By shear coincidence, my internet connection passed through a worm hole this morning and in the future, Slashdot reports that the same people responsible for this video will, in fact, be the first ones up against the wall when the revolution comes.
As a parent that homeschools their children, I can tell you that one of the greatest gifts I have to endow upon my children is the experience of what it takes to make it in this world. While I create activities that focus on their individual strengths, this does not mean that I let them engage in a ïhedonistic approach to their own interests.
There are things that my children are loathe to do such as working on their multiplication tables or perfecting their usage and grammar in their native language. This is important because some of my children want to become video game programmers. While I don't discourage their passion for gaming, I recognize that it takes more than simple enjoyment of a thing in order to be successful at that thing. Having the fundamentals of programming and finding effective ways to make them enjoyable will help to remove the tedium that comes with any profession.
There will always be a need for customer premised equipment. You cannot remove that need regardless of the strength of the cloud. Moreover, cloud computing introduces many difficulties when you talk about compliance to company specific requirements for data integrity. ClearCenter.com which is the next generation of ClarkConnect has an interesting infrastructure around this problem. They open source the customer premise portion of the problem and position themselves between the customer and the 'cloud' to provide centralization of identity to cloud resources. I think more and more providers will be forced to this model in the future or will end up needing to offshore identity management to other providers like OpenID. There will be a need to push this offline authentication method that is typical of internal networks to a WAN adoption of identity or push the WAN identity options to the LAN.
I'm amazed at how quickly I was able to set up Joomla for the first time. Including the server install time, I had it up and running in record time. Here are the steps I used to install it on ClearOS/ClarkConnect in case it is useful for anyone.
This is a common dilemma with modern energy systems. We seek power but ALL power has a cost. Just because it is 'clean' doesn't mean that it is pure and guilt free. When we tap an environmental system there is an affect. We are foolish to think that we can take something out of a system and that it is somehow free of consequence. The important thing is that we own the situation and are prepared to accept the consequences of that action. For instance, collection of solar power causes less convection in the atmosphere and reduces the flow of wind and the evaporation processes for the shaded ground areas it cover.
If you are saying, "That's negligible", you are only proving the point that our rationalization for using these alternative energies does not consider the effects on a grand scale. Driving from my house to work also has a negligible environmental effect. Or if I burn my trash, it doesn't have a single noticeable affect on the environment. You start to notice the affect when your system of energy collection and use starts to scale. Instead of debating which energy to use, we should be debating which consequence we can live with and address why we are so hungry for power and is it all really needed?
Here is a short list of just some of the power systems at our disposal and just some of the environmental consequences of a fully scaled system.
Oil: Increased atmospheric carbon in the form of CO and CO2. Finite supply.
Coal: Increased atmospheric carbon in the form of CO and CO2. Finite supply.
HydroElectric: Environmental effects to the ecosystems displaced. Finite viable locations.
Nuclear: Radioactive byproducts in the from collection, usage, and waste is not tolerated by biological systems.
Hydrogen Power: Inefficiencies may damage ozone and have unpredictable atmospheric consequences.
Wind Power: Damage to environment including birds. Large scale deployments will affect weather patterns.
Solar Power: Damage to environment including plants. Effects on convection in atmosphere.
Even if you talk about collecting energy outside the whole environmental system and just 'beaming' it to earth, there is STILL a cost to the fact that you consumed it here and you added some energy to the system that wouldn't normally be here.
Personal conservation is by far the best system of all. It is a system that is agreeable to tree-huggers, Muslims, Christians, poets, and philosophers alike. The only ones who don't like that concept are the despoilers who seek to get gain at the expense of something they wrongly feel that they 'own'.
I'm amazed at the general duplicity in people's nature. When you compare the general comments of how people are aghast at a violation of their 4th amendment rights in this older article vs. this one where a large portion of the comments quickly degrade to Mormon/Utah bashing. I admire Mr. Chaffetz as a person for a variety of things including his opposition to pork, his personal commitment to avoid wasteful spending, and the willingness to be on Colbert as a conservative. Sadly, there is still real problems in America where people are not measured by the 'content of their character' but rather on the prejudices of the masses. I just hope he can keep it up among all the jeers. We'd live in a better country if all our representatives had (and kept) the sort of idealism that Mr. Chaffetz has.
