it is up to us individually to examine the consequences of our actions. It is not up to governments or corporations to make us choose to behave ethically. We have to do that ourselves.
It seems to me that this is the core of copyright abolitionism. As long as file sharing is illegal, we are expecting the government to enforce ethical behavior.
Actually, personal ethics come from within yourself because that is how you are built. Morals are externally imposed by society, and usually adhered to for fear of the penalties for not adhering to them. Those can be the promise of legal penalties, or the promise of burning in hell. This is why the sociopath is considered immoral; their fear of the penalties is broken.
One of the strangest lies we've been told is that there is such a thing as professional ethics, rather than professional morals. It allows self-policing of groups to continue despite their actions clearly being immoral in the context of the larger society, as if that somehow lets them out of the social contract which binds the rest of us.
""[The] FDA cannot assure the safety and efficacy of products that are purchased outside of legitimate channels. This also means that we or the consumer cannot be sure that the products received are what the seller is claiming them to be, even if the seller says the products are 'approved drugs.'"
However, apparently they also cannot assure the safety and efficacy of products that are purchased inside of legitimate channels:
Seconded. There are real issues, but saying "OMG teh USA is just like China!" is really not helpful. The situation is a lot more complex than that. The United States has actually done a pretty amazing job promoting free speech on some fronts- the U.S. government invented the internet after all, and private U.S. companies such as Google, Twitter, and Facebook have provided the means for people to engage in free speech.
In the U.S. we're even doing more proactive things than that to encourage free speech! We're setting aside "zones" for it so you can speak about whatever you want with like minded people! That the people you actually want to get your message don't have to hear you is a glitch I'm sure will be worked out shortly...
Jared Rhine, then at Harvey Mudd College, wrote a feedback form CGI that took the "Referer:" header into account to allow the feedback form to be dropped onto various web pages, and caused the content to change based on where it was referred from. He did this in 1994.
Kee Hinckley at Utopia, Inc. documents the specific process he used in an email dated 30 May 1995.
You need to be careful there. Redirection is often used to do some processing at point A and the continue on to point B. You don't want to cache *that* result. It's not always as the result of a form submission either. In fact we do this when people point a Lycos, Yahoo, Infoseek or OpenText search at one of our mailing lists. We check the Referer field, figure out what you were searching for in the particular file you are hitting, and then redirect you to the same document, but this time with parameters (including a #xxx) which will take you to the right point in the document. Caching that would make it impossible for the user to ever go directly to the top of the document.
That's probably prior enough art to invalidate in the UK as well.
Specifically, the LRO mission demonstrated that the moon itself is a source of radiation, so burying yourself in it is probably a bad idea, unless it doesn't go to any real depth, and you are willing to seriously dig down.
My friend was very upset that she did not get to see it in person.
It seems a lot of newsspeak organizations were quoting "experts" that "there will be plenty of people with setups to view it", and that "the apparatus to view it is dead simple". But she didn't get to see it/directly/ because there were not sufficiently scientifically inclined people set up in her area to let her see it.
All it required a small amount of optics (binoculars), a mirror, and something to project the image onto. Getting to this point was beyond her, and it was beyond the people she worked with. It really drives home to me how disconnected science programs in schools are from cause/effect in reality.
It makes me wonder how much stuff that is "obvious" to us just doesn't filter down into the impact it makes on humans everyday lives.
This reminds me very much of a discussion I had with someone about "the theory of evolution" when I pointed out that dropping an object was a demonstration of "the theory of gravity". She was appalled that gravity was considered a theory from a scientific point of view -- "You mean you don't know how this stuff works?!?"; I had to explain that yes, we knew *how* it worked, we just didn't know *why* -- the same as evolution.
The idea that people can do science (maybe Science, with a capitol 'S'?) with stuff they have lying around their house is probably not emphasized enough; it made me want to become a science teacher, but of course I'm not qualified, only being a physicist and a computer scientist, and not havig a degree in education, or being a member of a teachers union.
Makes me worry about the future more than I already do.
I find that a lot of people I would not ordinarily view as idiots have this absurd idea ingrained in their psyche that it's possible to incrementally get from thing ABC to thing XYZ. Mostly I have to believe that these people have never had to reverse engineer anything.
