Putting the project under LGPL indicates a willingness to let it be used as a library. Only the copyright holder can sue - and they have indicated they don't want to. So who has anything to fear?
It's a compressed directory full of xml. But that doesn't matter a damn when the real question is "who else can load it?" and the answer is "only other geeks with OOo".
All that stuff tells you is "they have an effect on the brain". Big wow. A whole lot of stuff has an effect on your brain, that's what it's there for in the first place.
Plenty of people use these "addictive" substances "recreationally", on the weekend or whenever they casually feel inclined, and don't get addicted. The reason being: it's not the changes in your brain that make the addiction (at most they make a chemical dependance). It's the fact that addicts decide to use the substance to fulfil a psychological need. Possibly a need they're in conscious denial over, so they don't understand why they becoame "addicted". It's still a preference, they chemical didn't make them, they chose it and continue to choose it, and the moment they choose different, it will vanish as smoothly as it arrived.
There's a difference between choosing to go cold turkey, and being slam dunked into it, from all the way up to all the way down in no time flat, by some doctor ith a syringe full of blocker.
Junkies who build up a tolerance will deliberately go through withdrawal, so they can get the pleasure of the "high" back. Chemical dependance is real enough, it's just irrelvant to "addiction" per se.
Q: What is an addiction? A: An addiction is something you disapprove of, and yet enjoy doing enough to override your own disapproval, so you pretend to yourself you can't control it.
Q: Why is there a word "addiction"? A: It serves the same function as mediaeval demons of temptation: it's a socially accepted way of excusing yourself for hypocrisy between your moral opinions and your preferred actions. There's a huge puritannical streak in "western" culture which disapproves of self-destructive pleasant activities. It's nicer for your self esteem to see yourself as a "disease victm" rather than a "libertine sot".
Q: Why can't I kick my addiction? A: Because you don't want to, not as much as you want to carry on.
Q: Why did I succeed in kicking my addiction? A: Because you did want to, or something else showed up that fulfilled the same function better.
Q: What about addiction cures (12step, religion, meds, etc)? A: They are alternatives that give you equivalent pleasure/stimulation/attention/whatever as your addiction did, only they're more morally acceptable to you, so you don't agonize over "needing" them. Smile, now you're addicted to religion/etc/whatever. Don't it feel grand?
Q: So what about all this medical stuff? A: It consists largely of overblown readings of the blindingly obvious. Yes, pleasure has a neurochemical form. Yes, people seek pleasure, and will make a habit out of consistently pleasant things. No this does not constitute some sort of disease. But it pays in funding to "research", rather than debunk, addictions. And if you can invent a new addiction, people will suck up to you and make laws forbidding it, which will make you feel grand and help puff up your ego.
When will this pseudomedical crud cease? What this oh-so-genius has managed to discover is (1) humans like some stuff (2) humans tend to seek the things they like (3) if life currently sucks, many humans will use pleasurable actvities to prop them up and stave off depression (4) one of the many things that people like is finding out information, and this can be observed neurochemically.
From this the bozo pulls forth an addiction.
A pox on all these doctors and their phony diseases. A pox on all the "victims", who find the excuse for their hypocrisy convenient.
Addiction does not exist. Chemical withdrawal is no more painful than bad flu. Habits can be broken by choice - when you don't break them, it's because, on balance, you'd simply prefer not to.
Public mass streaming was and is a dumb idea. Not merely do zillions of people make huge downloads from your site, but they don't even get to hang onto what they downloaded, so they do it over and over again...
The sensible solution would be to port something like bit-torrent to have a streaming mode, and make plug-ins for the ajor players so they can use it.
You put a robot there, and it can tell you the chem compositon of a rock.
You put a trained geologist there, carrying the same sensors, and he will tell you the the same info, plus how it correlates with the other rocks, how it fits into strata, what the erosion patterns suggest, what physical processes seem to have shaped this area, how it fits into the larger area context, and whether there were bugs underneath the rock which skittered away when he picked it up.
He'll also process ten times as many rocks, over a much larger distance, go back to the base station, refuel and to a limited extent self-repair, and go out and do it the next day and the next, by which time your robot is out of juice and rapidly becoming a small dust-dune.
Reality TV, news, and "event" programming such as the Oscars do significantly better at getting viewers to see the commercials. PLEASE tell me this doesn't mean more Reality TV shows!!! I can't handle it!!!
That would be a naive reading. I'd read it more like: the only reason dull trash like "reality TV" was on, was because people had left the blather-box running, as wallpaper. Both program and advert were being ignored - hence, nobody bothered to fforward through the ads.
