When we all have brain implants that meter the music we hear in a day and automatically debits our bank accounts.
Of course, they're probably not going to stop there and use the implant to feed back ont he brain and cause us to want to buy more albums.
Actually, I suspect they may bypass the whole music thingie and directly exploit us as slaves in the near future. Would bypass the whole capitalism excuse.
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Interesting. Mac OS X 10.1 and 10.2 had this disabled by default, it appears Apple have made this change in 10.3. I normally always use the user account and then use su/sudo anyway.
Although Asimov did try to write stories about robots being used to serve humanity and not to destroy it, and created the 3 laws with the idea that anyone intelligent enough to make a robot would build some failsafe in its programming, he spent most of his stories talking about how the laws could be circumvented, to point out their imperfections and the fact that even his "3 laws" were extremely imperfect and riddled with problems.
*********SPOILERS*********** for anyone who hasn't read Asimov.
Take the Robot novels for example. Caves of Steel, Naked Sun, Robots of Dawn, and Robots and Empire. In all of them except for Dawn, robots work towards the death or destruction of human beings. In Caves, a robot transported the weapon that served in a murder. In Nake sun, a robot with detachable limbs gave its arm to a woman with which she bludgered her husband. In Empire, a Solarian robot tries to kill a human being because her definition of such a being depends on his accent.
All the time, the laws are broken, warped, and shown to be less than perfect. That's not to say that they are useless, only that they have limits and problems.
And I'm not even getting into the matter of the consequences of societies including such robots and the evolution and survivability of such societies.
I'll forget about moderating this discussion to answer your post:
They don't want to forbid the internet or computers. What they want to make illegal is "all-purpose" computers under the control of their owners. They want Consumer Electronics-like devices that do ONLY what they want us to do with it, make illegal any tampering of the devices in question, and control the internet at its key points (the ISPs and content providers) to transform it from a world of ends and user-provided information to a corporate-regulated consumer marketplace.
They want to control our habits, our views and our needs, so that we provide them with more and more power and money. They don't give a shit about liberty, or about the people, they care only about themselves and their need to regulate our lives, to change us into drones that will do nothing but buy what they want us to buy. They want us to have 2 cars per family, buy one CD per week (of whatever artist they think we should be liking), and one toaster a year.
They want to de-humanize us, by controlling any new technology solely for their own benefit, and prevent the emergence of any new ideas that could threaten their power and control over our civilisation.
I'm not talking only about the ??AA here, but about most corporations, it's just that the ??AA are more vocal and public about it than most, possibly because they happen to be the most publicly threatened these days. Other industries do the same and have done it in the past: think about how long it's taking for hydrogen cars to materialize, or for hybrid or electric cars to get on the market at a reasonable cars. We have the engineering capacity to do all those things, but since it threatens a lot of industries it's not happening very fast.
I am glad to announce that I reside in Louis-Hebert (Sherrer's circonscription) and I'm not voting for her, and a poll announced this morning gives her as losing. YEAH!
That's the same way we count summer here. It's from June 21st to September 21st, or approximately, depending on when the summer solstice and fall equinox occur.
I've done the same in Philosophy class a few times. I'd remember quite clearly an earlier essay I'd written on a similar subject, and quoted my own analysis instead of repeating it verbatim in the essay I was then writing.
So I first asked my teacher if that was ok with her, and she said "no problem", since she had a copy of that essay to refer to. If I had just rewritten the same thing, she might have had reason to complain that I:
a) I had not written this text for the current essay and it shouldn't count toward the word count required for the essay (which I rarely care about, I almost always overshoot in that regard). b) She would have noticed that I'd written that before and could complain it wasn't original.
So instead of just copying yourself, quote your own material. If it's available on the net, it can be considered published and you can give correct attributions and bibliographical information with an URL.
It's commonly believed on slashdot that copying copyrighted material and giving it to your friend is legal. It's also commonly believed that this is called "fair use."
In Canada, a great country where we still have civil rights, and where we can watch DVDs on Linux legally, it is legal and called "fair use" to borrow a CD from a friend and make a copy. File-sharing is also, for the time being, legal.
This is all just a question of what is legal. Well, you know what, I don't so much care about the law and its letter than I care about ethics and the advancement of modern civilisation, and I say that making P2P file sharing illegal - even worse, a criminal offense is an incredibly stupid idea.
From what I could see by carefully reading the technical info on it, it doesn't appear to fix the recently discovered protocol handler exploits, apart from the earlier fix for the help: exploit (which doesn't appear to cure ALL help: exploits).
