Politicians know NOTHING about land use, management, etc.. Your city planner is a complete and utter moron. Most people are dumb as a box of rocks. So eliminate the people as well. None of the homes need to be larger than 850 sq foot. let scientists and engineers do all the planning based on real data and real designs.
The geek is drawn to grandiose technocratic projects that are funded by magic and demand no political engagement. Freedom Ship
He isn't interested in building a city, what he wants is a monastic retreat from the world.
"The Washington Post reports that the EFF has filed suit against the NSA in Federal Court in San Francisco, on behalf of multiple groups (court filing). Those groups include, 'Rights activists, church leaders and drug and gun rights advocates.'
There are reasons why the federal courts do not like class action lawsuits.
It all goes back to the old notion of "cases and controversies. "
That there should be a clearly defined plaintiff with a clearly defined grievance and an advocate that represents his interests and his interests alone.
Remedies can be tailored to the individual and are likely to achieve some substantial, measurable, result.
The class action that emerges naturally from the bottom-up as the common elements in many cases are exposed in court has earned some credibility. The lobbyist ---the self-starter ---who claims to represent everyone who walks on two feet or four does not.
No, his methodology ensures that he gets experienced developers who don't mind an abusive boss.
Which implies that his successor is also likely to be an abusive boss --- and that the bosses of every large scale FOSS project will take their cues from them. It is the culture Linus helps sustain and perpetuates that worries me, not the man himself.
Why do you think it wouldn't be accurate robots building this thing, end-to-end?
Adjusted for inflation, the $110 second-class trans-continental rail fare of 1870 would cost $1970 today. In 1880 land grants to the railroads were valued at $391 million, a breath-taking sum for the day. Construction on this scale does not come cheap even labor costs are low.
I never understood the practical reasons for locating mission control in Houston. Wouldn't you want to be as close to the equator as possible to maximize the benefits of the earth's rotation? Wouldn't that mean Key West? And why wouldn't you consider Puerto Rico?
We are conditioning them to live in a police state.
More bullshit.
Accept legal responsibility for 1500 kids in your ten acre suburban campus from 7:30 in the morning to 3:30 in the afternoon. Five schools with their associated libraries, cafeterias, athletic facilities plus a theater, day care, community center and so on and on and on.
Your annual budget apart from state and federal contributions is $40 million dollars.
If anything goes wrong, it is your head on the block,
Now tell me how you are going to manage physical security. Inventory control. Emergency response.
IMO the subsidy ought to only be paid on lines serving a primary residence, ie. no vacation homes and the like.
The summer cottage, farm house, tenant house and the like often share the same roads and are on the same lines. Nothing remains constant. The summer cottage becomes Dad's retirement home.
That's not unique to phones. It also applies to highways, minor airports, housing tax incentives, and a number of other "American Dream" elements that really have nothing to do with having a successful society.
I must be missing the joke or sarcasm here because otherwise this post makes no sense.
You can't have economical and reliable sources of food, fuel, raw materials of every kind. without a rural population to provide them.
You can't do it without transportation. Education.
Community-associated MRSA (CA-MRSA) is a modern example of what happens when people are forced to live in desperately over-crowded and very poor conditions. Housing matters, Sanitation matters. Nutrition matters, Recreation matters.
It doesn't involve users to be code masters, it just involves them engaging their brain a bit. I frequently get bug reports along the lines of "something broke last week, came up with some error (I don't remember what), but I rebooted it and its fine for now; please fix it so it doesn't happen again".
It seems to me that your program should be logging and reporting its own errors --- or that you should be shipping a separate user-friendly diagnostic program to collect and report errors documented by the OS.
DOS supported printing, in the sense that you could interface to a printer through LPT1. The way in which Apple and Microsoft worked towards abstracting the process of printing was a quite different thing.
--- and a thing which helped to kill Word Perfect.
The premier DOS era word processor which --- at no small expense --- shipped with custom drivers for damn near every printer known to man.
Unfortunately, as with all freedom-seeking organizations, the EFFs scorecard consists of losses which have already occurred, partial losses, and losses which will occur in the future.
