The funny thing is that even if it is not a ponzi scheme, it is still an unregistered bank, which is illegal in and of itself.
Next you'll tell me that Blizzard is an unregistered bank of fake WoW gold; slashdot is an unregistered bank dealing in the currency of Karma and Mod Points.
They're just little bit strings that some people like to send each other.
Why can't they just let people trade these things as they would smiley faces in chat rooms.
Recall when HP had Executive HP Rick Belluzzo -- who's main accomplishment was killing HPUX on PA-RISC in favor of NT on Itanium -- even before NT-on-Itanium existed.
The same guy then moved on to SGI (where he killed IRIX and MIPS at SGI in favor of NT on Itanium).
Then he got rewared with a President + COO job at Microsoft - even though his main accomplishments to date had been to kill 2 of the leading 64-bit software platforms, and 2 of the leading 64-bit hardware platforms in favor of 64-bit-windows even before 64-bit-windows worked.
I imagine Microsoft's paying HP well to hire Ozzie. If they can put their own plant at the top of HP; as well as buy Dell; perhaps they will manage to get back into the game.
. If the shipping company wasn't insured, well... they end up going out of business.
Wonder the corporate structure of those companies.
Could they run each ship as an independant-but-almost-wholy-owned company and send just that not-quite-subsidary through bankrupcy, pushing the losses to other people? (kinda like the games it seems Cerberus did with GMAC & Chrysler Financial )
One rabid animal is really all that is necessary to ruin your day or week
So you're mostly pulling your gun on bats?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Quoting Wikipedia:"in the US... incidents of rabies in humans are very rare. A total of 49 cases of the disease were reported in the country in 1995-2011; of these, 11 are thought to have been acquired abroad. Almost all domestically acquired cases are attributed to bat bites."
Unless you're in Africa or India, you've got a far better chance to win the lottery than get rabies from "bears, wolves, mountain cats, and coyotes" combined.
If someone downloads some hollywood movie; and your ISP sends a copy of those bytes to the NSA (or other-country's equivalent) for profit --- doesn't that mean the NSA just paid that person's ISP for a stolen copy of that movie?
Same with if an author sends a draft of a book to a publisher.
Seems to me those programs could be charged with piracy, no?
I totally respect her and her accomplishments; but think it'd be better for everyone (both the field of science and the field of engineering) if they rename the contest to "Enginering Fair" if they want this kind of entry.
wondered how they survived coding on a dumb 24x80 terminal in the late 1970's
Am I the only one who still largely works that way?
By keeping almost all functions&methods small enough to fit in 24x80, I find software much more readable on any display.
Develomet's really not bad with emacs's debugger integration in a 24x80 window and a working ctags(or equivalent for your language). Obviously I also need a big screen too if I'm debugging something with HD video output, though.
If, for example, the classified leaks make it clear that a war was for oil, I imagine it would be very damaging to morale no matter what the source of the information.
Ubuntu seems to have somehow turned Debian (which was stable, lightweight, flexible) into some bizzaro-world adware+bloat that only runs of a few computers.
That's called donating copyright in a program to a not-for-profit foundation that has the free software paradigm written into its charter.
That's still weak.
A non-profit's charter can evolve. Consider if the FSF merges with a different organization with a different charter; like the often more corporate-friendly Open Source Initiative.
Would be nice if such a guarantee could be written into the license itself.
(Nothing to do with Oracle screwing it up - I moved back around the 6.4 relase. IMHO Postgres was always better on Linux/Unix, and MySQL's popularity is really only due to it having a Windows installer first.)
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That's the whole point.
You set up the CA Authority - and use it to self-sign your certs - and it's safer than a commercial one.
The US DoD shares your opinion. https://www.my.af.mil/afp/netstorage/login_page_files/afportal_faqs.html Looks like a self-signed cert not issued by any commercial vendor in the default browser lists.
The funny thing is that even if it is not a ponzi scheme, it is still an unregistered bank, which is illegal in and of itself.
Next you'll tell me that Blizzard is an unregistered bank of fake WoW gold; slashdot is an unregistered bank dealing in the currency of Karma and Mod Points.
They're just little bit strings that some people like to send each other.
Why can't they just let people trade these things as they would smiley faces in chat rooms.
