lol, The Onion? If you are going to give a Pulitzer to any satirical news show, it should be the The Daily Show, which has done far more to advance News on an informative level and humor level than the Onion has. The Onion is just a parody site, that has parroted back warped versions of current events. Granted, a Pulitzer is probably just for print journalism (I am guessing), but if you are going to start lobbying to create new categories, create one to recognize a show that has substance and lulz.
You are correct in asserting that I am making an assumption without any hard figures on developers. However, I am feeling pretty sure that 90% of the world's developers aren't writing code for a company that produces 10% of the hardware. For all the attention Apple is getting these days, they are still a very small player in the overall market.
So, if someone wanted to expose their government's dirty laundry, they should go and hack Chinese, North Korean or Israeli servers?
makes sense to me, china has hacked and stolen half the IP from the US, so it stand to reason they would have copies of all the government's email too...lolz
Which is great if what we're getting is truth. Wikileaks produces propaganda.
Funny, I thought they just posted leaked documents. That seems fairly truthful to me. Sure, there is some grandstanding in the manner that they release them, but that doesn't make them any less truthful. Unless you are suggesting that they are just fabricating all the info that they are releasing, I'm not even sure what you are trying to say.
Apple made a good choice going with native applications for the iPhone
I don't know about that. There are more developers that work in Java and.Net. Apple had a lot of devs follow them initially because they were the 'next cool thing', but I don't know how it will work out for them in the long run. I'd rather have a larger have a larger developer base over a native language support any day.
No one walks into a store to buy a wallet with the expectation that their money will be particularly secure inside of it. On the other hand, while some here are clearly not surprised about the lack of security surrounding BTC ownership, when you visit the websites promoting BTC usage, there's no mention of whether one's BTC information is particularly secure or not. In fact, one is given the impression (implied, not stated) that BTC is actually pretty secure by default.
BTC is secure, but it is secure in the sense that the us money supply is secure (in theory), as opposed to specific dollars in your possession being secure if you have them locked in a safe and under guard. In the realm of the physical, this sort of differentiation is fairly obvious, since nobody will think the anti-counterfeiting features of a $1 bill will keeping a mugger from stealing it from you.
The confusion of course, is that people looking into BTC discover pages and pages of writings about how clever BTC is and how it has crazy awesome cryptography to protect it. The cryptography is to protect the money, not the user. It actually reminds me of the same sort of confusion that people have about circuit breakers and GFI outlets in houses.
All I really know is waving it around near your body is a good way to lose parts of your body.
I always thought it was funny, that jedi and sith would do flips while holding one. If it is a plasma jet in a magnetic field, it is still going to produce a lot of heat, and that heat will rise. Doing a flip while holding one is probably a good way to get a third degree burn...
Overpopulation alarmism has become trite and hackneyed.
Yes, you are correct. We should continue on our present course without considering the consequences. We will never run out of anything.
I personally think that unless some steps are taken to bring world population growth to zero fairly quickly that there are going to be some truly horrible wars in fifty to one hundred years. First world countries will be very reluctant to give up all their modern amenities, and developing countries will be unwilling to curb their population growth to keep competition for resources to a minimum. At some point, there are going to be some very serious shortages, and the wars that result will not be conducted around the traditional goal of military conquest for resources, but rather the goal of making the world population much smaller in a very short time. I certainlly hope that doesn't happen, but there are enough despotic people in power around the world that I think it might.
The fact is that there are not infinite resources. If there are too many people using those resources, you will run out. The problem is that when this happens, it will basically be like an inflection point on a graph, where change will happen very quickly.
At those prices they are going to get crappy developers. To get a good developer who is willing to check his morals at the door, they would probably need to pay closer to ten times that.
I suspect that most really skilled developers would pass simply because I don't generally see really the psychology matching up. The really good devs aren't in it for money (at least as the primary motivation), they enjoy building things and not destroying the systems of uninformed n00bs or stealing their credit card numbers. Good luck buying a 'hacktivist type' since their motivation is idealistic to start with. They are fishing for young, low skilled programmers. You don't need to offer the 'malicious skript kiddie' archtype a lot of money, because they aren't going to have the skills or CS knowledge to get the 100k+ dev jobs. And any unscrupulous programmer with real talent won't wast their time subcontracting, they will just write their own maleware.
