We have the Service of Labour for many years, it is just now called "convict chain gangs".
Every time you go on the highway and see a bunch of men in jumpsuits picking up trash while a guy with a van calmly drives it behind them -- that means these people are by definition -- held to Service of Labour.
3/5th was done specifically for a noble cause by the Northern States to combat the Southern States' push for protection of the 'peculiar institution', i.e. the Slavery.
Basically the constitution writers would fear that the slave owners would use every slave they own to cast a full vote, according to the wishes of that slave-owner. So the compromise was made to count it as just above half vote (60%), so that it would take five slaves to equal three votes.
The writers of the constitution wanted to put the breaks on the slavery (such as Thomas Jefferson, for example), but it met with a lot of opposition, and the convention was in jeopardy. This was the only way to create this compromise for the constitution to be ratified and the United States of America to come to existence.
I think that although cyberweapons do not exist, government can implement a best next thing: killswitch for individual networks at the backbone level.
Seriously, consider that US owns majority of the Internet. Say they find some sort of DDOS attack that originated in Russia against Estonia. They would be able to immediately cut off some Russian networks out of the main backbones on various levels (cut off access to root DNS if they are naugty, and if they are especially bad -- cut off all their IP blocks).
I have no doubt in my mind that this is a hint of opressed press: The Great Comrade Kim Jong Il is old, sick and soon to die.
And here is a reason: in 1952-53 when Stalin was on his deathbed, official press maintained that "The Father of All Nations" was in the greatest health of all. However, sometime around that time, hints appeared all over the press, such an article that was published in Pravda that claimed that there is a rumor that Georgians live way past 130 years. The average Soviet people would then read it, conclude that it is impossible, and then realize what the paper really meant to say "between the lines".
At an art museum in Europe, an Englishman, a Frenchman, and a North Korean stand before a painting of Adam and Eve holding an apple in the Garden of Eden.
The Englishman says: "The man has something tasty to eat and is eager to share it with the woman. Based on that, I would conclude that they're rather obviously English..."
The Frenchman says: "I disagree. They're walking around entirely naked, so they must be French..."
The North Korean says: "There is no doubt in my mind that they're North Korean. They have no clothes to wear, barely anything to eat, and they still think they're in heaven!"
"Clearly you know very little about the Chernobyl"
I wish you did not use this phrase. I lived in the immediate area within 40 miles radius, and yes, I had relatives and friends die from pancreatic cancer and leukemia in the years following.
Stop putting government noses into the business with regulations and bailouts, and then the system would not be so fucked up.
And btw, in regards to wealthy:
The upper 50% of the wage earners pay @97% of all tax collections, and the lower ones only @3%. The upper of the upper pay a disproportionate share of that too, the Top 1% of earners = 37% of taxes paid, the next bracket 2-5% accounts for another 20%. So about 57% paid by the top 5%. Especially as this is for Personal Income Tax only, and many of the more wealthy have much of the income taxed (some would say double taxed) by in the Corporate returns of those corporations they control/own.
The top 1% of earners pay 21.20% of all taxes paid at an average rate of 24%, the top 2 - 5% of earners pay 14.55% of all taxes at an average of 18% (Top 5% pay @36% of all tax) The bottom 50% pay 3% of all tax collected at an average rate of 2.98%.
How much in taxes do YOU pay?
Typical progressive counter-argument. Argue the bad delivery of the message or a character of the messenger when you can't argue the message itself. Sad.
/agree mod the parent:-) obligatory welfare joke: A guy walks into the local welfare office, marches straight up to the counter and says, "Hi . . . You know, I just HATE drawing welfare. I'd really rather have a job".
The social worker behind the counter says, "Your timing is excellent. We just got a job opening from a very wealthy old man who wants a chauffeur/bodyguard for his nymphomaniac daughter. You'll have to drive around in his Mercedes, but he'll supply all of your clothes. Because of the long hours, meals will be provided. You'll be expected to escort her on her overseas holiday trips. You'll have a two-bedroom apartment above the garage. The starting salary is $200,000 a year".
The guy says, "You're bullshitting me!"
The social worker says, "Yeah, well, you started it."
