Actually, they tasered the tank and it shorted the taser out. The cop was referring to that when he said he'd never seen anything like that before. Those things almost never short out.
I call bullshit. The armour is made of plywood painted green.
Can't get the picture of a cop being dragged behind a wooden tank now.
If the language is unsuitable as a tool for propaganda, then you can speak freely in it without the need to prevent misleading information through active censorship. Therefore, if you can create such a language and collectively agree to use it as a standard for mass communications, then you can have free speech without misinformation. It is a weakness of our communication protocol that allows propaganda and misinformation to happen.
I'm working on a logical and practical means by which to prevent propaganda without preventing free speech. I wrote about it in my journal. You're welcome to go read it and spout empty rhetoric in response if you like.
A lot of us have a hard time with crowds of people because we have bad eyesight. Makes it practically impossible to play the "eye and body language communication" game. If we didn't get corrective lenses until after we developed our social habits, it's a pretty difficult thing to change.
I know if I'm out at a bar without my contacts, I can't tell which one is giving me the flirty look, which is giving me the dirty look, and which one has an adams apple.
Needless to say, this can make the situation less than pleasant. I'll take a house party any day.
Propaganda is speech. Responding to speech with violence is the act of a coward, and an admission that one is unable to prove the propaganda wrong.
Propaganda is lies. Propaganda is misinformation. Propaganda is the act of a coward. Propaganda is something that should not be tolerated. Propaganda is an act of war.
What is your point? The last LTS release is still going to be supported for years to come. As will the next LTS release.
Upgrading Ubuntu isn't like upgrading windows. It's like upgrading windows, and your office suite, and your productivity tools, and your games, and every other little thing on your system.
Which is one of the best parts of using Ubuntu. You don't have 20 little applets running all the time, phoning home with who knows what personal data, nagging you to register or upgrade or screwing with your default file associations.
Windows feels like a wrestling ring, with representatives from a dozen different companies duking it out, creating drama and looking for attention with anti-virus and anti-rootkit and anti-spyware programs acting like assistant referees and slowing everything to a crawl.
Sometimes using open source software can be frustrating. But after growing accustomed to using it, running windows is like trying to get work done in a daycare full of children with attention deficit disorder.
I'm sorry, but if my artist/designer girlfriend, my 7 year old daughter and my 7 year old niece find it easier to use than Windows, and you can't figure it out, well, either you didn't try, or you're fucking retarded.
I feel the same way. The major annoyances for me are the video screens in franchises, convenience stores and food courts. I just don't do any shopping in any of those places.
The local convenience store used to have a monitor at the checkout counter that displayed continual advertisements, and enough of us complained that the entire franchise chain has severed their relationship with the advertising company that was responsible.
I'm firmly in agreement with Bill Hicks... the right thing to do is shoot all the advertisers in the head. Propaganda is violence, and should be responded to with violence.
You would be amazed how clearheaded and how much happier you become when you remove these things like magazines, newspapers, commercial driven television from your life. It really isn't particularly hard these days. Between adblocking the news sites and downloading shows commercial free three seasons at a time, you don't need to expose yourself to them at all.
It's amazing how intolerable commercial interruptions become once you get away from them for a while. Personally, I like to punish advertisers who push their ads into my personal space by boycotting them forever.
Good riddance. With a new LTS release of Ubuntu coming up in a scant few weeks and support for the entire Adobe creative suite in Wine, I don't see as there's much reason to bother with it.
Yes, the security of the world has been put in major peril by all those high resolution photos of irises and fingertip that have been circulating around the Internet. Eye porn will be the death of us all!
Biometric authentication is a far, far stupider idea than this is.
Yes, not being able to log in when you're drunk is bad, but having to exchange your finger and your eyeball for a new one because someone posted a high-resolution photo of them online is much, much worse.
Maybe in the new virtual worlds there'll be something good on TV.
The more you exclude because it isn't using gee-whiz special effects, the less likely you are to find anything good. Only rich assholes who don't respect you can afford gee-whiz special effects, and they'd rather your entertainments be trite and superficial.
You do realize, my stupid friend, that you just contradicted your own previous post, and agreed with what I stated. Maybe you just need some reading and comprehension skills. Is English your second language perhaps?
There is no "the" prior art if you didn't file your patent. The transaction is, the act of filing is your payment, the patent is societies return payment. If there is any publicly released prior art and you haven't filed your patent, then there was no need for your filing, and you get nothing. You can't sit around hoarding a secret process, then file patent after someone else goes public with your method after having figured it out on their own.