I think IBM took a similar position against Microsoft in the 80's. They were not "worried" about Microsoft's share of the desktop because everything was going to be on the server. Terminals were the interface of the future and all the processing was going to happen centrally. Redhat has to take this position because validating Linux on the desktop gives Ubuntu more power than they want to admit. They'd rather validate Microsoft than to give props to their real competitor, Mark Shuttleworth and Co.
I use a fantastic open source firewall/content filter called ClarkConnect. It's content filter based on DansGuardian works fantastically and it is easy enough for my wife to manage. The community edition is free and open source and uses a web interface.
I love how everyone is on the bandwagon for hydrogen as a clean renewable source for fuel but there is never EVER a discussion on the impact of Atmospheric Escape of hydrogen. Unless you can guarantee that the Hydrogen burn is 100% effective, you will not be able to scale this as a fuel without increasing the oxidation of the atmosphere to unlivable amounts over time.
Don't mean to troll here on the coolness factor of running an engine on water which was a previously bad thing to add to the fuel line. Can anyone point me to any discussion about this in the public debate?
Disney has claim to all of these with prior art which is still locked up thanks to the Sonny Bono Copyright Act. What else would you call a persistently happy, talking mouse who can sing, dance, cast magic, and never appears to age a day.
He obviously has watched the informative tutorial on internet functionality from the most recent sbemail. Here we can clearly see that the internet is indeed made of helium filled tubes.
....apes who within a few generations figure out that it is indeed styrofoam which gives rise to the urea-filled-bacteriacidal mice and decide to invent plastics to sustain their existence.
Ultraviolet exposure is the primary cause of sunburn. Because of this, it greatly depends on your location whether you will burn quickly or not at all. The primary factors are atmospheric density and ozone.
For instance, very few people can ever get a sunburn on the beaches of the Dead Sea. This is because it lies below sea level and is located near the equator which receives a regular dose of ozone building radiation.
On the otherhand, Antartica is a great place to get a good burn. The ozone is not able to get replenished regularly because of the tilt of the earth keeps it out of the ozone building radiation. Hence, it is a great place to get frostbite and sunburn at the same time!!
I guess Baz Luhrmann's advice to the 'Class of 97' was not entirely right, meaning that the whole of the song has "no basis more reliable than [his] own meandering experience."
I wonder if the Post has done any research as to how much worker productivity is lost by people reading their publication while at work? From their article they admit that they are making ASSumptions. I, for one, will be attending during the opening day. I think my employer will forgive me since I put in about 60-70 hours a week.
Most people who are salaried are usually already putting in more than 40 a week. Anyone who is on the clock won't have to be paid during the time they are not at work (unless they are dishonest, in which case they are already probably screwing their employer). And losers on government subsidies already in line outside the theatres will finally be able to get back to playing Star Wars Stratego at home instead of in the rain!
Overall I think it is better for the economy than worse.
Get your pak chooie unf here The following is provided for the 5 people who don't know what Something Awful is. Transcript as follows:
Corn_Boy - wassup
Corn_Boy - what is the time there?
Lowtax - 11 pm
Corn_Boy - wow, why are you woking so late?
Corn_Boy - what kind of work do you do
Lowtax - VE and SA stuff
Corn_Boy - whats that
Lowtax - VE - Virginian Empire SA - Secretary's Alliance
Corn_Boy - is the secretarys alliance like a union
Lowtax - Kind of. Mostly we just go over to Marcie's house after work and gossip, go to the rodeos, wash cars, etc etc. We also lobby congress.
Lowtax - What do you think about robots?
Corn_Boy - the ones that make the cars?
Lowtax - No, space robots
Corn_Boy - I dont know, I havent met one yet, but I guess they would be cool
Lowtax - I am building a space robot, that's why I asked.
