There's a lot of confusion here and in the US when speaking about "communism". The problem is that the term "communism" has multiple meanings, and Bill Gates is using one meaning to illicit imagery from another meaning. From wikipedia:
Communism is a term that can refer to one of several things: a certain social system, an ideology which supports that system, or a political movement that wishes to implement that system.
As a social system, communism would be a type of egalitarian society with no state, no private property and no social classes. In communism, all property is owned by the community as a whole, and all people enjoy equal social and economic status. Perhaps the best known principle of a communist society is "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need".
Above is the version of communism that OSS can be compared against.
As a political movement, communism is a branch of the broader socialist movement. The communist movement differentiates itself from other branches of the socialist movement through various things - such as, for example, the communists' desire to establish a communist system after the socialist one, and their commitment to revolutionary strategies for overthrowing capitalism.
This is the form of "communism" practiced in th e old Soviet Union, and is actually socialism, which is NOT true communism. And there is doubt as to whether the Soviet leaders actually ever wished to eventually implement a true communist state.
OSS is NOT like soviet "communism" which involves people disappearing in the night and nukes and invasion and other propagandist negative images we may have left over from the cold war. But Bill is clever in trying to illicit this imagery to turn people against OSS.
They would have put a screen on it (a small monochrome LCD would not be that expensive), but then they'd probably cannibalize their high-end iPod sales. They had to cripple this just enough so that it wouldn't hurt their top seller.
Damn you and your plausible theories! I was hoping this would finally be the strange artifact that would have scientists announcing "we have finally found signs of extra-terrestrial intelligence". punk...
I don't know, I think Sony might have an edge over Honda on this one. Their robot can get up if it falls down, it can run, it can dance, throw a ball, detect whether it's pinching a hand too hard, among other things. Check out the "Fan dance" video. It's amazing:
Ok, I would normally agree with you, but in this case many people would think of using the radio in this fashion. It's a straightforward logical deduction. Now something I definitely agree with you on is sample virus source code. There are several instances where a university researcher has released prototype virus source code just to prove that an exploit can be done. That is just stupid.
Oh GOD!!! Are the terrorists that you speak of THAT retarded? Must they scour Slashdot for technical ideas? It's just encryption, not rocket science. If you think the terrorists are that stupid, I hope you don't also believe that terrorists have the capability to create nukes and bioweapons, because they are several orders of maginitude more difficult to create or obtain.
The problem with this logic is that these immigrants are getting special treatment. They should go through the same process as any other immigrant for acquiring legal status to work in this country. Instead, the H1-B program gives corporate sponsorship to people who may not even want to become citizens in the long term, but are willing to work for less in a market (tech) where unemployment is at it's highest (and there are qualified Americans out there). This isn't an issue of immigrant resentment... it just doesn't seem fair to me. Seems unbalanced in favor of corporations.
You have no right to claim that someone else's instructions suck. Their instructions are clear if you read them carefully. If not, then you will be confused. Look at your own directions - if they don't read them carefully, they are not going to be sure if "skip steps 1-3" and "skip down to 'Step 2'" refer to your steps or Secunia's steps. Confusing as hell.
This is neat in concept, but in execution it just doesn't work. With a regular ball or optical mouse, you move the cursor in a straight horizontal line by sweeping your mouse in an arc, keeping the mouse perpendicular to the direction of motion. The Wacom mouse is not aware of the direction it's pointing, so if you sweep it in an arc, the point will also move in an arc instead of a straight line. It's somewhat subtle, so you can compensate, but it's disconcerting and non-intuitive... enough to where I switched back to my normal mouse.
Also, the Wacom mice are not optical, unlike the A4tech mouse. The A4Tech mouse does not suffer this problem.
Is it just me or does this article seem naive? It's hard to believe that they don't already have the capability to spy on IRC and IM. A thirteen year old could write something to do this.
I agree with you - you should be able to do anything you want with a physical object in YOUR posession. Of course, most would disagree with me, since I take this to it's logical conclusion - the hard drive in my computer is MINE, so I can arrange the magnetic polarities any damn way I choose, even if the polarities are in an order than happens to be the same as a commercial piece of software.
LS
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A company called gray kangaroo makes alcohol filters that do precisely what is being described here. Take this with a grain of salt, since the source is biased (they are trying to sell filters), but their FAQ claims the following:
How is the Gray Kangaroo different than a commercially available water filter?