I have never understood why the organizations that release operating systems don't buy the license to a couple of good books such as these and release them free online for everyone. I would think it would get you more market share than advertising budgets.
Right. And Linus has explicitly said that he will not be taking any steps to prevent the poisoning that the GP described. He makes big speeches about it.
Solaris anyone?
I'm referring to people who are building a business using the software, or using a modified version of the software, as a tool to do their day to day operations. Not people who make code for third parties as their day to day business operations.
Now, if you release something under the BSD, and you have a patent pending, and I use it to run my nuts and bolts factory, I could wake up one day and find out that you own all the profits my business generates.
If you released it under the GPLv3, I would already have a legally binding assurance that you won't do that to me.
Now, if there is a third party with patents involved, I don't have a legal release from their patents if they are not involved in our interaction.
However, one would presume that your GPLv3 code would constitute prior art in the majority of such cases, giving me a degree of relief from this risk.
If you, knowing that a third party had a previously issued patent, decided to write an implementation of that patent and release it GPLv3, then that would leave me and my nuts and bolts factory at risk.
All in all, GPLv3 is a big, big benefit for people who aren't in the software business. And, in my opinion, also a big benefit for people who want to be coders for a living. The more fat for custom work in your clients IT budget, the better. It's only those who want to be professional code owners that aren't going to benefit, overall. Personally, I'd just as soon shoot those people in the head as look at em, but that's just me.
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I've been holding in piss since I heard. When will the headstone be available for public viewing?
Actually, they tasered the tank and it shorted the taser out. The cop was referring to that when he said he'd never seen anything like that before. Those things almost never short out.
I call bullshit. The armour is made of plywood painted green.
Can't get the picture of a cop being dragged behind a wooden tank now.
There are no spoons at PAX. The illusions are fucking complicated, I'll concede you that.
If the language is unsuitable as a tool for propaganda, then you can speak freely in it without the need to prevent misleading information through active censorship. Therefore, if you can create such a language and collectively agree to use it as a standard for mass communications, then you can have free speech without misinformation. It is a weakness of our communication protocol that allows propaganda and misinformation to happen.
Fighting creates relaxation in the aftermath.
So do video games.
So does fucking.
The first is the act of destroying society.
The second is the act of withdrawing from society.
The third is the act of creating society.
The third is what you aim for.
The first is where you go after the human rights activists have killed your potential.
The second is where you end up once you're completely broken, if you're not already in jail or dead.
I'm working on a logical and practical means by which to prevent propaganda without preventing free speech. I wrote about it in my journal. You're welcome to go read it and spout empty rhetoric in response if you like.
A lot of us have a hard time with crowds of people because we have bad eyesight. Makes it practically impossible to play the "eye and body language communication" game. If we didn't get corrective lenses until after we developed our social habits, it's a pretty difficult thing to change.
I know if I'm out at a bar without my contacts, I can't tell which one is giving me the flirty look, which is giving me the dirty look, and which one has an adams apple.
Needless to say, this can make the situation less than pleasant. I'll take a house party any day.
Propaganda is speech. Responding to speech with violence is the act of a coward, and an admission that one is unable to prove the propaganda wrong.
Propaganda is lies. Propaganda is misinformation. Propaganda is the act of a coward. Propaganda is something that should not be tolerated. Propaganda is an act of war.
6.10 AKA Edgy wasn't a LTS release. 6.06 AKA Dapper Drake was the last LTS release.
http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_(Linux_distribution)
The LTS releases get 3 years of support on the desktop, and 5 years of support on the server.
Which means you'll get full support for Dapper on the desktop until June, 2009 and on the server until June, 2011.
Oh, and I never said you were a moron. I said people who claim to not be able to use this distro either didn't actually try, or are morons.
However, you sure seem determined to prove that you are indeed a moron. Keep up the good work.
What is your point? The last LTS release is still going to be supported for years to come. As will the next LTS release.
Upgrading Ubuntu isn't like upgrading windows. It's like upgrading windows, and your office suite, and your productivity tools, and your games, and every other little thing on your system.
Which is one of the best parts of using Ubuntu. You don't have 20 little applets running all the time, phoning home with who knows what personal data, nagging you to register or upgrade or screwing with your default file associations.
Windows feels like a wrestling ring, with representatives from a dozen different companies duking it out, creating drama and looking for attention with anti-virus and anti-rootkit and anti-spyware programs acting like assistant referees and slowing everything to a crawl.
