1: They take open source code, modify it, and keep their modifications closed source.
2: They license closed source code, modify it, and keep their modifications closed source.
I'm not sure why the open source movement should try to appease these hypothetical companies; no matter what, the outcome is the same: no consideration for the use of open source code.
A short, probably wrong explanation: two clusters of galaxies collided with each other. By analyzing the emissions of the resultant impact, we can see where all the baryonic (normal) matter went - baryonic matter smacking into other baryonic matter produces energetic particles like x-rays, which we can see. However, by examining the gravitational lensing caused by these two galaxies, we can determine where most of the mass went - and it's really far off from the center of the baryonic matter. Indeed, it looks like most of the mass of each galaxy did not interact electromagnetically with the mass of the other.
The theory of dark matter explains this really well. Baryonic matter interacts electromagnetically with other baryonic matter, and so when the bullet cluster hit, its baryons slowed down (like a bullet flying through water). However, dark matter does not interact electromagnetically with baryonic matter, or very much at all with other dark matter, so the dark matter components of each galaxy just kinda ignored the impact and kept on going.
All of your slashes are backwards. Windows is basically the only modern operating system retarded enough to use backslash (\) as a path separator, while also keeping it as the escape character. This means that if you're, for instance, hard-coding a Windows path in C or some other language that doesn't support raw strings, you'll be stuck with some bullshit like "C:\\stuff\\more stuff\\even more stuff\\". On basically any other system you'll encounter, all paths will be delimited with forward slashes (/), which don't need escaping in a string. Seriously, out of all the options for a path delimiter, why would anyone choose one that has to do double duty?
Of course, the whole "C:" drive thing is retarded as well - after all, where does the C: drive exist? What does it mean to be in the C: drive, versus being in the D: drive? When you're looking at all of those drives in the My Computer (or nowadays, just Computer) view, where exactly are you in the filesystem? And what are you supposed to do after you have 26 drives? The abstraction just leaks all over the place like an incontinent puppy, I'm not even sure why they ever thought it was a good idea in the first place.
These are a few of the many small ways in which Windows is deficient.
It's been a while, so you probably don't remember what led to this situation.
Here's how I remember it: Terry's superiors asked for the passwords. He refused, because in his estimation handing them over would have been a breach of security (which is true - you don't give the PHB root access, because he doesn't need it and will probably abuse it). They fired him, jailed him on some trumped-up charges (as we can infer from 75% of the charges against him being thrown out), and asked again. He refused, but since he was now fired and in jail he offered to hand the passwords over to the mayor of San Fransisco, presumably because this way someone outside of his chain of command would know what was going on.
It wasn't even a matter of losing control over his "creation" - it was all about his PHBs wanting more power than they should have, and him rightfully refusing to give it to them.
"If the lights on your modem are always on even when you're not using the computer, get the computer looked at by a professional."
So that professional can uninstall Adobe Acrobat, Google Chrome, iTunes, Windows and all those other applications that constantly feel the need to report back home?
If the USA took all of its money from defense and put it into Healthcare or "Green Tech," then yes, we'd be able to claim advances in those areas.
Man, that sure is a lot of defending we've been doing in Iraq for the last six goddamn years. People whine about Obama spending a trillion dollars to bail out the American economy, when we've spent three times that much bailing out Iraq socially, and it hasn't worked; it just makes no sense to me.
... So instead of having the government choose your healthcare, you prefer to have your job choose your healthcare? Instead of joining a plan that must care for everyone no matter what, you prefer to join a plan that can drop people whenever it chooses? Instead of having one open health care interoperability standard, you prefer to have every single healthcare provider roll their own?
Then you can have the current American healthcare system, where most group coverage purchasers are too small to demand proper care for their employees, where health insurance plans will routinely deny first and even second requests just because they can, where the overhead of interoperating with so many different health care providers raises medical fees through the roof if you're paying out of pocket.
How exactly is what we have right now better in any way whatsoever than any alternative? Hell, Singapore even shows that having no health care insurance at all can work out better than the piece of crap we have now.
Where does the waste go? (Into the air, including all the little radioactive uranium and thorium particles that live in coal)
What is the cost of waste disposal? (Absolutely free, because we're just farting it all out into the atmosphere. Not quite as cheap when you factor in the increased incidence of cancer in those who live downwind, though.)
Have they factored that cost into their calculations? (Nope, and that's why we have the problems we do today.)
