In part because modern civilization and its economic model is based on technological advance which provides new opportunities for increasing the net output of society. If you stop, block, or slow technology, it's the entire civilization that suffers. Oh I know P2P is probably not a critical advance, but it's in its infancy, and we cannot truly know what it might bring us beyond the current applications. I've thought about how distributed computing and P2P technology could evolve and change the face of computing.
Also, the constitution is about the PEOPLE. It should, beyond any other purpose, serve the people who constitute the nation. Laws should also reflect the needs and wants of the people, and not of small groups and corporations. If the laws are badly implemented or irrelevant in a new society, they should be changed or annulled.
I don't want people who create works or invent, or think up new technologies to have those exploited by others for profit, but non-for-profit and personal use should not be outlawed.
You completely misunderstand the GPL. GPL'ed software is NOT into the public domain. It is still under copyright, either to the original author or to the FSF. Public domain is not the same as copyleft.
The GPL is a software license that gives you rights but along with restrictions. Public domain is necessarily without restrictions of any kind.
You can release material under the public domain, you simply have to state so instead of a copyright notice.
You can also release something copyrighted. This protection is automatic even in the absence of a copyright notice, at least nowadays. You can at a later time then annul your own copyright and release your work into the public domain. Such a release is automatic after the copyright expires (which appears will never occur again in the US the way it's going, and considering how many countries including my own align themselves with the US on those matters it might never happen at all).
Why? We went from transistor to processors in what, 25 years? It's a question of will, effort, and resources.
If we invest the necessary resources we'll see it faster than that, I'm convinced. But I also unfortunately believe that our civilisation is declining, and that scientific advance will most likely slow down as time goes on.
Not I, but one of my colleagues did file a report with Microsoft, explaining the issue and the fact we had figured out it came from the open files limit in the OS.
It appears the report never got to the developers.
No, really. They found out the reason for that bug ONLY LAST YEAR?
That's simply incredible. Unbelievable. I found out the cause of that bug BACK IN 1999.
I'm not joking. We had a lot of customers complaining of this bug in Word 6.0 and Office 98. My usual recommandation? "Upgrade to Mac OS 9, it will make it (mostly) go away."
That's because one of the significant improvements Mac OS 9 offered over previous versions was how Apple had increased the number of total open files in the system. See this article.
At the time, we surmised that the "disk full" error was probably not really a "disk full" error, and was probably caused by something else. Our initial uses and reports from OS 9 showed that this issue almost never occured in the new system, and since one of the major changes was to increase the number of open files, we easily guessed this was the cause of the error. This change was also shown to solve a number of issues in other software and situations.
Can someone explain to me why they only found solved the issue in 2003???
Does it? Complex systems may or may not be predictable, and it's surprising sometimes how those that look easy can't be (the tree-body problem) and others that should be very difficult can (gases).
You might very well be able to make predictions, but it will, in my opinion, never be a completely predictable system.
We will never get there. As KFG said, certain predispositions may be determined by genetics or the environment, but at one point neurobiology will hit a "quantum wall". A point where single electrons will determine human behavior and psychology. A point where, although we can say that the electron jumping a path or not will enact a decision, we will be unable to deterministically say whether the electron will jump.
Quantum mechanics trumps biology, and the uncertainty principle guarantees that human behavior can never be predicted, which can be interpreted as meaning that we have free will.
It's this reasoning that has made me a staunch advocate of free will.
I'll take a cue from Lord of the Rings here, and refer you to the suggestion to let Saruman and Sauron (the two main evils) battle it out and exterminate themselves, to which Gandalf replies: but the winner would get out of the fight stronger, and without doubt.
I think this is the case. I fear they would not exterminate each other, but most likely one would emerge the winner, and we the public would be the biggest losers. Better to let them stay wary of each other while we run an underground movement to defeat both opponents at once.
China wants to erase the fact that Taiwan even exists from everyone's mind. Officially, in the Chinese version of history, Taiwan is not an independent country, and most chinese people believe that.
They have been attempting the same tactics abroad the last few years. Maybe they figure once people have forgotten about Taiwan, they can invade the place without any ruckus.
Of course, dangerous tools may have to be restricted. A gun is a weapon, whose main purpose is to kill. Nmap can be used to scan for defensive and attack purposes.
