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Imagine yourself in Google's place. You can go up the invitation tree
from any node in a single, unique way, and always straight to the very
top (or a handful of those). There will be, say, 100 hops from a known
bot to the root. Which node is the first human?
I don't think "Open Source" means what you think it means.
OSS shouldn't be about reverse engineering good ideas and
making them freely available. OSS is supposed to be about
innovation and new ideas.
OSS is about providing programmers and users of software with
the source. The main goal is always to educate about how this
particular piece of software works. It is believed that this understanding helps
programmers to develop superior software. Attributing other
virtues to OSS is just silly.
The spirit of Open Source is the belief that making the code available to
anyone makes the product better, because anyone with a bit of inventiveness
and some time can make the product better.
This is a very minor goal for OSS. By default, it is illegal to run or
distribute a modified copy of software, even when the source is provided.
You are thinking about copylefted software.
But how to you start to explain the difference between a priori and a posteriori [...]
Exactly. How do you make people care about what some 18-th century
(Protestant) German Philosopher thought about things? And why would anyone
want to (given that they have spent decades on studying this one guy's
world view in its historical context) accept his ideas as their own?
A mystery within mystery.
The problem with "explaining science to masses" is as simple as that:
people who do not study a particular area of science, they just cannot
understand it, and they are better off not trying to, if they are to
have enough time to learn their own skill. I would be very
upset if someone believed that
if both p and q are congruent to 3(mod 4), then p
is a perfect square mod q, and q is a perfect square mod p.
I'd be upset because it is false. But you know what? I am not going to cry just because no one cares to
even understand this. If anyone could grok it, we would not have a word for
"math".
(That word I am referring to is "math", of course.)
That number is not generally considered credible except by extreme leftists where the number benefits their agenda. Calculating deaths by polling is rather absurd.
I agree, this number is too high for a fair estimate, but I do not use it as such.
It is clear to me, though, that Bush and other US leaders are OK with that many people
dieing. They don't even bother counting. There are some 90K documented deaths due to
violence so far, and may be another 90K undocumented. But that is just violence:
we didn't even start counting those who died due to economic sanctions (lots of infants
there), hunger, disease, forced relocation, etc. We are looking at hundreds of thousands,
and the official policy deems this perception acceptable.
People do not like to
admit it about genocide, but if you do it thoroughly, then it actually
works, i.e. solves all problems relating to the unpleasant minority,
once and for all. You know what is really ironic? That USians
modded the parent +funny, whereas it really should be +insightful.
Once you get it into your head that it is your Progress-given mission to bring
some sovereign people into the 21-st century, genocide is an obvious
answer. Bush would wipe Iraq clean if he could, a long time ago (he obviously
does not give a shit about 1M Iraqis, almost all of them civilians, dieing due to war, why would he
care about 25M?), but US
is not powerful enough to do that with conventional weapons, nor does it
have enough clout to get away with it.
How about, instead of "bringing Arabs democracy" and "liberating them from
an archaic religion", you liberate them from economic oppression and let them
decide what to do with their own oil? Switch to alternative energy sources,
perhaps? Develop a defensive military strategy, which should work just fine,
as you are on your own frigging continent? Just my 2 cents.
Meta-moderation-noun On Slashdot, any instance of referencing or suggesting
a moderation for one's own post with an intention of manipulating moderator's judgement.
Usually,
a negative moderation is suggested, which is the opposite of the intended:
"I know I will be modded down for this, but..." or "Goodbye karma...".
You should not invoke the Godwin's law on purpose. According to Wikipedia,
the act of doing so raises the Quirk's Exception. Please turn in your geek
card on your way out.
Parent knows what he is talking about. Seriously, who gives a shit about CoS, e-meters and
dolts who buy e-meters? I stopped used Ebay years ago because of VERO,
after selling a couple of video game accounts. The program
is basically a giant middle finger to Ebay's clients: it
is unfair and rude for two reasons, regardless of who is
censoring: (1) it does not (and cannot) provide
any kind of advance warning and (2) it does not (and cannot)
provide a coherent explanation of one's violation.