I suspect IBM have come to the conclusion that the only thing they could actually lose in this case is their dignity - which is no small thing, to a business which trades on its reputation.
I think they have no intention whatsoever of "annihilating" SCO. They'll just take the minimal calm lawyerly action necessary, and go on with business as usual. Their plan is probably to get a "case dismissed" or a retraction and climbdown, and let the matter rest.
Pastoral idyll ruined by cultural contamination! Noble savages corrupted into howling hordes of thugs, druggies and sluts! Contented unworldly serfs now obsessed with money and material goods!
What a patronizing load of yak-dung. Truly it has been said "scratch a liberal, find a racist". We, being cynical and jaded westerners, can suffer the idea-bombardment of TV without taking harm, but they, mere innocent and unprepared rustics, are led around like puppets.
Bleh.
Why not stop to consider that, to someone who owns a yak and a hut, material goods may actually look rather intriguing? Or that someone who was born into an "unworldly, spiritual" culture might find it stifling, and see american-style pragmatic individualism as a breath of fresh air?
The problem with the "oh no, we corrupted them!" hypothesis is that it rests on magic, specifically that ideas somehow impose themselves into people's heads. It utterly ignores the concept of individual choice - because, if you pay attention to that, you may have to conclude that these people may have had reasons for their choices.
Certainly freer, better informed people can be less "picturesque". But they aren't your people, they belong to themselves, and if being picturesque isn't their individual priority, it's certainly no business of yours to impose it upon them.
Ricochet's approach will probably end up being the sensible one - telcos go away, but ISPs do not, unless all you want is to talk over the local mesh to a machine in the same town.
Don't worry about the politics. Buggy-whip makers may well have been politically powerful, and likewise typewriter-makers and telegraph companies. No politics on earth will keep a technologically unnecesary industry solvent, unless they find a way to profit from the tech that's replacing them. Ask the RIAA. (Or for that matter, IBM, who used to be big in typewriters).
Ext3 deals in multiples of whole blocks, and its dir structure is simplistic. It's been my experience that this plays nicer with slow drives and crypto loop filesystems. ReiserFS by contrast tends to thrash around writing itty bitty pieces of files and metadata.
All those so called public utilities aren't free. You don't pay tolls for driving on the freeway - why? because you've already paid, in gas tax and car tax.
...for getting less simple, but it was never simple to begin with. Simple would be to use weak-vars-strong-values typing like python. Making everything an Object and using that plus typecasts to do generics is not "simple", it's a hack. It uglifies your code, makes it less efficient, and (ironically) breaks strong typing.
Generics are also a hack, but at least they are an overt, clean one.
would be to mod the reverse mx proposal so it normally reads the "From:" and does RMX on that, but if this fails it can also check another header, "X-Really-From:"
That way the sender is always identified - legitimate forging is possible, but concealment is not.
It's a pity he's worked for the govt at all, but regardless, the effect of private space travel will be the end of government. As a purely pragmatic exercise, it's is impossible to rule space. There's simply too much of it, it's too easy to hide in, too hard to fight in. Meanwhile groundbound governments are sitting ducks for anyone in space, one merely has to drop rocks down the gravity well.
Government regulation doesn't work. Political forces as impersonal and automatic as the laws of physics push regulators to preserve the appearance of regulation rather than the actuality, and to serve the politically powerful big business over the individually powerless citizen.
And the very presence of government regulation distorts the market, allowing products which slip through the loopholes to pass themselves off, in this case as chicken despite being injected with beef protiens. You could probably be sued for calling this "not chicken" or "adulterated", because the government makes the definitions and its the only game in town.
This is not an isolated example. Everything government touches it fouls up. How could it not? It's the expression of force in the market, while the market itself is the free choices of individuals. Anything the government does is by definition a less-desired and probably less desirable outcome than whatever would have happened in its absence.
My only disagreement is with "Rutan for president". It's an insult to this great man to lump him in with an organization, government, whose whole existence is predicated on force and which can only fund itself by theft.
To the contrary it's the efforts of Mr Rutan and others like him which will finally put our species out of the reach of government.
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Putting the project under LGPL indicates a willingness to let it be used as a library. Only the copyright holder can sue - and they have indicated they don't want to. So who has anything to fear?
It's a compressed directory full of xml. But that doesn't matter a damn when the real question is "who else can load it?" and the answer is "only other geeks with OOo".
Minor correction: I said "a bad flu" not "a common cold". Flu can get plenty bad.
All that stuff tells you is "they have an effect on the brain". Big wow. A whole lot of stuff has an effect on your brain, that's what it's there for in the first place.
