Well, giving prizes for these sounded like a very bad idea from the beginning. Don't offer prizes and mak participants pay. Only the very crazy will come and magic will happen.
However, banning 3d printing as a whole, or mandating devices to check what you are printing, or forbidding the publication of CAD designs, these would be problematic.
But we are not talking about software here, we are talking about algorithms. Patents cover processes which are abstract entities. I agree with the point you are making but I think it is irrelevant to the current case.
You don't seem to understand that the problem is not with Windows, Linux, Microsoft or Torvalds, but about the driver developers.
Driver developers target Windows. Period. Windows does not develop the ATI driver, the Nvidia driver, provides just a stack for developing the thousands of wireless drivers out there.
If you had a clue about what you are talking about, you would see that driver interfaces in linux are good, are working, are really good to develop with. They are documented, they do change at a pace that's much less insane than Windows'.
Every hardware that does work at all under linux (and honestly, I had more luck with linux in recent times when installing new drivers or usb camera than windows) works because someone in the OSS world wrote a driver for it. This work is not done by Microsoft for windows, so don't compare apples and oranges.
If you want to shout against someone for the lack of graphical cards driver support (that must be it, because, seriously, wireless and sound have been working correctly for ages on most hardware) you will have to shout at ATI and NVidia. The binary blobs you are probably referring to are made by them, not by anyone in the kernel develoment team. And yes, they often break, they often have unfixed bugs. Preferentially shout a bit more at NVidia because while ATI doesn't open source its driver, it at least opens its specifications and allows the OSS driver developer to at least not code blindfolded.
You made a point that everyone already knew : that guns are 3D printable, that states would worry about that. 3D printing hobbyists told you that it was a dumb thing to do, not because we dislike guns, but because it would cause too early regulations of a domain that still needs a lot of steam to come up with some useful designs to print (seriously, the guns they make are toys, or rather, proof of concepts. More "bullet detonators" than guns). Seriously, fuck you and fuck everything about this.
If I have a keyboard, I want a shortcut that allows me to write the command I want to start.
If I am on a touchscreen, I prefer to have a big scrollable list of icons than a menu.
The Start menu was a strange idea that was Microsoft attempt at copying the Apple icon. It never really worked as intended. I don't miss it (the latter may be due partly to the fact that I don't use Windows much anymore)
Why do you want to analyze everything? If the goal is to find everything bad that someone you don't like said or browsed online, storing is all you need.
"Oh, I know why you don't like interception capabilities, Mr Senator, but what can you tell us about your frequent visits to sexymilfinbestialbondage.com ?"
Murder is an instant felony. Yet murder is still very common. We all know that we won't prevent everyone from killing another person. Yet "it still happens despite being illegal" is not a sufficient argument. In these cases you have to balance between what it will cost to society to persue something as a crime and to accept it as a legal practice.
Murder is impossible to prevent, but we decided that it was still worth trying to lower their occurence. Heroin trafficking is impossible to prevent, but it was decided it is still worth trying to make it hard to get.
Also a comment on Europeans vs European law. There is a strong set of causalities between these two. Here in France, after the war, the country was full of smuggled weapons in the hands of civilians. There was a big crackdown on weapons and criminals in the years following 1945. Many French people of my generation will tell you that their grandfathers had an old war weapon hidden somewhere. Thing is, it is illegal to show, illegal to own, and in a generation or two, most of the population was disarmed.
Note that I am not sure this is a good thing politically-wise but for lowering crimes and accidents, it surely was positive. I am not necessarily opposed to the idea that an armed population is a good idea in a democracy, but don't deny that it has a cost in human lives in periods of peace.
Meanwhile, anybody who has used CSS will wonder what the hell the original intention was
It was to provide an easier alternative to xhtml/xsl. Instead of the total separation between data and formatting that many programmers rooted for, it is a bastard compromise that was reached : HTML would still specify both data and formatting but formatting would "skinable".
Some days I think that we live anyway in a world of compromise and that it is true that HTML/CSS is easier to use in 95% of case, yet other days I wonder if in the end we are not doomed to come back to the original intent, after a long path : have a Turing-complete language generate the formatted page from an XML content.
This was in Tokyo (near Iidabashi). The ssh-cutting thing happened in my weekly mansion, that possibly shared a big connection and could have implemented its own aggressive traffic shaping, but the P2P was through a (small) business connection. It is good to know that fiber won't have that problem.
Last time I was in Japan, I had a good connection, but the ISP decided to drop every ssh connection above a given traffic. My tunnels kept being broken until I set a speed limit on my side.
I tried also to seed some videos (that I created) but did not manage to get peers at more than 1KB/s
It is good to have a high speed, but it is useless if it is just to watch youtube videos. I won't trade the decent DSL I have here in France through a protocol-tolerant ISP (Free Telecom) to a fiber connection through someone like Sony who is well known for its tight control.
Just a few days ago, I made that calculation, but I estimated it to be around 5 MW. Actually, making such an estimate forces one to guess what kind of hardware is currently being used. 5MW estimates that most hardware are GPUs and neglects ASIC, FPGAs and CPUs. The author thus claim that the majority of hashes are made on CPUs, which is a possible, but debatable claim.
