To manipulate OPEC? Yea producers and consumers could change their usage patterns but it's more in the 20%-/+ range... OPEC could just shut down production...
If they KNEW when they'd get the most buck for their bang they might consider holding out.
"history of dirty tricks, anti-competitive and anti-consumer behavior"
Two words, lock in. These companies are terrified of interoperability, support for future processors or graphics cards or anything in that mindset.
Meanwhile they are searching diligently for ways to guarantee profits with minimal effort, the best way to do this? Muck about with software so your chips always look good while still ending up slow.
If you make software updates break your old products you create a product treadmill.
We've been through 20-30 generations of Video cards at this point... Can't we find some way OFF this damn treadmill?
the beatdown. Voip transitioning in Android is going to be a reality, soon open wifi spots will bring this whole internet debate to a head.
I hope the teleco's drop to 10% of their current marketshare. I think people will realize that usually when they WANT their cell phone to work they are A.) At home. B.) At the office, and once those two are free people will move over more and more to free cell phone usage.
Canada just outlawed using cell phone's in cars (though Bluetooth headsets are still legal) add on public transit open Wifi and the future is very Telecom unfriendly. And about time.
I was thinking about this, it's probably MUCH more effective from a soldier's standpoint. You find bombs attached to bombers who aren't going to kill YOU.
You let the really crazy ones through, no problems!
I reference Beauraucracy, imagine if you could remember 21 things instead of 7 (that's the average correct?) and then the government was like "constantly enforce these extra rules we've got for you memory man! Now forgetting is no longer an excuse."
Not that I'm saying that society eagerly fills the void to be as complex as possible.
Finite intelligence barrier, once you get smart enough you realize life is suffering and give up.
Possible issues explained: No Aliens, Neandrathals were smarter than modern man and coming soon suicidal robots!
Improved memory flies directly in the face of the human ability for self deception. I like comparing it to the religious thought that we're created in "God's" image, with a left brain and right brain in constant opposition? Designed to be out of control, cool.
Wifi-Voip, the thing that bothers me about this whole debate is whether Android will ever be open enough to support wireless to 850/950/1800/1950 switching and voip. I've read some pretty angry articles from the phone industry about losing money to voip telephony.
This is THE feature, it solves the inequality in plans that lies behind the phones themselves and has a huge impact on how people use their phones.
Android was the hope on this front but no progress so far.
I get the feeling that there is no "open" body holding up VOIP, it's more like a black ops group... I wonder how many people they've shot.
Premise: The law should be more flexible, that will enable lawmakers to better protect people.
Posit: But some people are black.
Conclusion: Niggly laws are better than free reign law enforcement. Meanwhile stupid laws are going to exist... this one is important because it's new but it'll be one of those backburner laws before you know it, that or automagical cars.
This is where a lot of the problem currently resides. Most of the places you go during a day have wireless access and in fact are the places you WANT to be able to receive phone calls (home, office, coffee shop).
There are solutions, the HTC phones (Magic, Dream, and the AMAZING Hero) have transparent switching through Android while most others don't. The HTC phones sold through providers are locked to break this ability.
Outside the box there's the M88+ which looks pretty decent but doesn't quite have the specs to run Skype (how hard is it to transmit a 56kbps data stream?!) at cpu 288mhz.
Basically the whole thing is a software problem and a provider problem. On the software side we need a lightweight Vimbuzz or Skype. On the provider side I don't think people would mind having an extension, I wouldn't if it meant I could get a $20 a year phone # and cut away from the traditional phone monopoly, they spend more on billing than they do providing service.
VOIP is trying to maintain a modest set of services so that anyone can join the game... meanwhile services are trying to lock people into their specific address space (why can't it just use email addresses? sex@skype.com is of course already taken:P).
The other thing that needs to happen is shotgunning, the connection of two internet connections for outgoing and incoming packets, this is what will make all the transition non-sense go away.
Vimbuzz's incoming buzz to tell your phone to connect to wifi and skype and try to receive the call is a brilliant idea.
Sigh, this seems like an incoherent rant but I've done a lot of research and would love to write an article about the technical hurdles if someone wants to pay me for one. That $50 a month that everyone pays their cell phone provider is enough to do a lot of infrastructure and then educate some African children.
Ok this one is nasty, provides total access. Can we get the results of the search for the code to exploit this?
Is there a department that searches down people who exploited a vulnerability once we figure out how they did it? It seems sensible to develop such a feedback system, probably won't get the serious hackers but for the hackers who mess up there's probably a trail.