GK uses more filter material than a standard personal water filter. It also uses filter material which is optimized for liquor. Water filters use a variety of filter materials, some of them improve liquor while others (which eliminate chlorine, lead and other hazards in tap water) do nothing for liquor and only waste space. Also some filters use plastics which are dissolved by hard liquor and end up making your drink taste like crazy glue. Most importantly the GK is designed to easily filter liquor multiple times and built to be rugged enough to be used by a group of heavy drinkers.
My gosh, I can see why you posted anonymously, because your brain damaged logic abilities are showing clearly. Here's my point for the logically challenged: Just because a place is partison in general doesn't mean that the individual at that place is of the same leaning. What evidence do you have that this paper is a "partisan political" paper? It's simply stating derivations based on cold hard data. If I write a paper stating that 65% of voters in Arkansas are Republican, does that mean I'm a Republican? No, you illogical dick-weed.
Yes, I know you are joking, but how does it feel to be a robot? I've read several articles that predicted jokers like you would come out and make light of the fact that the study came out of Berkeley. If you are not aware, so did BSD. Is BSD some flakey project built by partisan nutcases? NO, and your perpetuation of a stereotype does nothing but muddle the truth.
What's with all the hand waving trying to turn this into a psychological problem? The study done by Berkeley is purely statistical, and the facts speak for themselves. It has nothing to do with being sore losers.
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There's a lot of confusion here and in the US when speaking about "communism". The problem is that the term "communism" has multiple meanings, and Bill Gates is using one meaning to illicit imagery from another meaning. From wikipedia:
Communism is a term that can refer to one of several things: a certain social system, an ideology which supports that system, or a political movement that wishes to implement that system.
As a social system, communism would be a type of egalitarian society with no state, no private property and no social classes. In communism, all property is owned by the community as a whole, and all people enjoy equal social and economic status. Perhaps the best known principle of a communist society is "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need".
Above is the version of communism that OSS can be compared against.
As a political movement, communism is a branch of the broader socialist movement. The communist movement differentiates itself from other branches of the socialist movement through various things - such as, for example, the communists' desire to establish a communist system after the socialist one, and their commitment to revolutionary strategies for overthrowing capitalism.
This is the form of "communism" practiced in th e old Soviet Union, and is actually socialism, which is NOT true communism. And there is doubt as to whether the Soviet leaders actually ever wished to eventually implement a true communist state.
OSS is NOT like soviet "communism" which involves people disappearing in the night and nukes and invasion and other propagandist negative images we may have left over from the cold war. But Bill is clever in trying to illicit this imagery to turn people against OSS.
LS
They would have put a screen on it (a small monochrome LCD would not be that expensive), but then they'd probably cannibalize their high-end iPod sales. They had to cripple this just enough so that it wouldn't hurt their top seller.
LS
Umm, what other revenue generating services besides iTunes do they offer that indicates to you that there is some repositioning going on?
LS
Looks like Bugs Bunny definitely took a wrong turn at Albuquerque...
LS
Damn you and your plausible theories! I was hoping this would finally be the strange artifact that would have scientists announcing "we have finally found signs of extra-terrestrial intelligence". punk...
I don't know, I think Sony might have an edge over Honda on this one. Their robot can get up if it falls down, it can run, it can dance, throw a ball, detect whether it's pinching a hand too hard, among other things. Check out the "Fan dance" video. It's amazing:
http://www.plyojump.com/qrio.html
LS
No one could deny your analysis except that you forgot one thing - digital is not spiritual. God prefers analogue. Vinyl is psychedelic and shit dude.
Can you prove Occam's Razor, or do you just believe in it?
LS
I don't know about you, but that big honkin' crater that is a quarter the size of the moon is kinda cool to me. The crater CONTAINS craters...
Ok, I would normally agree with you, but in this case many people would think of using the radio in this fashion. It's a straightforward logical deduction. Now something I definitely agree with you on is sample virus source code. There are several instances where a university researcher has released prototype virus source code just to prove that an exploit can be done. That is just stupid.
LS
Oh GOD!!! Are the terrorists that you speak of THAT retarded? Must they scour Slashdot for technical ideas? It's just encryption, not rocket science. If you think the terrorists are that stupid, I hope you don't also believe that terrorists have the capability to create nukes and bioweapons, because they are several orders of maginitude more difficult to create or obtain.