On the environmental cost, it is indeed higher than regular bank notes, but one thing is certain : it will not cost more in electricity than the amount of money it generates per day. Currently the network generates 25 BTC every 500 seconds, or 172 BTC per day. At the current rate of ~100$, it means that it won't cost more than $17,200 per day in electricity before people realize it is not economically sustainable. This means that at 0.15 cents per KWh, the limit of profitability for mining is currently around 4MW.
If you are an Australian voter and know other concerned about the Assange case, be loud about the fact that you will follow the exchange negotiations closely and that this will affect your future votes and loyalties. Try to appear as as big a demographic as possible.
I say it honestly but don't know how to word that without sounding condescendant. If you believe that lying in order to trigger a war and lying in order to hide an extra-conjugal affair is the same kind of treason, the thought that you may have the right to vote frightens me. Get your priorities straight, for heaven's sake. Neither Clinton did damage the US through their sex lie. Neither did kill an American because of that.
And for me to not support the future democrat, when you see the amount of insanity and greed that republicans display nowadays, it would have to be Stalin's clone.
No. Saddam claimed he had none. He let UN inspectors who reported there were none. Google Hans Blix if you have bad memory about these events. In fact most non-US outlets were saying very clearly that Iraq probably did not have any WMD and that in any case they were unusable.
The worst? GWB went to war on a lie, that he knew was a lie. He did not just sabotaged peace talks, he deliberately destroyed a peace situation and went to war despite a UN opposition. This conflict killed 24000 coalition force personal, including ~ 5000 Americans. Civilian victims are estimated between 100k and 1mil.
He destroyed US reputation, he destroyed UN credibility. He lied to his people and to congress. But because this was not about sex, it seems less important.
Really, from afar, the focus of US public opinion is quite strange.
Thinking that North Korea is not autonomous without China is a pure fiction. Military technology is the only thing they manage to produce correctly, but their army is far from being laughable. How many nations managed to put a satellite into orbit after just one failed attempt?
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But Intel's linux driver is open sourced. This counts as helping!
Don't forget that they would use gasoline instead of solar toys. The energy density of oil is 20 times the one of the best batteries.
Well, giving prizes for these sounded like a very bad idea from the beginning. Don't offer prizes and mak participants pay. Only the very crazy will come and magic will happen.
And if you are the boss of a spy and that this is not part of uour guidelines, just resign. You are a threat to your own country.
However, banning 3d printing as a whole, or mandating devices to check what you are printing, or forbidding the publication of CAD designs, these would be problematic.
After all, who is in business to make a lost ?
The government. Seriously, that is the definition of a public service.
But we are not talking about software here, we are talking about algorithms. Patents cover processes which are abstract entities. I agree with the point you are making but I think it is irrelevant to the current case.
You don't seem to understand that the problem is not with Windows, Linux, Microsoft or Torvalds, but about the driver developers.
Driver developers target Windows. Period. Windows does not develop the ATI driver, the Nvidia driver, provides just a stack for developing the thousands of wireless drivers out there.
If you had a clue about what you are talking about, you would see that driver interfaces in linux are good, are working, are really good to develop with. They are documented, they do change at a pace that's much less insane than Windows'.
Every hardware that does work at all under linux (and honestly, I had more luck with linux in recent times when installing new drivers or usb camera than windows) works because someone in the OSS world wrote a driver for it. This work is not done by Microsoft for windows, so don't compare apples and oranges.
If you want to shout against someone for the lack of graphical cards driver support (that must be it, because, seriously, wireless and sound have been working correctly for ages on most hardware) you will have to shout at ATI and NVidia. The binary blobs you are probably referring to are made by them, not by anyone in the kernel develoment team. And yes, they often break, they often have unfixed bugs. Preferentially shout a bit more at NVidia because while ATI doesn't open source its driver, it at least opens its specifications and allows the OSS driver developer to at least not code blindfolded.
Agreed. I see the two alternatives as two different kind of defeats.
What is their incentive for doing it right anyway? Since when do people check the result of security audits on the smartphone they want to buy?
You made a point that everyone already knew : that guns are 3D printable, that states would worry about that. 3D printing hobbyists told you that it was a dumb thing to do, not because we dislike guns, but because it would cause too early regulations of a domain that still needs a lot of steam to come up with some useful designs to print (seriously, the guns they make are toys, or rather, proof of concepts. More "bullet detonators" than guns). Seriously, fuck you and fuck everything about this.
If I have a keyboard, I want a shortcut that allows me to write the command I want to start.
If I am on a touchscreen, I prefer to have a big scrollable list of icons than a menu.
The Start menu was a strange idea that was Microsoft attempt at copying the Apple icon. It never really worked as intended. I don't miss it (the latter may be due partly to the fact that I don't use Windows much anymore)
Why do you want to analyze everything? If the goal is to find everything bad that someone you don't like said or browsed online, storing is all you need.