Worst method of detecting virii:Feel your computer timing is different? Could be a virus. Of course they're taking this from us with SSD but meh... whatever floats the boat.
I'm sorry Verdatum,
I should have looked at your name(rather than your UID) before assuming you were hostile to intellectual discussion.
I agree that some topics tend to produce a higher level of discussion than others, I am also a long time Slashdot reader. These more involved levels of discussion tend to arise from a variety of trajectories however, often a thread is hijacked to examine a related point with broader public implications. As a programmer and English major I'm still trying to understand how nerds relate to the concept of context.
It's great that people want to think they're smarter than everyone else. Everything is a noun just like apple and the formal rules of logic apply to both equally. Arrogance is a great quality, properly moderated by others.
I am probably projecting my own angst over failed attempts to hijack threads, there's something frustrating about viewing 15 parallel viewpoints in a row moderated to +5 while you're moderated off topic:P I choose Slashdot as my public forum because it is relatively unpolluted by trolls and democratized to a large extent. Cowboy Neil and Co. do an excellent job of remaining in the shadows. While it would be nice to see more international discussion (Babelfish for the win!), this really is a locus for brilliant minds. If the public figures who attend these discussions advertised the knowledge they gain here it would be a world shaking discussion forum.
Canada's pirate party is just starting up. The second monthly meeting is set to take place on the 19th in different venues across the country. I've been reading the above comments and it seems there is scepticism that the political climate in Sweden and the U.K. is such that a third party doesn't really stand a chance. I think in Canada it may, Canada has a cross section of world cultures... with increased freedom of information we might produce results interesting to the world.
Now for my personal vendetta:) The Slashcode moderation system has created an enormously powerful and democratic forum for debate. While we have several issues to address one that's of interest is having a decentralized party where open debate is the norm and direct democracy the result.
To this end a modified version of Slashcode is being developed for the public forum.
If you decide to attend the meetings I'd appreciate it if you'd voice support for such a system, I think the idea of information freedom makes the notion of cabinets and party leaders slightly hypocritical, plus we don't need those things to get our message out.
Personally I am optimistic about the overall benefits of a small region where copyright and patents are abolished, this region would create integrated ideas that would be the wonder of the world demonstrating what mankind has accomplished. Black Government research projects probably already work this way, but it would be nice if we got some results for civilian use.
This is the kind of attitude that's becoming more and more prevalent mr 7 digit UID boy.
This isn't 4chan... while it's not humourless hyperbole filled "your name is your name" conversation, meaningful things get decided here. Insights, ideas and opinions are just as valid here as in the "think tanks" you probably hope do all your thinking. The opinion of an expert is just that... and Slashdot is full of experts.
Respect the commenting system, take it seriously... someday Peter and Charlotte Wiggan will dive into Slashdot to understand the global mindset.
The bantering of nerds is amazing because intellect is the metric, saying something brilliant counts for a lot.
I like to think of Slashdot as the bridge of the enterprise, random ensigns get pulled up all the time, sometimes they have an insight mostly they should just STFU. The comments are just as important as the articles and there's a reason you don't get karma for funny mods. Slashdot has built a very high signal to noise ratio by appealing to intellects, you come here because of what the originators and contributors have built. We should try to tweak it but we should remember why we valued it when we came here and preserve what makes it great.
Thank you for demonstrating that there is still freedom in society. Remember the social fabric is delicate and total freedom from it lies in a correctional institution near you.
Please don't profit from other's trust and further from their misfortune. I doubt you have never trusted or felt misfortune, and when you did you wanted a different response than what you offer.
The economy sucks, the rich have destroyed liquidity to keep their dollars valuable... now more than ever we need community. The one thing rich and unethical people hate.
A Question...
"without wireless security, and also with the default admin password for some time. "
Your implication seems to be that someone wandered by your fathers house, saw an open wireless network and decided to insert packets to own his machine.
WTF?!
This seems like a pretty unlikely method of building a botnet compared to spam, website security holes, application fail (office, adobe, gif).
It also seems to support the whole "sharing is bad" mentality that the RIAA and ISPs (and their net neutrality BS) are shoving down our throats. Though that might just be paranoia or my own politics interfering in what is really a technical matter.
"As much I would enjoy excessive luxury as well, spending money stimulates an economy. If you have alot of money, the best thing to 'make things happen', and give value is to spend it."
Dear sir, if you look at current inflation and cost of living statistics you would be seriously scared about every purchase you have made... no joke.