Its funny that you should mention it, but Disney seems stuck in the same rut of, 'It's easier to recycle, than to invent'. The problem with modern IP is the story never ends, it just keeps going until it is so crappy that it makes no money. You want to see star wars episodes 7-9? GL might not want to make it, but wait for him to die, and somebody will want more Ferraris and blow. It's only a matter of time.
DC should just kill of a couple of major characters and bury them forever to make room for new ones. You cannot plant new trees unless you cut down some old ones. A reboot is just recycling the old crap again.
No to mention that it appears time/space/gravity/velocity are all inter-related and effect each other. 15 minutes at the speed of light is different than 15 minutes standing still.
Only from the frame of a outside observer. And if the universe is in an stage where it is expanding at 50% of the speed of light, how are you going to observe from an outside frame of reference? Also, 'standing still' is kind of tricky. Standing still compared to what? The expanding universe?
Which is to say, if we could see far enough in a certain direction, into the past, we might actually be able to witness the big bang occurring.
Since the big bang is modeled as a point source of energy expanding outward, wouldn't that require the photons being emitted from it to strike the eye of an observer that is outside the universe? (which is by definition of the universe pretty much impossible.) You can see galaxies 14 billion years away/ in the past because they formed after the big bang and then started emitting light. The only way you are going to 'see' the big bang is if the universe is closed (curves back on itself). You can 'see' the background temperature in the microwave spectrum though, which was once of the more spectacular theories proven in the 20th century.
As mentioned above, the lens changing was probably viewed as a once only setup feature. I'm betting that getting into 'bios' like features on a projector is protected with passwords to keep the monkeys ($10/hr teenagers) from playing the the multi-million dollar projectors and trying to 'fix' them when they need minor adjustments. Changing a lens probably only requires a changing a option from '2d mode' to '3d mode' in a calibration menu, but it is part of the system that is locked for everyone but admins.
Would you, if you were a corporate IT admin, let your end users go into their bios and change cpu clock speeds if they wanted to, or would you lock them out of everything for simplicity sake?
Sure they may be snooping your traffic but the law says they can so any claims you make about it being a violation of your constitutional rights are useless.
No, that would require a constitutional amendment. You cannot revoke constitutional rights with laws, thats the whole point of having them.
Why would you care if old 'Hope and Change' does anything about revoking the patriot act? it's not like the alphabet soup agencies are going to stop spying on people and wiretapping without warrants if they don't have a law to back their actions. There needs to be some legislation that gives teeth to laws that protect our constitutional rights from federal actors. Bush jr. has admitted to the illegal federal wiretapping program, and I have yet to see a single person go to jail. If some federal agents see jail time because they didn't get a warrant, perhaps that will give people pause in their zealous attempts erode the constitution.
Eh, you can't garnish every single penny someone has. He'll have this over his head for the rest of his life but doesn't necessarily mean he'll be homeless.
This is really pointless. They should just order him to pay a hundredrytrillionbajillion dollars, because if the judge wants to dream, he should dream big. Unless he made some amazing investments twenty years ago, there is no way he will ever be able to pay that. Moreover, it is really easy to get a visa to live in another country with IT skills. He should just pick up and leave and send the judge a 'fuck you' postcard from France.
Granted he was kind of a dick in the way he handled things, but every aspect of this court case screams of excess. Sticking around to appeal this sentence is just asking for another undeserved ass-kicking.
This is really great. It's about time someone challenged this crazy ad hoc sales tax system and Amazon has the weight to do it. Well done Jeff.
Yeah, well done Jeff. Washington state's budget is in the toilet, and facing huge deficits, so STFU and pay your fucking taxes. You can use all that money you made off your brilliant 'one click checkout' patent...
Sure, the state sales tax system is a mess, but if I tried this sort of crap with the IRS, I would be arrested in about 15 minutes. Just because he is rich, he doesn't have to lobby congress to affect change like other people?
A friend who was traveling in China recently told me that when he went through airport security there, it felt like he was in a modern, free country. Then when he came back to American airports, it felt like he was in a backward dictatorship.
