Geoge VI died in Norfolk, despite being in a treehouse in Kenya,
Screw superluminal neutrinos. We've uncovered evidence that at least for a brief moment, the entirety of Norfolk County was contained in a tree house in Kenya on or about mid-August 1947.
Amazing. We need to get this published IMMEDIATELY.
At 2:30 in the morning. So, he was actually expelled for unprovable breaking and entering.
The VPN theory is the only one that makes any damn sense. And that's unfortunate. Why would you set up a VPN that effectively takes over your computer? Or alternately, if you deliberately choose to VPN to the school network at 2:30 AM, why would you even fantasizes that "I did it from home" would even matter? If you VPN in, you're now a part of the school network and you choose to extend their rules to your computer for the duration of VPN connection.
"I don't see how we ever come out of this without changes in technology
I.e., treacherous computing, where the computer actually serves the powers-that-be and not you
or changes in behavior,
Um.... I got nothing here. People are douchebags. Period. People have been defrauding, trolling, lying, and generally hating since before recorded history, and nothing the government can do the change the basic core of human behavior. Embedding monitoring and control logic into each computing and communications node would be far easier, and profitable for those contracted to accomplish it.
They aren't going to compromise their principles by immunizing their host country from scrutiny.
^This. The moment Wikileaks or anyone of the like starts tailoring their revelations to shield some and damage others, they become another propaganda organ and lose any credibility they might have.
So the idea of stateless hosting is probably quite appealing, even if it's a mere fantasy.
3. The war was prosecuted with wildly uneven lines of communication. The RN task force operated at over 8,000 miles from home base. The Argentinians had less than 300 miles from their bases to the combat zones, and although this was a long haul for their aircraft (limiting combat time), their primary logistics were much simpler; especially since the Argentine mainland was never threatened. Interdiction would be limited to air and submarine attacks on transport and combat sorties. At least on paper, this was a huge advantage to Argentina, so much so that "The U.S. Navy considered a successful counter-invasion by the British to be 'a military impossibility'".
There's no difference between a shuttle shell and a replica shell.
One who speaks so glibly hasn't considered the Ship of Theseus. The shell is no less the shuttle than the entire shuttle was; otherwise, the shuttle on the ground after a mission and before reconstitution wasn't a shuttle either. I mean, it lost TPS tiles! And burned up fuel!
Unless you're arguing for some arbitrary "feels right" distinction, some bright line that exists only in your mind between "still a shuttle" and "not a shuttle any more". And that's not a valid argument at all.
Science is a human artifact. Every human artifact is potentially susceptible to fraud, manipulation, trolling, marketing, and every other foible and evil humans are capable of. Almost any human intention and motive can be expressed through the manipulation and corruption of the scientific process. And scientific fraud is no less about science than financial fraud is about finance.
There is no great, glorious and impersonal "Science". Insisting otherwise is just another form of deism, one that gives rise to the criticism that science is just another religion. And I'm sure no one here wants that.
And the nice part is that you can issue DMCA takedowns and haul people into court even in the 1% remaining, because there's no meaningful penalty against it and the odds are certainly in your favor.
"Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius." (Kill them all. For the Lord knoweth them that are His.)
Alas, the point of the article wasn't "OMG THE YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP IS FINALLY UPON US!".
The point of the article is "OMG HERE'S ANOTHER CLUELESS FAUX-AMIGA PRODUCT."
It's not a Linux story. Don't be hatin' because of that.
BTW, if this is your idea of a "commercially successful PC with Linux" breakthrough, the Linux community must be in exceedingly dire straits. I would certainly not want this particular system to be MY representative in the "desktop product of the future" pageant. What it lacks in class, it makes up for in overpricedness. It successfully combines "loud and tacky" with "amazingly expensive" and tosses in "poor performing" for a bonus.
This is exactly what Burberry was afraid of chavs doing to its mindshare.
but it's hard to argue about how AmigaOS and Workbench would have evolved if it the product hadn't died,
I take this precise statement back. There is an extant example of the evolution of the Amiga Desktop, and it's here. And frankly, it does look (to me) like the "proper" evolution of the classic Workbench.
the desktop look & feel are probably designed to specifically hearken back to that earlier aesthetic.
