One interpretation I make is that if a EULA is a contract, then anonymously clicking through the EULA is equivalent to signing the contract and that therefore anonymously clicking a button in a dialog box is legally equivalent to a signature.
There has to be something very, very wrong with that...
Absolutely, I mean if a cyclist wants to have his brains smashed out, he is free to do so in the privacy of his own home.
But when he spreads his brains out in public, where I can see them or slip on them, then it becomes my business and I have no problem with the law requiring him to wear some sort of brain retainer.
So, cyclists, keep your brains to yourselves and wear a helmet.
"Why the hell aren't you watching your kids? What the hell ever happened to active parenting? If you don't want your kids to see such content then keep them off the damn internet,or at least monitor what they do online"
Uh, I think part of the issue might be those cases where the parents *want* the kids to appear online... but the kids don't want to. I'm sure I don't need to elaborate.
"Tank armour. Make it solid and when stuff hits, it breaks. Change temperature, and it melts. Change temp again and it becomes solid again, with no signs of previous damage. Regenerating armour."
Except that when it goes 'solid', its more like a gel.
Good luck with your soggy armor!
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"Data just came out showing that Cleveland, Ohio has the largest unemployment rate of any major city in the US. Cincinnati is on the brink of (and has fallen into) racial and class conflict."
Thats an interesting observation.
European nations can probably tolerate a much higher unemployment level before getting this sort of social unrest; in the US the unemployed have so much less to lose by being, uh, antisocial in one way or another.
re your example, symlinks not so much, but file ownerships and permissions? Yes, absolutely.
Also, there is the utility of being able to revert to a known good version or to be able to analyse diffs going back for the entire history of the project with simple commandlines. Try doing that last one with a backup system.
I'd say thats worth it.
I can have a working copy of the root filesystem as non-root and be able to work on the whole thing without worrying about ownerships and permissions.
I can change file ownerships and permissions, as they will end up on the target machine, by manipulating the svn properties, as a non root user.
My only bitch about subversion is that I don't get this 'for free'; I had to do a lot of work to make it happen.
Ideally, it would be able recognise and maintain them automatically.
In general I like your post and its well intended, but I can't help but think this somewhat incomplete;
"Remember, for a democracy to work as intended there needs to be participation by all of its citizens though voting as well as keeping their elected representatives informed of the citizens wishes."
Would you say that democracy works as intended when powerful media corporations use well tested, well developed advertising-like techniques (which border on hypnosis) to sway public opinion and thereby influence voting patterns?
(Because I believe that this is exactly what happens; human beings are, on the whole, remarkably suggestible (otherwise advertising of products or brands wouldn't be worth the billions that get spent on it)).
if someone can tell me of such a tool which can handle filesystem ownerships and permissions (in the context of Linux, in my case), and version them, I would like to hear it.
At the moment I am using subversion because it has versioned properties and I wrote a bunch of scripts to extract filesystem metadata and create svn properties from them and vice versa.
We have at least one arch fanatic where I work and when I asked him about this, he seemed to think that using arch for what I want would be *fantastic* and arch would rule, only I'd have to use the cvs method of maintaining ownerships and permissions, ie a script which maintains them in a file which is in the repository. Which I tried and which sucks.
It just seems obvious that trends in voting patterns can be influenced by the same techniques used in affecting spending patterns and that such techniques not only exist but are widely used at great expense.
This 'the media' in that sense is more than a reflection of its market; there is feedback.
"now, in the '00s, in the days of fox news broadcasting, it's the left screaming about the media covering things up and placating the masses and a right wing bias in things."
Ok, just thinking outside the box a bit here, but a fair few democratic elections in the last decade or so have had outcomes so close that it was almost impossible to call, for one reason or another. In all sorts of places, but all with well developed media networks.
I've noticed that the behavior of the media approaching an election is frequently to exert a dampening effect; they actively influence voting behavior by changing the style of coverage that they give this or that candidate, depending on how well or how poorly the polls portray them.
The effect seems to be to moderate voting behavior and to achieve closer election results.
The end result of this is twofold. On the one hand, the media give very negative coverage where an electorate sways too far one way or another branding them 'extremists', on the other hand when governments are formed from elections that are 'too close to call', they are typically weak and ineffectual and vulnerable to all manner of scandal.