The EFF is also given to inane publicity stunts that divert resources and make it look faintly ridiculous. Windows 7 Sins
Which is why guys like Snowden deserve an enormous amount of latitude. The relatively few among us who are willing to put their lives on the line for the causes we give lip-service too deserve our unwavering support.
What I see is a guy begging to be taken in hand by any country who will have him. Not someone who is putting his life on the line for anyone.
Fort Sumter surrendered in 1861. Washington DC borders on Virgina facing off against the Confederate capital a bare 100 miles away. You are an idiot if you don't secure the only means of communication in the world that moves reliably at speeds greater than a normal walking pace,
The book that has been in print for 150 years will likely remain in print for the next 150 years:
Literary classics. Historical documents. Foundational texts in the law, sciences, engineering and so on. In medicine, for example, you have the first publication of Gray's Anatomy.
The Compromise of 1850 begins this era in the US, the firing of Fort Sumter ends it.
How about this? Stop making stupid Star Wars movies and come up with a new idea.
There are three durable Sci Fi franchises and geek culture would be lost without them: Dr Who, Star Trek and Star Wars.
If the geek wants to know why HBO's audience gets Crown of Thorns and CN's DreamWorks: Dragons, he might want to look at his own fandoms --- not exactly a hotbed of original ideas.
I realize that I probably can't count on my next TV lasting 25 years. But why on Earth would I want my media box built into my television, so that following the curve of technological advancement means pitching the entire huge TV into the waste stream?
Your digital tv is a media box ---
The essential codecs and hardware are baked in, licensed, and ready to go. Ethernet and Wi-Fi adds next to nothing to the price of your set.
Walmart.com has about eighty "Smart TVs" in stock, starting at $300.
Under current law, if you saw someone raping a 9 year old and took a photo to send, using the internet, to the police as evidence, you would get longer in prison that the rapist.
Show me that me that you have something - anything - to back this up.
Not that the e-mailing such a photograph rather than reporting the crime through safer, more secure and more ordinary means and letting the police retrieve and properly document your evidence is an idea so brain dead only a geek could have thought of it.
I have information about a crime I believe has occurred or I know the whereabouts of someone wanted for a crime. What should I do?
For any crime in progress, call 911. Provide an exact location when possible, and then details of the crime including, if possible, a description of suspects and victims involved. If you have information about a violent felony crime or know the whereabouts of someone wanted for a crime, you are encouraged to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS, (Se habla espanol: 1-888-57-PISTA). Callers remain anonymous. If your information leads to the arrest and indictment of a perpetrator for a violent felony crime, you are eligible for a cash reward of up to $1,000.
Considering the near-impossibility of managing copyright infringement, it is extremely doubtful that governments will be any more successful in preventing the proliferation of "illegal 3D patterns" online and preventing people from printing them on their personal 3D printers.
But governments can control the composition, sale and distribution of the raw materials needed to print a practical plastic weapon.
It might be possible to chemically tag these materials, as explosives are tagged.
Fire your gun and it will leave trace evidence behind.
I would not chance a brain dead stunt like this to test the security of a high school in Nebraska.
I say brave because had they been caught pulling this stunt, which involved taking their toy out of the bag while sitting in the audience of a speech by the prime minister, they would have faced some real steel.
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Politicians know NOTHING about land use, management, etc.. Your city planner is a complete and utter moron. Most people are dumb as a box of rocks. So eliminate the people as well.
None of the homes need to be larger than 850 sq foot.
let scientists and engineers do all the planning based on real data and real designs.
The geek is drawn to grandiose technocratic projects that are funded by magic and demand no political engagement. Freedom Ship
He isn't interested in building a city, what he wants is a monastic retreat from the world.
"The Washington Post reports that the EFF has filed suit against the NSA in Federal Court in San Francisco, on behalf of multiple groups (court filing). Those groups include, 'Rights activists, church leaders and drug and gun rights advocates.'
There are reasons why the federal courts do not like class action lawsuits.