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/Agree, tort reform would curb frivolous lawsuits, and would help reduce insurance costs that make health-care so unaffordable. Once the cost is cut, only then we are ready for the nationalized health-care. Otherwise we are in a long-haul tax-based system where the government will keep increasing taxes each year as the cost of the health-care and the lawsuits (which would make Government responsible) would go up, and up and up.
Windows has been around for 25 years, and the windowing GUI probably longer (I believe Bill took the concept from Steve who took the concept from Xerox). And lets face it, Compiz does not qualify as a new type of GUI. I would love to see a brand new concepts, such as Sun's Looking Glass https://lg3d.dev.java.net/ (now defunct) (or perhaps even better ideas then that, anyone knows of any?)
But it would be nice to get more innovation in that department.
Is not it the type we abolish this patent abuse? It hampers innovation and economy. It no longer does what it was meant to do -- to provide the means for the inventors to keep inventing. A patent holder is now on average a patent holding troll company who do nothing but buy intellectual property or submit troll patents for absolutely obvious things then sue the real inventors somewhere in Eastern Texas where the judges just grant injunctions for no reasons!
Agrr, this makes me so frustrated!
I would probably argue that religion and belief in metaphysical entities is a cornerstone of human evolution since our collective psyche is unable to deal, explain and understand death and the subsequent loss of ego and self-awareness, understanding harmonious and disharmonious interaction among human beings and many other things. Yes, we can always say, "I am atheist!", however I am not talking on individual level, but more on a collective level of society.
Replying to this anti-Semitic garbage, again, in reply to your numbers:
2. You are a stupid moron for trying to find a moral equivalence of the Arab terror campaign against the Israeli civilians where the peaceful population is deliberately targeted, and Israeli campaign against the Arab terrorists where the militants are targeted and the peaceful population is collateral damage. Nothing criminal about it on Israeli's end. Protection of your own population is paramount to whatever the idiots like you would say.
In short -- you can not find moral equivalence between the terrorists who are using their children as human shields shooting at Israeli population and the Israeli population who are trying to prevent such shooting by targeting the terrorists. There is a difference who is your target. That what makes them terrorists. And in terms of the high ratio of Arab vs. Israeli casualties -- don't give me this bullshit of "disproportionate use of force". Just because I have gun and you have a knife, does not mean that I should drop a gun and grab that knife. It is your fault for bringing a knife into a gun fight. In other words -- we will use any and all means possible to protect our population against harm, even if it means destroying school from which the missiles are launched against our people.
Now in regards to the original charge of you being anti-Semitic. That's because you accused us of "fabricating history". You are denying us our historical tie to the land and these structures. That in short is denying our identity, culture and religion. That is really what I find anti-Semitic. Not your anti-Israeli rants.
P.S. A while ago Slashdot changed to become more Digg-like, and unpopular opinions became flagged as "flame-bate". That's fine with me.
I can see the only reason for them to send a "convention" of the operatives to Dubai and then send two agents to Iran in such open manner as even duplicate passports of the Israeli dual-citizenship holders. It could be a shout-out to certain number of Israeli-hostile states in the Middle-East and Africa that no matter what you do and how many cameras you will put up: If you hurt Israel -- we will get you anytime, anywhere on our terms.
We do not know that. As a matter of fact I would say it is not true. Some converted to Christianity and Islam but modern DNA studies have proven the common link among all Jews in the world to a single ancestery; moreover those of Cohanic descent carry a special mutation in Y chromosome... http://www.humanitas-international.org/perezites/news/jewish-dna-nytimes.htm
The massacres of Arabs against the Jews were in reply to the moron who claimed that Arabs did not kill the Jews. Here is more information on it:
December 1947 - Small kibbutzim were subjected to attacks - Gvulot, Ben-Shemen, Holon, Safed, Bat Yam and Kfar Yavetz. Sixty-two Jews were murdered by Arabs around Palestine.
December 30, 1947 - 39 Jews were killed by Arab rioters at Haifa's oil refinery
January 16, 1948 - 35 Jews were killed trying to reach Gush Etzion
February 22, 1948 - 44 Jews were murdered in a bombing on Jerusalem's Rehov Ben-Yehuda
February 29, 1948 - 23 Jews were killed all across Palestine, eight of them at the Hayotzek iron foundry.