These exploits are serious, and will require a significant overhaul of the protocol handler code as well as a possible revision on the handling of downloadable disc images in Safari (which is a factor in many of the exploits). Yes, they could have waited, but if 10.3.4 was already ready, I'd prefer for Apple to release it on time and give us the fixes they can right now, and then work on the recent problems to provide us a good security patch (or maybe a 10.3.5) when they've fixed it.
niload to add user accounts? No wonder this fucked up your passwords. niload uses raw access to import data into the database and isn't quite compatible with the new authentication scheme in OS X.
Why don't you use niutil? That's the tool for the job. I've changed groups, users, and create the same with it before without any problems.
The problem was not the consultation, so much as trying to keep it secret. And they were not experts, but corporations. Experts would be neutral, those they consulted were obviously partisan to relaxing environmental rules and other changes that would be detrimental to the population.
I've had a customer bring in his iMac G4 for repairs, and when we opened it we immediately noticed that the board screws (which require the calibrated torx driver to screw back in) were overtightened. This had forced the onboard video connector into the fixed video cable connector and consequently damaged it.
So we called Apple, and notified them. they immediately canceled the warranty on the computer's serial number, and we refused to do the repairs.
This doesn't happen very often, but it's happened two or three times in the 5 years I've been working here as an Apple Tech.
I've beaten that game once. after that, I never managed to get past stage 7 or 8. Last boss was easier than those as long as you had the cross weapon...
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Mod him as troll? When I posted in the discussion replying to him? How am I supposed to have done that?
Unless you're implying that I have more than one account and I use the other to cheat on the system? That's a totally groundless accusation.
Maybe his intention was humorous, but it certainly doesn't sound that way at a first reading.
I shouldn't reply to an obvious troll, but here I go.
Gentoo is a non-profit company. They don't WANT to make money.
When we all have brain implants that meter the music we hear in a day and automatically debits our bank accounts.
Of course, they're probably not going to stop there and use the implant to feed back ont he brain and cause us to want to buy more albums.
Actually, I suspect they may bypass the whole music thingie and directly exploit us as slaves in the near future. Would bypass the whole capitalism excuse.
Interesting. Mac OS X 10.1 and 10.2 had this disabled by default, it appears Apple have made this change in 10.3. I normally always use the user account and then use su/sudo anyway.
Although Asimov did try to write stories about robots being used to serve humanity and not to destroy it, and created the 3 laws with the idea that anyone intelligent enough to make a robot would build some failsafe in its programming, he spent most of his stories talking about how the laws could be circumvented, to point out their imperfections and the fact that even his "3 laws" were extremely imperfect and riddled with problems.
*********SPOILERS*********** for anyone who hasn't read Asimov.
Take the Robot novels for example. Caves of Steel, Naked Sun, Robots of Dawn, and Robots and Empire. In all of them except for Dawn, robots work towards the death or destruction of human beings. In Caves, a robot transported the weapon that served in a murder. In Nake sun, a robot with detachable limbs gave its arm to a woman with which she bludgered her husband. In Empire, a Solarian robot tries to kill a human being because her definition of such a being depends on his accent.
All the time, the laws are broken, warped, and shown to be less than perfect. That's not to say that they are useless, only that they have limits and problems.
And I'm not even getting into the matter of the consequences of societies including such robots and the evolution and survivability of such societies.
I'll forget about moderating this discussion to answer your post:
They don't want to forbid the internet or computers. What they want to make illegal is "all-purpose" computers under the control of their owners. They want Consumer Electronics-like devices that do ONLY what they want us to do with it, make illegal any tampering of the devices in question, and control the internet at its key points (the ISPs and content providers) to transform it from a world of ends and user-provided information to a corporate-regulated consumer marketplace.
They want to control our habits, our views and our needs, so that we provide them with more and more power and money. They don't give a shit about liberty, or about the people, they care only about themselves and their need to regulate our lives, to change us into drones that will do nothing but buy what they want us to buy. They want us to have 2 cars per family, buy one CD per week (of whatever artist they think we should be liking), and one toaster a year.
They want to de-humanize us, by controlling any new technology solely for their own benefit, and prevent the emergence of any new ideas that could threaten their power and control over our civilisation.