It all goes back to the old notion of "cases and controversies. "
That there should be a clearly defined plaintiff with a clearly defined grievance and an advocate that represents his interests and his interests alone.
Remedies can be tailored to the individual and are likely to achieve some substantial, measurable, result.
The class action that emerges naturally from the bottom-up as the common elements in many cases are exposed in court has earned some credibility. The lobbyist ---the self-starter ---who claims to represent everyone who walks on two feet or four does not.
If someone else managed to do his job better than him it would be trivial to do a fork.
Recruitment. Management. Funding. Programming. It is never trivially easy to fork a project on this scale.
Nobody has the right to live their lives without being offended, and it is part of being an adult to learn to "take it like a man".
and here I was fool enough to believe that being an adult meant that you had stopped behaving like an adolescent.
No, his methodology ensures that he gets experienced developers who don't mind an abusive boss.
Which implies that his successor is also likely to be an abusive boss --- and that the bosses of every large scale FOSS project will take their cues from them. It is the culture Linus helps sustain and perpetuates that worries me, not the man himself.
Yep. Some TV science fiction movies were even made featuring it back then: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_II_(film)
Arthur C. Clarke, "Rescue Party," 1946.
Probably the best known example in sci-fi, but almost certainly not the first.
Why do you think it wouldn't be accurate robots building this thing, end-to-end?
Adjusted for inflation, the $110 second-class trans-continental rail fare of 1870 would cost $1970 today. In 1880 land grants to the railroads were valued at $391 million, a breath-taking sum for the day. Construction on this scale does not come cheap even labor costs are low.
The biggest flaw in this device is that it's expected that you can plug in a plug at work for offsite backup.
I'm a home user.
Tell me what I should fear more:
(1) That my backups will be read by the NSA
(2) That my backups will be fried by an electrical storm, drowned in a flash food, or burnt in a fire.
I never understood the practical reasons for locating mission control in Houston. Wouldn't you want to be as close to the equator as possible to maximize the benefits of the earth's rotation? Wouldn't that mean Key West? And why wouldn't you consider Puerto Rico?
Hurricanes.
Wayland is the planned successor of Xorg, while Mir is some Ubuntu project.
Given the client-side success of Ubuntu and OEM support for Ubuntu, Mir can't and shouldn't be casually dismissed.
We are conditioning them to live in a police state.
More bullshit.
Accept legal responsibility for 1500 kids in your ten acre suburban campus from 7:30 in the morning to 3:30 in the afternoon. Five schools with their associated libraries, cafeterias, athletic facilities plus a theater, day care, community center and so on and on and on.
Your annual budget apart from state and federal contributions is $40 million dollars.
If anything goes wrong, it is your head on the block,
Now tell me how you are going to manage physical security. Inventory control. Emergency response.
IMO the subsidy ought to only be paid on lines serving a primary residence, ie. no vacation homes and the like.
The summer cottage, farm house, tenant house and the like often share the same roads and are on the same lines. Nothing remains constant. The summer cottage becomes Dad's retirement home.
That's not unique to phones. It also applies to highways, minor airports, housing tax incentives, and a number of other "American Dream" elements that really have nothing to do with having a successful society.
I must be missing the joke or sarcasm here because otherwise this post makes no sense.
You can't have economical and reliable sources of food, fuel, raw materials of every kind. without a rural population to provide them.
You can't do it without transportation. Education.
Community-associated MRSA (CA-MRSA) is a modern example of what happens when people are forced to live in desperately over-crowded and very poor conditions. Housing matters, Sanitation matters. Nutrition matters, Recreation matters.
None of this has ever come cheap.
It doesn't involve users to be code masters, it just involves them engaging their brain a bit. I frequently get bug reports along the lines of "something broke last week, came up with some error (I don't remember what), but I rebooted it and its fine for now; please fix it so it doesn't happen again".
It seems to me that your program should be logging and reporting its own errors --- or that you should be shipping a separate user-friendly diagnostic program to collect and report errors documented by the OS.
