Yes, they do deserve the opprobrium. It's not like the employees of SCO don't know they are participating in a pump-and-dump. But then again, with the way the economy is going, I can't really blame anyone for being carefree with their nerd karma. To sum it up succinctly:
Hey, here's an interesting website website that has an interesting take on japanese culture & women. it's the most misogynistic thing i've read in quite some time.
As a child of the 80's, I know what needs to be done when one member of a given group gets uppity and tries to take over. Just like in G.I. Joe, Go-Bots and Transformers, it's ok to team up between warring factions if only to defeat a common threat. Let me illustrate my point with some legal cases that made headway in the 80's:
Autobots, Decepticons et al vs. Omnicron
G.I. Joe, Cobra et al vs. Serpentor
He-Man, Skeletor et al vs. Hordak et al(correct me if i'm wrong)
5 Space Explorers vs. Zarkon, Lotor et al
You can see my point by now, I suppose. Consensus building between disparate groups was of immense importance in the early 80's and it should be no different today. While the Fortune 1000 companies have differing agendas governing what they should do with our money, teaming up and building a giant super-robot, ala Voltron sounds like a good idea.
...even if it's only for the purpose of travelling to Utah and beating the crap out of the Super Corporate Overdemon and then dissambling it and fighting over the patents, consuming all involved in a never-ending litigation war. Anyone agree? Disagree?
In the May 5 elections of 1932, Hindenburg defeated Hitler 53% to 37% for the presidency, but there was no majority in the Reichstag for any party; in the July31 elections the Nazis won 230 seats with 37% of the vote and became the largest German party, but dropped to 33% in the Nov. 6 elections; Dec. 1, Kurt von Schleicher replaced Franz von Papen as Chancellor but instability increased.
Hitler made Chancellor Jan. 30, 1933, with the help of von Papen, and sought revision of Versailles system by immediately beginning a rearmament program with the support of industrialists such as Alfred Hugenberg and Gustav Krupp (who by April agreed to remove Jewish workers from his factories), and a public works program announced at the Feb. 11 International Automobile and Motor-Cycle Exhibition in Berlin, to build autobahns with 600,000 workers and make a Volksauto for less than 1000 marks.
In the March 5, 1933 elections, the National Socialist German Workers' Party won 43.9% and 288 of 647 seats in the Reichstag. The Malicious Practices Act of March 21, 1933, began the mass arrests of communists and socialists, the Dauchau concentration camp was set up March 22 in a former powder milk plant, the Enabling Act March 23 made Hitler dictator and eliminated other parties such as the pro-Catholic Zentrum, radical books were burned May 10.
"...Satisfaction (uhu hu hu) came in the chain reaction
(burnin') I couldn't get enough, (till I had to self-destroy)
so I had to
self destruct, (uhu hu hu)
The heat was on (burnin'), rising to the top, huh!
Everybody's goin' strong (uhu hu hu)
And that is when my spark got hot..."
You're correct. Disco inferno is indeed proof of technologically advanced lifeforms. If that song isn't strong evidence for an understanding nuclear reactions, I don't know what is!
"i hate the fact that we cannot see the planets right now and can only see its past. for all we know they are looking back at us on earth back in 5000bc going nope no life."
no, actually, they'd be looking at us in 1978 and saying "dude, check out the shitty clothes."
I like your idea, but neither the system in the article nor the system above you mentioned would work in a real life voting scenario. Given all the press surrounding e-voting and messed up votes, it's apparent that voting machine operators can't compute their way out of a paper bag. Yeah, you might say votes got messed up because someone hacked the boxes...that might very well be true, but a large amount of votes are losts or tainted simply because of OPERATOR ERROR.
Now someone is proposing a solution that sounds unworkable. Cryptographic keys? MD5 sums? C'mon, this is voting we are talking about. People are going to be leery about voting using devices they can't take the time to understand and therefore aren't going to vote!
here's my solution:
Touchscreen voting is fine, but have the vote be transferred from a computer screen to a punch-card ballot. machine accuracy will eliminate hanging chads. all the software will be open-source, auditable, etc. if counted by hand, great, if counted by optical scanner, make sure the software is open source and the votes are tallied in a way that leaves no room for tampering. this is all common sense. no need for complicated solutions.
people should understand any new voting technology instantly. public education campaigns will leave many people in the dark and those people will probably be poor people and one party or the other will claim that group as an important portion of their electoral base, all heck will break loose, etc.
I hate it when companies "rent" out their lists to marketing groups, after stating in their privacy policies that they do not sell their lists. This shit should be illegal, end of story. It's misleading, morally wrong, etc.
It's similar to letting people rent a copy of the cd you bought last night at Best Buy, or renting a copy for free off of Kazaa.
