Hey man, it doesn't happen overnight. Whether or not we are already living in a 'police state' is totally debatable, it's not a black-or-white designation. But we do already have the highest percent of our population locked up, we have public officials trying to pass laws to make it a crime not to report on fellow citizens, we have secret searches performed against people who do not have to be shown to be criminals or threats to society to any neutral third party, and the government has started taking people prisoner because it feels like it, without bothering to justify or explain or limit in any way what it decides to do.
If you don't see the beginnings there, you will get what you deserve.
This story has been posted for **HOURS** and I didn't get a single hit searching the comments for "geordi". I haven't seen a joke setup this obvious since the damn chicken crossed the road. C'mon, people!
there is exactly one way this sceme could work, and software DRM ain't it. Hardware DRM is the only realistic option.
Locking down CDs ain't gonna happen either. Because there are already non-locked-down cd burners.
The way to do this is to make bluray, or some other future megaformat, single-generation burnable in hardware. It'll only work for the specific type of discs, you could rip to another format, but it will work.
Oh, but Brazil and Wisconsin are out this week. And for some reason we're all going to like China and dislike Japan. Mexico and New Zealand are out. Switzerland is in.
I'm a habitual and medical marijuana user, and proud of it. It's WAAAYYY less harmful than alcohol. And it's frickin' impossible to code when you're drunk. It's often easier to code with marijuana (small amounts, not huge ones).
The government ain't gonna legalize the stuff. But people voting might. Nevada was only 5% away from it last time (and another election - for some moronic reason the petition authors chose to require that it be voted in twice to be law).
so it's a hardcopy petition that politicians can freely ignore. how is that different? Or do you have actual decent people as leaders up there in canada?
I don't know about home-made, but the best long-term power supplies are made of a radioactive material and another material that converts the radiation into other kinds of power. Google for tritium keychain and you'll find the proof-of-concept. More tritium == more half-life.
For clarity once again -- stated goals != current goals. If the military was doing things that (overall, long-term) _actually_ protected america, I'd support what they do, and would want to help.
But they are just poking sticks at a bunch of people with anger to spare, and every time they kill one they make a whole family of new angry people.
I wouldn't work for the US military for the same reason I wouldn't work for SCO. I vehemently oppose their current behaviour and goals. And coincidentally, each currently seems to be doing lots and lots of work that turns out to counter-productive to it's stated goals (protecting america, and harming linux, respectively).
I'd rather be in jail than killing bush's friends' political enemies any day.
If you want to have managers who can program, hire a programmer. And don't, as so many others have suggested, give them a lesson in how fucked up and terrible it is on us poor programmers (ex: make them write something and then change the scope on the last day, ask them to do something in an impossible amount of time,...)
Remember that concept of abused kids growing up to be abusers? I think it applies here.
Teach them about how interfaces and implementation hiding work, teach them about how programmers divide up work, and how modules can depend on each-other, and about unit testing. Teach them how difficult it is to estimate (time, cost) on a software project.
Teach them about programmer _culture_, what programmers value and what they disdain.
Teach them to play with scripting, not programming -- teach them how to build bigger functions out of smaller ones.
Teach them how to recognize a great programmer, and then trust him/her to deal with the programming side of things.
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It may be optimistic and simple, but it also may work. Further suggestion: apply annoying mass marketing tactics to political message spreading.
Hey man, it doesn't happen overnight. Whether or not we are already living in a 'police state' is totally debatable, it's not a black-or-white designation. But we do already have the highest percent of our population locked up, we have public officials trying to pass laws to make it a crime not to report on fellow citizens, we have secret searches performed against people who do not have to be shown to be criminals or threats to society to any neutral third party, and the government has started taking people prisoner because it feels like it, without bothering to justify or explain or limit in any way what it decides to do.
If you don't see the beginnings there, you will get what you deserve.
"A fool and his freedom are soon parted."
- RMS
Nothing that any of us can do could compare to the terror induced daily by the bulsh administration.