I cannot be bothered to read TFA, but if CoS just joined it,
then I am honestly amazed at how late they are.
Then lessig is retarded, as you cannot have 'non-commercial sharing' leagilsed without abandoning the entire concept of intellectual property.
And you know you are right because the history proves you
are. Like remember that time when the movie industry disappeared
because people could legally make copies of their VHS tapes?
And the music is all but gone, now that no one persecutes us
for copying CDs? And my personal favorite: how Radiohead
went bankrupt after they allowed fans to name their own
price for their latest album.
Artists make their what available? Which country do you live in?
Here in US of A, most of the stink is made by gigantic corporations,
not on behalf of the artists, but on behalf of the said corporations,
who actually own the copyrights for much of the popular art.
You may disagree with my statement that copyright (as it is today)
is undemocratic. But this position is not unique to me. If you want to
argue, why won't you start by rebutting RMS, Moglen and, what a heck,
Lessig. All three (even Lessig, iirc) argue that copyright would be
a lot more democratic system if non-commercial sharing wasn't
demonized.
For the umptieth time, the "intellectual property", which is not
even a legal term, is just one of dozens of ways in which
artists and performers can be compensated for their labor.
It is also, by far, the least democratic. Stop pretending
that the very existence of art hinges on whether or not
the copyright law is upheld in regard to non-commercial
distribution.
Having the CD check as well seems like leaving a polite post-it note on the windscreen of a driver prone to double-parking. Don't bother. Just wheel-clamp the bastard.
This car analogy is about as effective as show chains strapped onto a steering wheel.
A CD check (even with stored images & Daemon Tools) is a major PITA because it happens
all the time during a normal operation, unlike the boot which happens only once in a
while and only after a major screw up on your part.
This is what compulsory schooling is for, though, and not much else.
I do not agree with everything that Gatto is saying, but he hit
the nail on the head for this one. I am surprised it even made
it onto the/.
If a proof exists for a statement, then infinitely many proofs
exist for the same statement. The set of proofs and the set of theorems
are not isomorphic in any natural sense of the word.
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Imagine yourself in Google's place. You can go up the invitation tree from any node in a single, unique way, and always straight to the very top (or a handful of those). There will be, say, 100 hops from a known bot to the root. Which node is the first human?
I don't think "Open Source" means what you think it means.
OSS shouldn't be about reverse engineering good ideas and making them freely available. OSS is supposed to be about innovation and new ideas.
OSS is about providing programmers and users of software with the source. The main goal is always to educate about how this particular piece of software works. It is believed that this understanding helps programmers to develop superior software. Attributing other virtues to OSS is just silly.
The spirit of Open Source is the belief that making the code available to anyone makes the product better, because anyone with a bit of inventiveness and some time can make the product better.
This is a very minor goal for OSS. By default, it is illegal to run or distribute a modified copy of software, even when the source is provided. You are thinking about copylefted software.
Actually, it's men. We saturate the market all too thoroughly and make supply a few orders of magnitude greater than demand.
Does THC help? Did you ever try it?
But how to you start to explain the difference between a priori and a posteriori [...]
Exactly. How do you make people care about what some 18-th century (Protestant) German Philosopher thought about things? And why would anyone want to (given that they have spent decades on studying this one guy's world view in its historical context) accept his ideas as their own? A mystery within mystery.
The problem with "explaining science to masses" is as simple as that: people who do not study a particular area of science, they just cannot understand it, and they are better off not trying to, if they are to have enough time to learn their own skill. I would be very upset if someone believed that if both p and q are congruent to 3(mod 4), then p is a perfect square mod q, and q is a perfect square mod p. I'd be upset because it is false. But you know what? I am not going to cry just because no one cares to even understand this. If anyone could grok it, we would not have a word for "math".
(That word I am referring to is "math", of course.)
Mods: +1 elitist, if you please.
I spell in Russian, my native language, just fine.
I agree, this number is too high for a fair estimate, but I do not use it as such. It is clear to me, though, that Bush and other US leaders are OK with that many people dieing. They don't even bother counting. There are some 90K documented deaths due to violence so far, and may be another 90K undocumented. But that is just violence: we didn't even start counting those who died due to economic sanctions (lots of infants there), hunger, disease, forced relocation, etc. We are looking at hundreds of thousands, and the official policy deems this perception acceptable.