Money is labour, you can pay people money to do just about anything.
Being rich means building a dam in the flow of money around an economy, usually between the profits of your company and your employees. It used to be about supporting your decendents for GENERATIONS (think monarchs and Paris Hilton) off the wealth generated from your wealth (consider the taxes on inheretence, and the implications of removing those taxes).
My point is that wealth easily generates more wealth... not exactly a novel thought. But consider that certain things (Usury, credit cards (19+% MY GOD!), and removing liquidity in the market seem to produce excessive wealth from past labour.
Middle class means being able to hire a few people to help you accomplish tasks, upper class basically means you can pay people to THINK for you.
So yea, spend if you want the world to function. Save if you want to get rich or build something, and while the big boys pretend that they're the gatekeepers of every avenue to profit (and certainly they do hold a lot of keys) occasionally little guys sneak through. If you save by finding those little guys who are making holes you'll be allright, local computer stores, etc. We're told 9/10 of them fail, probably half of those because they don't have enough capital and half because people dream of hearing "my goodness that's a great idea!" and believe it when they shouldn't.
If you're middle class you can MAKE a small company, try getting some people together and helping to build one even if that's simply by keeping them from excessive interest payments!
Like whether a company makes something people actually want?
Do you see the problem with allowing corporations, an institution designed to offer investment opportunities and products to a nation being controlled by algorithms based entirely on profitability(and at great social cost it seems).
I don't understand why the system NEEDS a bid placement system, do people often lower their asking price to meet it?
The trading floor is set up to only accept trades Monday to Friday during working hours to maintain some kind of sanity. May I propose concurrent trades which take place at a single point (say Friday at 4:00 P.M.) which take account of all the bids/asks and prioritizes based on when the bids were placed.
I'm not sure if I've ever heard of a company that actually makes anything rising and falling in that kind of a period. Let's see it implemented in the future, 2010? Maybe government bids on all these computers lying around.
That said I'd kind of like to get crazy rich off this exploitation, but perhaps our best hope is that all these really smart people will figure out some way to suss out entrepreneurs and bring them together to actually make something... I know it doesn't make sense to them now but there's profit in that too!
During the 80s-00s the philosophy was "buy land they're not making any more of it" and people did... they took all their savings and invested in housing instead of industry. The real estate moguls were born and regular home buyers thought they could get in on the trend. This inflated real estate prices so much that condominiums became profitable.
The big boys like playing with real estate because they are backed very directly by the government. Governments after all are in the real estate business. Governments are also practiced at retaining talented people and encouraging them to support others (the young, old, disabled, whatever isn't profitable at the moment) rather than breaking off and forming their own state!
Unfortunately condominums exist, if we had a more permissive society (like they have in Japan or artistic communities) they'd be an even more tempting option. Houses require a lot of work to maintain, a lot of space and aren't really very good for creating social networks (people resent being forced to co-occupy space with others) though they're good for enforcing community.
Anyway, high speed rail and condominum technology evolution have at least halved the true value of housing, prices are being kept artificially high to support the baby boomers and the promise that they won't be put in "a home."
Cities tearing down homes is ugly, with very limited resources those houses could be turned into new communities for your nation's homeless.
If the government was to do any kind of buyback or home for rrsp program banks would benefit the most, another flaw in capitalism would be uncovered and people would become content to rely on the social safety net of the government... the very thing capitalists point at when critiquing communism.
Hi,
I'm a huge nerd who has overcome the women thing. In fact I am kind of working on a system of having several options available at all times (they know about each other and there is intimacy but no commitment).
When I read your post and the grandparent I see some issues, first: Convincing a woman you're sleeping with is way too easy... she's basically programming herself to think you're the best, have friend who's a woman... a real friend (who wants you to be happy, get laid, and never cross that boundary with her). She'll help you stay even keeled on what's fair and pull you out if you get into a bad relationship... plus she'll be there to remind you that the feminine "inhuman goddess" thing is just an act).
second: Nerds make good boyfriends for a number of reasons: they're eagre to learn about women, real men are mice (ask any philosopher or poet), they're totally into something for themselves and they have that thing to share.
The problem I faced trying to maintain honesty and nerdiness in a dating scene dominated by sharks was overcoming the "meat market" mentality, yes it's true that 10s deserve 10s and so forth but it's also true that searching is hard and a girl can search better and have more fun with you than with her pretentious girlfriends acting phony to attract shark men. If you know she'll have a better time with you then that's the source of your confidence, if you start feeling she won't then you're being a selfish jerk pursuing her.