January and February 1948 - Rishon Lezion, Yehiam, Mishmar Hayarden, Tirat Zvi, Sde Eliahu, Ein Hanatziv, Magdiel, Mitzpe Hagalil and Ma'anit were all subjected to attacks. Arab attackers also bombedThe Palestine Post
April 13, 1948 - 35 Jew were murdered during the Mount Scopus convoy massacre
March and April - Assault on Hartuv by 400 Arabs based in the village of Ishwa and an attack on Kfar Darom by members of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Jewish Agency, the Solel Boneh building in Haifa and an Egged bus were bombed.
May 15, 1948 - 127 Jews were massacred at Kfar Etzion, after 30 others had died defending the Etzion Bloc.
And here is more but a little after Oslo: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Terrorism/TerrorAttacks.html
Oh and you are trying to say that throughout all events Arabs only killed 105 people. 1. You are an ignorant moron. Since September 2000 there has been 1,184 Israelis killed in the Arab terrorist acts. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Terrorism/victims.html. 2. You are a stupid moron for trying to find a moral equivalence of the Arab terror compaign against the Israeli civilians where the peaceful population is deliverately targeted, and Israeli compaign against the Arab terrorists where the militants are targeted and the peaceful population is collateral damage. Nothing criminal about it on Israeli's end. Protection of your own population is paramount to whatever the idiots like you would say. Moving on.
Palestine is very racist. While Israel has multiple of nationalities, races and religions living in its proper (Samaritans, Beduins, Arabs, Druze, Africans who all comprise multi-religious and multi-ethnic fabric of Israeli society), Palestinian Autonomy has publicly executed in the past during the reign of Arafat its Christian citizens in Nablus, and on multiple occasions of request by the Jewish settlers for Palestinian citizenship refused (although vast majority of the Arabs in Palestine trace their ancestry to Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia, for example Yassir Arafat himself was born in Cairo).
Now also you proclaim that Israeli treat their non-Jewish as the South African apartheid government used to treat its blacks (or the Afrikaans I think you mean, whatever). So, you are either an uninformed or a lying moron.
Ethnic minorities have full voting rights in Israel and are entitled to government benefits. Israeli Employment (Equal Opportunities) Law, 1988 prohibits discrimination in hiring, working conditions, promotion, professional training or studies, discharge or severance pay and benefits and payments provided for employees in connection with their retirement from employment, because of race, religion, nationality and land of origin, among other reasons.[48] Prohibition of Discrimination in Products, Services and Entry into Places of Entertainment and Public Places Law, forbid those who operate public places or provide services or products to discriminate because of race, religion, nationality,and land of origin, among other reasons.[49]
My apologies, you are absolutely correct. Ogg is a container while Vorbis is a codec. But while mp3 is two and more functions put together (with different possible barely compatible codecs to boot).
Typically there were many solutions to SPAM that includes: 1. Filtering by keywords and phrases 2. Bayesian (or more complicated AI filtering) 3. Trusted Domains and its flipside: blacklist database 4. Domain keys
All of these are defeated by various means:
1. There are many ways one can say "Viagra", "ViAgRa", "V1@gra" or just "that blue pill women talk about". So word and phrase obfuscation is used to fight the spam. 2. Bayesian filtering is defeated by seeding the database with valid text (For example, how many of you saw The Lord Of the Rings passage on the bottom of your email? This effectively defeats the probability counters, but given enough email training, as long as the size of the given group is magnitudes higher then the size of the sample tested, poisoning technique would be less likely to work. There are some AI developments in filtering technologies to enable to overcome this problem. 3. Blacklists are easily defeated by "botnets" and all other distributed spamming "nets". 4. Domain keys are implemented by "Yahoo!" and "Gmail" and others, creates a net of "trusted" domains and smtp relays, but still defeated when a spammer infiltrates a given domain (as evidenced by recent influx of spam from gmail) and uses its trusted status to send out spam.
So, I am surprised noone has ever talked about scrapping SMTP protocol completely and replace it with something a lot more secure. AMTP (http://amtp.bw.org/) is a good start. My personal opinion is that there is supposed to be several important features present in the new protocols.