Situations that involve software and major battles of the epic struggle between rights owners/makers (**AA, incumbent politicians, et al) and the rest of us consumers should have open-source (or at least auditable) systems.
yeah, there are some situations where this need not apply, but things like electronic voting and how i get to use my stuff under legal fair use doctrines should have auditable code.
Example: microsoft comes out with longhorn sometime around when i build my first Megaman unit in 200X. it has code that checks for unauthorized movies, in the form of digital signatures it downloaded as part of Windows DateRape (the new, forced windows update). some day you decide to watch episode 3 for the second time to laugh at how terrible it is.
the movie, since it was a divx rip of a dvd you own, has the same signature as a pirated copy floating around the internet. so of course, people still use kazaa in the future or something like it, and the people with movies on their disks that match the signatures have their dossiers sent in MS Word format (twice...maybe three times) to local law enforcement.
After local law enforcement is done scanning the files for macro viruses, they send out a squad, bust down your door and throw you in jail. Even though it was just a divx rip of a DVD you already own.
bad, bad, bad! people need to know if things like this exist, but can't because only Russia, Micronesia and Paraguay can see the code. don't get me started about republican-controlled buddy-buddy electronic voting.
WHY HASN'T THERE BEEN A CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION INTO ELECTRONIC VOTING IMPROPRIETIES YET?
another topic for another thread, i suppose...
p.s. the signatures wouldn't be something complicated like MD5Sums (however easy that would make evasion), but filesize and a soundex title match. or something like that.
You're right, zetabyte is clearly a buzzword, while zettabyte is totally different. A zettabyte is 2^70 bytes or (in the notation of hard drive manufacturers) 10^21 bytes (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000).
Yeah, I'm aware of that. China jails people for dissenting, among other things. That's a pretty crappy reason to jail someone. And the U.S. jails people for non-violent drug offenses (among other things) and is pretty liberal with the sentence length. And yeah, that's really bad that china has over a sixth of world population while we have a good ~5% and have more people in jail.
Anyhow, staying on topic, China's jailing of dissenters and the like represents more of a threat to the intellectual honesty and openness of the interweb, versus the U.S.'s jailing of non-violent drug users and other imho-should-not-be-jailable offenses.
I don't see developing countries doing a better job managing the infrastructure of the internet either from a technological or ideological point of view.
The nice thing about having the USA, UK, etc countries manage the internet is that we are more often than not held accountable and have a great degree of transparency in our decision making. Yeah, there are some problems with seemingly shady dealings with ICANN vis-a-vis other orgs/companies, but compare that with, say, China, a country that blocks a large part of the internet and jails dissenters.
In the end I'd be for a more global approach to the government of the internet. yeah, it's romantic and idealized, but it could happen. there would just have to be total transparency and no one should be allowed to mess with dns.
It's also good because it's one of the only times in life when you get rewarded for watching shitloads of tv shows and commercials during the 70s, 80s & 90s (as in, you get the jokes:).
What I wouldn't pay to be Ballmer's stunt double and accidentally pop Bill Gates in the nose!
And props to microsoft having the matrix run off of linux. Guess that makes sense. Can't have the matrix crashing because it feels like it! People's lives would be at stake!
Microsoft: Demonstrating through movie parodies that Linux is a better choice than Windows for system-critical environments
Yeah, but isn't the money in a bank somewhere and being invested? It's not like Eisner has a Scrooge MacDuck-esque money bin that he swims in when he gets home from work, right?
It seems that the GOP's website shows the beginning of the Big Business desire to take free stuff, repackage it and sell back to others:
"The Republican Party was born in the early 1850's by anti-slavery activists and individuals who believed that government should grant western lands to settlers free of charge."
So yeah. They acquire western land, hold onto them for awhile and then sell it back to eager pioneers, I bet. Disney did this too with all those public domain works. ugh.
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Do such people deserve the opprobrium anyway?
Yes, they do deserve the opprobrium. It's not like the employees of SCO don't know they are participating in a pump-and-dump. But then again, with the way the economy is going, I can't really blame anyone for being carefree with their nerd karma. To sum it up succinctly:
A SCO job is better than no job.
Hey, here's an interesting website website that has an interesting take on japanese culture & women. it's the most misogynistic thing i've read in quite some time.
Mega Super Corporate Voltron Shit!
...even if it's only for the purpose of travelling to Utah and beating the crap out of the Super Corporate Overdemon and then dissambling it and fighting over the patents, consuming all involved in a never-ending litigation war. Anyone agree? Disagree?