Corn_Boy - ok, will it be going into space?
Lowtax - I am trying. It will be a very useful robot. I am giving it AI. Do you know what that stands for?
Corn_Boy - who is al? do you not like him and is that why you are giving him to the robot
Lowtax - No, AL is my friend, AI means "Abnormal Interests". I learned that and I'm programming my robot to act like a human.
Corn_Boy - like in the disney movie
Lowtax - What is Disney? I don't watch movies, I had to use the parts from my VCR to build my space robot.
Corn_Boy - from a vcr, wow, how does that work
Lowtax - I will tell you, but it is a secret so you can't tell anybody
Corn_Boy - ok, I wont, I promise
Lowtax - I am using the CLOCK in it to have the robot tell time!!!
Corn_Boy - will it have a gun
Lowtax - NO! I am non-violent, and I do not enjoy guns and violence!!! It will have a broom and fishtank and vaccuum. The Ultimate Space Robot!
Corn_Boy - you must be real smarte to be albe to make a space robot, my parents have a dvd player thing, can you turn that into a robot, it has a lasre in it
Lowtax - I can turn everything into Space Robots!
Corn_Boy - have you made many other robots?
Lowtax - Yes, but they don't work the way they were supposed to. One was a BIG ACCIDENT my friend
Corn_Boy - what happened
Lowtax - Grandma fell down the stairs
Corn_Boy - did the robot push her was she alright
Lowtax - I misprogrammed it. I tried to do good, but the robot jumped up and pushed grandma's head and she started spitting and her teeth flew out and the robot shot sparks and grandma fell down the stairs onto my uncle.
It was the worst Christmas ever.
Corn_Boy - oh no! sparks, did anything catch on fire
Lowtax - Grandma did, but I got a Pusher robot to shove her outside into the snow.
Corn_Boy - that was lucky, we have christmass in the sumer here, so no snow, you are lucky that you live there, very lucky!
Lowtax - Where do you live?!?
Corn_Boy - I am in new zealand
Lowtax - Wow! I was going to build a robot for a company in New Zealand! They are named "Ochnop Technologies" - have you heard of them?
Corn_Boy - no sorry, I do not know much about the robot industre
Lowtax - You should, some day robots will be in your house! Wether you know it or not!
Pusher robots
Shover robots
Force robots
Bumping robots
you know!
Corn_Boy - I hope that they dont go crasy and shoot me
Lowtax - ROBOTS DO NOT SHOOTS Guns shoots and robots dont go crazy unless you tell them too.
The Pusher robot I am making will shove around the blind people and take them to the store. Then the Shover robot will push bread into their throats.
Corn_Boy - you mucst be a very nice person to be making helper robots
Lowtax - I like to do my part. One day my Space Robots will revolutionize the world! And space!
Lowtax - Space has a terrible power!
Corn_Boy - do you mean like the worm-holes from star trek
Lowtax - I do not watch star trek, it is LIES!@! Space has a terrible po
It's easy to say that Linux was 'stolen' from other code because when you look at the ability that it has to interoperate now the tendency is to say that it was 'taken'. Having used Linux since the early days, I can tell you that it would have been a lot more feature rich, all lot sooner had it been taken.
My co-workers at the time I got involved with Linux were fond of saying, 'What in the world is that, it looks like crap'. To which I would say...'You don't understand, it's free.' It took a lot of hacking about to get it to run and it took hours and hours just to get simple things to work. That is not the case with 'stolen' goods. It's easy to take modern Linux for granted.
One only need to consult the ancient scripts of South Park for the answer here. This is the South Park 411 (episode 411 that is) on Heaven and Hell.
Hell Director: (on a stage near the entrance. on a microphone.) Hello, new-commers! Welcome! Can everybody hear me?! Hello! (taps his mic.) Can everybo...okay! Uh, I'm the Hell Director! Uh, It looks like we have about eight-thousand, six-hundred, and fifteen of you newbees today, and for those of you who were a little confused, uh, you ARE dead and this is Hell! So, abandon all hope and, uh, yadayadayada! Uh, we're now going to start the orientation process which will last about...