LS
There is no difference in requirements to purchase a .com, .net, or .org domain, so why should one have a different fee schedule from another?
LS
The problem with this logic is that these immigrants are getting special treatment. They should go through the same process as any other immigrant for acquiring legal status to work in this country. Instead, the H1-B program gives corporate sponsorship to people who may not even want to become citizens in the long term, but are willing to work for less in a market (tech) where unemployment is at it's highest (and there are qualified Americans out there). This isn't an issue of immigrant resentment... it just doesn't seem fair to me. Seems unbalanced in favor of corporations.
LS
You have no right to claim that someone else's instructions suck. Their instructions are clear if you read them carefully. If not, then you will be confused. Look at your own directions - if they don't read them carefully, they are not going to be sure if "skip steps 1-3" and "skip down to 'Step 2'" refer to your steps or Secunia's steps. Confusing as hell.
You seem to have a bit of Bush's syndrome... Here's what he said.
I think it goes like this:
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
LS
This is neat in concept, but in execution it just doesn't work. With a regular ball or optical mouse, you move the cursor in a straight horizontal line by sweeping your mouse in an arc, keeping the mouse perpendicular to the direction of motion. The Wacom mouse is not aware of the direction it's pointing, so if you sweep it in an arc, the point will also move in an arc instead of a straight line. It's somewhat subtle, so you can compensate, but it's disconcerting and non-intuitive... enough to where I switched back to my normal mouse.
Also, the Wacom mice are not optical, unlike the A4tech mouse. The A4Tech mouse does not suffer this problem.
LS
Where do you get your definition of recycle?
Here's what Merriam-Webster has to say:
2 : to adapt to a new use : ALTER
4 : to make ready for reuse
And here's what dictionary.com has to say:
4. b. To recondition and adapt to a new use or function: recycling old warehouses as condominiums.
So we have both the dictionary and the public using the word a certain way. Who are you to say it's wrong?
LS
Is it just me or does this article seem naive? It's hard to believe that they don't already have the capability to spy on IRC and IM. A thirteen year old could write something to do this.
LS
I agree with you - you should be able to do anything you want with a physical object in YOUR posession. Of course, most would disagree with me, since I take this to it's logical conclusion - the hard drive in my computer is MINE, so I can arrange the magnetic polarities any damn way I choose, even if the polarities are in an order than happens to be the same as a commercial piece of software.
LS
A company called gray kangaroo makes alcohol filters that do precisely what is being described here. Take this with a grain of salt, since the source is biased (they are trying to sell filters), but their FAQ claims the following:
How is the Gray Kangaroo different than a commercially available water filter?
GK uses more filter material than a standard personal water filter. It also uses filter material which is optimized for liquor. Water filters use a variety of filter materials, some of them improve liquor while others (which eliminate chlorine, lead and other hazards in tap water) do nothing for liquor and only waste space. Also some filters use plastics which are dissolved by hard liquor and end up making your drink taste like crazy glue. Most importantly the GK is designed to easily filter liquor multiple times and built to be rugged enough to be used by a group of heavy drinkers.
LS
No fucking duh. Apparently you
1. Have no sense of humor.
2. Are making an ass out of yourself by assuming that I'm not from the US if you are gonna have such a stick up your ass about details.
3. Are one of the asshats who believe the US is somehow magically better than everyone else.
LS
You know, 52% of the US population actually believes the rest of the world are a bunch of naive fuckwits. We're in bad shape, fellas.
LS
My gosh, I can see why you posted anonymously, because your brain damaged logic abilities are showing clearly. Here's my point for the logically challenged: Just because a place is partison in general doesn't mean that the individual at that place is of the same leaning. What evidence do you have that this paper is a "partisan political" paper? It's simply stating derivations based on cold hard data. If I write a paper stating that 65% of voters in Arkansas are Republican, does that mean I'm a Republican? No, you illogical dick-weed.
Yes, I know you are joking, but how does it feel to be a robot? I've read several articles that predicted jokers like you would come out and make light of the fact that the study came out of Berkeley. If you are not aware, so did BSD. Is BSD some flakey project built by partisan nutcases? NO, and your perpetuation of a stereotype does nothing but muddle the truth.
LS
What's with all the hand waving trying to turn this into a psychological problem? The study done by Berkeley is purely statistical, and the facts speak for themselves. It has nothing to do with being sore losers.
LS