even the Roman canonized Bible gives no real strong case in justification of the organization, only the organization's own claim.
Here you find the heart of the problem with modern Protestantism; taking a single book as sole authority without much historical context regarding who assembled and canonized the book and why the individual sub-books were chosen for the canon. The Bible is just a bunch of words that a group of humans decided fit together for their purposes 1600 years ago. Ignoring that fact (generally based on a scant few portions of the book that claim its own veracity) is the biggest blind spot in protestantism. Why trust any group of people to assemble the whole of your religious instruction in the distant past?
You assume its because Apple is evil. I assume its because they want to make money. We end up with entirely different reasons for what they are doing.
The two possibilities are not necessarily disjoint. I wouldn't ascribe malice to Apple, merely the typical amoral corporatism. The GPLv3 attempts to formalize a small aspect of (some people's) morality, and it's interesting to see how corporations respond.
The problem with your argument is that the developers of Samba would like to be able to buy a NAS or other hardware device that incorporates Samba and then upgrade it to the latest testing version or change other things about it even if the hardware manufacturer doesn't support it. That's the end of the story in terms of licensing, because no one else owns the Samba code. The Samba developers wanted the ability to modify their own software when it's running on someone else's hardware that they paid money for, and I think that's a fairly reasonable request. Apple's response is basically "Hey, nice code, but we don't really care about your interests and so we won't be using the new version." Either way, Apple wasn't planning on letting people modify the version of CIFS they shipped, or contribute fixes back to the Samba tree, so no real loss there. Long story short, we learned something about Apple's ideology and nothing more.
The sad thing is that I imagine it's pretty hard for hobbyists to find that sort of content. For instance, there are lots of people building kit cars who want to stick a modern engine in them for convenience and power, but I imagine trying to tune them is basically impossible without the help of someone with access to that information. Most of the build threads I've seen involve pulling the stock ECM from a wrecker and just hooking everything up to the engine and hoping it works, or shipping the ECM off to some tuning company to make tweaks to it. Or if they're lucky, a local shop has some hackers who can modify the ECM for them. I had thought about building one of the RCR superlights but there are basically no tuning shops in the area and the only options for that car are modern 4-bangers.
The cooling ponds not necessarily leaking, but evaporating. They're being refilled with water cannons and helicopters (not much, but it may help). Once power is restored to the site presumably they can just pump water in.
During all of this, I've noticed the reactionary community seems to lean in favor of fearmongering. Not individuals, but the community as a whole - based on the comments that get the lowest moderation. This is in spite of the fact that the situation there is a complex result of a very large natural disaster. One person held it up as a case in OPPOSITION to nuclear power, basically saying - look, EVERYONE IS GOING TO DIE OF RADIATION POISONING WHEN THE REACTORS GO SUPERCRITICAL AND EXPLODE OMGWTFBBQ!! That's just plain ignorant. The walls and roofs of the buildings surrounding the concrete containment structure have been destroyed in a series of explosions that released radioactive steam that would have been lethal to breathe, but workers were sheltered in the control structures. There is a low possibility that the concrete containment structure for reactor 2 lost integrity, but so far it appears that the reactor vessels themselves are intact. The complex cooling ponds are in trouble but are being refilled. The level of radiation escaping from the Fukushima complex has been dropping for the last day or two. And regardless of whether you buy all those facts, it is requiring a HUGE effort of man power to spread FUD and there is no solid understanding of the situation. I did read they're importing 150 tons of idiots to dump comments on blogs and news sites - because well, you need to do that when you have absolutely no understanding of science...
How likely is it that an offshore wind farm (or wave action power generator) would survive a 10 meter tsunami dragging boats and buildings and cars through it?
I think they're in the clear so long as they follow the GPL when distributing gcc. As long as their header files are not derivative works of GPL code they can be placed under any license they want. It is not a violation of the GPL for some third party software's license agreement to require use of a specific version of GPL software. Just imagine this whole situation as if they didn't ship gcc at all; it's just a silly EULA for their header files like any other software EULA, only as enforceable as your local thugs have been bribed into thinking it should be.
There are encrypting drives that cooperate with a TPM module to store the encryption key in the TPM. But you need a TPM, you need to trust it, and you need to trust the hardware in the drive to not lie about encryption because it's cheaper/faster, and even if it is encrypted you need to trust the designers to either rigorously follow good cryptographic practices or hire several very good cryptographers to design their own scheme. Personally I'd rather trust LUKS, Truecrypt, or other software with plenty of peer review.
"The banker didn't tell me that there would be a balloon payment at the end of my 5-year adjustable rate. I took out a loan that I didn't understand. I'm a VICTIM!!"
Literally true in several cases that I've heard of. Banks were lying to consumers or glossing over the details in violation of the fair lending act. Not everyone was a victim, but many were.
"Real-estate ALWAYS goes up in value. Nobody told me this was a bubble, even though prices were doubling every few years. I'm a VICTIM!!"
The U.S. GDP has doubled every 10 to 15 years. When is growth "too fast" and defined as a bubble?
"I was just trying to cash in on the 30% returns of these financial products that I didn't understand AT ALL! I'm a VICTIM!!"