Plenty of people use these "addictive" substances "recreationally", on the weekend or whenever they casually feel inclined, and don't get addicted. The reason being: it's not the changes in your brain that make the addiction (at most they make a chemical dependance). It's the fact that addicts decide to use the substance to fulfil a psychological need. Possibly a need they're in conscious denial over, so they don't understand why they becoame "addicted". It's still a preference, they chemical didn't make them, they chose it and continue to choose it, and the moment they choose different, it will vanish as smoothly as it arrived.
There's a difference between choosing to go cold turkey, and being slam dunked into it, from all the way up to all the way down in no time flat, by some doctor ith a syringe full of blocker.
Junkies who build up a tolerance will deliberately go through withdrawal, so they can get the pleasure of the "high" back. Chemical dependance is real enough, it's just irrelvant to "addiction" per se.
Q: What is an addiction?
A: An addiction is something you disapprove of, and yet enjoy doing enough to override your own disapproval, so you pretend to yourself you can't control it.
Q: Why is there a word "addiction"?
A: It serves the same function as mediaeval demons of temptation: it's a socially accepted way of excusing yourself for hypocrisy between your moral opinions and your preferred actions. There's a huge puritannical streak in "western" culture which disapproves of self-destructive pleasant activities. It's nicer for your self esteem to see yourself as a "disease victm" rather than a "libertine sot".
Q: Why can't I kick my addiction?
A: Because you don't want to, not as much as you want to carry on.
Q: Why did I succeed in kicking my addiction?
A: Because you did want to, or something else showed up that fulfilled the same function better.
Q: What about addiction cures (12step, religion, meds, etc)?
A: They are alternatives that give you equivalent pleasure/stimulation/attention/whatever as your addiction did, only they're more morally acceptable to you, so you don't agonize over "needing" them. Smile, now you're addicted to religion/etc/whatever. Don't it feel grand?
Q: So what about all this medical stuff?
A: It consists largely of overblown readings of the blindingly obvious. Yes, pleasure has a neurochemical form. Yes, people seek pleasure, and will make a habit out of consistently pleasant things. No this does not constitute some sort of disease. But it pays in funding to "research", rather than debunk, addictions. And if you can invent a new addiction, people will suck up to you and make laws forbidding it, which will make you feel grand and help puff up your ego.
When will this pseudomedical crud cease? What this oh-so-genius has managed to discover is (1) humans like some stuff (2) humans tend to seek the things they like (3) if life currently sucks, many humans will use pleasurable actvities to prop them up and stave off depression (4) one of the many things that people like is finding out information, and this can be observed neurochemically.
From this the bozo pulls forth an addiction.
A pox on all these doctors and their phony diseases. A pox on all the "victims", who find the excuse for their hypocrisy convenient.
Addiction does not exist. Chemical withdrawal is no more painful than bad flu. Habits can be broken by choice - when you don't break them, it's because, on balance, you'd simply prefer not to.
Public mass streaming was and is a dumb idea. Not merely do zillions of people make huge downloads from your site, but they don't even get to hang onto what they downloaded, so they do it over and over again...
The sensible solution would be to port something like bit-torrent to have a streaming mode, and make plug-ins for the ajor players so they can use it.
You put a robot there, and it can tell you the chem compositon of a rock.
You put a trained geologist there, carrying the same sensors, and he will tell you the the same info, plus how it correlates with the other rocks, how it fits into strata, what the erosion patterns suggest, what physical processes seem to have shaped this area, how it fits into the larger area context, and whether there were bugs underneath the rock which skittered away when he picked it up.
He'll also process ten times as many rocks, over a much larger distance, go back to the base station, refuel and to a limited extent self-repair, and go out and do it the next day and the next, by which time your robot is out of juice and rapidly becoming a small dust-dune.
And that's if all you care about is rocks.
Reality TV, news, and "event" programming such as the Oscars do significantly better at getting viewers to see the commercials.
PLEASE tell me this doesn't mean more Reality TV shows!!! I can't handle it!!!
That would be a naive reading. I'd read it more like: the only reason dull trash like "reality TV" was on, was because people had left the blather-box running, as wallpaper. Both program and advert were being ignored - hence, nobody bothered to fforward through the ads.
Means you can't identify a fake, starting from scratch, that gives a valid match to the "template". Only, now, turns out that you can after all.
I suspect IBM have come to the conclusion that the only thing they could actually lose in this case is their dignity - which is no small thing, to a business which trades on its reputation.
I think they have no intention whatsoever of "annihilating" SCO. They'll just take the minimal calm lawyerly action necessary, and go on with business as usual. Their plan is probably to get a "case dismissed" or a retraction and climbdown, and let the matter rest.
