The point of using a GPL-type license is that code should not be able to be extended, and sold later, making the original version obsolete, leaving no alternative but to go with the commercial, extended version.
If the Feds produce software, they have no reason to prevent others from extending their software rendering it obslolete. They are always free to rewrite the extension themselves. In fact they have a vested interest collecting Taxes from those who extend and resell their code.
I still use KDE2.x at home because I can't babysit the compliations of all the packages for KDE3 there. I'm compiled KDE3 on this box tho' 'cause I use it so much and can do it in the background
If I were designing a cypher I'd have extra noise letters in my alphabet that mean nothing which I would try to intersperse so as to throw off statistical analysis. I would also make the spaces irrelavent, maybe picking 5 or 6 of the nonsence letters that could be used interchangably and randomly to seperate words, again so as to throw off statistical analysis. I would also Mark Twain-ize my spelling, and also spell phonetically or not randomly since I woudl be able to understand both spellings. So that ( sh = x, th = q, ch = c, Circle = sirkl, "Alex shared the choo choo train with Isaac" => "Aleks xard qe coo cuu tran wiq Yzak" using !@# randomly and $%^&*( for space this becomes:
#Al #eks%x a!@r!d@& &q!!e(# co o%!!cu u^tran$#w iq$@Y!za k
The program made random perl programs ( beasties ) from the above alphabet and bred them. Programs were given a score of 0 if they failed to compile using eval. They were given a positive score if they compiled. The highest scoring half of the perl programs were mated with the other programs randomly. The lowest scorers were deleted. During mating, the ascii strings representing the programs were crossed at crosspoints which were places where both programs were '#'. The offspring were cloned from that point on from a randomly selected parent's ASCII characters until a point was reached where both parents ASCII code was '#' again.
words like eval, open, opendir, link, unlink, exec, and system were removed before evaluations.
I wrote this program for shits and giggles that takes the alphabet of [a-zA-Z0-9] + '"~;[]{}->
Things I found:
1) at first all my high scoring programs were very short.
2) once adding points for length, all my working programs ( populations circa 1000 ) started with the '#' character.
So I did a $prog =~ s/\#//g; before eval ( $prog ); from now on and all the # cheaters died.
Then I tried to teach it to add. I set three variables that would be visible in scope to the programs I was evalling. my ( $input_a, $input_b, $output ) = ( 3, 5, 0 );
Then I scored the programs higher if the program changed the values of any of the three variables. I added code to increase the score of a program further if the values of any of the three variables depended on the initial values of the inputs ( by changing the initial values and re-evalling )
Things I found:
1) a grep of my perl program beasties for input_a and friends found zilch.
2) my perl beasties were still very short
So I added score for length, and I started doing some genetic engineering by splicing in '$input_a' '$input_b', and '$output' at the '#' crosspoints randomly for every child program.
Things I found:
1) Many perl beasties grepped for $input_a and pals
2) None of my beasties changed the values of any of output, and inputs a and b
Then I got bored and had a sickpack of beer and soon didn't care anymore. But something's moving in my basement and I don't have any pets....
Maybe the HCl theory explains why dragons seem to have a taste for knights in shining armor since you need to disolve some metal in HCl to get Hydrogen gazz.
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I read in a comment that since computations must take a certain minimum energy, just to power a laptop during the computation of all the possible games of chess you would have to convert the mass of jupiter to pure energy.
Good for everyone who wants to take advantage of those other uses. For the old dude who has been watching his analog TV for years and now has to upgrade there is no benefit. He'll never own a cell phne in his life.
I don't think you need this to be an 'effective society' I think that doing without a few convieninces that could be made possible by having all your movements in a database that is keyed to your CPR/SSN/PIN/whatever is a price worth paying for discouraging the growth of government/corporate intrusion into our lives. If the data isn't there then neither is the temptation to abuse it.
It is not like it is impossible to survive without this technology. Up till now the human race has gotten along without it. And there are real benefits to privacy just like there are real benefits to living where there is little pollution. Does evolution require us to pollute more to compete or to live cleanly? I think the jury is still out.
Privacy has benefits. It helps us get along with each other. They say familiarity breeds contempt, and that is true. Knowlege about what were formerly private activities in our lives being available allows it to be judged.
So I look at your data and see that it is similar to the data of someone I hate, and judge that you too are probably worthy of hate and treat you accordingly even though you would never do the thing I hate. I vote to have people like you identified and bothered if not persecuted. And you vote to have someone else persecuted, and it is probably not me because I never told you I hated you! But someone speaks up and says the that THEY hate INTOLERANT and NOSY people and that people should be able to take a crap and not have the quality of their wiping job photographed and catalogued in a database to be studied by research proctologists.
And since everyone by now has conformed themselves to fit the mould of a cruel, intolerant and nosy chicken with no 'faults' ( or saving graces ) that can be pecked upon from behind by the other hens who hate them but do not reveal themselves, they all see in unison a person who hates them for their intolerance and admits it. Maddened by the thought of being pecked again, they unleash their anger on that person who must be the source of all the pecks they've endured throughout their tortured lives for he admits his hatred. They think: if only he would CONFORM then the pecking could cease.