DOS supported printing, in the sense that you could interface to a printer through LPT1. The way in which Apple and Microsoft worked towards abstracting the process of printing was a quite different thing.
--- and a thing which helped to kill Word Perfect.
The premier DOS era word processor which --- at no small expense --- shipped with custom drivers for damn near every printer known to man.
Secure Boot isn't secure nor is it a security feature. It's sole purpose is to keep Linux off of x86 computers.
Not a problem.
Top 7 Operating Systems From June 2012 to June 2013. Desktop Operating System Market Share, OS Platform Statistics 2003-2013
Unfortunately, as with all freedom-seeking organizations, the EFFs scorecard consists of losses which have already occurred, partial losses, and losses which will occur in the future.
The EFF is also given to inane publicity stunts that divert resources and make it look faintly ridiculous. Windows 7 Sins
Which is why guys like Snowden deserve an enormous amount of latitude. The relatively few among us who are willing to put their lives on the line for the causes we give lip-service too deserve our unwavering support.
What I see is a guy begging to be taken in hand by any country who will have him. Not someone who is putting his life on the line for anyone.
It was just as wrong then as this is now.
It is 1862.
Fort Sumter surrendered in 1861. Washington DC borders on Virgina facing off against the Confederate capital a bare 100 miles away. You are an idiot if you don't secure the only means of communication in the world that moves reliably at speeds greater than a normal walking pace,
The book that has been in print for 150 years will likely remain in print for the next 150 years:
Literary classics. Historical documents.
Foundational texts in the law, sciences, engineering and so on. In medicine, for example, you have the first publication of Gray's Anatomy.
The Compromise of 1850 begins this era in the US, the firing of Fort Sumter ends it.
How about this? Stop making stupid Star Wars movies and come up with a new idea.
There are three durable Sci Fi franchises and geek culture would be lost without them: Dr Who, Star Trek and Star Wars.
If the geek wants to know why HBO's audience gets Crown of Thorns and CN's DreamWorks: Dragons, he might want to look at his own fandoms --- not exactly a hotbed of original ideas.
I realize that I probably can't count on my next TV lasting 25 years. But why on Earth would I want my media box built into my television, so that following the curve of technological advancement means pitching the entire huge TV into the waste stream?
Your digital tv is a media box ---
The essential codecs and hardware are baked in, licensed, and ready to go. Ethernet and Wi-Fi adds next to nothing to the price of your set.
Walmart.com has about eighty "Smart TVs" in stock, starting at $300.
Under current law, if you saw someone raping a 9 year old and took a photo to send, using the internet, to the police as evidence, you would get longer in prison that the rapist.
Show me that me that you have something - anything - to back this up.
Not that the e-mailing such a photograph rather than reporting the crime through safer, more secure and more ordinary means and letting the police retrieve and properly document your evidence is an idea so brain dead only a geek could have thought of it.
I have information about a crime I believe has occurred or I know the whereabouts of someone wanted for a crime. What should I do?
For any crime in progress, call 911. Provide an exact location when possible, and then details of the crime including, if possible, a description of suspects and victims involved. If you have information about a violent felony crime or know the whereabouts of someone wanted for a crime, you are encouraged to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS, (Se habla espanol: 1-888-57-PISTA). Callers remain anonymous. If your information leads to the arrest and indictment of a perpetrator for a violent felony crime, you are eligible for a cash reward of up to $1,000.
NYC.gov --- Crime and Prevention
Considering the near-impossibility of managing copyright infringement, it is extremely doubtful that governments will be any more successful in preventing the proliferation of "illegal 3D patterns" online and preventing people from printing them on their personal 3D printers.
But governments can control the composition, sale and distribution of the raw materials needed to print a practical plastic weapon.
It might be possible to chemically tag these materials, as explosives are tagged.
Fire your gun and it will leave trace evidence behind.
I would not chance a brain dead stunt like this to test the security of a high school in Nebraska.
I say brave because had they been caught pulling this stunt, which involved taking their toy out of the bag while sitting in the audience of a speech by the prime minister, they would have faced some real steel.