One of the places this happens most often is in Open Source software, where people have drank the Eric Raymond kool aid about "The Cathedral and the Bazaar". Sometimes you need to build a cathedral, and there's simply no way to get there from a mud hut. I think SourceForge "declarative projects", where people believe that by simply declaring an Open Source project, they will get droves of willing bodies to implement it from scratch. This is the big lie that was Mozilla for a long time, until they finally had working code for people to tinker with, and even then, they attracted tinkers. It shows: they ended up with a bricolage.
Another example is the idea that you can get from a system with a small set of capabilities to a system with a large set of capabilities without sitting down, mapping out the problem space, and then designing a framework in which it's actually possible to represent the entirety of that space. This misconception is often perpetrated in things like Portage, which is a glorified package management system which is frequently pressed into service as a build system, a task to which it is demonstrably unsuited.
I'm generally annoyed when anyone portrays something that was revolutionary at its time as part of a natural evolutionary progression on a straight line route from point A to point B, and that it as somehow "obvious" that this revolutionary idea was the next step in the progression. 20/20 hindsight (or Monday morning quarterbacking, if you prefer) aside, it does a great disservice to the revolutionaries who came up with the idea/application at a time when no one else was doing anything similar.
Is it just me, or is it blindingly obvious that if the barge was at least as wide as the shuttle, it'd be the barge scraped up and not the shuttle. Barges are generally more replaceable than shuttles, even if they are only flight test and landing mocks.
They are a New York paper complaining about a competing city getting all the high tech startups and therefore venture capital now that Wall Street has basically self-destructed the New York financial markets. Meanwhile the same paper is reporting that the jobs ax is going to fall again on the banking sector as upper level management throws middle management overboard in order to save their own bonuses: http://news.yahoo.com/wall-st-few-places-hide-jobs-ax-hovers-220146813--sector.html
About the only thing that needs changing about San Francisco (and California, in general) is to not have Prop 13 apply to non-residential commercial properties. There would be a quick rebalancing in what gets built.
Launches at Moffett Field are limited to G engines with a max altitude of 1000 feet with a limit of 350 people on the field at a time. That's not even one single high school grade level worth of students for most San Jose/Bay Area high schools. If they want to get away from those limits (M class, 15,000 foot ceiling), then they have to go all the way out to Snow Ranch, which is East of Stockton, about 130 miles out of town and only in the fall.
There's basically no other place you can launch in the Bay Area.
The DTrace integration is via a kernel module, so the license on DTrace is irrelevant..
There are a couple of interfaces in Linux that should be externalized for getting stack tracebacks into user space in a standard manner without caring about binary architecture (they are currently static). I've personally used a modified Linux with DTrace mods and these functions externalized, and it's rather stable and usable. Specultive tracing is also a lot better for finding the origin of some random errno in the kernel, or who in user space is calling gettimeofday() a bazillion times in order to time stamp X events.
Obligatory disclosure: I was on the team that did the DTrace port to Mac OS X.
Statistics show that if the victim has a firearm, there's a greater chance of either he/she or the people near the victim being wounded. Homicides should drop in this context.
Particularly if the person near the victim who gets wounded is the attacker.
"Microsoft does not yet respond to the DNT signal, but we are actively working with other advertising industry leaders on what an implementation plan for DNT might look like, with a goal of announcing more details about our plans in the coming months."
So basically, this is all about screwing anyone who honors DNT by competitively disadvantaging them in the marketplace relative to Microsoft -- a statement I'll happily retract as soon as they start honoring DNT themselves, rather than just using it as an anticompetitive weapon in IE10.
This pretty much implies they are once again wielding their monopolistic power in the marketplace to promote their own products and services. Isn't this what got them into trouble last time?
This mirrors my experience; I find that the part of my brain that processes code is distracted by music, and vice versa, so I'm pretty sure they are the same part.
You forgot to mention that since the H1Bs aren't coming in easily anymore, they've lobbied the US Gov. to allow them to deny overtime to anyone with a IT based technical skill regardless of pay level.