As a child of the 80's, I know what needs to be done when one member of a given group gets uppity and tries to take over. Just like in G.I. Joe, Go-Bots and Transformers, it's ok to team up between warring factions if only to defeat a common threat. Let me illustrate my point with some legal cases that made headway in the 80's:
Autobots, Decepticons et al vs. Omnicron
G.I. Joe, Cobra et al vs. Serpentor
He-Man, Skeletor et al vs. Hordak et al(correct me if i'm wrong)
5 Space Explorers vs. Zarkon, Lotor et al
You can see my point by now, I suppose. Consensus building between disparate groups was of immense importance in the early 80's and it should be no different today. While the Fortune 1000 companies have differing agendas governing what they should do with our money, teaming up and building a giant super-robot, ala Voltron sounds like a good idea.
Maybe Symantec & McAfee outsource the virus writing to India?:)
"The arguments of the regulators seem to echo some of those discussed earlier here."
Now if only the read Your Rights Online...
Anointed might be a better word...
text below taken from here.
In the May 5 elections of 1932, Hindenburg defeated Hitler 53% to 37% for the presidency, but there was no majority in the Reichstag for any party; in the July31 elections the Nazis won 230 seats with 37% of the vote and became the largest German party, but dropped to 33% in the Nov. 6 elections; Dec. 1, Kurt von Schleicher replaced Franz von Papen as Chancellor but instability increased.
Hitler made Chancellor Jan. 30, 1933, with the help of von Papen, and sought revision of Versailles system by immediately beginning a rearmament program with the support of industrialists such as Alfred Hugenberg and Gustav Krupp (who by April agreed to remove Jewish workers from his factories), and a public works program announced at the Feb. 11 International Automobile and Motor-Cycle Exhibition in Berlin, to build autobahns with 600,000 workers and make a Volksauto for less than 1000 marks.
In the March 5, 1933 elections, the National Socialist German Workers' Party won 43.9% and 288 of 647 seats in the Reichstag. The Malicious Practices Act of March 21, 1933, began the mass arrests of communists and socialists, the Dauchau concentration camp was set up March 22 in a former powder milk plant, the Enabling Act March 23 made Hitler dictator and eliminated other parties such as the pro-Catholic Zentrum, radical books were burned May 10.
"...Satisfaction (uhu hu hu) came in the chain reaction (burnin') I couldn't get enough, (till I had to self-destroy) so I had to self destruct, (uhu hu hu) The heat was on (burnin'), rising to the top, huh! Everybody's goin' strong (uhu hu hu) And that is when my spark got hot..."
You're correct. Disco inferno is indeed proof of technologically advanced lifeforms. If that song isn't strong evidence for an understanding nuclear reactions, I don't know what is!
"i hate the fact that we cannot see the planets right now and can only see its past. for all we know they are looking back at us on earth back in 5000bc going nope no life."
no, actually, they'd be looking at us in 1978 and saying "dude, check out the shitty clothes."
>exabyte...zettabyte...yottabyte
>Interesting, they went from greek to Southern.
Wouldn't that be yokelbyte?
I like your idea, but neither the system in the article nor the system above you mentioned would work in a real life voting scenario. Given all the press surrounding e-voting and messed up votes, it's apparent that voting machine operators can't compute their way out of a paper bag. Yeah, you might say votes got messed up because someone hacked the boxes...that might very well be true, but a large amount of votes are losts or tainted simply because of OPERATOR ERROR.
Now someone is proposing a solution that sounds unworkable. Cryptographic keys? MD5 sums? C'mon, this is voting we are talking about. People are going to be leery about voting using devices they can't take the time to understand and therefore aren't going to vote!
here's my solution:
Touchscreen voting is fine, but have the vote be transferred from a computer screen to a punch-card ballot. machine accuracy will eliminate hanging chads. all the software will be open-source, auditable, etc. if counted by hand, great, if counted by optical scanner, make sure the software is open source and the votes are tallied in a way that leaves no room for tampering. this is all common sense. no need for complicated solutions.
people should understand any new voting technology instantly. public education campaigns will leave many people in the dark and those people will probably be poor people and one party or the other will claim that group as an important portion of their electoral base, all heck will break loose, etc.
the main cause of spam:
I hate it when companies "rent" out their lists to marketing groups, after stating in their privacy policies that they do not sell their lists. This shit should be illegal, end of story. It's misleading, morally wrong, etc.
It's similar to letting people rent a copy of the cd you bought last night at Best Buy, or renting a copy for free off of Kazaa.
Situations that involve software and major battles of the epic struggle between rights owners/makers (**AA, incumbent politicians, et al) and the rest of us consumers should have open-source (or at least auditable) systems.
yeah, there are some situations where this need not apply, but things like electronic voting and how i get to use my stuff under legal fair use doctrines should have auditable code.