You mean the kind of financial instruments that Goldman-Sachs sold short even as they promoted them to investors? Or maybe the ones Bernie Madoff was offering?
It seems like they should have heat engines built into the cooling system to drive it in case all electrical power fails. There's obviously a temperature delta between the core and whatever heat sink they are using so a sterling engine or just a geothermal pump should be able to run the cooling pumps in an emergency.
Sounds like the ones who made stupid mistakes made a piece of hardware (your SSD) that can be bricked easily from software. Nothing short of a firmware update should be able to brick any piece of hardware, and only then if the manufacturer was lazy enough not to leave enough room for an alternative firmware during updates.
With data density approaching 100GB/inch^2 you would want to make sure the platters are shattered into what passes for dust in normal circles. Probably better to just use the security erase feature of newer ATA drives, or better yet only put encrypted data on the drives in the first place.
I further believe that we can construct a curriculum that can avoid promotion of sex entirely
You have about 4 billion years of evolution working against you there. Short of prohibiting groups of two or more pubescent kids, you're not going to dampen sexual urges or behaviors.
There are only 112 boolean variables required to break 3DES and between 128 and 256 variables to break AES (depending on key size). To find one factor of a 1024 bit integer would require at least 512 boolean variables. Any P solution of 3SAT would be O(F1(variables) + F2(statements)), and while I don't know how many individual statements 3DES, AES, or factoring would require at those bit-lengths I assume the number of independent variables would probably dominate the time and space requirements.
I think you'd be surprised to find out how much money management is willing to throw at making arbitrary numbers bigger. One word: Metrics.
It doesn't matter what they measure, how valid or applicable they are, or how marginal the returns, but god help you if management starts latching onto them.
I think GP is talking about "humanities" in the sense of the typical read-an-article-then-discuss-it-in-class, what-is-the-author-saying-here, write-a-50-page-research-paper-on-a-topic-of-your-choosing style course, and I'd agree those are somewhat worthless:)
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Don't forget Bohmian mechanics. It suffers from the same epistemological problem as string theory; it posits untestable conclusions. It's just that Bohm suggested we pretend that every particle actually does have exact unobservable physical properties (momentum, position, etc.), and string theorists want to pretend that everything possible happens in infinite universes.
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even the Roman canonized Bible gives no real strong case in justification of the organization, only the organization's own claim.
Here you find the heart of the problem with modern Protestantism; taking a single book as sole authority without much historical context regarding who assembled and canonized the book and why the individual sub-books were chosen for the canon. The Bible is just a bunch of words that a group of humans decided fit together for their purposes 1600 years ago. Ignoring that fact (generally based on a scant few portions of the book that claim its own veracity) is the biggest blind spot in protestantism. Why trust any group of people to assemble the whole of your religious instruction in the distant past?
You assume its because Apple is evil. I assume its because they want to make money. We end up with entirely different reasons for what they are doing.
The two possibilities are not necessarily disjoint. I wouldn't ascribe malice to Apple, merely the typical amoral corporatism. The GPLv3 attempts to formalize a small aspect of (some people's) morality, and it's interesting to see how corporations respond.
The problem with your argument is that the developers of Samba would like to be able to buy a NAS or other hardware device that incorporates Samba and then upgrade it to the latest testing version or change other things about it even if the hardware manufacturer doesn't support it. That's the end of the story in terms of licensing, because no one else owns the Samba code. The Samba developers wanted the ability to modify their own software when it's running on someone else's hardware that they paid money for, and I think that's a fairly reasonable request. Apple's response is basically "Hey, nice code, but we don't really care about your interests and so we won't be using the new version." Either way, Apple wasn't planning on letting people modify the version of CIFS they shipped, or contribute fixes back to the Samba tree, so no real loss there. Long story short, we learned something about Apple's ideology and nothing more.
...could just attract enough online advertisers?
The sad thing is that I imagine it's pretty hard for hobbyists to find that sort of content. For instance, there are lots of people building kit cars who want to stick a modern engine in them for convenience and power, but I imagine trying to tune them is basically impossible without the help of someone with access to that information. Most of the build threads I've seen involve pulling the stock ECM from a wrecker and just hooking everything up to the engine and hoping it works, or shipping the ECM off to some tuning company to make tweaks to it. Or if they're lucky, a local shop has some hackers who can modify the ECM for them. I had thought about building one of the RCR superlights but there are basically no tuning shops in the area and the only options for that car are modern 4-bangers.
The cooling ponds not necessarily leaking, but evaporating. They're being refilled with water cannons and helicopters (not much, but it may help). Once power is restored to the site presumably they can just pump water in.