Not that I think the grandparent's idea is any good... really what we want is a system of feudalism in which good idea people are left in charge but tasked with gaining the knowledge they need to overcome shortcomings in their ideas.
Perhaps Sourceforge should have a table: Idea Potential vs hurdles, time invested vs Time needed by creator to address knowledge issues, Tasks at hand vs Average task complexity.
Not everyone had the time to learn programming language x in order to solve bug y, not everyone has the greatest idea (though I and I suspect everyone else on/. thinks they do), the people in the trenches doing the work are the horsepower moving society forward... they are too busy to toot their own horn. They truly are living up to "doing that which should be done and would not were I not to do it."
The systems in place to motivate,organize and protect them are becoming so complex that no one truly understands them... when this happens their purpose is lost.
There is not one simple answer to vetting clever ideas, here is my system: find a friend willing to listen and critique. Look at projects in the field and see if they could use your help/offer you sufficient incentive. If A can be overcome then hopefully problems with B can be overcome. "If we cannot persuade nations with comparable values to the merit of our cause then we need to re-examine our reasoning." - Robert Strange Magnamara.
Everyone wants to be the butterfly, which means we need to increase our commitment to the hammer.
With all of the talk surrounding software piracy the goal of the "industry" has been quite consistent. Increasing production of high quality product.
If we look at the stock market the same way we see the fundamental flaw, stock exchanging is based upon the eventual liquidation or sale of a company. The business of creating business (Venture Capital, loans, partnerships) has taken a back seat. I suspect this is because exploiting the existing markets and manipulating interactions has become the norm. Suckers (People who want goods cheap and ignore the profit potential of exploitation) need to band together and invest in start up companies with the expectation of a percentage of profits over time.
Formula: Creator + Capital = Profit. Creators need to figure out how much of their company they are willing to sell, investors should be buying in simply by taking the previous investors percentages of a company for a higher value (based on increasing company worth[A REALLY difficult calculation, one which the free market is responsible for]) investing some increase in capital.
Capitalism is a difficult balance between capital and creativity, surely the original creative person deserves some value for their idea, further they deserve value for the time spent bringing that idea to fruition. Balancing these two is the real problem... open source suggests people are willing to work on things they believe in even when there is no profit incentive beyond experience and accomplishment. Further people who have saved money to invest deserve profit for avoiding the consumer rat race that society shoves down their throats, and the ability to rest/create/enjoy life at some point. The problem seems to be in incorporation. Incorporation involves the removal of control of the company from one individual and a system of controls to ensure it's commitment to profit for it's investors. The manipulation of these controls allows the sharks to get in.
Product -> Consumer is simple, increased complexity creating 0-sum systems around tertiary market forces makes it difficult for honest investors to join in making the above a reality.
Note also it's a powerful greenhouse gas and it's expansion would produce a short term cooling period (which we were warned might be a short term effect of global climate change).
Now I imagine, this been slashdot that no one read the article... but these clouds are greated by low temperatures over the north pole.
My grandfather said we could solve the oil crisis by harvesting the natural gas deposits, I guess we're too late. He's old and mysoginist so when he says something smart my mother suggests I ignore it, but he's a scientist and it looks like he was right again.
Freenet is a hard target. Arguably, the hardest of them all today. It's also the least popular.
High overhead will do that to you, ISPs make the overhead look bigger by shunting encrypted data into low speed transmission. Ugly ugly stuff, arguably illegal and the government is too scared to step in.
The studios are playing a money game. Bang for buck. They want maximal deterrence for minimal spend.
I'm concerned that's the happy fun version, really they're looking to transfer us all over onto their p2p network, consider if they released all their movies and music (perfectly cataloged) for a year over a single protocol, what % of file sharers would move to it? What if they started paying Linux distros to use it? Or other content distribution systems? They want to control the network, or at least the vast majority of users like they did in the 90s, making obvious their attacks hasn't worked. Now they will be surreptitious, releasing subtly degraded works and shunting the piracy crowd somewhere out of the way for execution.
They won't give up, they are America's propaganda and they have the full backing that entails.
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To manipulate OPEC? Yea producers and consumers could change their usage patterns but it's more in the 20%-/+ range... OPEC could just shut down production...
If they KNEW when they'd get the most buck for their bang they might consider holding out.