The *civilian* population of Hiroshima, lets not forget.
I have to pipe up here, just to make certain that particular important concepts are remembered; that surely, of all things, dropping a nuclear weapon on a civilian population is a crime against humanity.
Just as much as rounding unarmed civilians up and sticking them in gas chambers is a crime against humanity, so is dropping a nuke on them.
If that isn't a crime against humanity, then surely there is no such thing.
For those butchers who would argue that thousands of American soldiers would surely have died in an attempt to invade Japan, yes thousands of American military personell would have died.
Better the death of ten thousand soldiers than the nuking of an entire civilian population. The nuking of babies, old folk, pregnant women, children at school, nurses in the hospital. The list goes on. Innocent life for the lives of the military; the American military (primarily).
"Those who live by the gun should damn well die by the gun. But those that live by the nuke would take everyone else down with them."
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Its a bizarre situation.
One interpretation I make is that if a EULA is a contract, then anonymously clicking through the EULA is equivalent to signing the contract and that therefore anonymously clicking a button in a dialog box is legally equivalent to a signature.
There has to be something very, very wrong with that...
Sometimes I think that the yanks should just ask Canada to annex them; they would be a *lot* better off.
Some innocent passer by could have slipped on the brains before you came by and hosed them down the gutter.
Loose brains in the street is everyones concern.
Absolutely, I mean if a cyclist wants to have his brains smashed out, he is free to do so in the privacy of his own home.
But when he spreads his brains out in public, where I can see them or slip on them, then it becomes my business and I have no problem with the law requiring him to wear some sort of brain retainer.
So, cyclists, keep your brains to yourselves and wear a helmet.
"Just for the record, Australia, or at least Western Australia, has mandatory helmet laws.. for bicycles!"
Here in NZ too.
Apparently it helps to keep the roads clear of bloody, porridgy slops.
"Why the hell aren't you watching your kids? What the hell ever happened to active parenting? If you don't want your kids to see such content then keep them off the damn internet,or at least monitor what they do online"
Uh, I think part of the issue might be those cases where the parents *want* the kids to appear online... but the kids don't want to. I'm sure I don't need to elaborate.
"What is it with this site, and analogies!?"
absolutely!
All analogies are false, just like all generalisations are false!
"Tank armour. Make it solid and when stuff hits, it breaks. Change temperature, and it melts. Change temp again and it becomes solid again, with no signs of previous damage. Regenerating armour."
Except that when it goes 'solid', its more like a gel.
Good luck with your soggy armor!
"Data just came out showing that Cleveland, Ohio has the largest unemployment rate of any major city in the US. Cincinnati is on the brink of (and has fallen into) racial and class conflict."
Thats an interesting observation.
European nations can probably tolerate a much higher unemployment level before getting this sort of social unrest; in the US the unemployed have so much less to lose by being, uh, antisocial in one way or another.
re your example, symlinks not so much, but file ownerships and permissions? Yes, absolutely.
Also, there is the utility of being able to revert to a known good version or to be able to analyse diffs going back for the entire history of the project with simple commandlines. Try doing that last one with a backup system.
I'd say thats worth it.
I can have a working copy of the root filesystem as non-root and be able to work on the whole thing without worrying about ownerships and permissions.
I can change file ownerships and permissions, as they will end up on the target machine, by manipulating the svn properties, as a non root user.
My only bitch about subversion is that I don't get this 'for free'; I had to do a lot of work to make it happen.
Ideally, it would be able recognise and maintain them automatically.
In general I like your post and its well intended, but I can't help but think this somewhat incomplete;
"Remember, for a democracy to work as intended there needs to be participation by all of its citizens though voting as well as keeping their elected representatives informed of the citizens wishes."
Would you say that democracy works as intended when powerful media corporations use well tested, well developed advertising-like techniques (which border on hypnosis) to sway public opinion and thereby influence voting patterns?
(Because I believe that this is exactly what happens; human beings are, on the whole, remarkably suggestible (otherwise advertising of products or brands wouldn't be worth the billions that get spent on it)).
"1. Citizen. Before w ZgJ 8GPxwFnwvG&iX4tKfo("2ny!3Pp..."
I bet the rest of that is just Danish l33t speak or something...