New Hellion #5: Hey, wait a minute! I shouldn't be here! I was a totally strict and devout Protestant! I thought we went to Heaven!
Hell Director: Yes, well, I'm afraid you were wrong!
New Hellion #6: I was a practicing Jehova's Witness!
Hell Director: Uh, you picked the wrong religion as well!
New Hellion #7: Well, who was right?! Who gets into Heaven?!
Hell Director: I'm afraid it was the Mormons! Yes! The Mormons were the correct answer!
Slashdot Mirror
By shear coincidence, my internet connection passed through a worm hole this morning and in the future, Slashdot reports that the same people responsible for this video will, in fact, be the first ones up against the wall when the revolution comes.
As a parent that homeschools their children, I can tell you that one of the greatest gifts I have to endow upon my children is the experience of what it takes to make it in this world. While I create activities that focus on their individual strengths, this does not mean that I let them engage in a ïhedonistic approach to their own interests. There are things that my children are loathe to do such as working on their multiplication tables or perfecting their usage and grammar in their native language. This is important because some of my children want to become video game programmers. While I don't discourage their passion for gaming, I recognize that it takes more than simple enjoyment of a thing in order to be successful at that thing. Having the fundamentals of programming and finding effective ways to make them enjoyable will help to remove the tedium that comes with any profession.
There will always be a need for customer premised equipment. You cannot remove that need regardless of the strength of the cloud. Moreover, cloud computing introduces many difficulties when you talk about compliance to company specific requirements for data integrity. ClearCenter.com which is the next generation of ClarkConnect has an interesting infrastructure around this problem. They open source the customer premise portion of the problem and position themselves between the customer and the 'cloud' to provide centralization of identity to cloud resources. I think more and more providers will be forced to this model in the future or will end up needing to offshore identity management to other providers like OpenID. There will be a need to push this offline authentication method that is typical of internal networks to a WAN adoption of identity or push the WAN identity options to the LAN.
I'm amazed at how quickly I was able to set up Joomla for the first time. Including the server install time, I had it up and running in record time. Here are the steps I used to install it on ClearOS/ClarkConnect in case it is useful for anyone.
If you are saying, "That's negligible", you are only proving the point that our rationalization for using these alternative energies does not consider the effects on a grand scale. Driving from my house to work also has a negligible environmental effect. Or if I burn my trash, it doesn't have a single noticeable affect on the environment. You start to notice the affect when your system of energy collection and use starts to scale. Instead of debating which energy to use, we should be debating which consequence we can live with and address why we are so hungry for power and is it all really needed?
Here is a short list of just some of the power systems at our disposal and just some of the environmental consequences of a fully scaled system.
Oil: Increased atmospheric carbon in the form of CO and CO2. Finite supply.
Coal: Increased atmospheric carbon in the form of CO and CO2. Finite supply.
HydroElectric: Environmental effects to the ecosystems displaced. Finite viable locations.
Nuclear: Radioactive byproducts in the from collection, usage, and waste is not tolerated by biological systems.
Hydrogen Power: Inefficiencies may damage ozone and have unpredictable atmospheric consequences.
Wind Power: Damage to environment including birds. Large scale deployments will affect weather patterns.
Solar Power: Damage to environment including plants. Effects on convection in atmosphere.
Even if you talk about collecting energy outside the whole environmental system and just 'beaming' it to earth, there is STILL a cost to the fact that you consumed it here and you added some energy to the system that wouldn't normally be here.
Personal conservation is by far the best system of all. It is a system that is agreeable to tree-huggers, Muslims, Christians, poets, and philosophers alike. The only ones who don't like that concept are the despoilers who seek to get gain at the expense of something they wrongly feel that they 'own'.