"Oh, I know why you don't like interception capabilities, Mr Senator, but what can you tell us about your frequent visits to sexymilfinbestialbondage.com ?"
Murder is an instant felony. Yet murder is still very common. We all know that we won't prevent everyone from killing another person. Yet "it still happens despite being illegal" is not a sufficient argument. In these cases you have to balance between what it will cost to society to persue something as a crime and to accept it as a legal practice.
Murder is impossible to prevent, but we decided that it was still worth trying to lower their occurence. Heroin trafficking is impossible to prevent, but it was decided it is still worth trying to make it hard to get.
Also a comment on Europeans vs European law. There is a strong set of causalities between these two. Here in France, after the war, the country was full of smuggled weapons in the hands of civilians. There was a big crackdown on weapons and criminals in the years following 1945. Many French people of my generation will tell you that their grandfathers had an old war weapon hidden somewhere. Thing is, it is illegal to show, illegal to own, and in a generation or two, most of the population was disarmed.
Note that I am not sure this is a good thing politically-wise but for lowering crimes and accidents, it surely was positive. I am not necessarily opposed to the idea that an armed population is a good idea in a democracy, but don't deny that it has a cost in human lives in periods of peace.
Meanwhile, anybody who has used CSS will wonder what the hell the original intention was
It was to provide an easier alternative to xhtml/xsl. Instead of the total separation between data and formatting that many programmers rooted for, it is a bastard compromise that was reached : HTML would still specify both data and formatting but formatting would "skinable".
Some days I think that we live anyway in a world of compromise and that it is true that HTML/CSS is easier to use in 95% of case, yet other days I wonder if in the end we are not doomed to come back to the original intent, after a long path : have a Turing-complete language generate the formatted page from an XML content.
This was in Tokyo (near Iidabashi). The ssh-cutting thing happened in my weekly mansion, that possibly shared a big connection and could have implemented its own aggressive traffic shaping, but the P2P was through a (small) business connection. It is good to know that fiber won't have that problem.
Last time I was in Japan, I had a good connection, but the ISP decided to drop every ssh connection above a given traffic. My tunnels kept being broken until I set a speed limit on my side.
I tried also to seed some videos (that I created) but did not manage to get peers at more than 1KB/s
It is good to have a high speed, but it is useless if it is just to watch youtube videos. I won't trade the decent DSL I have here in France through a protocol-tolerant ISP (Free Telecom) to a fiber connection through someone like Sony who is well known for its tight control.
Just a few days ago, I made that calculation, but I estimated it to be around 5 MW. Actually, making such an estimate forces one to guess what kind of hardware is currently being used. 5MW estimates that most hardware are GPUs and neglects ASIC, FPGAs and CPUs. The author thus claim that the majority of hashes are made on CPUs, which is a possible, but debatable claim.
On the environmental cost, it is indeed higher than regular bank notes, but one thing is certain : it will not cost more in electricity than the amount of money it generates per day. Currently the network generates 25 BTC every 500 seconds, or 172 BTC per day. At the current rate of ~100$, it means that it won't cost more than $17,200 per day in electricity before people realize it is not economically sustainable. This means that at 0.15 cents per KWh, the limit of profitability for mining is currently around 4MW.
If you are an Australian voter and know other concerned about the Assange case, be loud about the fact that you will follow the exchange negotiations closely and that this will affect your future votes and loyalties. Try to appear as as big a demographic as possible.
I say it honestly but don't know how to word that without sounding condescendant. If you believe that lying in order to trigger a war and lying in order to hide an extra-conjugal affair is the same kind of treason, the thought that you may have the right to vote frightens me. Get your priorities straight, for heaven's sake. Neither Clinton did damage the US through their sex lie. Neither did kill an American because of that.
And for me to not support the future democrat, when you see the amount of insanity and greed that republicans display nowadays, it would have to be Stalin's clone.
No. Saddam claimed he had none. He let UN inspectors who reported there were none. Google Hans Blix if you have bad memory about these events. In fact most non-US outlets were saying very clearly that Iraq probably did not have any WMD and that in any case they were unusable.
What the fuck were the congressmen thinking?
What the fuck was NASA thinking when it complied?
Ok, NASA has been shut off in everything that it was meaningful.
The worst? GWB went to war on a lie, that he knew was a lie. He did not just sabotaged peace talks, he deliberately destroyed a peace situation and went to war despite a UN opposition. This conflict killed 24000 coalition force personal, including ~ 5000 Americans. Civilian victims are estimated between 100k and 1mil.
He destroyed US reputation, he destroyed UN credibility. He lied to his people and to congress. But because this was not about sex, it seems less important.
Really, from afar, the focus of US public opinion is quite strange.
Give every spy access to US financial data. Even give access to underpaid subcontractors. Wait a year. Get a new tasty wikileaks scandal.
I say go for it.
Thinking that North Korea is not autonomous without China is a pure fiction. Military technology is the only thing they manage to produce correctly, but their army is far from being laughable. How many nations managed to put a satellite into orbit after just one failed attempt?