sole job was to cull suspicious characters. No strip search, just clarification and a polite explanation. Accordingly I have to think Mr. Mann had much to do with the length and details of his detainment. Excluding cases of mistaken identity I have to think it takes two to tango. Trained in statistics I try not to draw too much, if any, inferrence from any one instance.
cheersP.S. I didn't know NY Fries sold poutaine... thnx for the tip although the one time I dined at one of their fine establishments I didn't think all that much of their chips.
I'm on the west coast and man I miss Montreal. There's no poutaine anywhere unless you go for cheddar cheese instead of cheese curd. Yuck!
"...the following words from your mother: "I still don't think Linus has any 'special' talent and certainly not 'for computers' - if it weren't that, it would be something else. In another day and age he would focus on some different challenge, and I think he will. (What I mean is, I hope he won't be stuck in Linux maintenance forever)."
No matter how big, how bad, how high your IQ your mom will always be there to ground you.
"MOM! I've just won 5 Noble prizes and been elected president of Earth for Life!"
"That's nice dear. Take out the garbage and then don't forget to wash your hands."
The bureaucracy comes from the refs. The rest is just any pickup game on any sheet of ice anywhere in the country. Could it be you don't *play hockey? Canajen you say eh? I wonder...quick which NHL goalie was the first to wear a mask?
We seem to be running away from the world, and much of the world hates us for it. Such forces make America not only the world's leading superpower, but probably its most feared and hated nation. As the U.S. evolved rapidly from an industrial to a data-based economy, much of the world hasn't come along, or doesn't want to.
Whether a large portion of the world doesn't want to tag along for the cyber ride is a complex question that, I suspect, runs the gamut of causes from arcane beflief systems and right versus left side of the brain issues to biochemistry. Because the questions that need answering are complex and of a sensitive nature it's unlikely there'll be a short term conclusive result. What is sure is that a crisis will arise when,or, if the industrialized first world realizes that a large portion of the world population will choose to hate it rather than reinvent itself to rid itself of the inherent barriers to their own development. A good part of that hatred might come from having to approach the industrialized world with hat in hand and hand out. Few things fester hatred in a person or group as much as dependence without hope of independence. If communication is seen to be the avenue via which benefical results can be achieved then we have to consider the now double trouble of a two layered illiteracy. First is the problem of conventional literacy as in being unable to read or write. Second is cyber illiteracy with it's far more prohibitive strictures of first an economic barrier followed by a technological/informational barrier requiring people to use technology and information rife with cultural bias.
America with it's allies are the world's cops.. it's real it's inescapable get over it and get on with it. Britian paid the price for being the world's policeman in the 19th century and now it's America's turn. As a Canadian who would like nothing more than to shut out the world's problems and return to an endless summer of vacation time at a pristine northern lake I don't like America's present position any more than I suspect most American's do. Frankly John Ashcroft scares me, (well he scares me when I'm not rolling on the floor laughing at him) but his time will pass as will the ugly head of religious fundamentalism that is too prevalent in both our societies. Anyway it's not going to go away and short of hiding from the world and leave it to terrorists and despots we're going to have to work through some very unpleasant things but for those of us who would see the full potential of science realized in an Open Society there is no option. BTW: I've not stayed current with Mr. Soros works although I did read his first two books. Then the foundation of his thinking had much to do with the works of Karl Poppper, most especially his three volume work 'The Open Society and It's Enemies'. The Critical Cafe on the net is a good introduction to the intricacies of the arguments of Darwinian Evolution and Capitalism etc... but be forwarned they don't suffer foolishness... lurk and read and learn.
It doesn't matter how much you dress up a turd and make it pretty, it still came out of your ass.
Yer sig reminded me... you need a haircut
:)For crying out loud, you people are fucking addicted to this place and all you can do is bitch about it. ...uhmm... that's about all addicts do do aboot it :)
This just out
It never ceases to amaze me how angry and venomous, yet utterly clueless a few people can be...
CmdrTacoThe /. potentate nefariously plays across the collective psyche of his readership in a vain attempt to hang onto a wanning membership while leading a salesteam intent on selling /. to AOL as the web's greatest blog.
....Thaaaaaaaaat's All FOLKSIt could be worse. You could be an editor posting this stuff. The empty styrofoam coffee cups crushed underfoot mixed to the crunch of the drained beer cans. All the while the /. editors' mantra whines on... "I'm funny, I know funny...". Eyeing a roach and wondering why the intern is bogarting the last joint and thinking of joining the desperate in the staffroom sucking the last gas vapors from the whipping creme dispenser.
My semesters in business law were natively centred on Canadian Law but I can't see where American law would differ. I think in both the Canadian and the American case a legal corporation is just that a legal entity entitled to rights and remedies under existing legislation. Because of its existence as a legal entity a Corporate Citizen is different from the employees and investors that produce and direct the Corporation's resources. You're argument was specious. You lose. You have to go far away and never return. Bye.:)
to just violate the laws for your own selfish reasons, concealing your actions if not from the world at large, at least from thoe who would punish you, and being ready and willing to do whatever legal manuevering is necessary to minimize the punishment if you are caught is not civil disobediance in the name of a cause, it is just a lack of respect for the authority of the government, and that is something that both Martin Luther King and the Christ he followed would disdain.
yah... that one... I'll go the second way every time... thanks :)
Interesting to note that these laws place a large segment of otherwise lawful citizens in breach of the law to the benefit, generally, of Corporate Citizens
Doh! If timing is the key to humour then I should consider not mixing posting @ /. with surf'n pr0n... my bad
Now that we've been told, yet again, how limited AI is can we take away their moderator privledges? The AIs keep moding me offtopic...damn metaphorically challenged silicone... Oh no here they come again...
I'm not trolling, but wouldn't your injunction: 'until understood', fail as a step in an anlgorithm?
Author: David Berlinski
Title: The Advent of the Algortihm
Publisher: Harcourt
Thnx... with effort both my spelling and grammar are barely acceptable but in this case the culprit is my attempt to type fast, faster, fastest; and, once I type the sig I tend not to notice it. But thnx anyway.
As you read this China's third unmanned (except for a dummy)
Ya gotta ask... nah it's too funny as it is.:)It's an easy mistake to make. If over a prehistoric land bridge, ( I actually own the now undersea land bridge that the original people migrated to North America over and am willing to sell it to anyone who thinks the claims of Native North Americans will ever get a fair hearing ), or, a few hit and miss attempts at far reaching exploration by one culture or another are of little significance to the fact that Europeans Laid Claim to the Land by the Divine Right of Their Monarchs and with God on their side. They came to claim and to conquer. And they did.
In terms of world demographic, if the infrastructure of the net continues to spread, then Open Source Operating Systems and Apps will win by dint of being more readily available to the less affluent states. In the long run the file types of Open Source will predominate. But as Keynes pointed out, 'In the long run we're all dead.' Put in this perspective the battle between MicroSoft and Open Source becomes a tug of war between two factions of the Industrialized First World Nations.
It may seem mean and low and ugly but at least it's being played out in a supposed open and transparent fashion in the courts of the land rather than say, what might have been the case, a century ago, or the larger portion of the geopolitical world today. Who knows maybe we'll all learn to play nice and share?.... Yea, right.
One of my cats deposited a half eaten snake at the foot of my bed throughout the summer months at the cottage. It's really a sign of affection and a willingness to share prey (well sometimes, sometimes you get clawed). Cats pretty much see us as big cats but not as cool as they are.