What restrictions are necessary? Totally block its use or restrict it? And why does Linux, UNIX or OS X don't need to block raw sockets completely? Because on those systems, they're restricted to the root account, while on Windows any admin can use them. And the usual way of running Windows is as an admin, while on UNIX you don't.
Its whole security model is what's wrong with Windows. It's not about raw sockets and stupid restrictions on the types of connections.
And you would ban tools just because they are also weapons? We should ban hammers, you can kill someone with a hammer! That way lies madness.
And one significant difference between a gun and nmap: a gun requires little training or knowledge. Nmap requires computer skills and knowledge of networking. Basic for us, maybe, but not for everyone. It's also only a computer tool, hard to kill someone with nmap.
In the end, though, restricting tools (whether they are to kill or hack) is a lost cause. You should instead try to provide wisdom in their use.
We really need a "+1 intelligent sarcasm" mod option.
If I had mod points now I would have very much liked t mod you up, but I don't really know what I'd use. Funny might be appropriate, but it's intelligent too, which funny usually precludes (especially since it doesn't give karma anymore).
No, it doesn't. At least, western religion should not have survived, and probably won't. It might evolve into something sensible, but in its current form it contradicts science in extremely basic ways that are, in my opinion, irreconciliable.
My flatmate had an old K62 which was in non-working condition. I put it back together and started to install an OS. First, tried Windows XP. It worked fine, but was way too slow for normal use.
Second, Windows 2000. Instaled fine, worked relatively well, but I never managed to get a working video driver. All I could get was 640x480 or no video. tried various combinations of Service Packs, AGP drivers, video drivers, and DirectX with no success.
OK, well third let's try Mandrake 9.2. Worked perfectly fine, first try, with normal resolution and video support, and speed was on par with W2K if not better.
And they tell us Windows has better support? As long as you install a Windows version that's recent enough, maybe.
This guy had complained to his superior's superiors. They apparently didn't care. So this guy's crusade basically ends right there. He did what he should have done, and when those higher ups don't care, you can get pissed all you want, but you don't take matters into your own hands.
I'm so fucking tired of this "out of my hands" attitude I see all the time.
"It's not my business, I did what others said I should do" is the lamest, worst excuse human beings use to justify laziness, corruption, even genocide. "It's not my job to do X" si in the same damn category. If people instead try to do a bit more in such situations, tried to go further, took responsibility for what they did and saw instead of endlessly trying to avoid it at any cost, the world would work a lot better...
And that's why it's very important to be careful with CRTs. CRTs can carry between 8000 and 25000 volts...
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I've been a Gentoo user for a few months now, used SuSe before.
The problem with Suse or Mandrake is that so few packages are available for the specific distro, and you often end up compiling stuff or patching it some strange way, and that makes your system clunky. Portage is great for that, as a package manager.
The fact that it compiles from source is mostly interesting to me not so much because of some speed increase but mostly because it lets you download and compile stuff easily way before binary packages are available for the other distros. It's also remarkably easy to maintain as a system (you're always up-to-date if you want!), easy to administrate (starting services and managing them is a snap). It's also not that hard to install, once you get used to it.
It certainly helps to have a fast computer though. My dual 1.4 Athlon compiles pretty much everything (except maybe openoffice) in a reasonable time, so that helps.
And also, documentation and user community support is excellent. There are guides to setting up almost anything using Gentoo.
he fact that ISP's can avoid complicity with just a few steps in crimes that are associated with the internet is awesome.
Yeah, it's quite awesome how easily they can now hide and cower everytime someone says "copyright violation". Just the hint of something "bad" and they remove it from view. We wouldn't want to have anyone say bad things about corporations, now would we? We wouldn't want freedom of expression to be free from the interference of anyone with enough cash to pay a lawyer to send a onepage letter to an ISP and easily remove anything they don't like from the internet, now would we?
That "protection" is bullshit, because it gives the power of censure to the ISPs, which means to anyone who complains and has some cash.
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In part because modern civilization and its economic model is based on technological advance which provides new opportunities for increasing the net output of society. If you stop, block, or slow technology, it's the entire civilization that suffers. Oh I know P2P is probably not a critical advance, but it's in its infancy, and we cannot truly know what it might bring us beyond the current applications. I've thought about how distributed computing and P2P technology could evolve and change the face of computing.