Of course, people who have concerns about the radiation involved with nuclear power aren't worried about radiation released during normal operations, so the claim is rather pointless. They're worried about accidents, sabotage, leakage, and WMD proliferation, which are all ways that the containment could fail.
That's a great idea! Let's completely ignore the ramifications involved in constantly spewing out low levels of radioactive dust during normal operations, and focus entirely on those rare, only-ever-happened-in-Chernobyl-and-Tom-Clancy-novel class of events where larger amounts of radiation are released! It makes perfect sense.
It's entirely possible (and relatively easy) to install multiple versions of Internet Explorer on a computer; I have everything from IE3 to IE8 installed right now (mainly for fun). Just do that, create IE6 specific desktop shortcuts to whatever webapps those people need, and move everything else to IE 8. It should be relatively low-maintenance, as long as you set IE 6 to never ask about becoming the default browser.
If IT doesn't go for it, they need to think about which they'd rather have: the notoriously insecure IE 6 as a company-wide default browser, or a special config for a small set of users.
Most of those posts aren't current, but let me assure you that Symantec Endpoint Protection still does this shit.
We use it at work, and I've discovered the suite does something really retarded: There's a part of it they call "network threat protection"; because of the overblown name, it took me a bit of googling to figure out that the thing is literally nothing more than a cheap little firewall. However, unlike real firewalls, if you do something it doesn't like - run the FTP client that comes with Windows, run the Windows wget binary, try to install a program over the network, try to use certain software - it will crash. And when it crashes, it will take down the entire Windows network stack. And when the Windows network stack goes down, the computer becomes unusable and you have to cut the power.
Note that this isn't some sort of retarded blocking behavior; although NTP is installed, the traffic rules are set to basically "block two or three inconsequential things, allow otherwise". We ended up having to uninstall it on the computers of the people who were most affected.
The contents of all storage media associated with OIT facilities may be considered property of CMU unless the contents are licensed software, licensed databases (e.g., InfoShare), intellectual property owned by others, or protected by CMU's Intellectual Property Rights Policy. The university has the right of access to the contents at any time for any legitimate purpose including moving or deleting files to preserve system security and performance, or examining files when there is a legitimate "need to know."
"If you use our network, we own what's on your hard drives. Thanks!"
I can watch, for free, a live stream of astronauts in orbit, repairing the delicate internals of a space telescope, with the information arriving via a worldwide network of computers. On my phone.
Shit, I must be living in the past - I pay $Texas/MB for the same service!
Will human society be willing to give such transgenic mice, chimps and pigs the full rights as other humans? If we aren't, we shouldn't be doing stuff like this.
Why are you so focused on transgenic animals? There are, right now, human beings who are as intelligent as chimps or pigs or even mice - and yet those humans are treated like humans, while the pigs are slaughtered for bacon.
For some reason people seem to see sapience as a binary proposition - either it's human and it's sapient, or it's not human and not sapient. There's an entire spectrum of intelligence there, and you're essentially saying we shouldn't map it out until after it's been mapped out. You seem to be afraid that we will find some genetic switch that's currently set to "animal", and flip it over to "human"; that's just not going to happen.
What's sort of interesting is that what the e-meter measures, in actual real terms, is skin conductivity. When you lie or are nervous or distressed, your autonomous nervous system usually does various things that cause your skin conductivity to drop - causing a higher reading on the e-meter. Thus, when the auditor goes over painful or difficult times in your life, your reading on the e-meter spikes.
What's insidious about this is that in order to get through the audit, you must keep the e-meter from spiking. This teaches you to control your autonomous nervous system (it's basic feedback training, like putting cayenne on the nails of a child who chews their fingernails). Thus, the Church of Scientology trains people to be able to lie with their body language. You can see this sometimes in CoS representatives, when they're recorded showing emotions in public. They can just turn the anger on and off. It's creepy. There was a good example of it on YouTube; it was a video of a guy getting yelled at for trying to film a CoS exhibit in LA, but unfortunately I can't find the clip right now.
This is quite true. In my high school district, we had this "best substitute teacher" award, which was voted on by the students. What did it take to get this award? Well, one year's winner had substituted in my German class. The teacher had known that she would be out that day, so the lesson plan was very simple - we were all supposed to go to the computer lab and work in groups on an ongoing project involving German music. We all knew what we had to do, and the sub (whoever it ended up being) didn't need to know any German.