Unless you are, IT workers are already exempt from overtime pay; you are exempt IFF:
(a) Paid at least $23,600/year (b) Paid on a salary basis (c) Perform exempt job duties
IT workers fall under the "Exempt Job Duties - Professional" umbrella, just like computer programmers:
(a) Employees are performing exempt professional job duties if their work involves the application of advanced, usually specialized, learning or credentials of the type commonly associated with the "traditional learned professions" such as medicine, law, accounting or engineering. (b) Computer professionals are exempt if they are paid on a salary basis, or hourly at a rate of at least $27.63
Post a job listing online, looking for 20 yrs experience in Java and offer 40K/yr. Lets see anyone reasonable come try and fill that job post without asking for more money.
Given that Java has only been released for 17 years, you are basically asking James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, or Patrick Naughton to come to work for you for $40K/year.
Slashdot Mirror
"These videos are designed for evaluation purposes. Duplication and distribution of these videos is not permitted."
Because, you know, someone might get educated for free or something, and then where would we be?
Still voting for http://www.khanacademy.org/ ...
-- Terry
It seems to me that this is the core of copyright abolitionism. As long as file sharing is illegal, we are expecting the government to enforce ethical behavior.
Actually, personal ethics come from within yourself because that is how you are built. Morals are externally imposed by society, and usually adhered to for fear of the penalties for not adhering to them. Those can be the promise of legal penalties, or the promise of burning in hell. This is why the sociopath is considered immoral; their fear of the penalties is broken.
One of the strangest lies we've been told is that there is such a thing as professional ethics, rather than professional morals. It allows self-policing of groups to continue despite their actions clearly being immoral in the context of the larger society, as if that somehow lets them out of the social contract which binds the rest of us.
-- Terry
From the article:
""[The] FDA cannot assure the safety and efficacy of products that are purchased outside of legitimate channels. This also means that we or the consumer cannot be sure that the products received are what the seller is claiming them to be, even if the seller says the products are 'approved drugs.'"
However, apparently they also cannot assure the safety and efficacy of products that are purchased inside of legitimate channels:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/04/04/150004423/more-fake-cancer-drugs-found-in-the-u-s
which sort of begs the question of the value of their rubber stamp on so-called legitimate channels.
-- Terry
Seconded. There are real issues, but saying "OMG teh USA is just like China!" is really not helpful. The situation is a lot more complex than that. The United States has actually done a pretty amazing job promoting free speech on some fronts- the U.S. government invented the internet after all, and private U.S. companies such as Google, Twitter, and Facebook have provided the means for people to engage in free speech.
In the U.S. we're even doing more proactive things than that to encourage free speech! We're setting aside "zones" for it so you can speak about whatever you want with like minded people! That the people you actually want to get your message don't have to hear you is a glitch I'm sure will be worked out shortly...
-- Terry
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1987-05-29/news/8702090594_1_customs-agents-computer-equipment
FWIW: They took out the computer, filled the crate with cement, and let them pay shipping on it as part of the sting. See also this phrase on the CVAX die:
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/russians.html
-- Terry
Jared Rhine, then at Harvey Mudd College, wrote a feedback form CGI that took the "Referer:" header into account to allow the feedback form to be dropped onto various web pages, and caused the content to change based on where it was referred from. He did this in 1994.
Kee Hinckley at Utopia, Inc. documents the specific process he used in an email dated 30 May 1995.
You need to be careful there. Redirection is often used to do some
processing at point A and the continue on to point B. You don't want to
cache *that* result. It's not always as the result of a form submission
either. In fact we do this when people point a Lycos, Yahoo, Infoseek or
OpenText search at one of our mailing lists. We check the Referer field,
figure out what you were searching for in the particular file you are
hitting, and then redirect you to the same document, but this time with
parameters (including a #xxx) which will take you to the right point in the
document. Caching that would make it impossible for the user to ever go
directly to the top of the document.
That's probably prior enough art to invalidate in the UK as well.
-- Terry
Specifically, the LRO mission demonstrated that the moon itself is a source of radiation, so burying yourself in it is probably a bad idea, unless it doesn't go to any real depth, and you are willing to seriously dig down.
http://news.discovery.com/space/moon-radiation-gamma-rays.html
-- Terry
Moderately off topic...