OTOH, this statement I stand behind, and now actually feel more strongly about. This Linux distro's desktop design is probably a deliberate choice to reinforce the nostalgia for the Workbench 3.x look and feel on platforms like the A1200 or A4000, with a touch of Demoscene aesthetics. Maybe a cynical attempt at manipulation, maybe an honest homage to the old sk00l.
AAAAGH! The ironies KEEP PILING UP! And none of them are funny, "make you chuckle", ironies. They're infuriating, "you obviously don't get it", "HULK SMASH" ironies.
And since we know the ugly case graphics* (with the case, the blu-ray drive, and the power supply) will cost you only $350 by itself, that means the ultra sweet Linux distro is $1150.
Ouch. I sprained my brain on that thought.
*You know the weird thing? My first thought when I saw the picture of the case design was "How'd they stamp an Amiga trademark into the front of a Mac Mini?" And that wasn't a happy thought at all.
Even in death, the poor franchise can't catch a break. It keeps getting reanimated zombie-style by people whose goal seems to be:
Manage and market a computer product WORSE the the original (record-settingly bad) crew? Challenge Accepted.
And we can add mediocre engineering to boot!
Seriously. The one huge technological advantage the Amiga had over its market competitors "back in the day" was high-performance graphics hardware. Labeling a generic Mini-ITX with a low-performance Nvidia chipset an "Amiga" is like pasting a Lamborghini badge on your bottom-of-the line Civic. The irony would be risible, if I didn't have this illogical sentimental attachment to what "Amiga" is supposed to mean. As it is, it's just sickening.
And angering, too. It's an insult to the intelligence of the Amiga fanbase by cynically plucking at that those heartstrings to fob off mediocrity with the right trademark at some kind of "sentiment premium" price.
It's almost enough to make you believe in anti-Amiga conspiracy theories.
I'm not gonna comment much on TFA's criticisms of the OS's visual design. The video does present some screenshots that make the GUI look like it was frozen into a glacier in 1992 and just got thawed out, but it's hard to argue about how AmigaOS and Workbench would have evolved if it the product hadn't died, and the desktop look & feel are probably designed to specifically hearken back to that earlier aesthetic.
So why the fuck do American libertarians keep voting republican ? Surely civil liberties is MORE important than economic liberty ?
I speculate that the thought process goes something like this:
"Civil liberties is about the other guys; I'm never gonna do anything that would make me depend on those, like protest or speak out. And I'm not a minority member, or gay, or Muslim. I'm ok. The government isn't after me. On the other hand, economic liberty is all about me; I gotta make my money, and keep as much of it as I can, and spend it how I think it should be spent.
As long as I get mine, the other guy can go hang. Now, the hard part is deciding which Republican is least likely to burden me with undue taxes or excessive regulation."
Whither Myriad: Although no action has been taken yet, I presume that the Supreme Court will now vacate and remand the pending Myriad case with instructions to the Federal Circuit to reconsider its holding that isolated human DNA is patentable. Following Mayo, the court could logically find that the information in the DNA represents a law of nature, that the DNA itself is a natural phenomenon, that the isolation of the DNA simply employs an isolation process already well known and expected at the time of the invention, and ultimately that the isolated DNA is unpatentable because it effectively claims a law of nature or natural phenomenon. One distinguishing point is that Prometheus claimed a process while Myriad claims a composition of matter. As we have seen in recent cases, the Federal Circuit already largely rejects formalistic distinctions between process and composition claims. Here, that distinction is further minimized by the reality that the claimed DNA is functionally characterized by the already well known process of isolating human DNA.
(Emphasis mine.)
Of course, that's just an observer's speculation, but very logical IM(A)HO*. We can hope that logic will continue to prevail.
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Geoge VI died in Norfolk, despite being in a treehouse in Kenya,
Screw superluminal neutrinos. We've uncovered evidence that at least for a brief moment, the entirety of Norfolk County was contained in a tree house in Kenya on or about mid-August 1947.