"history of dirty tricks, anti-competitive and anti-consumer behavior"
Two words, lock in. These companies are terrified of interoperability, support for future processors or graphics cards or anything in that mindset.
Meanwhile they are searching diligently for ways to guarantee profits with minimal effort, the best way to do this? Muck about with software so your chips always look good while still ending up slow.
If you make software updates break your old products you create a product treadmill.
We've been through 20-30 generations of Video cards at this point... Can't we find some way OFF this damn treadmill?
the beatdown. Voip transitioning in Android is going to be a reality, soon open wifi spots will bring this whole internet debate to a head.
I hope the teleco's drop to 10% of their current marketshare. I think people will realize that usually when they WANT their cell phone to work they are A.) At home. B.) At the office, and once those two are free people will move over more and more to free cell phone usage.
Canada just outlawed using cell phone's in cars (though Bluetooth headsets are still legal) add on public transit open Wifi and the future is very Telecom unfriendly. And about time.
Um did you just point to the cell phone industry as a good example? JESUS CHRIST!
And a hallmark of, CHOICE??!, you must be out of your mind!
I was thinking about this, it's probably MUCH more effective from a soldier's standpoint. You find bombs attached to bombers who aren't going to kill YOU.
You let the really crazy ones through, no problems!
I reference Beauraucracy, imagine if you could remember 21 things instead of 7 (that's the average correct?) and then the government was like "constantly enforce these extra rules we've got for you memory man! Now forgetting is no longer an excuse."
Not that I'm saying that society eagerly fills the void to be as complex as possible.
Finite intelligence barrier, once you get smart enough you realize life is suffering and give up.
Possible issues explained: No Aliens, Neandrathals were smarter than modern man and coming soon suicidal robots!
Improved memory flies directly in the face of the human ability for self deception. I like comparing it to the religious thought that we're created in "God's" image, with a left brain and right brain in constant opposition? Designed to be out of control, cool.
When will we get a rat made of stainless steel.
Wifi-Voip, the thing that bothers me about this whole debate is whether Android will ever be open enough to support wireless to 850/950/1800/1950 switching and voip. I've read some pretty angry articles from the phone industry about losing money to voip telephony.
This is THE feature, it solves the inequality in plans that lies behind the phones themselves and has a huge impact on how people use their phones.
Android was the hope on this front but no progress so far.
I get the feeling that there is no "open" body holding up VOIP, it's more like a black ops group... I wonder how many people they've shot.
Premise: The law should be more flexible, that will enable lawmakers to better protect people. Posit: But some people are black. Conclusion: Niggly laws are better than free reign law enforcement. Meanwhile stupid laws are going to exist... this one is important because it's new but it'll be one of those backburner laws before you know it, that or automagical cars.
We REALLY need ALL your bandwidth every 45 seconds for about .4 seconds.... sorry were you going to use VOIP, that's too bad.
Skype or SIP Voip enabled wi-fi phones.
:P).
This is where a lot of the problem currently resides. Most of the places you go during a day have wireless access and in fact are the places you WANT to be able to receive phone calls (home, office, coffee shop).
There are solutions, the HTC phones (Magic, Dream, and the AMAZING Hero) have transparent switching through Android while most others don't. The HTC phones sold through providers are locked to break this ability.
Outside the box there's the M88+ which looks pretty decent but doesn't quite have the specs to run Skype (how hard is it to transmit a 56kbps data stream?!) at cpu 288mhz.
Basically the whole thing is a software problem and a provider problem. On the software side we need a lightweight Vimbuzz or Skype. On the provider side I don't think people would mind having an extension, I wouldn't if it meant I could get a $20 a year phone # and cut away from the traditional phone monopoly, they spend more on billing than they do providing service.
VOIP is trying to maintain a modest set of services so that anyone can join the game... meanwhile services are trying to lock people into their specific address space (why can't it just use email addresses? sex@skype.com is of course already taken
The other thing that needs to happen is shotgunning, the connection of two internet connections for outgoing and incoming packets, this is what will make all the transition non-sense go away.
Vimbuzz's incoming buzz to tell your phone to connect to wifi and skype and try to receive the call is a brilliant idea.
Sigh, this seems like an incoherent rant but I've done a lot of research and would love to write an article about the technical hurdles if someone wants to pay me for one. That $50 a month that everyone pays their cell phone provider is enough to do a lot of infrastructure and then educate some African children.
Ok this one is nasty, provides total access. Can we get the results of the search for the code to exploit this?