My friend was very upset that she did not get to see it in person.
It seems a lot of newsspeak organizations were quoting "experts" that "there will be plenty of people with setups to view it", and that "the apparatus to view it is dead simple". But she didn't get to see it /directly/ because there were not sufficiently scientifically inclined people set up in her area to let her see it.
All it required a small amount of optics (binoculars), a mirror, and something to project the image onto. Getting to this point was beyond her, and it was beyond the people she worked with. It really drives home to me how disconnected science programs in schools are from cause/effect in reality.
It makes me wonder how much stuff that is "obvious" to us just doesn't filter down into the impact it makes on humans everyday lives.
This reminds me very much of a discussion I had with someone about "the theory of evolution" when I pointed out that dropping an object was a demonstration of "the theory of gravity". She was appalled that gravity was considered a theory from a scientific point of view -- "You mean you don't know how this stuff works?!?"; I had to explain that yes, we knew *how* it worked, we just didn't know *why* -- the same as evolution.
The idea that people can do science (maybe Science, with a capitol 'S'?) with stuff they have lying around their house is probably not emphasized enough; it made me want to become a science teacher, but of course I'm not qualified, only being a physicist and a computer scientist, and not havig a degree in education, or being a member of a teachers union.
Makes me worry about the future more than I already do.
-- Terry
"LHC Experiment discovers gravity; Higgs Boson still missing, presumed dead."
-- Terry
I strongly disagree that it's a general rule.
I find that a lot of people I would not ordinarily view as idiots have this absurd idea ingrained in their psyche that it's possible to incrementally get from thing ABC to thing XYZ. Mostly I have to believe that these people have never had to reverse engineer anything.
One of the places this happens most often is in Open Source software, where people have drank the Eric Raymond kool aid about "The Cathedral and the Bazaar". Sometimes you need to build a cathedral, and there's simply no way to get there from a mud hut. I think SourceForge "declarative projects", where people believe that by simply declaring an Open Source project, they will get droves of willing bodies to implement it from scratch. This is the big lie that was Mozilla for a long time, until they finally had working code for people to tinker with, and even then, they attracted tinkers. It shows: they ended up with a bricolage.
Another example is the idea that you can get from a system with a small set of capabilities to a system with a large set of capabilities without sitting down, mapping out the problem space, and then designing a framework in which it's actually possible to represent the entirety of that space. This misconception is often perpetrated in things like Portage, which is a glorified package management system which is frequently pressed into service as a build system, a task to which it is demonstrably unsuited.
I'm generally annoyed when anyone portrays something that was revolutionary at its time as part of a natural evolutionary progression on a straight line route from point A to point B, and that it as somehow "obvious" that this revolutionary idea was the next step in the progression. 20/20 hindsight (or Monday morning quarterbacking, if you prefer) aside, it does a great disservice to the revolutionaries who came up with the idea/application at a time when no one else was doing anything similar.
-- Terry
As a general rule, the only way to build something large and complex that works is to grow it from something small and simple that works.
Which is why the Saturn V booster used in the Apollo 11 mission to the moon was built out of Legos.
-- Terry
"Oracle's Ellison Most Comprehensive Clod On Earth"?
-- Terry
Is it just me, or is it blindingly obvious that if the barge was at least as wide as the shuttle, it'd be the barge scraped up and not the shuttle. Barges are generally more replaceable than shuttles, even if they are only flight test and landing mocks.
-- Terry
They are a New York paper complaining about a competing city getting all the high tech startups and therefore venture capital now that Wall Street has basically self-destructed the New York financial markets. Meanwhile the same paper is reporting that the jobs ax is going to fall again on the banking sector as upper level management throws middle management overboard in order to save their own bonuses: http://news.yahoo.com/wall-st-few-places-hide-jobs-ax-hovers-220146813--sector.html
About the only thing that needs changing about San Francisco (and California, in general) is to not have Prop 13 apply to non-residential commercial properties. There would be a quick rebalancing in what gets built.