Amazing. We need to get this published IMMEDIATELY.
So. It has come to this.
For the first time in Slashdot history, the summary is misleading.
At 2:30 in the morning. So, he was actually expelled for unprovable breaking and entering.
The VPN theory is the only one that makes any damn sense. And that's unfortunate. Why would you set up a VPN that effectively takes over your computer? Or alternately, if you deliberately choose to VPN to the school network at 2:30 AM, why would you even fantasizes that "I did it from home" would even matter? If you VPN in, you're now a part of the school network and you choose to extend their rules to your computer for the duration of VPN connection.
This will coincide nicely with the revival of the fashion of wearing an onion on your belt.
C'mon, it's all relativistic.
"I don't see how we ever come out of this without changes in technology
I.e., treacherous computing, where the computer actually serves the powers-that-be and not you
or changes in behavior,
Um.... I got nothing here. People are douchebags. Period. People have been defrauding, trolling, lying, and generally hating since before recorded history, and nothing the government can do the change the basic core of human behavior. Embedding monitoring and control logic into each computing and communications node would be far easier, and profitable for those contracted to accomplish it.
You can't prove that. No one is watching John Carter of Mars, so no one knows. No one.
Dude. Look at the spelling.
It's in Canada, obviously. Quebec, I bet. Crazy Frenchies. You can't shake hands with 'em. They get all Jekyll-and-Hyde on your Anglophone ass.
YAAAY! Conspiracy poker!
"I see your agent provocateur theory, and raise you one shadowy globalist Illuminatus directing from behind the scenes."
They aren't going to compromise their principles by immunizing their host country from scrutiny.
^This. The moment Wikileaks or anyone of the like starts tailoring their revelations to shield some and damage others, they become another propaganda organ and lose any credibility they might have.
So the idea of stateless hosting is probably quite appealing, even if it's a mere fantasy.
3. The war was prosecuted with wildly uneven lines of communication. The RN task force operated at over 8,000 miles from home base. The Argentinians had less than 300 miles from their bases to the combat zones, and although this was a long haul for their aircraft (limiting combat time), their primary logistics were much simpler; especially since the Argentine mainland was never threatened. Interdiction would be limited to air and submarine attacks on transport and combat sorties. At least on paper, this was a huge advantage to Argentina, so much so that "The U.S. Navy considered a successful counter-invasion by the British to be 'a military impossibility'".
local donut-eating baconroll
Damn you. Now I'm hungry...
There's no difference between a shuttle shell and a replica shell.
One who speaks so glibly hasn't considered the Ship of Theseus. The shell is no less the shuttle than the entire shuttle was; otherwise, the shuttle on the ground after a mission and before reconstitution wasn't a shuttle either. I mean, it lost TPS tiles! And burned up fuel!
Unless you're arguing for some arbitrary "feels right" distinction, some bright line that exists only in your mind between "still a shuttle" and "not a shuttle any more". And that's not a valid argument at all.
And what is "Science" (must capitalize correctly) without scientists? Including unscrupulous ones?
Way to posit "no true scientist.".
Science is a human artifact. Every human artifact is potentially susceptible to fraud, manipulation, trolling, marketing, and every other foible and evil humans are capable of. Almost any human intention and motive can be expressed through the manipulation and corruption of the scientific process. And scientific fraud is no less about science than financial fraud is about finance.
There is no great, glorious and impersonal "Science". Insisting otherwise is just another form of deism, one that gives rise to the criticism that science is just another religion. And I'm sure no one here wants that.
Since the first word of J. Random Corporate Fraudster's defense opening statement.
You must be new here.
And the nice part is that you can issue DMCA takedowns and haul people into court even in the 1% remaining, because there's no meaningful penalty against it and the odds are certainly in your favor.
"Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius." (Kill them all. For the Lord knoweth them that are His.)
Alas, the point of the article wasn't "OMG THE YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP IS FINALLY UPON US!".