Also, the constitution is about the PEOPLE. It should, beyond any other purpose, serve the people who constitute the nation. Laws should also reflect the needs and wants of the people, and not of small groups and corporations. If the laws are badly implemented or irrelevant in a new society, they should be changed or annulled.
I don't want people who create works or invent, or think up new technologies to have those exploited by others for profit, but non-for-profit and personal use should not be outlawed.
The OS X Rendezvous implementation uses a daemon called mDNSResponder. It's a 132k executable.
The entire architecture is like that: Applications use frameworks, APIs and system calls to get services, which are often provided by UNIX daemons.
You completely misunderstand the GPL. GPL'ed software is NOT into the public domain. It is still under copyright, either to the original author or to the FSF. Public domain is not the same as copyleft.
The GPL is a software license that gives you rights but along with restrictions. Public domain is necessarily without restrictions of any kind.
You can release material under the public domain, you simply have to state so instead of a copyright notice.
You can also release something copyrighted. This protection is automatic even in the absence of a copyright notice, at least nowadays. You can at a later time then annul your own copyright and release your work into the public domain. Such a release is automatic after the copyright expires (which appears will never occur again in the US the way it's going, and considering how many countries including my own align themselves with the US on those matters it might never happen at all).
I suggest you read the GNU documentation on the subject.
Actually, if your precision increases too much, you'd hit the barrier of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle :-)
Why? We went from transistor to processors in what, 25 years? It's a question of will, effort, and resources.
If we invest the necessary resources we'll see it faster than that, I'm convinced. But I also unfortunately believe that our civilisation is declining, and that scientific advance will most likely slow down as time goes on.
You can either take a copyright or release it into the public domain. It's a mutually exclusive state.
Not I, but one of my colleagues did file a report with Microsoft, explaining the issue and the fact we had figured out it came from the open files limit in the OS.
It appears the report never got to the developers.
No, really. They found out the reason for that bug ONLY LAST YEAR?
That's simply incredible. Unbelievable. I found out the cause of that bug BACK IN 1999.
I'm not joking. We had a lot of customers complaining of this bug in Word 6.0 and Office 98. My usual recommandation? "Upgrade to Mac OS 9, it will make it (mostly) go away."
That's because one of the significant improvements Mac OS 9 offered over previous versions was how Apple had increased the number of total open files in the system. See this article.
At the time, we surmised that the "disk full" error was probably not really a "disk full" error, and was probably caused by something else. Our initial uses and reports from OS 9 showed that this issue almost never occured in the new system, and since one of the major changes was to increase the number of open files, we easily guessed this was the cause of the error. This change was also shown to solve a number of issues in other software and situations.
Can someone explain to me why they only found solved the issue in 2003???
Does it? Complex systems may or may not be predictable, and it's surprising sometimes how those that look easy can't be (the tree-body problem) and others that should be very difficult can (gases).
You might very well be able to make predictions, but it will, in my opinion, never be a completely predictable system.
We will never get there. As KFG said, certain predispositions may be determined by genetics or the environment, but at one point neurobiology will hit a "quantum wall". A point where single electrons will determine human behavior and psychology. A point where, although we can say that the electron jumping a path or not will enact a decision, we will be unable to deterministically say whether the electron will jump.
Quantum mechanics trumps biology, and the uncertainty principle guarantees that human behavior can never be predicted, which can be interpreted as meaning that we have free will.
It's this reasoning that has made me a staunch advocate of free will.
LDS = Latter-Day Saints, or Mormons.
LSD = lysergic acid diethylamide, a well-known psychotropic drug.
A benevolent dictature is the most reliable, most efficient system of government.
The problem is usually that either:
- the dictator doesn't stay benevolent
- there 's a change of dictator, and eventually you'll hit one who isn't benevolent.
I'll take a cue from Lord of the Rings here, and refer you to the suggestion to let Saruman and Sauron (the two main evils) battle it out and exterminate themselves, to which Gandalf replies: but the winner would get out of the fight stronger, and without doubt.
I think this is the case. I fear they would not exterminate each other, but most likely one would emerge the winner, and we the public would be the biggest losers. Better to let them stay wary of each other while we run an underground movement to defeat both opponents at once.
