> Smart teachers are now demanding students reformat their calculators before a test, because would just write a BASIC program instead of memorizing a formula, or store notes as an image.
Sounds like a teacher too lazy to make a good test.
Making kids memorize a formula is just about as useless as making kids memorize how to look it up in an open-book test which is just about as useless as making kids memorize how to google it.
How about make questions where the students need to do some thinking instead of just memorizing.
Some keep saying:
"China should look at their own track record before criticizing the US on freedom an human rights"
and others keep saying:
"The US should look at their own track record before criticizing the China on freedom an human rights",
IMHO it's good any time *either* country points out abuses in the other and they should each aggressively push each other to improve.
Does this re-enforce the conspiracy theories that Groklaw may have been a hired work by one of the parties in the SCO suit?
If anything, F/OSS legal issues are even more interesting now than ever (with lots of activity around Android, Oracle buying Sun, etc).
I can see why PJ might be tired and might want to sell/hand-off groklaw to others interested in continuing the fight. But to just shut down when the SCO case closes. Makes me curious.
Whether it's a faith-based reason such as "god says you shouldn't eat that raw pig because he think the pig's holy" or a science-based one like "some scientist told me not to eat that raw pig because of some bugs" --- it "delivers" just as well to most people.
Even today, religion delivers as well as science in some fields like social sciences. For one example, it's as easy to explain hatred in the oil-poor parts of the mideast as collateral damage of feuding jealous gods as it is with brain chemistry and MRIs. And it sure is easier to sell a war to mid-america with a faith-based argument (crusade against the infidels) than it is to sell it with any science/fact-based one (I guess derived the importance of control over natural resources)?
ISTM the line between science and faith is kinda a continuum, where as more and more dots are drawn because causes and effects it becomes more sciency and less faithy.
Some UI may go this way eventually, but I imagine most written/typed communication is still incredibly valuable.
I imagine it won't be long before we communicate with computers very much the same way we do with people.
For casual simple tasks, that means mostly voice (which computers suck at today) and a bit of gestures (which computers are OK at with a mouse).
For anything complex, though, communication between humans is typically written - and I expect it'll continue to be so for computers for as long as people interact with them -- not because it's great for the computer, but because it's the best humans come to a high-bandwidth precise recordable communication channel.
> I can sort of trust people I know, only to the extent I know them.
I trust Google and Facebook to collect and mine all data that's given to them and provide a nice internet experience, but not to protect my money or anonymity.
I trust my bank to keep my money safer than I could keep it my self -- but not to watch which porn sites i visit.
I trust Tor to help protect my anonymity - but not to keep my money safe.
You can't have a single organization that I'd trust to do all three.
I'm tempted to create a startup company where we'll pick up your phone and park it wherever you're supposed to be (your office, etc), while you run off to wherever you really want to go; and at the same time give you a loaner-phone where we'd forward your calls to you.
GPL is why Linux won over all the BSD's long ago (or so netcraft confirms).
Recall SunOS and Ultrix?
They were far far ahead of Linux at one point.
Because the BSD license didn't require them to share back, it was easy for those using them not to share back; and as a result Linux improved faster. Same will happen to Apple. It's wonderful for them now that they're very profitable and can hire whomever they need --- just as it was for Sun. But if Apple ever struggles and their recruiters can't attract whichever developers they want; they'll stall like all the other proprietary BSD forks did.
The penalty for an excessive lawsuit should be >= the difference between the claimed damage and the actual damage.
In my dream-world legal system the court would rule that "yes, limewire contributed to some copying, so they owe the record companies $50K or so in actual lost sales --- but the record industry should be fined $75-trillion-minus-that-$50K for wasting taxpayer money having the justice-system hear that absurd suit."
GPL uses a "judo" approach using copyright against itself.
No it doesn't.
It's a licence to a copyrighted work in exactly the same way any other software license is.
A Windows OEM license tells you "only run this software on this particular approved brand of machine", just like the GPL tells you "only use these header files with these other approved software packages".