I went to Canada a few years ago. The Canadian customs officer I spoke to on the way in was friendly, polite, and asked me a few intelligent questions about my business there, and then waved me through. Coming back I was greeted by a squad of armed surly guards that were dressed like they were extras from the movie 'Brazil'. They were far more concerned with my 'papers' than anything else, and were even less friendly when I didn't have my passport with me. It was double plus ungood.
but the newly announced presidential candidate is also trying to learn about quantum physics, and shows good taste, 'strongly recommending' Richard Feynman's QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter."
I can see why physics books would appeal to the newtster, they tend to have lots of pictures in them...
The database for their economy... well, you can't afford it. RAM. Lots and lots of RAM, in nice rackmount enclosures and linked by infiniband. They run it on a colossal ramdrive, because not even flash could handle the IOPS.
you can't afford it...today. But wait six months and now you suddenly have a use for your 48 core desktop with fiber raid and 1024 gigs of RAM. Steep hardware specs are no reason not to release something. When quake was released Id was using something like a quad proc pentium 200 pro box for compiling their BSP trees and it was still taking many hours to build a single level, but that didn't stop them from releasing the map files.
Plus, as good as I am sure their devs are, I am willing to bet money that the community at large would be able to improve the performance of the code base. Even a large and successful company cannot marshal the development resources that the greater internet can.
Isn't this why the FOA was created? You should be able to file a few requests to start digging into the nature of the relationship...
This is why government should be as 'open sourced' as possible. I don't think that a DOJ investigation needs to be opened every time someone leaves public office, since people who are involved in a given aspect of government are going to gravitate towards the same sort of work in the private sector. However, the system should be transparent enough that anyone who is suspicious of things like this can easily poke around for evidence of a conflict of interest.
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You haven't read the Old Testament, have you?
Sorry, no. I just can't really get into the historical fiction genre.
lol, The Onion? If you are going to give a Pulitzer to any satirical news show, it should be the The Daily Show, which has done far more to advance News on an informative level and humor level than the Onion has. The Onion is just a parody site, that has parroted back warped versions of current events. Granted, a Pulitzer is probably just for print journalism (I am guessing), but if you are going to start lobbying to create new categories, create one to recognize a show that has substance and lulz.
You are correct in asserting that I am making an assumption without any hard figures on developers. However, I am feeling pretty sure that 90% of the world's developers aren't writing code for a company that produces 10% of the hardware. For all the attention Apple is getting these days, they are still a very small player in the overall market.
So, if someone wanted to expose their government's dirty laundry, they should go and hack Chinese, North Korean or Israeli servers?
makes sense to me, china has hacked and stolen half the IP from the US, so it stand to reason they would have copies of all the government's email too...lolz
Which is great if what we're getting is truth. Wikileaks produces propaganda.
Funny, I thought they just posted leaked documents. That seems fairly truthful to me. Sure, there is some grandstanding in the manner that they release them, but that doesn't make them any less truthful. Unless you are suggesting that they are just fabricating all the info that they are releasing, I'm not even sure what you are trying to say.
Apple made a good choice going with native applications for the iPhone
.Net. Apple had a lot of devs follow them initially because they were the 'next cool thing', but I don't know how it will work out for them in the long run. I'd rather have a larger have a larger developer base over a native language support any day.
I don't know about that. There are more developers that work in Java and
No one walks into a store to buy a wallet with the expectation that their money will be particularly secure inside of it. On the other hand, while some here are clearly not surprised about the lack of security surrounding BTC ownership, when you visit the websites promoting BTC usage, there's no mention of whether one's BTC information is particularly secure or not. In fact, one is given the impression (implied, not stated) that BTC is actually pretty secure by default.
BTC is secure, but it is secure in the sense that the us money supply is secure (in theory), as opposed to specific dollars in your possession being secure if you have them locked in a safe and under guard. In the realm of the physical, this sort of differentiation is fairly obvious, since nobody will think the anti-counterfeiting features of a $1 bill will keeping a mugger from stealing it from you.
The confusion of course, is that people looking into BTC discover pages and pages of writings about how clever BTC is and how it has crazy awesome cryptography to protect it. The cryptography is to protect the money, not the user. It actually reminds me of the same sort of confusion that people have about circuit breakers and GFI outlets in houses.