People do not like to admit it about genocide, but if you do it thoroughly, then it actually works, i.e. solves all problems relating to the unpleasant minority, once and for all. You know what is really ironic? That USians modded the parent +funny, whereas it really should be +insightful. Once you get it into your head that it is your Progress-given mission to bring some sovereign people into the 21-st century, genocide is an obvious answer. Bush would wipe Iraq clean if he could, a long time ago (he obviously does not give a shit about 1M Iraqis, almost all of them civilians, dieing due to war, why would he care about 25M?), but US is not powerful enough to do that with conventional weapons, nor does it have enough clout to get away with it.
How about, instead of "bringing Arabs democracy" and "liberating them from an archaic religion", you liberate them from economic oppression and let them decide what to do with their own oil? Switch to alternative energy sources, perhaps? Develop a defensive military strategy, which should work just fine, as you are on your own frigging continent? Just my 2 cents.
Meta-moderation -noun On Slashdot, any instance of referencing or suggesting a moderation for one's own post with an intention of manipulating moderator's judgement. Usually, a negative moderation is suggested, which is the opposite of the intended: "I know I will be modded down for this, but..." or "Goodbye karma...".
You must be new here.
so no human could possibly complete it What does it have to do with RMS?
You should not invoke the Godwin's law on purpose. According to Wikipedia, the act of doing so raises the Quirk's Exception. Please turn in your geek card on your way out.
"Stealing" is also a noun. What are you going to say to that???
Parent knows what he is talking about. Seriously, who gives a shit about CoS, e-meters and dolts who buy e-meters? I stopped used Ebay years ago because of VERO, after selling a couple of video game accounts. The program is basically a giant middle finger to Ebay's clients: it is unfair and rude for two reasons, regardless of who is censoring: (1) it does not (and cannot) provide any kind of advance warning and (2) it does not (and cannot) provide a coherent explanation of one's violation.
I cannot be bothered to read TFA, but if CoS just joined it, then I am honestly amazed at how late they are.
I think it's supposed to read MS Bites.
Then lessig is retarded, as you cannot have 'non-commercial sharing' leagilsed without abandoning the entire concept of intellectual property.
And you know you are right because the history proves you are. Like remember that time when the movie industry disappeared because people could legally make copies of their VHS tapes? And the music is all but gone, now that no one persecutes us for copying CDs? And my personal favorite: how Radiohead went bankrupt after they allowed fans to name their own price for their latest album.
Artists make their what available? Which country do you live in? Here in US of A, most of the stink is made by gigantic corporations, not on behalf of the artists, but on behalf of the said corporations, who actually own the copyrights for much of the popular art.
You may disagree with my statement that copyright (as it is today) is undemocratic. But this position is not unique to me. If you want to argue, why won't you start by rebutting RMS, Moglen and, what a heck, Lessig. All three (even Lessig, iirc) argue that copyright would be a lot more democratic system if non-commercial sharing wasn't demonized.
For the umptieth time, the "intellectual property", which is not even a legal term, is just one of dozens of ways in which artists and performers can be compensated for their labor. It is also, by far, the least democratic. Stop pretending that the very existence of art hinges on whether or not the copyright law is upheld in regard to non-commercial distribution.
Holy shit! An obscure website pushing adware? Oh my god, what's gonna happen to us tomorrow? Will water fall from the sky?
Oops, modded you wrong, was going for "Funny". Fixed it now.
[...] then a short ladies-man phase, [...]
It's OK. Many a short men go through this stage.
This is what compulsory schooling is for, though, and not much else. I do not agree with everything that Gatto is saying, but he hit the nail on the head for this one. I am surprised it even made it onto the /.
I'd like to know where you buy your ganja, sir.
If a proof exists for a statement, then infinitely many proofs exist for the same statement. The set of proofs and the set of theorems are not isomorphic in any natural sense of the word.
The best buy is the worst sell.