Sometimes using open source software can be frustrating. But after growing accustomed to using it, running windows is like trying to get work done in a daycare full of children with attention deficit disorder.
I'm sorry, but if my artist/designer girlfriend, my 7 year old daughter and my 7 year old niece find it easier to use than Windows, and you can't figure it out, well, either you didn't try, or you're fucking retarded.
I feel the same way. The major annoyances for me are the video screens in franchises, convenience stores and food courts. I just don't do any shopping in any of those places.
The local convenience store used to have a monitor at the checkout counter that displayed continual advertisements, and enough of us complained that the entire franchise chain has severed their relationship with the advertising company that was responsible.
I'm firmly in agreement with Bill Hicks... the right thing to do is shoot all the advertisers in the head. Propaganda is violence, and should be responded to with violence.
You would be amazed how clearheaded and how much happier you become when you remove these things like magazines, newspapers, commercial driven television from your life. It really isn't particularly hard these days. Between adblocking the news sites and downloading shows commercial free three seasons at a time, you don't need to expose yourself to them at all.
It's amazing how intolerable commercial interruptions become once you get away from them for a while. Personally, I like to punish advertisers who push their ads into my personal space by boycotting them forever.
Good riddance. With a new LTS release of Ubuntu coming up in a scant few weeks and support for the entire Adobe creative suite in Wine, I don't see as there's much reason to bother with it.
I would have thought Hawking to be more of a cleric, personally...
Is this the same Daniel from Brazil that did the Promise RAID BIOS/Driver hacks for the A7V/A7V133 boards from Asus?
Yes, the security of the world has been put in major peril by all those high resolution photos of irises and fingertip that have been circulating around the Internet. Eye porn will be the death of us all!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/30/german_interior_minister_fingerprint_appropriated/
He sure seemed to think it was a big deal. Wonder how anxious he will be to create pervasive biometric requirements now.
Biometric authentication is a far, far stupider idea than this is. Yes, not being able to log in when you're drunk is bad, but having to exchange your finger and your eyeball for a new one because someone posted a high-resolution photo of them online is much, much worse.
Maybe in the new virtual worlds there'll be something good on TV.
The more you exclude because it isn't using gee-whiz special effects, the less likely you are to find anything good. Only rich assholes who don't respect you can afford gee-whiz special effects, and they'd rather your entertainments be trite and superficial.
You do realize, my stupid friend, that you just contradicted your own previous post, and agreed with what I stated. Maybe you just need some reading and comprehension skills. Is English your second language perhaps?
Yawn.
You're talking out of your fucking ass. You don't have a clue what you're talking about. Go do some research.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior_art
There is no "the" prior art if you didn't file your patent. The transaction is, the act of filing is your payment, the patent is societies return payment. If there is any publicly released prior art and you haven't filed your patent, then there was no need for your filing, and you get nothing. You can't sit around hoarding a secret process, then file patent after someone else goes public with your method after having figured it out on their own.
I have never understood why the organizations that release operating systems don't buy the license to a couple of good books such as these and release them free online for everyone. I would think it would get you more market share than advertising budgets.
Only if you had the patent before he wrote and released it. Otherwise, the prior art that the code represents destroys your patent.
Right. And Linus has explicitly said that he will not be taking any steps to prevent the poisoning that the GP described. He makes big speeches about it. Solaris anyone?
I'm referring to people who are building a business using the software, or using a modified version of the software, as a tool to do their day to day operations. Not people who make code for third parties as their day to day business operations.
Now, if you release something under the BSD, and you have a patent pending, and I use it to run my nuts and bolts factory, I could wake up one day and find out that you own all the profits my business generates.
If you released it under the GPLv3, I would already have a legally binding assurance that you won't do that to me.
Now, if there is a third party with patents involved, I don't have a legal release from their patents if they are not involved in our interaction.
However, one would presume that your GPLv3 code would constitute prior art in the majority of such cases, giving me a degree of relief from this risk.
If you, knowing that a third party had a previously issued patent, decided to write an implementation of that patent and release it GPLv3, then that would leave me and my nuts and bolts factory at risk.
All in all, GPLv3 is a big, big benefit for people who aren't in the software business. And, in my opinion, also a big benefit for people who want to be coders for a living. The more fat for custom work in your clients IT budget, the better. It's only those who want to be professional code owners that aren't going to benefit, overall. Personally, I'd just as soon shoot those people in the head as look at em, but that's just me.