If both cases, you get to use it in exactly the ways the licenses permit.
A quite renewable resource; recycles well; doesn't make your drink smell like a chemical factory over time.
I hope after these biodegradable plastic-like-plant-chemicals (that'll probably leech into your soft drink when/if the bottle gets warm), they consider glass as a material for soft drink bottle containers.
If there were full transparency everywhere -- in government, in corporations, of rich aristocrats, etc -- that might work.
But the reality is that the powerful people and organizations protect their own privacy, and use their knowledge advantage that as leverage against those who choose transparency for themselves.
who said "in an information age, if you don't have anything to hide, you don't have anything at all"
Answering my own question ---- wow - it's awesome how the pattern of the Tsunami wave is almost exactly like the radiation patterns of an antenna shaped about the same shape as the fault:
I don't know enough fluid dynamics or whatever; but I'm surprised "when" isn't just "distance / speed-of-waves", and "how big" is just "size * some 1/distance factor, or perhaps 1/distance-squared if energy goes down too.
Translate to and from some other language repeatedly until the translations are the same. That way the writing style will resemble the translation program's more than your own.
An example, using this technique on the above text: http://translationparty.com/#8957181 "By repeating the same part of the translation has been translated into other languages. Style, translation program, this method is beyond ourselves."
In the case of HB Gary - they did everyone (especially those who pay for HBGary's services - meaning mostly taxpayers) a great service by exposing a security company apparently so fraudulent it had no business in the computer security field.
If it were my own web sites, I'd very much hope that if someone found an exploit, they'd let me know by visibly defacing my homepage, rather than just ignoring the vulnerability and leaving me vulnerable until some less scrupulous hacker finds it next.
I hope the law would take intent into consideration a lot in those cases. If the intent was to inform HB Gary and HB Gary customers that their security knowledge sucked, IMHO they did a service to all by demonstrating that. OTOH, if their intent was to steal people's credit cards or something from HB Gary, they should be gone after just like any other credit card thief should.
> a clean sweep and restore is perfectly acceptable and reasonable
NNNOOOOOOO!
Often a glitch like that is the only evidence you'll have that a machine had been compromised or that hardware is failing.
If you must do a clean sweep, do that on a standby system, and keep an image of the failed one until you can investigate the exact reason for the failure.
> Someone still has to make the images that the point and click types use. That requires real sys-admin work.
Not really. Amazon reduced this to just "save this image" as well; so luser can create as sloppy an install of linux just as they can for windows; and faster than a real sysadmin ever could ('cause the sysadmin would spend a moment thinking), create their own image.
> with a CLI... it's very easy to document it for next time.
Indeed - just run "script" before starting typing.
Show me the equivalent of that for any GUI too.
And once you've cleaned up your document (changing 'vi filename' to 'sed.... filename') you can usually get to the point where you can just run your documentation with/bin/sh the next time you need it.
But in case you really need it spelled out to you --- yes, indeed someone anonymously ranted something about Koch on teh internet.
That makes him part of Anonymous just as much as Ben Franklin lobbying European governments under pseudonyms like Benevolous to support the colonies. And as much as Thomas Paine when he Anonymously published his pamphlet Common Sense. Just as you were Anonymous when you asked (and therefore answered) that very question. Just as Spartacus was when all his fans clouded him with anonymity by co-claiming his given name.
So to answer your question most directly:
Yes, you too are anonymous, and yes, you did indeed put that Koch thing on slashdot.
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> Smart teachers are now demanding students reformat their calculators before a test, because would just write a BASIC program instead of memorizing a formula, or store notes as an image.
Sounds like a teacher too lazy to make a good test.
Making kids memorize a formula is just about as useless as making kids memorize how to look it up in an open-book test which is just about as useless as making kids memorize how to google it.
How about make questions where the students need to do some thinking instead of just memorizing.