-- Terry
Launches at Moffett Field are limited to G engines with a max altitude of 1000 feet with a limit of 350 people on the field at a time. That's not even one single high school grade level worth of students for most San Jose/Bay Area high schools. If they want to get away from those limits (M class, 15,000 foot ceiling), then they have to go all the way out to Snow Ranch, which is East of Stockton, about 130 miles out of town and only in the fall.
There's basically no other place you can launch in the Bay Area.
I do think, however, that the author of the article drank the Fleming VARK model kinesthetic learning koolaide http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_styles#Fleming.27s_VAK.2FVARK_model, and maybe needs to back up a bit.
-- Terry
$26.84 after hours. Down 30% from their opening. Seems pretty done to me.
-- Terry
OK, you are high. If you get a degree because anything but interest I can not hire you. People who learn things because of money are just sad.
-- Terrry
The DTrace integration is via a kernel module, so the license on DTrace is irrelevant..
There are a couple of interfaces in Linux that should be externalized for getting stack tracebacks into user space in a standard manner without caring about binary architecture (they are currently static). I've personally used a modified Linux with DTrace mods and these functions externalized, and it's rather stable and usable. Specultive tracing is also a lot better for finding the origin of some random errno in the kernel, or who in user space is calling gettimeofday() a bazillion times in order to time stamp X events.
Obligatory disclosure: I was on the team that did the DTrace port to Mac OS X.
-- Terry
Puts on the Devil's advocate mask...
Statistics show that if the victim has a firearm, there's a greater chance of either he/she or the people near the victim being wounded. Homicides should drop in this context.
Particularly if the person near the victim who gets wounded is the attacker.
-- Terry
"Microsoft does not yet respond to the DNT signal, but we are actively working with other advertising industry leaders on what an implementation plan for DNT might look like, with a goal of announcing more details about our plans in the coming months."
http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2012/05/31/advancing-consumer-trust-and-privacy-internet-explorer-in-windows-8.aspx
So basically, this is all about screwing anyone who honors DNT by competitively disadvantaging them in the marketplace relative to Microsoft -- a statement I'll happily retract as soon as they start honoring DNT themselves, rather than just using it as an anticompetitive weapon in IE10.
This pretty much implies they are once again wielding their monopolistic power in the marketplace to promote their own products and services. Isn't this what got them into trouble last time?
-- Terry
"A rum and Coke? Here ya go... here is your 44oz Coke and thimble of rum. The dump bucket for rum is over there."
-- Terry
This mirrors my experience; I find that the part of my brain that processes code is distracted by music, and vice versa, so I'm pretty sure they are the same part.
-- Terry
why do junior level jobs want years of doing same job as what they are calling junior?
I have seen junior Systems Administrator wanting any from 2-3 years of being a Systems Administrator.
Typically it's to avoid annoying the System Administrator who is already working there with the idea they are hiring a peer or over his head.
-- Terry
You forgot to mention that since the H1Bs aren't coming in easily anymore, they've lobbied the US Gov. to allow them to deny overtime to anyone with a IT based technical skill regardless of pay level.
Unless you are, IT workers are already exempt from overtime pay; you are exempt IFF:
(a) Paid at least $23,600/year
(b) Paid on a salary basis
(c) Perform exempt job duties
IT workers fall under the "Exempt Job Duties - Professional" umbrella, just like computer programmers:
(a) Employees are performing exempt professional job duties if their work involves the application of advanced, usually specialized, learning or credentials of the type commonly associated with the "traditional learned professions" such as medicine, law, accounting or engineering.
(b) Computer professionals are exempt if they are paid on a salary basis, or hourly at a rate of at least $27.63
See here http://www.flsa.com/coverage.html and here http://www.overtimelawyer.com/areyouexempt.html to further educate yourself as to why you probably do not deserve to get overtime pay if you are an IT person.
-- Terry
Post a job listing online, looking for 20 yrs experience in Java and offer 40K/yr. Lets see anyone reasonable come try and fill that job post without asking for more money.
Given that Java has only been released for 17 years, you are basically asking James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, or Patrick Naughton to come to work for you for $40K/year.
-- Terry