All I really know is waving it around near your body is a good way to lose parts of your body.
I always thought it was funny, that jedi and sith would do flips while holding one. If it is a plasma jet in a magnetic field, it is still going to produce a lot of heat, and that heat will rise. Doing a flip while holding one is probably a good way to get a third degree burn...
Overpopulation alarmism has become trite and hackneyed.
Yes, you are correct. We should continue on our present course without considering the consequences. We will never run out of anything.
I personally think that unless some steps are taken to bring world population growth to zero fairly quickly that there are going to be some truly horrible wars in fifty to one hundred years. First world countries will be very reluctant to give up all their modern amenities, and developing countries will be unwilling to curb their population growth to keep competition for resources to a minimum. At some point, there are going to be some very serious shortages, and the wars that result will not be conducted around the traditional goal of military conquest for resources, but rather the goal of making the world population much smaller in a very short time. I certainlly hope that doesn't happen, but there are enough despotic people in power around the world that I think it might.
The fact is that there are not infinite resources. If there are too many people using those resources, you will run out. The problem is that when this happens, it will basically be like an inflection point on a graph, where change will happen very quickly.
At those prices they are going to get crappy developers. To get a good developer who is willing to check his morals at the door, they would probably need to pay closer to ten times that.
I suspect that most really skilled developers would pass simply because I don't generally see really the psychology matching up. The really good devs aren't in it for money (at least as the primary motivation), they enjoy building things and not destroying the systems of uninformed n00bs or stealing their credit card numbers. Good luck buying a 'hacktivist type' since their motivation is idealistic to start with. They are fishing for young, low skilled programmers. You don't need to offer the 'malicious skript kiddie' archtype a lot of money, because they aren't going to have the skills or CS knowledge to get the 100k+ dev jobs. And any unscrupulous programmer with real talent won't wast their time subcontracting, they will just write their own maleware.
No kidding! A parasite reduces the host's reproductive efficacy!
well, technically a fetus is a barrier to it's host becoming pregnant.....I think you just added to 'parasite' argument rather than detract from it.
Its funny that you should mention it, but Disney seems stuck in the same rut of, 'It's easier to recycle, than to invent'. The problem with modern IP is the story never ends, it just keeps going until it is so crappy that it makes no money. You want to see star wars episodes 7-9? GL might not want to make it, but wait for him to die, and somebody will want more Ferraris and blow. It's only a matter of time.
DC should just kill of a couple of major characters and bury them forever to make room for new ones. You cannot plant new trees unless you cut down some old ones. A reboot is just recycling the old crap again.
How about some Knuth? Because that would be some muthafuckin' kick ass home school CS curriculum.
No to mention that it appears time/space/gravity/velocity are all inter-related and effect each other. 15 minutes at the speed of light is different than 15 minutes standing still.
Only from the frame of a outside observer. And if the universe is in an stage where it is expanding at 50% of the speed of light, how are you going to observe from an outside frame of reference? Also, 'standing still' is kind of tricky. Standing still compared to what? The expanding universe?
Which is to say, if we could see far enough in a certain direction, into the past, we might actually be able to witness the big bang occurring.
Since the big bang is modeled as a point source of energy expanding outward, wouldn't that require the photons being emitted from it to strike the eye of an observer that is outside the universe? (which is by definition of the universe pretty much impossible.) You can see galaxies 14 billion years away/ in the past because they formed after the big bang and then started emitting light. The only way you are going to 'see' the big bang is if the universe is closed (curves back on itself). You can 'see' the background temperature in the microwave spectrum though, which was once of the more spectacular theories proven in the 20th century.
As mentioned above, the lens changing was probably viewed as a once only setup feature. I'm betting that getting into 'bios' like features on a projector is protected with passwords to keep the monkeys ($10/hr teenagers) from playing the the multi-million dollar projectors and trying to 'fix' them when they need minor adjustments. Changing a lens probably only requires a changing a option from '2d mode' to '3d mode' in a calibration menu, but it is part of the system that is locked for everyone but admins.
Would you, if you were a corporate IT admin, let your end users go into their bios and change cpu clock speeds if they wanted to, or would you lock them out of everything for simplicity sake?