China wants to erase the fact that Taiwan even exists from everyone's mind. Officially, in the Chinese version of history, Taiwan is not an independent country, and most chinese people believe that.
They have been attempting the same tactics abroad the last few years. Maybe they figure once people have forgotten about Taiwan, they can invade the place without any ruckus.
Of course, dangerous tools may have to be restricted. A gun is a weapon, whose main purpose is to kill. Nmap can be used to scan for defensive and attack purposes.
What restrictions are necessary? Totally block its use or restrict it? And why does Linux, UNIX or OS X don't need to block raw sockets completely? Because on those systems, they're restricted to the root account, while on Windows any admin can use them. And the usual way of running Windows is as an admin, while on UNIX you don't.
Its whole security model is what's wrong with Windows. It's not about raw sockets and stupid restrictions on the types of connections.
And you would ban tools just because they are also weapons? We should ban hammers, you can kill someone with a hammer! That way lies madness.
And one significant difference between a gun and nmap: a gun requires little training or knowledge. Nmap requires computer skills and knowledge of networking. Basic for us, maybe, but not for everyone. It's also only a computer tool, hard to kill someone with nmap.
In the end, though, restricting tools (whether they are to kill or hack) is a lost cause. You should instead try to provide wisdom in their use.
We really need a "+1 intelligent sarcasm" mod option.
If I had mod points now I would have very much liked t mod you up, but I don't really know what I'd use. Funny might be appropriate, but it's intelligent too, which funny usually precludes (especially since it doesn't give karma anymore).
No, it doesn't. At least, western religion should not have survived, and probably won't. It might evolve into something sensible, but in its current form it contradicts science in extremely basic ways that are, in my opinion, irreconciliable.
My flatmate had an old K62 which was in non-working condition. I put it back together and started to install an OS. First, tried Windows XP. It worked fine, but was way too slow for normal use.
Second, Windows 2000. Instaled fine, worked relatively well, but I never managed to get a working video driver. All I could get was 640x480 or no video. tried various combinations of Service Packs, AGP drivers, video drivers, and DirectX with no success.
OK, well third let's try Mandrake 9.2. Worked perfectly fine, first try, with normal resolution and video support, and speed was on par with W2K if not better.
And they tell us Windows has better support? As long as you install a Windows version that's recent enough, maybe.
And then, no one will have a job, and so won't be able to buy their products, and will want the government to save them?
I'm so fucking tired of this "out of my hands" attitude I see all the time.
"It's not my business, I did what others said I should do" is the lamest, worst excuse human beings use to justify laziness, corruption, even genocide. "It's not my job to do X" si in the same damn category. If people instead try to do a bit more in such situations, tried to go further, took responsibility for what they did and saw instead of endlessly trying to avoid it at any cost, the world would work a lot better...
I think the parent was implying that belief in heaven was bullshit, not that belief that Guthrie was in heaven is bullshit.
And that's why it's very important to be careful with CRTs. CRTs can carry between 8000 and 25000 volts...
I've been a Gentoo user for a few months now, used SuSe before.
The problem with Suse or Mandrake is that so few packages are available for the specific distro, and you often end up compiling stuff or patching it some strange way, and that makes your system clunky. Portage is great for that, as a package manager.
The fact that it compiles from source is mostly interesting to me not so much because of some speed increase but mostly because it lets you download and compile stuff easily way before binary packages are available for the other distros. It's also remarkably easy to maintain as a system (you're always up-to-date if you want!), easy to administrate (starting services and managing them is a snap). It's also not that hard to install, once you get used to it.
It certainly helps to have a fast computer though. My dual 1.4 Athlon compiles pretty much everything (except maybe openoffice) in a reasonable time, so that helps.
And also, documentation and user community support is excellent. There are guides to setting up almost anything using Gentoo.
Yeah, it's quite awesome how easily they can now hide and cower everytime someone says "copyright violation". Just the hint of something "bad" and they remove it from view. We wouldn't want to have anyone say bad things about corporations, now would we? We wouldn't want freedom of expression to be free from the interference of anyone with enough cash to pay a lawyer to send a onepage letter to an ISP and easily remove anything they don't like from the internet, now would we?
That "protection" is bullshit, because it gives the power of censure to the ISPs, which means to anyone who complains and has some cash.