Some keep saying:
"China should look at their own track record before criticizing the US on freedom an human rights"
and others keep saying:
"The US should look at their own track record before criticizing the China on freedom an human rights",
IMHO it's good any time *either* country points out abuses in the other and they should each aggressively push each other to improve.
Does this re-enforce the conspiracy theories that Groklaw may have been a hired work by one of the parties in the SCO suit?
If anything, F/OSS legal issues are even more interesting now than ever (with lots of activity around Android, Oracle buying Sun, etc).
I can see why PJ might be tired and might want to sell/hand-off groklaw to others interested in continuing the fight. But to just shut down when the SCO case closes. Makes me curious.
Wouldn't this "gain" depend on which direction you're walking - along with the rotation of the earth, or against it?
Or if you're comparing to non-earthly reference points - along with the revolution around the sun & galaxy or against them?
Aren't there bigger teams of people looking for the second coming; and more money invested in controlling holy lands in the mid-east.
Not sure that teams is solid evidence in which field is more disciplined.
Whether it's a faith-based reason such as "god says you shouldn't eat that raw pig because he think the pig's holy" or a science-based one like "some scientist told me not to eat that raw pig because of some bugs" --- it "delivers" just as well to most people.
Even today, religion delivers as well as science in some fields like social sciences. For one example, it's as easy to explain hatred in the oil-poor parts of the mideast as collateral damage of feuding jealous gods as it is with brain chemistry and MRIs. And it sure is easier to sell a war to mid-america with a faith-based argument (crusade against the infidels) than it is to sell it with any science/fact-based one (I guess derived the importance of control over natural resources)?
ISTM the line between science and faith is kinda a continuum, where as more and more dots are drawn because causes and effects it becomes more sciency and less faithy.
Some UI may go this way eventually, but I imagine most written/typed communication is still incredibly valuable.
I imagine it won't be long before we communicate with computers very much the same way we do with people.
For casual simple tasks, that means mostly voice (which computers suck at today) and a bit of gestures (which computers are OK at with a mouse).
For anything complex, though, communication between humans is typically written - and I expect it'll continue to be so for computers for as long as people interact with them -- not because it's great for the computer, but because it's the best humans come to a high-bandwidth precise recordable communication channel.
Late last century Stallman predicted as much:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
> ... there was a time when anyone could go to the library and read journal articles, and even books, without having to pay....
> I can sort of trust people I know, only to the extent I know them.
I trust Google and Facebook to collect and mine all data that's given to them and provide a nice internet experience, but not to protect my money or anonymity.
I trust my bank to keep my money safer than I could keep it my self -- but not to watch which porn sites i visit.
I trust Tor to help protect my anonymity - but not to keep my money safe.
You can't have a single organization that I'd trust to do all three.
I'm tempted to create a startup company where we'll pick up your phone and park it wherever you're supposed to be (your office, etc), while you run off to wherever you really want to go; and at the same time give you a loaner-phone where we'd forward your calls to you.
GPL is why Linux won over all the BSD's long ago (or so netcraft confirms).
Recall SunOS and Ultrix?
They were far far ahead of Linux at one point.
Because the BSD license didn't require them to share back, it was easy for those using them not to share back; and as a result Linux improved faster. Same will happen to Apple. It's wonderful for them now that they're very profitable and can hire whomever they need --- just as it was for Sun. But if Apple ever struggles and their recruiters can't attract whichever developers they want; they'll stall like all the other proprietary BSD forks did.
The penalty for an excessive lawsuit should be >= the difference between the claimed damage and the actual damage.
In my dream-world legal system the court would rule that "yes, limewire contributed to some copying, so they owe the record companies $50K or so in actual lost sales --- but the record industry should be fined $75-trillion-minus-that-$50K for wasting taxpayer money having the justice-system hear that absurd suit."
If someone wants to invent a language, why make it so very very close to an existing popular language?
GPL uses a "judo" approach using copyright against itself.
No it doesn't.