"MusicDNA was developed by Norwegian firm Bach Technology, the company that also created the MP3 file, in an attempt to combat illegal file-sharing."
(emphasis mine)
Ok well I am sorry but I do not understand. According to ematch.eu:
Founded in March 2007, BACH is a new and fast growing music technology company. BACH has achieved a strategic partnership with Fraunhofer IDMT, an internationally proven and trusted institution in the music industry. In December 2009 BACH finalized it's first major investment round. Shareholders include Karlheinz Brandenburg (one of the inventor of the MP3 algorithm), 247 Inc. (the company of Shigeo Maruyama, the former Sony Music and Sony Computing CEO) and the German VC b-mt.
So, how is the company responcible for mp3 format, because Karlheinz Brandenburg was responsible for one of the mp3 algorithms? And, he is just a shareholder. By far, he was not the only one who brought it about, and his implementation was one of several that made it into market. But as you can see -- the major shareholders are the music industry, specifically 247 Inc, the arm of Sony who are interested in it.
In short Bach Technologies are overstating their credentials. They did not create MP3 and this was done for no other reason then an attempt to bring more DRM into the fold of the market.
Vorbis files can compress to a smaller file size and still sound fine; Vorbis' better compression will cut down on bandwidth costs and keep you from being a victim of your own popularity.
Vorbis' standardized, easily-edited comment header provides a space for you to scribble all sorts of notes about yourself to distribute with the music; this helps fans find you, your site, and where to buy your stuff.
If you decide to sell your music in MP3 format, you are responsible for paying Fraunhofer a percentage of each sale because you are using their patents. Vorbis is patent and license-free, so you will never need to pay anyone in order to sell, give away, or stream your own music.
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We have the Service of Labour for many years, it is just now called "convict chain gangs". Every time you go on the highway and see a bunch of men in jumpsuits picking up trash while a guy with a van calmly drives it behind them -- that means these people are by definition -- held to Service of Labour.
3/5th was done specifically for a noble cause by the Northern States to combat the Southern States' push for protection of the 'peculiar institution', i.e. the Slavery. Basically the constitution writers would fear that the slave owners would use every slave they own to cast a full vote, according to the wishes of that slave-owner. So the compromise was made to count it as just above half vote (60%), so that it would take five slaves to equal three votes. The writers of the constitution wanted to put the breaks on the slavery (such as Thomas Jefferson, for example), but it met with a lot of opposition, and the convention was in jeopardy. This was the only way to create this compromise for the constitution to be ratified and the United States of America to come to existence.
I think that although cyberweapons do not exist, government can implement a best next thing: killswitch for individual networks at the backbone level. Seriously, consider that US owns majority of the Internet. Say they find some sort of DDOS attack that originated in Russia against Estonia. They would be able to immediately cut off some Russian networks out of the main backbones on various levels (cut off access to root DNS if they are naugty, and if they are especially bad -- cut off all their IP blocks).
I have no doubt in my mind that this is a hint of opressed press: The Great Comrade Kim Jong Il is old, sick and soon to die. And here is a reason: in 1952-53 when Stalin was on his deathbed, official press maintained that "The Father of All Nations" was in the greatest health of all. However, sometime around that time, hints appeared all over the press, such an article that was published in Pravda that claimed that there is a rumor that Georgians live way past 130 years. The average Soviet people would then read it, conclude that it is impossible, and then realize what the paper really meant to say "between the lines".
At an art museum in Europe, an Englishman, a Frenchman, and a North Korean stand before a painting of Adam and Eve holding an apple in the Garden of Eden. The Englishman says: "The man has something tasty to eat and is eager to share it with the woman. Based on that, I would conclude that they're rather obviously English..." The Frenchman says: "I disagree. They're walking around entirely naked, so they must be French..." The North Korean says: "There is no doubt in my mind that they're North Korean. They have no clothes to wear, barely anything to eat, and they still think they're in heaven!"
:-) EOM
"Clearly you know very little about the Chernobyl" I wish you did not use this phrase. I lived in the immediate area within 40 miles radius, and yes, I had relatives and friends die from pancreatic cancer and leukemia in the years following.
Having survived Chernobyl it gives me a great fear if such reactor runs Windows. We will all be glowing in a dark after that blue screen....