They peck him to death as an innocent little chick watches fom outside, and understands better than anyone except the victim. She looks around the henhouse in dispair longing for a little privacy so she can cry.
I've seen huge transport AIRPLANES taking off and landing at a base nearby, and they appear to be going so slow that they should fall out of the sky. I wonder if these things are really going pretty fast but that their size makes you think they are lumbering along at 20-30 mph.
I don't hate this book on philosophical or idalogical grounds. I hate it because I want to fall asleep whenever I've picked it up. I have no idea what it is about and probably never will since I can't seem to get past the first 20 pages.
Most people would agree that medical researchers having access to a large database of medical records is a societal good. They can learn about disease. If credit cards are used to make grocery purchases then they might look for a correlation between cheese consumption and heart attacks.
And is is good that you can send one change of address form to one place when you move. And it's good that there is a setting for your number that allows you to opt out of spam mail.
But there is an ever growing database of information about you that is all tied to your PIN number. Even if laws protect you from searching your medical records in ways that identify you, and even if more laws prevent spammers from searching your credit card statements for purchases made from their competitors in order to send you a sales pitch, the more data there is collected about you, the more valuable it is.
And while you are complacent, secure in the knowlege that your laws protect you, and glad of the convienience of it, the database grows larger and more valuable. The more valuable the database becomes, the more pressure there will be for lawmakers to create loopholes and exceptions to the laws that protect you from being watched.
Why did you buy that fertilizer are you a terrorist making bombs? You rent too many pornos - we won't hire you as a teacher. Why did you buy those grow lights when you don't fit the age demographic for indoor gardening - you must be growing pot. Why do you withdraw
cash so often from the ATM when using the card directly to pay for things saves you an ATM fee? Are you trying to hide what you buy? Let's outlaw cash since new statistics show that cash was used to buy nearly all items specifically purchased for use in a crime. We know who you are since there is no cash. We snap photos of your licence plate as you drive through toll booths and send you the bill at the end of the month.
There is no more cash and so no more anonymous driving through toll booths.
New data profiling method on beer purchases is shown to be 80% correct at identifying habitual drunk drivers. MADD sponsors bill to force individuals so identified to take an anti drunk driving course. Insurance companies drop MGD drinkers and raise rates for people who have bought Natural Ice more than once in the past 6 months.. Pissed off man gets loaded on Kaluha and drives into his car insurance broker's office window - story at 11.
Bill passes 64-33 in senate requiring citizens to file a report with the federal persontrack database any time their habits change in a way that causes their computers to raise a red flag.
MySQL has been a stripped down but fast database. It was used by apps that needed speed but not advanced database functionality. Those apps grew and ended up needing the advanced database features after all, so MySQL grew to provide those features.
But features come at the expense of resources, so feature filled versions of MySQL are not especially fast.
Since most apps grow over time, why not use Postgres which comes with all the features you could want from the outset, and not have to hope that a stable version of MySql that meets you needs will be released?
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That they will give you their freakin PERMISSION to 0wn them!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA
If the Feds produce software, they have no reason to prevent others from extending their software rendering it obslolete. They are always free to rewrite the extension themselves. In fact they have a vested interest collecting Taxes from those who extend and resell their code.
I can't remember the last time I saw an ad on slashdot... Oh it must be because I do all my web browsing with lynx.
I still use KDE2.x at home because I can't babysit the compliations of all the packages for KDE3 there. I'm compiled KDE3 on this box tho' 'cause I use it so much and can do it in the background
What's in an electron?
Osama ibn Laden's HOME PAGE HERE!!
#Al #eks%x a!@r!d@& &q!!e(# co o%!!cu u^tran$#w iq$@Y!za k
words like eval, open, opendir, link, unlink, exec, and system were removed before evaluations.
OOPS. you might have to view source to see the first part of this post since I think my alphabet made a tag..
1) at first all my high scoring programs were very short.
2) once adding points for length, all my working programs ( populations circa 1000 ) started with the '#' character.
So I did a $prog =~ s/\#//g; before eval ( $prog ); from now on and all the # cheaters died. Then I tried to teach it to add. I set three variables that would be visible in scope to the programs I was evalling. my ( $input_a, $input_b, $output ) = ( 3, 5, 0 ); Then I scored the programs higher if the program changed the values of any of the three variables. I added code to increase the score of a program further if the values of any of the three variables depended on the initial values of the inputs ( by changing the initial values and re-evalling )
Things I found:
1) a grep of my perl program beasties for input_a and friends found zilch.
2) my perl beasties were still very short
So I added score for length, and I started doing some genetic engineering by splicing in '$input_a' '$input_b', and '$output' at the '#' crosspoints randomly for every child program.
Things I found:
1) Many perl beasties grepped for $input_a and pals
2) None of my beasties changed the values of any of output, and inputs a and b
Then I got bored and had a sickpack of beer and soon didn't care anymore. But something's moving in my basement and I don't have any pets....
Maybe the HCl theory explains why dragons seem to have a taste for knights in shining armor since you need to disolve some metal in HCl to get Hydrogen gazz.