I'm amazed at the general duplicity in people's nature. When you compare the general comments of how people are aghast at a violation of their 4th amendment rights in this older article vs. this one where a large portion of the comments quickly degrade to Mormon/Utah bashing. I admire Mr. Chaffetz as a person for a variety of things including his opposition to pork, his personal commitment to avoid wasteful spending, and the willingness to be on Colbert as a conservative. Sadly, there is still real problems in America where people are not measured by the 'content of their character' but rather on the prejudices of the masses. I just hope he can keep it up among all the jeers. We'd live in a better country if all our representatives had (and kept) the sort of idealism that Mr. Chaffetz has.
I think IBM took a similar position against Microsoft in the 80's. They were not "worried" about Microsoft's share of the desktop because everything was going to be on the server. Terminals were the interface of the future and all the processing was going to happen centrally. Redhat has to take this position because validating Linux on the desktop gives Ubuntu more power than they want to admit. They'd rather validate Microsoft than to give props to their real competitor, Mark Shuttleworth and Co.
I use a fantastic open source firewall/content filter called ClarkConnect. It's content filter based on DansGuardian works fantastically and it is easy enough for my wife to manage. The community edition is free and open source and uses a web interface.
Don't mean to troll here on the coolness factor of running an engine on water which was a previously bad thing to add to the fuel line. Can anyone point me to any discussion about this in the public debate?
Disney has claim to all of these with prior art which is still locked up thanks to the Sonny Bono Copyright Act. What else would you call a persistently happy, talking mouse who can sing, dance, cast magic, and never appears to age a day.
He obviously has watched the informative tutorial on internet functionality from the most recent sbemail. Here we can clearly see that the internet is indeed made of helium filled tubes.
Can you say Pons and Fleischmann
My personal favorite is the actual Tagalog word for fart....UTOT
(the O is long...of course)
Nature *always* finds a way.
For instance, very few people can ever get a sunburn on the beaches of the Dead Sea. This is because it lies below sea level and is located near the equator which receives a regular dose of ozone building radiation.
On the otherhand, Antartica is a great place to get a good burn. The ozone is not able to get replenished regularly because of the tilt of the earth keeps it out of the ozone building radiation. Hence, it is a great place to get frostbite and sunburn at the same time!!
I guess Baz Luhrmann's advice to the 'Class of 97' was not entirely right, meaning that the whole of the song has "no basis more reliable than [his] own meandering experience."
Looks like he has also trademarked 'Free Speech'
Here is a map. Looks pretty nice.
Most people who are salaried are usually already putting in more than 40 a week. Anyone who is on the clock won't have to be paid during the time they are not at work (unless they are dishonest, in which case they are already probably screwing their employer). And losers on government subsidies already in line outside the theatres will finally be able to get back to playing Star Wars Stratego at home instead of in the rain!
Overall I think it is better for the economy than worse.
The following is provided for the 5 people who don't know what Something Awful is. Transcript as follows:
Corn_Boy - wassup
Corn_Boy - what is the time there?
Lowtax - 11 pm
Corn_Boy - wow, why are you woking so late?
Corn_Boy - what kind of work do you do
Lowtax - VE and SA stuff
Corn_Boy - whats that
Lowtax - VE - Virginian Empire SA - Secretary's Alliance
Corn_Boy - is the secretarys alliance like a union
Lowtax - Kind of. Mostly we just go over to Marcie's house after work and gossip, go to the rodeos, wash cars, etc etc. We also lobby congress.
Lowtax - What do you think about robots?
Corn_Boy - the ones that make the cars?
Lowtax - No, space robots
Corn_Boy - I dont know, I havent met one yet, but I guess they would be cool
Lowtax - I am building a space robot, that's why I asked.
Corn_Boy - ok, will it be going into space?
Lowtax - I am trying. It will be a very useful robot. I am giving it AI. Do you know what that stands for?
Corn_Boy - who is al? do you not like him and is that why you are giving him to the robot
Lowtax - No, AL is my friend, AI means "Abnormal Interests". I learned that and I'm programming my robot to act like a human.
Corn_Boy - like in the disney movie
Lowtax - What is Disney? I don't watch movies, I had to use the parts from my VCR to build my space robot.