So what did the substitute do? He walked into the classroom, glanced at the agenda, and said "Oh, music! I like music!". He then proceeded to go play on the little electronic keyboard the teacher kept in the classroom. About half the class ended up just leaving after the second rendition of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star".
And for this, he was declared the best substitute teacher in the school district. Yes, the students loved him - but they didn't learn anything from him.
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So either:
1: They take open source code, modify it, and keep their modifications closed source.
2: They license closed source code, modify it, and keep their modifications closed source.
I'm not sure why the open source movement should try to appease these hypothetical companies; no matter what, the outcome is the same: no consideration for the use of open source code.
The bullet cluster: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster
A short, probably wrong explanation: two clusters of galaxies collided with each other. By analyzing the emissions of the resultant impact, we can see where all the baryonic (normal) matter went - baryonic matter smacking into other baryonic matter produces energetic particles like x-rays, which we can see. However, by examining the gravitational lensing caused by these two galaxies, we can determine where most of the mass went - and it's really far off from the center of the baryonic matter. Indeed, it looks like most of the mass of each galaxy did not interact electromagnetically with the mass of the other.
The theory of dark matter explains this really well. Baryonic matter interacts electromagnetically with other baryonic matter, and so when the bullet cluster hit, its baryons slowed down (like a bullet flying through water). However, dark matter does not interact electromagnetically with baryonic matter, or very much at all with other dark matter, so the dark matter components of each galaxy just kinda ignored the impact and kept on going.
He said "DEAF AT AN EARLY AGE". Not that you'd know anything about that any more, huh?
All of your slashes are backwards. Windows is basically the only modern operating system retarded enough to use backslash (\) as a path separator, while also keeping it as the escape character. This means that if you're, for instance, hard-coding a Windows path in C or some other language that doesn't support raw strings, you'll be stuck with some bullshit like "C:\\stuff\\more stuff\\even more stuff\\". On basically any other system you'll encounter, all paths will be delimited with forward slashes (/), which don't need escaping in a string. Seriously, out of all the options for a path delimiter, why would anyone choose one that has to do double duty?
Of course, the whole "C:" drive thing is retarded as well - after all, where does the C: drive exist? What does it mean to be in the C: drive, versus being in the D: drive? When you're looking at all of those drives in the My Computer (or nowadays, just Computer) view, where exactly are you in the filesystem? And what are you supposed to do after you have 26 drives? The abstraction just leaks all over the place like an incontinent puppy, I'm not even sure why they ever thought it was a good idea in the first place.
These are a few of the many small ways in which Windows is deficient.
You know what else is common consensus? The plural of "virus" is "viruses".
All of them.
It's been a while, so you probably don't remember what led to this situation.
Here's how I remember it: Terry's superiors asked for the passwords. He refused, because in his estimation handing them over would have been a breach of security (which is true - you don't give the PHB root access, because he doesn't need it and will probably abuse it). They fired him, jailed him on some trumped-up charges (as we can infer from 75% of the charges against him being thrown out), and asked again. He refused, but since he was now fired and in jail he offered to hand the passwords over to the mayor of San Fransisco, presumably because this way someone outside of his chain of command would know what was going on.
It wasn't even a matter of losing control over his "creation" - it was all about his PHBs wanting more power than they should have, and him rightfully refusing to give it to them.
So that professional can uninstall Adobe Acrobat, Google Chrome, iTunes, Windows and all those other applications that constantly feel the need to report back home?
Man, that sure is a lot of defending we've been doing in Iraq for the last six goddamn years. People whine about Obama spending a trillion dollars to bail out the American economy, when we've spent three times that much bailing out Iraq socially, and it hasn't worked; it just makes no sense to me.
... So instead of having the government choose your healthcare, you prefer to have your job choose your healthcare? Instead of joining a plan that must care for everyone no matter what, you prefer to join a plan that can drop people whenever it chooses? Instead of having one open health care interoperability standard, you prefer to have every single healthcare provider roll their own? Then you can have the current American healthcare system, where most group coverage purchasers are too small to demand proper care for their employees, where health insurance plans will routinely deny first and even second requests just because they can, where the overhead of interoperating with so many different health care providers raises medical fees through the roof if you're paying out of pocket. How exactly is what we have right now better in any way whatsoever than any alternative? Hell, Singapore even shows that having no health care insurance at all can work out better than the piece of crap we have now.