The point of the article is "OMG HERE'S ANOTHER CLUELESS FAUX-AMIGA PRODUCT."
It's not a Linux story. Don't be hatin' because of that.
BTW, if this is your idea of a "commercially successful PC with Linux" breakthrough, the Linux community must be in exceedingly dire straits. I would certainly not want this particular system to be MY representative in the "desktop product of the future" pageant. What it lacks in class, it makes up for in overpricedness. It successfully combines "loud and tacky" with "amazingly expensive" and tosses in "poor performing" for a bonus.
This is exactly what Burberry was afraid of chavs doing to its mindshare.
but it's hard to argue about how AmigaOS and Workbench would have evolved if it the product hadn't died,
I take this precise statement back. There is an extant example of the evolution of the Amiga Desktop, and it's here. And frankly, it does look (to me) like the "proper" evolution of the classic Workbench.
the desktop look & feel are probably designed to specifically hearken back to that earlier aesthetic.
OTOH, this statement I stand behind, and now actually feel more strongly about. This Linux distro's desktop design is probably a deliberate choice to reinforce the nostalgia for the Workbench 3.x look and feel on platforms like the A1200 or A4000, with a touch of Demoscene aesthetics. Maybe a cynical attempt at manipulation, maybe an honest homage to the old sk00l.
AAAAGH! The ironies KEEP PILING UP! And none of them are funny, "make you chuckle", ironies. They're infuriating, "you obviously don't get it", "HULK SMASH" ironies.
Amiga. Denied dignity, even in death.
And since we know the ugly case graphics* (with the case, the blu-ray drive, and the power supply) will cost you only $350 by itself, that means the ultra sweet Linux distro is $1150.
Ouch. I sprained my brain on that thought.
*You know the weird thing? My first thought when I saw the picture of the case design was "How'd they stamp an Amiga trademark into the front of a Mac Mini?" And that wasn't a happy thought at all.
Even in death, the poor franchise can't catch a break. It keeps getting reanimated zombie-style by people whose goal seems to be:
Seriously. The one huge technological advantage the Amiga had over its market competitors "back in the day" was high-performance graphics hardware. Labeling a generic Mini-ITX with a low-performance Nvidia chipset an "Amiga" is like pasting a Lamborghini badge on your bottom-of-the line Civic. The irony would be risible, if I didn't have this illogical sentimental attachment to what "Amiga" is supposed to mean. As it is, it's just sickening.
And angering, too. It's an insult to the intelligence of the Amiga fanbase by cynically plucking at that those heartstrings to fob off mediocrity with the right trademark at some kind of "sentiment premium" price.
It's almost enough to make you believe in anti-Amiga conspiracy theories.
I'm not gonna comment much on TFA's criticisms of the OS's visual design. The video does present some screenshots that make the GUI look like it was frozen into a glacier in 1992 and just got thawed out, but it's hard to argue about how AmigaOS and Workbench would have evolved if it the product hadn't died, and the desktop look & feel are probably designed to specifically hearken back to that earlier aesthetic.
So why the fuck do American libertarians keep voting republican ? Surely civil liberties is MORE important than economic liberty ?
I speculate that the thought process goes something like this:
"Civil liberties is about the other guys; I'm never gonna do anything that would make me depend on those, like protest or speak out. And I'm not a minority member, or gay, or Muslim. I'm ok. The government isn't after me. On the other hand, economic liberty is all about me; I gotta make my money, and keep as much of it as I can, and spend it how I think it should be spent.
As long as I get mine, the other guy can go hang. Now, the hard part is deciding which Republican is least likely to burden me with undue taxes or excessive regulation."
Quote from third link in TFS:
(Emphasis mine.)
Of course, that's just an observer's speculation, but very logical IM(A)HO*. We can hope that logic will continue to prevail.
*In My Amateur Honest Opinion
The thumb-in-the-eye to the Man is wrapped up in the juxtaposition of that acronym and "Think of the kids".
They want to F.U.C.K. kids.
I can't decide if it's brilliantly subversive or gobsmackingly stupid. Definitely one of those "Can't tell if trolling..." moments.