Pastoral idyll ruined by cultural contamination! Noble savages corrupted into howling hordes of thugs, druggies and sluts! Contented unworldly serfs now obsessed with money and material goods!
What a patronizing load of yak-dung. Truly it has been said "scratch a liberal, find a racist". We, being cynical and jaded westerners, can suffer the idea-bombardment of TV without taking harm, but they, mere innocent and unprepared rustics, are led around like puppets.
Bleh.
Why not stop to consider that, to someone who owns a yak and a hut, material goods may actually look rather intriguing? Or that someone who was born into an "unworldly, spiritual" culture might find it stifling, and see american-style pragmatic individualism as a breath of fresh air?
The problem with the "oh no, we corrupted them!" hypothesis is that it rests on magic, specifically that ideas somehow impose themselves into people's heads. It utterly ignores the concept of individual choice - because, if you pay attention to that, you may have to conclude that these people may have had reasons for their choices.
Certainly freer, better informed people can be less "picturesque". But they aren't your people, they belong to themselves, and if being picturesque isn't their individual priority, it's certainly no business of yours to impose it upon them.
Ricochet's approach will probably end up being the sensible one - telcos go away, but ISPs do not, unless all you want is to talk over the local mesh to a machine in the same town.
Don't worry about the politics. Buggy-whip makers may well have been politically powerful, and likewise typewriter-makers and telegraph companies. No politics on earth will keep a technologically unnecesary industry solvent, unless they find a way to profit from the tech that's replacing them. Ask the RIAA. (Or for that matter, IBM, who used to be big in typewriters).
Tht s a cmprssn mthd v srts. Y cn strp ff bt a thrd frm rndm nglsh txt by pssng t thrgh ths prl scrpt
perl -pe 's/(\S)[AEIOUaeiou]+/$1/g; s/[AEIOUaeiou]+(\S)/$1/g'
Srprsngly, y cn typclly stll ndrstnd t.
Ext3 deals in multiples of whole blocks, and its dir structure is simplistic. It's been my experience that this plays nicer with slow drives and crypto loop filesystems. ReiserFS by contrast tends to thrash around writing itty bitty pieces of files and metadata.
All those so called public utilities aren't free. You don't pay tolls for driving on the freeway - why? because you've already paid, in gas tax and car tax.
TANSTAAFL
...for getting less simple, but it was never simple to begin with. Simple would be to use weak-vars-strong-values typing like python. Making everything an Object and using that plus typecasts to do generics is not "simple", it's a hack. It uglifies your code, makes it less efficient, and (ironically) breaks strong typing.
Generics are also a hack, but at least they are an overt, clean one.
A language which tons of people use for real apps and business critical stuff might become slightly less useful for academia! Panic, panic!
Er. Or, not.
Teach basics in python, algorithms in ocaml, bit-grinding in C.
so THAT's why the Jedi Hand Wave works.
"These are not the droids you're looking for"
(handwave, subtle ka-ching! sound)
"These are not the droids I'm looking for.. move along..."
Don't blame me, I said to mod me down. ;-)
would be to mod the reverse mx proposal so it normally reads the "From:" and does RMX on that, but if this fails it can also check another header, "X-Really-From:"
That way the sender is always identified - legitimate forging is possible, but concealment is not.
Technically, you smell an anarchist ;-)
It's a pity he's worked for the govt at all, but regardless, the effect of private space travel will be the end of government. As a purely pragmatic exercise, it's is impossible to rule space. There's simply too much of it, it's too easy to hide in, too hard to fight in. Meanwhile groundbound governments are sitting ducks for anyone in space, one merely has to drop rocks down the gravity well.
"The government ensures that the ground beef you buy in the grocery store isn't ground rat, for example."
Take a look at this then.
Government regulation doesn't work. Political forces as impersonal and automatic as the laws of physics push regulators to preserve the appearance of regulation rather than the actuality, and to serve the politically powerful big business over the individually powerless citizen.
And the very presence of government regulation distorts the market, allowing products which slip through the loopholes to pass themselves off, in this case as chicken despite being injected with beef protiens. You could probably be sued for calling this "not chicken" or "adulterated", because the government makes the definitions and its the only game in town.
This is not an isolated example. Everything government touches it fouls up. How could it not? It's the expression of force in the market, while the market itself is the free choices of individuals. Anything the government does is by definition a less-desired and probably less desirable outcome than whatever would have happened in its absence.
My only disagreement is with "Rutan for president". It's an insult to this great man to lump him in with an organization, government, whose whole existence is predicated on force and which can only fund itself by theft.
To the contrary it's the efforts of Mr Rutan and others like him which will finally put our species out of the reach of government.