This story has been posted for **HOURS** and I didn't get a single hit searching the comments for "geordi". I haven't seen a joke setup this obvious since the damn chicken crossed the road. C'mon, people!
Yes, there can be a more straightforward way that that. In fact there are two:
- Radio Buttons
- Menu Selection (ie like a SELECT input in html)
The text method above takes a click and four keystrokes.
Radio Buttons take one click.
Menu Selection takes two.
I'm leaving out mouse movement for brevity.
Ok that was funny
The OSX vs. Linux flamewar SUCKS!
G5 vs. x86 FOREVER. There shall be no higher flame war
there is exactly one way this sceme could work, and software DRM ain't it. Hardware DRM is the only realistic option.
Locking down CDs ain't gonna happen either. Because there are already non-locked-down cd burners.
The way to do this is to make bluray, or some other future megaformat, single-generation burnable in hardware. It'll only work for the specific type of discs, you could rip to another format, but it will work.
Yeah. Change your firewall filters.
Don't even bother updating the software. The show ended last Friday, so no one will see that BSOD on the science console.
Hmm, how about because with Akamai, the content that is accelerated is only that of authors willing to pay to have their stuff distributed.
If it were well written, it wouldn't be so slow. It's not perl's fault.
Sure, yeah, we love the french now.
Oh, but Brazil and Wisconsin are out this week.
And for some reason we're all going to like China and dislike Japan. Mexico and New Zealand are out. Switzerland is in.
OBEY!
I'm a habitual and medical marijuana user, and proud of it. It's WAAAYYY less harmful than alcohol.
And it's frickin' impossible to code when you're drunk. It's often easier to code with marijuana (small amounts, not huge ones).
The government ain't gonna legalize the stuff. But people voting might. Nevada was only 5% away from it last time (and another election - for some moronic reason the petition authors chose to require that it be voted in twice to be law).
i don't buy things from web ads, so it's just saving them money to spend on sending the ads to someone who cares.
I would like to think that the story submitter would have read the article, but nope.
not false advertising. breach of contract.
Unfortunately, I think your parents have a legitimate claim on having a prior relationship with you.
so it's a hardcopy petition that politicians can freely ignore. how is that different? Or do you have actual decent people as leaders up there in canada?
I don't know about home-made, but the best long-term power supplies are made of a radioactive material and another material that converts the radiation into other kinds of power. Google for tritium keychain and you'll find the proof-of-concept. More tritium == more half-life.
I heard that the actual section 404 rules were not found, thus people have been making up all kinds of 'interpretations' to cover up that fact.
For clarity once again -- stated goals != current goals. If the military was doing things that (overall, long-term) _actually_ protected america, I'd support what they do, and would want to help.
But they are just poking sticks at a bunch of people with anger to spare, and every time they kill one they make a whole family of new angry people.
I wouldn't work for the US military for the same reason I wouldn't work for SCO. I vehemently oppose their current behaviour and goals. And coincidentally, each currently seems to be doing lots and lots of work that turns out to counter-productive to it's stated goals (protecting america, and harming linux, respectively).
I'd rather be in jail than killing bush's friends' political enemies any day.
A draft can't force you to work either.
If you are going to coerce people into working for you, it's not the wisest idea to issue them guns and train them to kill.
You can tell where I'm going with this.
If you want to have managers who can program, hire a programmer. And don't, as so many others have suggested, give them a lesson in how fucked up and terrible it is on us poor programmers (ex: make them write something and then change the scope on the last day, ask them to do something in an impossible amount of time, ...)
Remember that concept of abused kids growing up to be abusers? I think it applies here.
Teach them about how interfaces and implementation hiding work, teach them about how programmers divide up work, and how modules can depend on each-other, and about unit testing. Teach them how difficult it is to estimate (time, cost) on a software project.
Teach them about programmer _culture_, what programmers value and what they disdain.
Teach them to play with scripting, not programming -- teach them how to build bigger functions out of smaller ones.
Teach them how to recognize a great programmer, and then trust him/her to deal with the programming side of things.