Earth has a magnetic shield. Earth has a gravtational shield. Whil I agree that all of these are completely natural, they both strike me as a improbable and essential to mankind. Discovering such things makes us realize that Earth is an exceptionnal place, and lowers the result of the Drake equation by a few orders of magnitude. If it takes such coincidences for life to develop, then life may be rarer in the universe than we first thought.
The thing is, Linus is a lucky guy : he managed to get into a position where he doesn't have to do politics. He can focus exclusively on the technical merits of the code. Few of us are that lucky.
As someone who has seen a boss coming out of a Microsoft "Advantadge Clients Brainfucking" claiming "Ok boys, ditch all this, we are switching to.Net" I can not consider that ignoring politics totally is safe for me. I want Microsoft dead. I want Microsoft stopping corrupting ISO meetings, European MPs, and locking technologies. I prefer them stopping this instead of seeing them contributing to OSS. Because all I want is to concentrate on solving problems, I don't want to care about compatibility issues with non protocol-compliant software. These are uninteresting problems. Instead of that, I even prefer to do politics.
So in order to get an untraceable leak, you just have to "steal" the document of your colleagues ? That they will not protect a lot from you, as you have the same informations. That sounds to me as a too error-prone process to be useful. You have a better than random chance to get a leak, but also a very good chance to catch the wrong person. I would not use that other than as a deterent.
Anyway, in an hypothetical world without copyright laws, the GPL would indeed be obsolete. Many of the issues it tries to solve would be solved and for the rest, well, something else will have to be invented. If you ask me, I prefer to lose both GPL and stupide copyright laws than keeping both.
When assessing your adversaries, you always assess capability, not probability or even intention
Your remark bears an interesting question : what could be the motives of someone doing such a thing ? I don't see many groups that would like to launch a nuclear war. Some apocalyptic fanatics groups can be found, maybe, but for any powerful group/nation, I see no interest at all in turning the atmosphere into a carcinogenic zone.
I honestly believe that Microsoft and Microsoft people (which represent a lot of people and even a lot of sub-community considering the number of "labs" they own) are finally "getting it". I think these attempts are honest and that they are jealous of the community other OSS-friendly companies managed to build.
I also believe that tit-for-that is one of the most winning strategy in the prisonner's dilemma game. They'll have to do a lot more effort before I consider them worthy of trust.
On a slightly unrelated note, this may be my first first post. It is insane how quickly I became moderated +5. It is insane how effective the strategy to reply to my post in order to gain visibility was (I admit using this quite often though) Don't get me wrong, I think that Slashdot's moderation system is the best in the web so far. But to stay at the forefront, I think that such issues would merit some tentative fixes.
How about a random shuffle of equally-nested equally-moderated posts ?
Wikipedia does not have to increase its popularity, it has no online free rivals. It is the people who have a wikipedia page that will be willing to have such a nice picture than all American presidents who will provide copyleft pictures. If we can get RIAA-sponsored stars to interest themselves about these pesky legal issues, this is a great benefit.
And if you really need a picture or are ready to (sigh) "steal" an image with a copyright, there is always Google Image, the greatest aggregator of ready-to-be-pirated copyrighted material.
From what I am reading, the company which discovered it has radiation protection as a specialty but this drug is only loosely related to this. This molecule is showing good result in tumor treatments (31 subjects with a prostate cancer took it, 50% of them stabilized or had their tumor decrease)
What is even worse is the argument that 3 other reserves are doing fine... It takes 3 years of poor management to have tigers disappear in a reserve, but you can then have good management during 100 years, they won't spontaneously reappear. Even if you bring new specimens, some biological variation has irremediably been lost.
Is it important which came first ? The whole thing is screwed. Let's fix it instead of trying to blame someone. And the proposed laws don't go in the direction of fixing it. That is all we are saying.
You know, sometimes people give the impression of doing group-think when they independently come to the same conclusion. We don't try to be right just by opposing the "Big Guys", we try to be right by actually seeking the truth. Sometimes we yay at the Powers That Be (suddenoutbreakofcommonsense expresses that) when they move in the correct direction.
Few people say it is okay. A lot of people however say that you won't manage to prevent people from file sharing unless you control Internet and personal computers completely and that would have a huge cost to society. Therefore, if filesharing becomes such a serious problem that it prevents artists from getting a decent pay (this has still to be proved though), the remuneration of artists has to go through a different system.
It looks like people are wanting to just get free stuff, but the claim is different : they say that trying to protect a revenue stream based on the control and production of copies, in a world where making copies is basically free, is nonsensical and counter-productive.
But HD quality will provide them with newer proofs that we never landed there. You know, I am waiting fot his, these conspiracy theories are always funny and I usually learn some science I did not know when reading the retorts.
Neuronal simulations are so scarce because we fail at finding a good algorithm for them to implement complex and interesting behaviors that go beyond approximating a function. We have plenty of CPU power to make neuronal simulations. Simulating a neuron with a capacitor and a transistor would be easy but we never had to make such an acceleration board because the lack of CPU power is not the problem. The problem is that our current algorithms do not scale up into something interesting.
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Earth has a magnetic shield. Earth has a gravtational shield. Whil I agree that all of these are completely natural, they both strike me as a improbable and essential to mankind. Discovering such things makes us realize that Earth is an exceptionnal place, and lowers the result of the Drake equation by a few orders of magnitude. If it takes such coincidences for life to develop, then life may be rarer in the universe than we first thought.
The thing is, Linus is a lucky guy : he managed to get into a position where he doesn't have to do politics. He can focus exclusively on the technical merits of the code. Few of us are that lucky.