Stop putting government noses into the business with regulations and bailouts, and then the system would not be so fucked up. And btw, in regards to wealthy: The upper 50% of the wage earners pay @97% of all tax collections, and the lower ones only @3%. The upper of the upper pay a disproportionate share of that too, the Top 1% of earners = 37% of taxes paid, the next bracket 2-5% accounts for another 20%. So about 57% paid by the top 5%. Especially as this is for Personal Income Tax only, and many of the more wealthy have much of the income taxed (some would say double taxed) by in the Corporate returns of those corporations they control/own. The top 1% of earners pay 21.20% of all taxes paid at an average rate of 24%, the top 2 - 5% of earners pay 14.55% of all taxes at an average of 18% (Top 5% pay @36% of all tax) The bottom 50% pay 3% of all tax collected at an average rate of 2.98%. How much in taxes do YOU pay?
Typical progressive counter-argument. Argue the bad delivery of the message or a character of the messenger when you can't argue the message itself. Sad.
/agree mod the parent :-)
obligatory welfare joke:
A guy walks into the local welfare office, marches straight up to the counter and says, "Hi . . . You know, I just HATE drawing welfare. I'd really rather have a job".
The social worker behind the counter says, "Your timing is excellent. We just got a job opening from a very wealthy old man who wants a chauffeur/bodyguard for his nymphomaniac daughter. You'll have to drive
around in his Mercedes, but he'll supply all of your clothes. Because of the long hours, meals will be provided. You'll be expected to escort her on her overseas holiday trips. You'll have a two-bedroom apartment above the garage. The starting salary is $200,000 a year".
The guy says, "You're bullshitting me!"
The social worker says, "Yeah, well, you started it."
/Agree, tort reform would curb frivolous lawsuits, and would help reduce insurance costs that make health-care so unaffordable. Once the cost is cut, only then we are ready for the nationalized health-care. Otherwise we are in a long-haul tax-based system where the government will keep increasing taxes each year as the cost of the health-care and the lawsuits (which would make Government responsible) would go up, and up and up.
Clamwin http://www.clamwin.org/ virusscanner with ClamSentinel http://clamsentinel.sourceforge.net/ that provides on-access scanning. It works wonders for me!
Windows has been around for 25 years, and the windowing GUI probably longer (I believe Bill took the concept from Steve who took the concept from Xerox). And lets face it, Compiz does not qualify as a new type of GUI. I would love to see a brand new concepts, such as Sun's Looking Glass https://lg3d.dev.java.net/ (now defunct) (or perhaps even better ideas then that, anyone knows of any?) But it would be nice to get more innovation in that department.
Is not it the type we abolish this patent abuse? It hampers innovation and economy. It no longer does what it was meant to do -- to provide the means for the inventors to keep inventing. A patent holder is now on average a patent holding troll company who do nothing but buy intellectual property or submit troll patents for absolutely obvious things then sue the real inventors somewhere in Eastern Texas where the judges just grant injunctions for no reasons! Agrr, this makes me so frustrated!
I would probably argue that religion and belief in metaphysical entities is a cornerstone of human evolution since our collective psyche is unable to deal, explain and understand death and the subsequent loss of ego and self-awareness, understanding harmonious and disharmonious interaction among human beings and many other things. Yes, we can always say, "I am atheist!", however I am not talking on individual level, but more on a collective level of society.
In short -- you can not find moral equivalence between the terrorists who are using their children as human shields shooting at Israeli population and the Israeli population who are trying to prevent such shooting by targeting the terrorists. There is a difference who is your target. That what makes them terrorists. And in terms of the high ratio of Arab vs. Israeli casualties -- don't give me this bullshit of "disproportionate use of force". Just because I have gun and you have a knife, does not mean that I should drop a gun and grab that knife. It is your fault for bringing a knife into a gun fight. In other words -- we will use any and all means possible to protect our population against harm, even if it means destroying school from which the missiles are launched against our people. Now in regards to the original charge of you being anti-Semitic. That's because you accused us of "fabricating history". You are denying us our historical tie to the land and these structures. That in short is denying our identity, culture and religion. That is really what I find anti-Semitic. Not your anti-Israeli rants. P.S. A while ago Slashdot changed to become more Digg-like, and unpopular opinions became flagged as "flame-bate". That's fine with me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCARS
I can see the only reason for them to send a "convention" of the operatives to Dubai and then send two agents to Iran in such open manner as even duplicate passports of the Israeli dual-citizenship holders. It could be a shout-out to certain number of Israeli-hostile states in the Middle-East and Africa that no matter what you do and how many cameras you will put up: If you hurt Israel -- we will get you anytime, anywhere on our terms.