Example: microsoft comes out with longhorn sometime around when i build my first Megaman unit in 200X. it has code that checks for unauthorized movies, in the form of digital signatures it downloaded as part of Windows DateRape (the new, forced windows update). some day you decide to watch episode 3 for the second time to laugh at how terrible it is.
the movie, since it was a divx rip of a dvd you own, has the same signature as a pirated copy floating around the internet. so of course, people still use kazaa in the future or something like it, and the people with movies on their disks that match the signatures have their dossiers sent in MS Word format (twice...maybe three times) to local law enforcement.
After local law enforcement is done scanning the files for macro viruses, they send out a squad, bust down your door and throw you in jail. Even though it was just a divx rip of a DVD you already own.
bad, bad, bad! people need to know if things like this exist, but can't because only Russia, Micronesia and Paraguay can see the code. don't get me started about republican-controlled buddy-buddy electronic voting.
WHY HASN'T THERE BEEN A CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION INTO ELECTRONIC VOTING IMPROPRIETIES YET?
another topic for another thread, i suppose...
p.s. the signatures wouldn't be something complicated like MD5Sums (however easy that would make evasion), but filesize and a soundex title match. or something like that.
You're right, zetabyte is clearly a buzzword, while zettabyte is totally different. A zettabyte is 2^70 bytes or (in the notation of hard drive manufacturers) 10^21 bytes (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000).
And for the record (biggest to smallest):
yottabyte (2^80 bytes)
zettabyte (2^70 bytes)
exabyte (2^60 bytes)
petabyte (2^50 bytes )
terabyte (2^40 bytes )
gigabyte (2^30 bytes)
Yeah, I'm aware of that. China jails people for dissenting, among other things. That's a pretty crappy reason to jail someone. And the U.S. jails people for non-violent drug offenses (among other things) and is pretty liberal with the sentence length. And yeah, that's really bad that china has over a sixth of world population while we have a good ~5% and have more people in jail.
Anyhow, staying on topic, China's jailing of dissenters and the like represents more of a threat to the intellectual honesty and openness of the interweb, versus the U.S.'s jailing of non-violent drug users and other imho-should-not-be-jailable offenses.
I don't see developing countries doing a better job managing the infrastructure of the internet either from a technological or ideological point of view.
The nice thing about having the USA, UK, etc countries manage the internet is that we are more often than not held accountable and have a great degree of transparency in our decision making. Yeah, there are some problems with seemingly shady dealings with ICANN vis-a-vis other orgs/companies, but compare that with, say, China, a country that blocks a large part of the internet and jails dissenters.
In the end I'd be for a more global approach to the government of the internet. yeah, it's romantic and idealized, but it could happen. there would just have to be total transparency and no one should be allowed to mess with dns.
It's also good because it's one of the only times in life when you get rewarded for watching shitloads of tv shows and commercials during the 70s, 80s & 90s (as in, you get the jokes:).
I for one, tweet, tweeeet, tweet, tweettweet, tweet tweet overlords!
What I wouldn't pay to be Ballmer's stunt double and accidentally pop Bill Gates in the nose!
And props to microsoft having the matrix run off of linux. Guess that makes sense. Can't have the matrix crashing because it feels like it! People's lives would be at stake!
Microsoft: Demonstrating through movie parodies that Linux is a better choice than Windows for system-critical environments
Hey, has anyone else, during those obnoxious movie trailers that state, "Movies. They're worth it." scream:
Yeah! Worth DOWNLOADING!!!
Just checking...
Doesn't mean everyone has one:) I still don't...not on my computer, not on my tv.
"...i'd hate to see what they consider their family jewels."
the stuffed penguin Steve Ballmer talks to every night before he goes home. it's in his upper-right desk drawer.
Yeah, but isn't the money in a bank somewhere and being invested? It's not like Eisner has a Scrooge MacDuck-esque money bin that he swims in when he gets home from work, right?
"...as fast as an elk bear..."
What the heck is an elk bear?
It seems that the GOP's website shows the beginning of the Big Business desire to take free stuff, repackage it and sell back to others:
"The Republican Party was born in the early 1850's by anti-slavery activists and individuals who believed that government should grant western lands to settlers free of charge."
So yeah. They acquire western land, hold onto them for awhile and then sell it back to eager pioneers, I bet. Disney did this too with all those public domain works. ugh.
"...know that there are real people behind the controls."
Yeah. The maps are good, but the algorithm for path plotting could use some work. Sometimes it suggests the strangest ways to get somewhere...
Or maybe the program is trying to confuse humans and cost the world hundreds of billions of dollars in lost productivity???