Corn_Boy - from a vcr, wow, how does that work
Lowtax - I will tell you, but it is a secret so you can't tell anybody
Corn_Boy - ok, I wont, I promise
Lowtax - I am using the CLOCK in it to have the robot tell time!!!
Corn_Boy - will it have a gun
Lowtax - NO! I am non-violent, and I do not enjoy guns and violence!!! It will have a broom and fishtank and vaccuum. The Ultimate Space Robot!
Corn_Boy - you must be real smarte to be albe to make a space robot, my parents have a dvd player thing, can you turn that into a robot, it has a lasre in it
Lowtax - I can turn everything into Space Robots!
Corn_Boy - have you made many other robots?
Lowtax - Yes, but they don't work the way they were supposed to. One was a BIG ACCIDENT my friend
Corn_Boy - what happened
Lowtax - Grandma fell down the stairs
Corn_Boy - did the robot push her was she alright
Lowtax - I misprogrammed it. I tried to do good, but the robot jumped up and pushed grandma's head and she started spitting and her teeth flew out and the robot shot sparks and grandma fell down the stairs onto my uncle.
It was the worst Christmas ever.
Corn_Boy - oh no! sparks, did anything catch on fire
Lowtax - Grandma did, but I got a Pusher robot to shove her outside into the snow.
Corn_Boy - that was lucky, we have christmass in the sumer here, so no snow, you are lucky that you live there, very lucky!
Lowtax - Where do you live?!?
Corn_Boy - I am in new zealand
Lowtax - Wow! I was going to build a robot for a company in New Zealand! They are named "Ochnop Technologies" - have you heard of them?
Corn_Boy - no sorry, I do not know much about the robot industre
Lowtax - You should, some day robots will be in your house! Wether you know it or not!
Pusher robots
Shover robots
Force robots
Bumping robots
you know!
Corn_Boy - I hope that they dont go crasy and shoot me
Lowtax - ROBOTS DO NOT SHOOTS Guns shoots and robots dont go crazy unless you tell them too.
The Pusher robot I am making will shove around the blind people and take them to the store. Then the Shover robot will push bread into their throats.
Corn_Boy - you mucst be a very nice person to be making helper robots
Lowtax - I like to do my part. One day my Space Robots will revolutionize the world! And space!
Lowtax - Space has a terrible power!
Corn_Boy - do you mean like the worm-holes from star trek
Lowtax - I do not watch star trek, it is LIES!@! Space has a terrible po
I guess this proves that dark energy cannot be created nor destroyed...but can change.
Very Lovecraftian, except without the deep english ... or the nightgaunts (both of which are very insideous).
My co-workers at the time I got involved with Linux were fond of saying, 'What in the world is that, it looks like crap'. To which I would say...'You don't understand, it's free.' It took a lot of hacking about to get it to run and it took hours and hours just to get simple things to work. That is not the case with 'stolen' goods. It's easy to take modern Linux for granted.
"then that hydrogen is used for heat..."
This is good because it gets real cold in Malaysia.
Hell Director: (on a stage near the entrance. on a microphone.) Hello, new-commers! Welcome! Can everybody hear me?! Hello! (taps his mic.) Can everybo...okay! Uh, I'm the Hell Director! Uh, It looks like we have about eight-thousand, six-hundred, and fifteen of you newbees today, and for those of you who were a little confused, uh, you ARE dead and this is Hell! So, abandon all hope and, uh, yadayadayada! Uh, we're now going to start the orientation process which will last about...
New Hellion #5: Hey, wait a minute! I shouldn't be here! I was a totally strict and devout Protestant! I thought we went to Heaven!
Hell Director: Yes, well, I'm afraid you were wrong!
New Hellion #6: I was a practicing Jehova's Witness!
Hell Director: Uh, you picked the wrong religion as well!
New Hellion #7: Well, who was right?! Who gets into Heaven?!
Hell Director: I'm afraid it was the Mormons! Yes! The Mormons were the correct answer!