I am using it to manage a root filesystem template for a system of VPNs which are updated using rsync.
I need symlinks, device nodes, numerical UID, GID and mode.
So go figure.
if someone can tell me of such a tool which can handle filesystem ownerships and permissions (in the context of Linux, in my case), and version them, I would like to hear it.
At the moment I am using subversion because it has versioned properties and I wrote a bunch of scripts to extract filesystem metadata and create svn properties from them and vice versa.
We have at least one arch fanatic where I work and when I asked him about this, he seemed to think that using arch for what I want would be *fantastic* and arch would rule, only I'd have to use the cvs method of maintaining ownerships and permissions, ie a script which maintains them in a file which is in the repository. Which I tried and which sucks.
"What's next? People sueing TimeWarner or AOL for getting them addicted?"
oooh oooh! Darl McBride!
I mean, by his account he is largely responsible for Linux, right? And if pressed he would probably even take credit for the entire internet...
That guy was ahead of his time.
Like his 'It is no longer necessary to be able to produce an opinion, only to reproduce public opinion' (from Simulations).
but what if, for religious reasons, you don't want to make the sign of the cross?
(BTW this is how Jews got the 'kike' nickname; illiterate Jews would use a circle (or kikel (sp?)) instead of a cross for their mark).
Demolition of democracy started with television coverage of election campaigns.
After that, it was just a matter of who either had enough money for the best media campaign or who had the ear of the media corporations.
Nowadays, in the western world, democracy is almost entirely extinct.
Even if the individuals vote is counted accurately, the more influential factor is how the individual decided what to do with that vote.
If you can influence that, then you control democracy with no need for easily detectable voting fraud.
And guess what? There is a well developed technology for influencing what people do with 'tokens' such as money. Its called advertising.
My bet is that it works for votes too.
In fact, I'd call that a 'duh'.
"Do you want to pay for buggy, easily exploitable software then?"
I just wish that people would figure out one of the axioms of the modern world. That is;
'The quality of software is inversely proportional to its cost.'
You don't get it do you?
War is evil but using nukes just makes things worse; they turn their wielders into cowards.
To wrongs don't make a right.
It just seems obvious that trends in voting patterns can be influenced by the same techniques used in affecting spending patterns and that such techniques not only exist but are widely used at great expense.
This 'the media' in that sense is more than a reflection of its market; there is feedback.
"now, in the '00s, in the days of fox news broadcasting, it's the left screaming about the media covering things up and placating the masses and a right wing bias in things."
Ok, just thinking outside the box a bit here, but a fair few democratic elections in the last decade or so have had outcomes so close that it was almost impossible to call, for one reason or another. In all sorts of places, but all with well developed media networks.
I've noticed that the behavior of the media approaching an election is frequently to exert a dampening effect; they actively influence voting behavior by changing the style of coverage that they give this or that candidate, depending on how well or how poorly the polls portray them.
The effect seems to be to moderate voting behavior and to achieve closer election results.
The end result of this is twofold. On the one hand, the media give very negative coverage where an electorate sways too far one way or another branding them 'extremists', on the other hand when governments are formed from elections that are 'too close to call', they are typically weak and ineffectual and vulnerable to all manner of scandal.
Or something like that.
Or as Jean Baudrillard said in 'Simulations';
"It is no longer necessary to be able to produce an opinion, only to be able to reproduce public opinion".
Democracy died when the media corporation was born.
People decide how to spend their vote just like the decide to spend their money;
advertising.
The *civilian* population of Hiroshima, lets not forget.
I have to pipe up here, just to make certain that particular important concepts are remembered; that surely, of all things, dropping a nuclear weapon on a civilian population is a crime against humanity.
Just as much as rounding unarmed civilians up and sticking them in gas chambers is a crime against humanity, so is dropping a nuke on them.
If that isn't a crime against humanity, then surely there is no such thing.
For those butchers who would argue that thousands of American soldiers would surely have died in an attempt to invade Japan, yes thousands of American military personell would have died.
Better the death of ten thousand soldiers than the nuking of an entire civilian population. The nuking of babies, old folk, pregnant women, children at school, nurses in the hospital. The list goes on. Innocent life for the lives of the military; the American military (primarily).
"Those who live by the gun should damn well die by the gun. But those that live by the nuke would take everyone else down with them."