1,000 = one thousand
1,000,000 = one million
1,000,000,000 = one billion
1,000,000,000,000 = one trillion
1,000,000,000,000,000 = one quadrillion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000 = one quintillion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 = one hex?tillion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 = one sextillion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 = one octillion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 = one nonillion
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 = one dectillion
10^100 = one googol
(10^100)^2 =? one google plex
(10^100)^(zillion) = one gazillion zillion dollars!
Man I ruined my pork chop with that stuff. HOT! But good in small amounts.
I did come across this. I wonder what Osama would think...
I read in a comment that since computations must take a certain minimum energy, just to power a laptop during the computation of all the possible games of chess you would have to convert the mass of jupiter to pure energy.
It whips me too. Shit I can't even figure out the rules.
Good for everyone who wants to take advantage of those other uses. For the old dude who has been watching his analog TV for years and now has to upgrade there is no benefit. He'll never own a cell phne in his life.
Hmm.. TV anntennas are about a meter long.. I doubt that would be tolerated in a cellphone..
Once it goes down to -1 nobody can see it to mod it up.
It is not like it is impossible to survive without this technology. Up till now the human race has gotten along without it. And there are real benefits to privacy just like there are real benefits to living where there is little pollution. Does evolution require us to pollute more to compete or to live cleanly? I think the jury is still out.
Privacy has benefits. It helps us get along with each other. They say familiarity breeds contempt, and that is true. Knowlege about what were formerly private activities in our lives being available allows it to be judged.
So I look at your data and see that it is similar to the data of someone I hate, and judge that you too are probably worthy of hate and treat you accordingly even though you would never do the thing I hate. I vote to have people like you identified and bothered if not persecuted. And you vote to have someone else persecuted, and it is probably not me because I never told you I hated you! But someone speaks up and says the that THEY hate INTOLERANT and NOSY people and that people should be able to take a crap and not have the quality of their wiping job photographed and catalogued in a database to be studied by research proctologists.
And since everyone by now has conformed themselves to fit the mould of a cruel, intolerant and nosy chicken with no 'faults' ( or saving graces ) that can be pecked upon from behind by the other hens who hate them but do not reveal themselves, they all see in unison a person who hates them for their intolerance and admits it. Maddened by the thought of being pecked again, they unleash their anger on that person who must be the source of all the pecks they've endured throughout their tortured lives for he admits his hatred. They think: if only he would CONFORM then the pecking could cease.
They peck him to death as an innocent little chick watches fom outside, and understands better than anyone except the victim. She looks around the henhouse in dispair longing for a little privacy so she can cry.
I've seen huge transport AIRPLANES taking off and landing at a base nearby, and they appear to be going so slow that they should fall out of the sky. I wonder if these things are really going pretty fast but that their size makes you think they are lumbering along at 20-30 mph.
I don't hate this book on philosophical or idalogical grounds. I hate it because I want to fall asleep whenever I've picked it up. I have no idea what it is about and probably never will since I can't seem to get past the first 20 pages.
They may or may not be junk. What do you want for free? Download a bunch and sort through them on your flight.
And is is good that you can send one change of address form to one place when you move. And it's good that there is a setting for your number that allows you to opt out of spam mail.
But there is an ever growing database of information about you that is all tied to your PIN number. Even if laws protect you from searching your medical records in ways that identify you, and even if more laws prevent spammers from searching your credit card statements for purchases made from their competitors in order to send you a sales pitch, the more data there is collected about you, the more valuable it is.
And while you are complacent, secure in the knowlege that your laws protect you, and glad of the convienience of it, the database grows larger and more valuable. The more valuable the database becomes, the more pressure there will be for lawmakers to create loopholes and exceptions to the laws that protect you from being watched.
Why did you buy that fertilizer are you a terrorist making bombs? You rent too many pornos - we won't hire you as a teacher. Why did you buy those grow lights when you don't fit the age demographic for indoor gardening - you must be growing pot. Why do you withdraw cash so often from the ATM when using the card directly to pay for things saves you an ATM fee? Are you trying to hide what you buy? Let's outlaw cash since new statistics show that cash was used to buy nearly all items specifically purchased for use in a crime. We know who you are since there is no cash. We snap photos of your licence plate as you drive through toll booths and send you the bill at the end of the month.
There is no more cash and so no more anonymous driving through toll booths.
New data profiling method on beer purchases is shown to be 80% correct at identifying habitual drunk drivers. MADD sponsors bill to force individuals so identified to take an anti drunk driving course. Insurance companies drop MGD drinkers and raise rates for people who have bought Natural Ice more than once in the past 6 months.. Pissed off man gets loaded on Kaluha and drives into his car insurance broker's office window - story at 11.
Bill passes 64-33 in senate requiring citizens to file a report with the federal persontrack database any time their habits change in a way that causes their computers to raise a red flag.
But features come at the expense of resources, so feature filled versions of MySQL are not especially fast.
Since most apps grow over time, why not use Postgres which comes with all the features you could want from the outset, and not have to hope that a stable version of MySql that meets you needs will be released?