During all of this, I've noticed the reactionary community seems to lean in favor of fearmongering. Not individuals, but the community as a whole - based on the comments that get the lowest moderation. This is in spite of the fact that the situation there is a complex result of a very large natural disaster. One person held it up as a case in OPPOSITION to nuclear power, basically saying - look, EVERYONE IS GOING TO DIE OF RADIATION POISONING WHEN THE REACTORS GO SUPERCRITICAL AND EXPLODE OMGWTFBBQ!! That's just plain ignorant. The walls and roofs of the buildings surrounding the concrete containment structure have been destroyed in a series of explosions that released radioactive steam that would have been lethal to breathe, but workers were sheltered in the control structures. There is a low possibility that the concrete containment structure for reactor 2 lost integrity, but so far it appears that the reactor vessels themselves are intact. The complex cooling ponds are in trouble but are being refilled. The level of radiation escaping from the Fukushima complex has been dropping for the last day or two. And regardless of whether you buy all those facts, it is requiring a HUGE effort of man power to spread FUD and there is no solid understanding of the situation. I did read they're importing 150 tons of idiots to dump comments on blogs and news sites - because well, you need to do that when you have absolutely no understanding of science...
How likely is it that an offshore wind farm (or wave action power generator) would survive a 10 meter tsunami dragging boats and buildings and cars through it?
I think they're in the clear so long as they follow the GPL when distributing gcc. As long as their header files are not derivative works of GPL code they can be placed under any license they want. It is not a violation of the GPL for some third party software's license agreement to require use of a specific version of GPL software. Just imagine this whole situation as if they didn't ship gcc at all; it's just a silly EULA for their header files like any other software EULA, only as enforceable as your local thugs have been bribed into thinking it should be.
But in a copyright-free world how do you make people distribute the source to their derivative works?
You don't; you just legally reverse engineer the binaries and publish the results.
There are encrypting drives that cooperate with a TPM module to store the encryption key in the TPM. But you need a TPM, you need to trust it, and you need to trust the hardware in the drive to not lie about encryption because it's cheaper/faster, and even if it is encrypted you need to trust the designers to either rigorously follow good cryptographic practices or hire several very good cryptographers to design their own scheme. Personally I'd rather trust LUKS, Truecrypt, or other software with plenty of peer review.
"The banker didn't tell me that there would be a balloon payment at the end of my 5-year adjustable rate. I took out a loan that I didn't understand. I'm a VICTIM!!"
Literally true in several cases that I've heard of. Banks were lying to consumers or glossing over the details in violation of the fair lending act. Not everyone was a victim, but many were.
"Real-estate ALWAYS goes up in value. Nobody told me this was a bubble, even though prices were doubling every few years. I'm a VICTIM!!"
The U.S. GDP has doubled every 10 to 15 years. When is growth "too fast" and defined as a bubble?
"I was just trying to cash in on the 30% returns of these financial products that I didn't understand AT ALL! I'm a VICTIM!!"
You mean the kind of financial instruments that Goldman-Sachs sold short even as they promoted them to investors? Or maybe the ones Bernie Madoff was offering?
It seems like they should have heat engines built into the cooling system to drive it in case all electrical power fails. There's obviously a temperature delta between the core and whatever heat sink they are using so a sterling engine or just a geothermal pump should be able to run the cooling pumps in an emergency.
Sounds like the ones who made stupid mistakes made a piece of hardware (your SSD) that can be bricked easily from software. Nothing short of a firmware update should be able to brick any piece of hardware, and only then if the manufacturer was lazy enough not to leave enough room for an alternative firmware during updates.
With data density approaching 100GB/inch^2 you would want to make sure the platters are shattered into what passes for dust in normal circles. Probably better to just use the security erase feature of newer ATA drives, or better yet only put encrypted data on the drives in the first place.
Are you dumping the data to your arrays sequentially? That's a lot different than a database with a high random I/O load.
I further believe that we can construct a curriculum that can avoid promotion of sex entirely
You have about 4 billion years of evolution working against you there. Short of prohibiting groups of two or more pubescent kids, you're not going to dampen sexual urges or behaviors.
There are only 112 boolean variables required to break 3DES and between 128 and 256 variables to break AES (depending on key size). To find one factor of a 1024 bit integer would require at least 512 boolean variables. Any P solution of 3SAT would be O(F1(variables) + F2(statements)), and while I don't know how many individual statements 3DES, AES, or factoring would require at those bit-lengths I assume the number of independent variables would probably dominate the time and space requirements.
What could possibly go wrong?
I think you'd be surprised to find out how much money management is willing to throw at making arbitrary numbers bigger. One word: Metrics.
It doesn't matter what they measure, how valid or applicable they are, or how marginal the returns, but god help you if management starts latching onto them.
"You need two people to do that job?" -- the older Unix DBA, programmer, and system-and-network engineer.
Yeah, that whole blood for oil thing stopped as soon as they renamed "Operation Iraqi Liberation."
I think GP is talking about "humanities" in the sense of the typical read-an-article-then-discuss-it-in-class, what-is-the-author-saying-here, write-a-50-page-research-paper-on-a-topic-of-your-choosing style course, and I'd agree those are somewhat worthless :)
-- found posted on a site where people optionally read and then discuss articles with their peers.
Unless of course the set of things "that could happen" does not include "the multiverse does not exist."
Don't forget Bohmian mechanics. It suffers from the same epistemological problem as string theory; it posits untestable conclusions. It's just that Bohm suggested we pretend that every particle actually does have exact unobservable physical properties (momentum, position, etc.), and string theorists want to pretend that everything possible happens in infinite universes.