It's a licence to a copyrighted work in exactly the same way any other software license is.
A Windows OEM license tells you "only run this software on this particular approved brand of machine", just like the GPL tells you "only use these header files with these other approved software packages".
If both cases, you get to use it in exactly the ways the licenses permit.
If you read TFA, they also suggest that the hacker group anonymous is behind it.
Perhaps they hired HB Gary to do their research for them.
A quite renewable resource; recycles well; doesn't make your drink smell like a chemical factory over time.
I hope after these biodegradable plastic-like-plant-chemicals (that'll probably leech into your soft drink when/if the bottle gets warm), they consider glass as a material for soft drink bottle containers.
If there were full transparency everywhere -- in government, in corporations, of rich aristocrats, etc -- that might work.
But the reality is that the powerful people and organizations protect their own privacy, and use their knowledge advantage that as leverage against those who choose transparency for themselves.
who said "in an information age, if you don't have anything to hide, you don't have anything at all"
Answering my own question ---- wow - it's awesome how the pattern of the Tsunami wave is almost exactly like the radiation patterns of an antenna shaped about the same shape as the fault:
http://i.imgur.com/Unyfz.jpg
Wow math is cool!
I don't know enough fluid dynamics or whatever; but I'm surprised "when" isn't just "distance / speed-of-waves", and "how big" is just "size * some 1/distance factor, or perhaps 1/distance-squared if energy goes down too.
Translate to and from some other language repeatedly until the translations are the same.
That way the writing style will resemble the translation program's more than your own.
An example, using this technique on the above text: http://translationparty.com/#8957181
"By repeating the same part of the translation has been translated into other languages. Style, translation program, this method is beyond ourselves."
In the case of HB Gary - they did everyone (especially those who pay for HBGary's services - meaning mostly taxpayers) a great service by exposing a security company apparently so fraudulent it had no business in the computer security field.
If it were my own web sites, I'd very much hope that if someone found an exploit, they'd let me know by visibly defacing my homepage, rather than just ignoring the vulnerability and leaving me vulnerable until some less scrupulous hacker finds it next.
I hope the law would take intent into consideration a lot in those cases. If the intent was to inform HB Gary and HB Gary customers that their security knowledge sucked, IMHO they did a service to all by demonstrating that. OTOH, if their intent was to steal people's credit cards or something from HB Gary, they should be gone after just like any other credit card thief should.
> a clean sweep and restore is perfectly acceptable and reasonable
NNNOOOOOOO!
Often a glitch like that is the only evidence you'll have that a machine had been compromised or that hardware is failing.
If you must do a clean sweep, do that on a standby system, and keep an image of the failed one until you can investigate the exact reason for the failure.
> Someone still has to make the images that the point and click types use. That requires real sys-admin work.
Not really. Amazon reduced this to just "save this image" as well; so luser can create as sloppy an install of linux just as they can for windows; and faster than a real sysadmin ever could ('cause the sysadmin would spend a moment thinking), create their own image.
> with a CLI ... it's very easy to document it for next time.
Indeed - just run "script" before starting typing.
Show me the equivalent of that for any GUI too.
And once you've cleaned up your document (changing 'vi filename' to 'sed .... filename') you can usually get to the point where you can just run your documentation with /bin/sh the next time you need it.
"the Anonymous vs Koch ... Is it for real?"
You already know the answer to that.
Even if you don't realize that you know it.
But in case you really need it spelled out to you --- yes, indeed someone anonymously ranted something about Koch on teh internet.
That makes him part of Anonymous just as much as Ben Franklin lobbying European governments under pseudonyms like Benevolous to support the colonies. And as much as Thomas Paine when he Anonymously published his pamphlet Common Sense. Just as you were Anonymous when you asked (and therefore answered) that very question. Just as Spartacus was when all his fans clouded him with anonymity by co-claiming his given name.
So to answer your question most directly:
Yes, you too are anonymous, and yes, you did indeed put that Koch thing on slashdot.