Is there a department that searches down people who exploited a vulnerability once we figure out how they did it? It seems sensible to develop such a feedback system, probably won't get the serious hackers but for the hackers who mess up there's probably a trail.
Worst method of detecting virii:Feel your computer timing is different? Could be a virus. Of course they're taking this from us with SSD but meh... whatever floats the boat.
I'm sorry Verdatum, I should have looked at your name(rather than your UID) before assuming you were hostile to intellectual discussion.
:P I choose Slashdot as my public forum because it is relatively unpolluted by trolls and democratized to a large extent. Cowboy Neil and Co. do an excellent job of remaining in the shadows. While it would be nice to see more international discussion (Babelfish for the win!), this really is a locus for brilliant minds. If the public figures who attend these discussions advertised the knowledge they gain here it would be a world shaking discussion forum.
I agree that some topics tend to produce a higher level of discussion than others, I am also a long time Slashdot reader. These more involved levels of discussion tend to arise from a variety of trajectories however, often a thread is hijacked to examine a related point with broader public implications. As a programmer and English major I'm still trying to understand how nerds relate to the concept of context. It's great that people want to think they're smarter than everyone else. Everything is a noun just like apple and the formal rules of logic apply to both equally. Arrogance is a great quality, properly moderated by others.
I am probably projecting my own angst over failed attempts to hijack threads, there's something frustrating about viewing 15 parallel viewpoints in a row moderated to +5 while you're moderated off topic
Canada's pirate party is just starting up. The second monthly meeting is set to take place on the 19th in different venues across the country. I've been reading the above comments and it seems there is scepticism that the political climate in Sweden and the U.K. is such that a third party doesn't really stand a chance. I think in Canada it may, Canada has a cross section of world cultures... with increased freedom of information we might produce results interesting to the world.
:)
Now for my personal vendetta
The Slashcode moderation system has created an enormously powerful and democratic forum for debate. While we have several issues to address one that's of interest is having a decentralized party where open debate is the norm and direct democracy the result.
To this end a modified version of Slashcode is being developed for the public forum.
If you decide to attend the meetings I'd appreciate it if you'd voice support for such a system, I think the idea of information freedom makes the notion of cabinets and party leaders slightly hypocritical, plus we don't need those things to get our message out.
Personally I am optimistic about the overall benefits of a small region where copyright and patents are abolished, this region would create integrated ideas that would be the wonder of the world demonstrating what mankind has accomplished. Black Government research projects probably already work this way, but it would be nice if we got some results for civilian use.
This is the kind of attitude that's becoming more and more prevalent mr 7 digit UID boy.
This isn't 4chan... while it's not humourless hyperbole filled "your name is your name" conversation, meaningful things get decided here. Insights, ideas and opinions are just as valid here as in the "think tanks" you probably hope do all your thinking. The opinion of an expert is just that... and Slashdot is full of experts.
Respect the commenting system, take it seriously... someday Peter and Charlotte Wiggan will dive into Slashdot to understand the global mindset.
The bantering of nerds is amazing because intellect is the metric, saying something brilliant counts for a lot.
I like to think of Slashdot as the bridge of the enterprise, random ensigns get pulled up all the time, sometimes they have an insight mostly they should just STFU. The comments are just as important as the articles and there's a reason you don't get karma for funny mods. Slashdot has built a very high signal to noise ratio by appealing to intellects, you come here because of what the originators and contributors have built. We should try to tweak it but we should remember why we valued it when we came here and preserve what makes it great.
3 Slashdot... I'll criticise you again tommorow!
Thank you for demonstrating that there is still freedom in society. Remember the social fabric is delicate and total freedom from it lies in a correctional institution near you.
Please don't profit from other's trust and further from their misfortune. I doubt you have never trusted or felt misfortune, and when you did you wanted a different response than what you offer.
The economy sucks, the rich have destroyed liquidity to keep their dollars valuable... now more than ever we need community. The one thing rich and unethical people hate.
A Question... "without wireless security, and also with the default admin password for some time. "
Your implication seems to be that someone wandered by your fathers house, saw an open wireless network and decided to insert packets to own his machine.
WTF?!
This seems like a pretty unlikely method of building a botnet compared to spam, website security holes, application fail (office, adobe, gif).
It also seems to support the whole "sharing is bad" mentality that the RIAA and ISPs (and their net neutrality BS) are shoving down our throats. Though that might just be paranoia or my own politics interfering in what is really a technical matter.