We do not know that. As a matter of fact I would say it is not true. Some converted to Christianity and Islam but modern DNA studies have proven the common link among all Jews in the world to a single ancestery; moreover those of Cohanic descent carry a special mutation in Y chromosome... http://www.humanitas-international.org/perezites/news/jewish-dna-nytimes.htm
And here is more but a little after Oslo: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Terrorism/TerrorAttacks.html Oh and you are trying to say that throughout all events Arabs only killed 105 people.
1. You are an ignorant moron. Since September 2000 there has been 1,184 Israelis killed in the Arab terrorist acts. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Terrorism/victims.html.
2. You are a stupid moron for trying to find a moral equivalence of the Arab terror compaign against the Israeli civilians where the peaceful population is deliverately targeted, and Israeli compaign against the Arab terrorists where the militants are targeted and the peaceful population is collateral damage. Nothing criminal about it on Israeli's end. Protection of your own population is paramount to whatever the idiots like you would say. Moving on.
Palestine is very racist. While Israel has multiple of nationalities, races and religions living in its proper (Samaritans, Beduins, Arabs, Druze, Africans who all comprise multi-religious and multi-ethnic fabric of Israeli society), Palestinian Autonomy has publicly executed in the past during the reign of Arafat its Christian citizens in Nablus, and on multiple occasions of request by the Jewish settlers for Palestinian citizenship refused (although vast majority of the Arabs in Palestine trace their ancestry to Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia, for example Yassir Arafat himself was born in Cairo).
Now also you proclaim that Israeli treat their non-Jewish as the South African apartheid government used to treat its blacks (or the Afrikaans I think you mean, whatever). So, you are either an uninformed or a lying moron.
My apologies, you are absolutely correct. Ogg is a container while Vorbis is a codec. But while mp3 is two and more functions put together (with different possible barely compatible codecs to boot).
Typically there were many solutions to SPAM that includes:
1. Filtering by keywords and phrases
2. Bayesian (or more complicated AI filtering)
3. Trusted Domains and its flipside: blacklist database
4. Domain keys
All of these are defeated by various means:
1. There are many ways one can say "Viagra", "ViAgRa", "V1@gra" or just "that blue pill women talk about". So word and phrase obfuscation is used to fight the spam.
2. Bayesian filtering is defeated by seeding the database with valid text (For example, how many of you saw The Lord Of the Rings passage on the bottom of your email? This effectively defeats the probability counters, but given enough email training, as long as the size of the given group is magnitudes higher then the size of the sample tested, poisoning technique would be less likely to work. There are some AI developments in filtering technologies to enable to overcome this problem.
3. Blacklists are easily defeated by "botnets" and all other distributed spamming "nets".
4. Domain keys are implemented by "Yahoo!" and "Gmail" and others, creates a net of "trusted" domains and smtp relays, but still defeated when a spammer infiltrates a given domain (as evidenced by recent influx of spam from gmail) and uses its trusted status to send out spam.
So, I am surprised noone has ever talked about scrapping SMTP protocol completely and replace it with something a lot more secure. AMTP (http://amtp.bw.org/) is a good start. My personal opinion is that there is supposed to be several important features present in the new protocols.
(emphasis mine) Ok well I am sorry but I do not understand. According to ematch.eu:
So, how is the company responcible for mp3 format, because Karlheinz Brandenburg was responsible for one of the mp3 algorithms? And, he is just a shareholder. By far, he was not the only one who brought it about, and his implementation was one of several that made it into market. But as you can see -- the major shareholders are the music industry, specifically 247 Inc, the arm of Sony who are interested in it. In short Bach Technologies are overstating their credentials. They did not create MP3 and this was done for no other reason then an attempt to bring more DRM into the fold of the market.
--------- http://www.vorbis.com/faq/