Same for employees spending too much time on /.
porn ... legal definition of obscenity
obscenity != porn
(or at least not necessarily)
Sure would be nice if the search engines let you choose which of the two (if any) you wanted filtered.
I imagine a lot more interesting content is on that part of the network.
last thing we need right now is more Windows
If only it had an unlocked bootloader, I would have bought one to port Debian to it if no-one else had already.
Recall when HP had Executive HP Rick Belluzzo -- who's main accomplishment was killing HPUX on PA-RISC in favor of NT on Itanium -- even before NT-on-Itanium existed.
The same guy then moved on to SGI (where he killed IRIX and MIPS at SGI in favor of NT on Itanium).
Then he got rewared with a President + COO job at Microsoft - even though his main accomplishments to date had been to kill 2 of the leading 64-bit software platforms, and 2 of the leading 64-bit hardware platforms in favor of 64-bit-windows even before 64-bit-windows worked.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Belluzzo
I imagine Microsoft's paying HP well to hire Ozzie. If they can put their own plant at the top of HP; as well as buy Dell; perhaps they will manage to get back into the game.
I imagine it must be far more than the lost business.
. If the shipping company wasn't insured, well... they end up going out of business.
Wonder the corporate structure of those companies.
Could they run each ship as an independant-but-almost-wholy-owned company and send just that not-quite-subsidary through bankrupcy, pushing the losses to other people? (kinda like the games it seems Cerberus did with GMAC & Chrysler Financial )
University of California's not just a bunch of hippies.
Their Chancellor talked in February about how fe feared they were "morphing into a federal university". http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/chancellor-uc-berkeley-morphing-federal-university-8816
This is just one more step in that progression.
One rabid animal is really all that is necessary to ruin your day or week
So you're mostly pulling your gun on bats?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Quoting Wikipedia:"in the US ... incidents of rabies in humans are very rare. A total of 49 cases of the disease were reported in the country in 1995-2011; of these, 11 are thought to have been acquired abroad. Almost all domestically acquired cases are attributed to bat bites."
Unless you're in Africa or India, you've got a far better chance to win the lottery than get rabies from "bears, wolves, mountain cats, and coyotes" combined.
...waste ... will all amount to nothing.
OTOH, being seen as a waste of time&money might be the only thing that actually could eventually lead to canceling such programs.
Doesn't seem like any other approaches work.
Same with if an author sends a draft of a book to a publisher.
Seems to me those programs could be charged with piracy, no?
Sad. You'd think they never learn.
I notice a lot of programmer/beekeepers, though.
I totally respect her and her accomplishments; but think it'd be better for everyone (both the field of science and the field of engineering) if they rename the contest to "Enginering Fair" if they want this kind of entry.
wondered how they survived coding on a dumb 24x80 terminal in the late 1970's
Am I the only one who still largely works that way?
By keeping almost all functions&methods small enough to fit in 24x80, I find software much more readable on any display.
Develomet's really not bad with emacs's debugger integration in a 24x80 window and a working ctags(or equivalent for your language). Obviously I also need a big screen too if I'm debugging something with HD video output, though.
Not to mention that what became AES was a Dutch(?) algorithm to begin with (Rijndael).
Does that matter? Conspiracy theorists would point out that "they" could have shell companies almost anywhere.
If, for example, the classified leaks make it clear that a war was for oil, I imagine it would be very damaging to morale no matter what the source of the information.
I wonder if anyone ever thought of letting a JVM run in a browser and use those for the full stack as a replacement for javascript.
(Edit: yes, I've heard of java applets before)
Ubuntu seems to have somehow turned Debian (which was stable, lightweight, flexible) into some bizzaro-world adware+bloat that only runs of a few computers.
A bunch of people downloading music and movies to hid from the RIAA and MPAA despite being told Tor's a bad tool for the job?
That's called donating copyright in a program to a not-for-profit foundation that has the free software paradigm written into its charter.
That's still weak.
A non-profit's charter can evolve. Consider if the FSF merges with a different organization with a different charter; like the often more corporate-friendly Open Source Initiative.
Would be nice if such a guarantee could be written into the license itself.
(Nothing to do with Oracle screwing it up - I moved back around the 6.4 relase. IMHO Postgres was always better on Linux/Unix, and MySQL's popularity is really only due to it having a Windows installer first.)