Sure they may be snooping your traffic but the law says they can so any claims you make about it being a violation of your constitutional rights are useless.
No, that would require a constitutional amendment. You cannot revoke constitutional rights with laws, thats the whole point of having them.
Why would you care if old 'Hope and Change' does anything about revoking the patriot act? it's not like the alphabet soup agencies are going to stop spying on people and wiretapping without warrants if they don't have a law to back their actions. There needs to be some legislation that gives teeth to laws that protect our constitutional rights from federal actors. Bush jr. has admitted to the illegal federal wiretapping program, and I have yet to see a single person go to jail. If some federal agents see jail time because they didn't get a warrant, perhaps that will give people pause in their zealous attempts erode the constitution.
Eh, you can't garnish every single penny someone has. He'll have this over his head for the rest of his life but doesn't necessarily mean he'll be homeless.
This is really pointless. They should just order him to pay a hundredrytrillionbajillion dollars, because if the judge wants to dream, he should dream big. Unless he made some amazing investments twenty years ago, there is no way he will ever be able to pay that. Moreover, it is really easy to get a visa to live in another country with IT skills. He should just pick up and leave and send the judge a 'fuck you' postcard from France.
Granted he was kind of a dick in the way he handled things, but every aspect of this court case screams of excess. Sticking around to appeal this sentence is just asking for another undeserved ass-kicking.
This is really great. It's about time someone challenged this crazy ad hoc sales tax system and Amazon has the weight to do it. Well done Jeff.
Yeah, well done Jeff. Washington state's budget is in the toilet, and facing huge deficits, so STFU and pay your fucking taxes. You can use all that money you made off your brilliant 'one click checkout' patent...
Sure, the state sales tax system is a mess, but if I tried this sort of crap with the IRS, I would be arrested in about 15 minutes. Just because he is rich, he doesn't have to lobby congress to affect change like other people?
Should be getting the Cosby show about now.
Great. In another twenty years the vanguard of their invasion fleets will to arrive to destroy us and steal all our jell-o pudding pops...
A friend who was traveling in China recently told me that when he went through airport security there, it felt like he was in a modern, free country. Then when he came back to American airports, it felt like he was in a backward dictatorship.
I went to Canada a few years ago. The Canadian customs officer I spoke to on the way in was friendly, polite, and asked me a few intelligent questions about my business there, and then waved me through. Coming back I was greeted by a squad of armed surly guards that were dressed like they were extras from the movie 'Brazil'. They were far more concerned with my 'papers' than anything else, and were even less friendly when I didn't have my passport with me. It was double plus ungood.
but the newly announced presidential candidate is also trying to learn about quantum physics, and shows good taste, 'strongly recommending' Richard Feynman's QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter."
I can see why physics books would appeal to the newtster, they tend to have lots of pictures in them...
Personally, I like the idea of nuclear power. I just don't trust it in the hands of any organization with a profit motive.
Could be worse. It could be in the hands of an organization without profit motive that doesn't care if it gets sued for screwing up...
The database for their economy... well, you can't afford it. RAM. Lots and lots of RAM, in nice rackmount enclosures and linked by infiniband. They run it on a colossal ramdrive, because not even flash could handle the IOPS.
you can't afford it...today. But wait six months and now you suddenly have a use for your 48 core desktop with fiber raid and 1024 gigs of RAM. Steep hardware specs are no reason not to release something. When quake was released Id was using something like a quad proc pentium 200 pro box for compiling their BSP trees and it was still taking many hours to build a single level, but that didn't stop them from releasing the map files.
Plus, as good as I am sure their devs are, I am willing to bet money that the community at large would be able to improve the performance of the code base. Even a large and successful company cannot marshal the development resources that the greater internet can.
Isn't this why the FOA was created? You should be able to file a few requests to start digging into the nature of the relationship...
This is why government should be as 'open sourced' as possible. I don't think that a DOJ investigation needs to be opened every time someone leaves public office, since people who are involved in a given aspect of government are going to gravitate towards the same sort of work in the private sector. However, the system should be transparent enough that anyone who is suspicious of things like this can easily poke around for evidence of a conflict of interest.