"As much I would enjoy excessive luxury as well, spending money stimulates an economy. If you have alot of money, the best thing to 'make things happen', and give value is to spend it."
Dear sir, if you look at current inflation and cost of living statistics you would be seriously scared about every purchase you have made... no joke.
Money is labour, you can pay people money to do just about anything.
Being rich means building a dam in the flow of money around an economy, usually between the profits of your company and your employees. It used to be about supporting your decendents for GENERATIONS (think monarchs and Paris Hilton) off the wealth generated from your wealth (consider the taxes on inheretence, and the implications of removing those taxes).
My point is that wealth easily generates more wealth... not exactly a novel thought. But consider that certain things (Usury, credit cards (19+% MY GOD!), and removing liquidity in the market seem to produce excessive wealth from past labour.
Middle class means being able to hire a few people to help you accomplish tasks, upper class basically means you can pay people to THINK for you.
So yea, spend if you want the world to function. Save if you want to get rich or build something, and while the big boys pretend that they're the gatekeepers of every avenue to profit (and certainly they do hold a lot of keys) occasionally little guys sneak through. If you save by finding those little guys who are making holes you'll be allright, local computer stores, etc. We're told 9/10 of them fail, probably half of those because they don't have enough capital and half because people dream of hearing "my goodness that's a great idea!" and believe it when they shouldn't.
If you're middle class you can MAKE a small company, try getting some people together and helping to build one even if that's simply by keeping them from excessive interest payments!
Like whether a company makes something people actually want?
Do you see the problem with allowing corporations, an institution designed to offer investment opportunities and products to a nation being controlled by algorithms based entirely on profitability(and at great social cost it seems).
I don't understand why the system NEEDS a bid placement system, do people often lower their asking price to meet it?
The trading floor is set up to only accept trades Monday to Friday during working hours to maintain some kind of sanity. May I propose concurrent trades which take place at a single point (say Friday at 4:00 P.M.) which take account of all the bids/asks and prioritizes based on when the bids were placed.
I'm not sure if I've ever heard of a company that actually makes anything rising and falling in that kind of a period. Let's see it implemented in the future, 2010? Maybe government bids on all these computers lying around.
That said I'd kind of like to get crazy rich off this exploitation, but perhaps our best hope is that all these really smart people will figure out some way to suss out entrepreneurs and bring them together to actually make something... I know it doesn't make sense to them now but there's profit in that too!
Baby boomers and baby boomer pride.
During the 80s-00s the philosophy was "buy land they're not making any more of it" and people did... they took all their savings and invested in housing instead of industry. The real estate moguls were born and regular home buyers thought they could get in on the trend. This inflated real estate prices so much that condominiums became profitable.
The big boys like playing with real estate because they are backed very directly by the government. Governments after all are in the real estate business. Governments are also practiced at retaining talented people and encouraging them to support others (the young, old, disabled, whatever isn't profitable at the moment) rather than breaking off and forming their own state!
Unfortunately condominums exist, if we had a more permissive society (like they have in Japan or artistic communities) they'd be an even more tempting option. Houses require a lot of work to maintain, a lot of space and aren't really very good for creating social networks (people resent being forced to co-occupy space with others) though they're good for enforcing community.
Anyway, high speed rail and condominum technology evolution have at least halved the true value of housing, prices are being kept artificially high to support the baby boomers and the promise that they won't be put in "a home."
Cities tearing down homes is ugly, with very limited resources those houses could be turned into new communities for your nation's homeless.
If the government was to do any kind of buyback or home for rrsp program banks would benefit the most, another flaw in capitalism would be uncovered and people would become content to rely on the social safety net of the government... the very thing capitalists point at when critiquing communism.
Hi, I'm a huge nerd who has overcome the women thing. In fact I am kind of working on a system of having several options available at all times (they know about each other and there is intimacy but no commitment).
/. thinks they do), the people in the trenches doing the work are the horsepower moving society forward... they are too busy to toot their own horn. They truly are living up to "doing that which should be done and would not were I not to do it."
When I read your post and the grandparent I see some issues, first: Convincing a woman you're sleeping with is way too easy... she's basically programming herself to think you're the best, have friend who's a woman... a real friend (who wants you to be happy, get laid, and never cross that boundary with her). She'll help you stay even keeled on what's fair and pull you out if you get into a bad relationship... plus she'll be there to remind you that the feminine "inhuman goddess" thing is just an act).
second: Nerds make good boyfriends for a number of reasons: they're eagre to learn about women, real men are mice (ask any philosopher or poet), they're totally into something for themselves and they have that thing to share.