That's a great idea! Let's completely ignore the ramifications involved in constantly spewing out low levels of radioactive dust during normal operations, and focus entirely on those rare, only-ever-happened-in-Chernobyl-and-Tom-Clancy-novel class of events where larger amounts of radiation are released! It makes perfect sense.
According to Wikipedia, there's about 360 acupuncture points. According to the article, the guy's skin was "littered with tattoos".
Birthday paradox, anyone?
It's entirely possible (and relatively easy) to install multiple versions of Internet Explorer on a computer; I have everything from IE3 to IE8 installed right now (mainly for fun). Just do that, create IE6 specific desktop shortcuts to whatever webapps those people need, and move everything else to IE 8. It should be relatively low-maintenance, as long as you set IE 6 to never ask about becoming the default browser.
If IT doesn't go for it, they need to think about which they'd rather have: the notoriously insecure IE 6 as a company-wide default browser, or a special config for a small set of users.
Science publishes reports about reality. Reality has a well-known liberal bias. Therefore, Science obviously has a liberal bias. QED.
Or perhaps you're more notable than you thought?
After all, elephant populations have nearly tripled in the last year!
Most of those posts aren't current, but let me assure you that Symantec Endpoint Protection still does this shit.
We use it at work, and I've discovered the suite does something really retarded:
There's a part of it they call "network threat protection"; because of the overblown name, it took me a bit of googling to figure out that the thing is literally nothing more than a cheap little firewall. However, unlike real firewalls, if you do something it doesn't like - run the FTP client that comes with Windows, run the Windows wget binary, try to install a program over the network, try to use certain software - it will crash. And when it crashes, it will take down the entire Windows network stack. And when the Windows network stack goes down, the computer becomes unusable and you have to cut the power.
Note that this isn't some sort of retarded blocking behavior; although NTP is installed, the traffic rules are set to basically "block two or three inconsequential things, allow otherwise". We ended up having to uninstall it on the computers of the people who were most affected.
Oh man. You just made me realize how awesome Commander Keen could be in a Bethesda style open world.
So... what you're saying can be paraphrased as, "Can't change the resolution. Worse sound than Blu-Ray. Lame."
From the first link:
"If you use our network, we own what's on your hard drives. Thanks!"
Shit, I must be living in the past - I pay $Texas/MB for the same service!
Why are you so focused on transgenic animals? There are, right now, human beings who are as intelligent as chimps or pigs or even mice - and yet those humans are treated like humans, while the pigs are slaughtered for bacon.
For some reason people seem to see sapience as a binary proposition - either it's human and it's sapient, or it's not human and not sapient. There's an entire spectrum of intelligence there, and you're essentially saying we shouldn't map it out until after it's been mapped out. You seem to be afraid that we will find some genetic switch that's currently set to "animal", and flip it over to "human"; that's just not going to happen.
What's sort of interesting is that what the e-meter measures, in actual real terms, is skin conductivity. When you lie or are nervous or distressed, your autonomous nervous system usually does various things that cause your skin conductivity to drop - causing a higher reading on the e-meter. Thus, when the auditor goes over painful or difficult times in your life, your reading on the e-meter spikes.
What's insidious about this is that in order to get through the audit, you must keep the e-meter from spiking. This teaches you to control your autonomous nervous system (it's basic feedback training, like putting cayenne on the nails of a child who chews their fingernails). Thus, the Church of Scientology trains people to be able to lie with their body language. You can see this sometimes in CoS representatives, when they're recorded showing emotions in public. They can just turn the anger on and off. It's creepy. There was a good example of it on YouTube; it was a video of a guy getting yelled at for trying to film a CoS exhibit in LA, but unfortunately I can't find the clip right now.
This is quite true. In my high school district, we had this "best substitute teacher" award, which was voted on by the students. What did it take to get this award? Well, one year's winner had substituted in my German class. The teacher had known that she would be out that day, so the lesson plan was very simple - we were all supposed to go to the computer lab and work in groups on an ongoing project involving German music. We all knew what we had to do, and the sub (whoever it ended up being) didn't need to know any German.
So what did the substitute do? He walked into the classroom, glanced at the agenda, and said "Oh, music! I like music!". He then proceeded to go play on the little electronic keyboard the teacher kept in the classroom. About half the class ended up just leaving after the second rendition of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star".
And for this, he was declared the best substitute teacher in the school district. Yes, the students loved him - but they didn't learn anything from him.