.Net" I can not consider that ignoring politics totally is safe for me. I want Microsoft dead. I want Microsoft stopping corrupting ISO meetings, European MPs, and locking technologies. I prefer them stopping this instead of seeing them contributing to OSS. Because all I want is to concentrate on solving problems, I don't want to care about compatibility issues with non protocol-compliant software. These are uninteresting problems. Instead of that, I even prefer to do politics.
As someone who has seen a boss coming out of a Microsoft "Advantadge Clients Brainfucking" claiming "Ok boys, ditch all this, we are switching to
So in order to get an untraceable leak, you just have to "steal" the document of your colleagues ? That they will not protect a lot from you, as you have the same informations. That sounds to me as a too error-prone process to be useful. You have a better than random chance to get a leak, but also a very good chance to catch the wrong person. I would not use that other than as a deterent.
Anyway, in an hypothetical world without copyright laws, the GPL would indeed be obsolete. Many of the issues it tries to solve would be solved and for the rest, well, something else will have to be invented. If you ask me, I prefer to lose both GPL and stupide copyright laws than keeping both.
When assessing your adversaries, you always assess capability, not probability or even intention
Your remark bears an interesting question : what could be the motives of someone doing such a thing ? I don't see many groups that would like to launch a nuclear war. Some apocalyptic fanatics groups can be found, maybe, but for any powerful group/nation, I see no interest at all in turning the atmosphere into a carcinogenic zone.
As a non-WoW player, I have a more important question : will it be subtitled ?
I honestly believe that Microsoft and Microsoft people (which represent a lot of people and even a lot of sub-community considering the number of "labs" they own) are finally "getting it". I think these attempts are honest and that they are jealous of the community other OSS-friendly companies managed to build.
I also believe that tit-for-that is one of the most winning strategy in the prisonner's dilemma game. They'll have to do a lot more effort before I consider them worthy of trust.
clean, cheap, reliable
Choose two.
It is a good transitional energy. Let's use it while we focus on making renewable energy economically viable.
But that does not protect medical lab technicians who use or engineers who design testing systems for biological samples.
On a slightly unrelated note, this may be my first first post. It is insane how quickly I became moderated +5. It is insane how effective the strategy to reply to my post in order to gain visibility was (I admit using this quite often though)
Don't get me wrong, I think that Slashdot's moderation system is the best in the web so far. But to stay at the forefront, I think that such issues would merit some tentative fixes.
How about a random shuffle of equally-nested equally-moderated posts ?
DRM is a dead horse I would like to beat a little more.
Or nuke from orbit, it is the only way to be sure...
There are other ways of dating. I thought that bacteria colonies or microscopic mushrooms were used too.
Wikipedia does not have to increase its popularity, it has no online free rivals. It is the people who have a wikipedia page that will be willing to have such a nice picture than all American presidents who will provide copyleft pictures. If we can get RIAA-sponsored stars to interest themselves about these pesky legal issues, this is a great benefit.
And if you really need a picture or are ready to (sigh) "steal" an image with a copyright, there is always Google Image, the greatest aggregator of ready-to-be-pirated copyrighted material.
I think there would still be some clues... For instance, does a ink-covered spot of paper age the same way a non-inked spot does ?
From what I am reading, the company which discovered it has radiation protection as a specialty but this drug is only loosely related to this. This molecule is showing good result in tumor treatments (31 subjects with a prostate cancer took it, 50% of them stabilized or had their tumor decrease)
Video is for the english native too lazy to read. I want a quick scan through what he says and skipping his "ahhhh" "errrr"....
Because no one wanted to step on these "did I get fat ?" discussions with tools to actually have an objective measurement.
The first post is somehow a patch. /. community passes !
What is even worse is the argument that 3 other reserves are doing fine... It takes 3 years of poor management to have tigers disappear in a reserve, but you can then have good management during 100 years, they won't spontaneously reappear. Even if you bring new specimens, some biological variation has irremediably been lost.
That is natural selection. Let the natural legal process operate
Is it important which came first ? The whole thing is screwed. Let's fix it instead of trying to blame someone. And the proposed laws don't go in the direction of fixing it. That is all we are saying.
You know, sometimes people give the impression of doing group-think when they independently come to the same conclusion. We don't try to be right just by opposing the "Big Guys", we try to be right by actually seeking the truth. Sometimes we yay at the Powers That Be (suddenoutbreakofcommonsense expresses that) when they move in the correct direction.
Few people say it is okay. A lot of people however say that you won't manage to prevent people from file sharing unless you control Internet and personal computers completely and that would have a huge cost to society. Therefore, if filesharing becomes such a serious problem that it prevents artists from getting a decent pay (this has still to be proved though), the remuneration of artists has to go through a different system.
It looks like people are wanting to just get free stuff, but the claim is different : they say that trying to protect a revenue stream based on the control and production of copies, in a world where making copies is basically free, is nonsensical and counter-productive.
But HD quality will provide them with newer proofs that we never landed there. You know, I am waiting fot his, these conspiracy theories are always funny and I usually learn some science I did not know when reading the retorts.
...and dumb.
Way to go...
Neuronal simulations are so scarce because we fail at finding a good algorithm for them to implement complex and interesting behaviors that go beyond approximating a function. We have plenty of CPU power to make neuronal simulations. Simulating a neuron with a capacitor and a transistor would be easy but we never had to make such an acceleration board because the lack of CPU power is not the problem. The problem is that our current algorithms do not scale up into something interesting.