The problem I faced trying to maintain honesty and nerdiness in a dating scene dominated by sharks was overcoming the "meat market" mentality, yes it's true that 10s deserve 10s and so forth but it's also true that searching is hard and a girl can search better and have more fun with you than with her pretentious girlfriends acting phony to attract shark men. If you know she'll have a better time with you then that's the source of your confidence, if you start feeling she won't then you're being a selfish jerk pursuing her.
Not that I think the grandparent's idea is any good... really what we want is a system of feudalism in which good idea people are left in charge but tasked with gaining the knowledge they need to overcome shortcomings in their ideas.
Perhaps Sourceforge should have a table: Idea Potential vs hurdles, time invested vs Time needed by creator to address knowledge issues, Tasks at hand vs Average task complexity.
Not everyone had the time to learn programming language x in order to solve bug y, not everyone has the greatest idea (though I and I suspect everyone else on
The systems in place to motivate,organize and protect them are becoming so complex that no one truly understands them... when this happens their purpose is lost.
There is not one simple answer to vetting clever ideas, here is my system: find a friend willing to listen and critique. Look at projects in the field and see if they could use your help/offer you sufficient incentive. If A can be overcome then hopefully problems with B can be overcome. "If we cannot persuade nations with comparable values to the merit of our cause then we need to re-examine our reasoning." - Robert Strange Magnamara.
Everyone wants to be the butterfly, which means we need to increase our commitment to the hammer.
With all of the talk surrounding software piracy the goal of the "industry" has been quite consistent. Increasing production of high quality product.
If we look at the stock market the same way we see the fundamental flaw, stock exchanging is based upon the eventual liquidation or sale of a company. The business of creating business (Venture Capital, loans, partnerships) has taken a back seat. I suspect this is because exploiting the existing markets and manipulating interactions has become the norm. Suckers (People who want goods cheap and ignore the profit potential of exploitation) need to band together and invest in start up companies with the expectation of a percentage of profits over time.
Formula: Creator + Capital = Profit. Creators need to figure out how much of their company they are willing to sell, investors should be buying in simply by taking the previous investors percentages of a company for a higher value (based on increasing company worth[A REALLY difficult calculation, one which the free market is responsible for]) investing some increase in capital.
Capitalism is a difficult balance between capital and creativity, surely the original creative person deserves some value for their idea, further they deserve value for the time spent bringing that idea to fruition. Balancing these two is the real problem... open source suggests people are willing to work on things they believe in even when there is no profit incentive beyond experience and accomplishment. Further people who have saved money to invest deserve profit for avoiding the consumer rat race that society shoves down their throats, and the ability to rest/create/enjoy life at some point. The problem seems to be in incorporation. Incorporation involves the removal of control of the company from one individual and a system of controls to ensure it's commitment to profit for it's investors. The manipulation of these controls allows the sharks to get in.
Product -> Consumer is simple, increased complexity creating 0-sum systems around tertiary market forces makes it difficult for honest investors to join in making the above a reality.
Just my 2c
Methane trapped in/under polar ice, 3000 natural levels.
Note also it's a powerful greenhouse gas and it's expansion would produce a short term cooling period (which we were warned might be a short term effect of global climate change).
Now I imagine, this been slashdot that no one read the article... but these clouds are greated by low temperatures over the north pole.
My grandfather said we could solve the oil crisis by harvesting the natural gas deposits, I guess we're too late. He's old and mysoginist so when he says something smart my mother suggests I ignore it, but he's a scientist and it looks like he was right again.
Freenet is a hard target. Arguably, the hardest of them all today. It's also the least popular. High overhead will do that to you, ISPs make the overhead look bigger by shunting encrypted data into low speed transmission. Ugly ugly stuff, arguably illegal and the government is too scared to step in. The studios are playing a money game. Bang for buck. They want maximal deterrence for minimal spend. I'm concerned that's the happy fun version, really they're looking to transfer us all over onto their p2p network, consider if they released all their movies and music (perfectly cataloged) for a year over a single protocol, what % of file sharers would move to it? What if they started paying Linux distros to use it? Or other content distribution systems? They want to control the network, or at least the vast majority of users like they did in the 90s, making obvious their attacks hasn't worked. Now they will be surreptitious, releasing subtly degraded works and shunting the piracy crowd somewhere out of the way for execution.
They won't give up, they are America's propaganda and they have the full backing that entails.