I'm not talking only about the ??AA here, but about most corporations, it's just that the ??AA are more vocal and public about it than most, possibly because they happen to be the most publicly threatened these days. Other industries do the same and have done it in the past: think about how long it's taking for hydrogen cars to materialize, or for hybrid or electric cars to get on the market at a reasonable cars. We have the engineering capacity to do all those things, but since it threatens a lot of industries it's not happening very fast.
Someone mod the parent up, PLEASE!
For OS X users:
lookupd -flushcache
For the record, I have no problems running the Salon ads these days using Opera on Gentoo.
I am glad to announce that I reside in Louis-Hebert (Sherrer's circonscription) and I'm not voting for her, and a poll announced this morning gives her as losing. YEAH!
That's the same way we count summer here. It's from June 21st to September 21st, or approximately, depending on when the summer solstice and fall equinox occur.
It's that way in Canada too. Bell owns most of the infrastructure (Telus owns most of the rest) and resell access to ISPs.
Damn if I had mod points I'd mod you +1 Insightful.
I agree, vi & emacs are maybe great if you know how to use them but they're hard to learn and extremely non-intuitive.
As for myself, I like pico or nano. They're much easier to learn and use. Gentoo has nano by default, and it's much easier.
Bah, I've already filed out my patent of "a method of modifying reality by expanding energy through mechanical, organic, or metaphysical means".
You can't file your application without infringing on mine...
(Human beings modify the matter (reality) around them by expanding energy they obtain through substenance, in case you'd never realised that)
I've done the same in Philosophy class a few times. I'd remember quite clearly an earlier essay I'd written on a similar subject, and quoted my own analysis instead of repeating it verbatim in the essay I was then writing.
So I first asked my teacher if that was ok with her, and she said "no problem", since she had a copy of that essay to refer to. If I had just rewritten the same thing, she might have had reason to complain that I:
a) I had not written this text for the current essay and it shouldn't count toward the word count required for the essay (which I rarely care about, I almost always overshoot in that regard).
b) She would have noticed that I'd written that before and could complain it wasn't original.
So instead of just copying yourself, quote your own material. If it's available on the net, it can be considered published and you can give correct attributions and bibliographical information with an URL.
Here, read and learn.
In Canada, a great country where we still have civil rights, and where we can watch DVDs on Linux legally, it is legal and called "fair use" to borrow a CD from a friend and make a copy. File-sharing is also, for the time being, legal.
This is all just a question of what is legal. Well, you know what, I don't so much care about the law and its letter than I care about ethics and the advancement of modern civilisation, and I say that making P2P file sharing illegal - even worse, a criminal offense is an incredibly stupid idea.
From what I could see by carefully reading the technical info on it, it doesn't appear to fix the recently discovered protocol handler exploits, apart from the earlier fix for the help: exploit (which doesn't appear to cure ALL help: exploits).
These exploits are serious, and will require a significant overhaul of the protocol handler code as well as a possible revision on the handling of downloadable disc images in Safari (which is a factor in many of the exploits). Yes, they could have waited, but if 10.3.4 was already ready, I'd prefer for Apple to release it on time and give us the fixes they can right now, and then work on the recent problems to provide us a good security patch (or maybe a 10.3.5) when they've fixed it.
niload to add user accounts? No wonder this fucked up your passwords. niload uses raw access to import data into the database and isn't quite compatible with the new authentication scheme in OS X.
Why don't you use niutil? That's the tool for the job. I've changed groups, users, and create the same with it before without any problems.
The problem was not the consultation, so much as trying to keep it secret. And they were not experts, but corporations. Experts would be neutral, those they consulted were obviously partisan to relaxing environmental rules and other changes that would be detrimental to the population.
I've had a customer bring in his iMac G4 for repairs, and when we opened it we immediately noticed that the board screws (which require the calibrated torx driver to screw back in) were overtightened. This had forced the onboard video connector into the fixed video cable connector and consequently damaged it.
So we called Apple, and notified them. they immediately canceled the warranty on the computer's serial number, and we refused to do the repairs.
This doesn't happen very often, but it's happened two or three times in the 5 years I've been working here as an Apple Tech.
I've beaten that game once. after that, I never managed to get past stage 7 or 8. Last boss was easier than those as long as you had the cross weapon...
Maybe. Add to that the fact that the authentication dialog also displays the PATH to the application asking for authentification.
But what more can you ask them to do? No really, would you ask the user to solve puzzles before running installers, to make sure they really want to?
Wouldn't the two just cancel each other? They'd do evil acts, but stupidly enough that they'd make errors?
Somewhat like Dr Evil in Austin Powers?