And if people drink too much then others can get hurt, and if people smoke too much then people can get hurt, and if people go down to the track and go auto racing then people can get hurt, and if people go skiing then people can get hurt, etc, etc, etc.
Legalizing drugs comes with its own pitfalls, but the militarization of police means that law enforcement and the subsequent criminal justice system is becoming increasingly draconian toward people that aren't causing intentional harm to others. When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
I worked for a small company where the two guys writing the communications protocols were ESL, one was Hispanic, the other was Russian. They basically couldn't understand each other in English. Amusing that it was comm protocols in particular.
Yes, this happened in the UK, not the US, but I don't think that the point I'm about to make is invalid...
Crimes and punishments need to be re-evaluated. No truly-victimless crime (personally using drugs without any intent to distribute, for example), when being the only crime, should never receive stronger sentences than crimes that don't affect persons directly and only lightly, at best, affect corporations (like this theatre-cam incident), and those types of crimes should never receive stronger sentences than for those where a person is individually victimized or significant chattel property is stolen (mugging, home burglary, car theft, etc), then would come violent personal crimes (any crime involving brandishing of a weapon, battery, threats of a greater harm like using the claim of a planted bomb, etc) and crimes where a person's life-savings were taken putting them into severe hardship, etc.
The scale should be steep; it should take numerous, numerous counts of the small crimes to even approach the sentences of the next crime up the scale, and the nature of what becomes a count should accurately reflect what's going on. In the case of providing copyrighted material, the law needs to bear in mind that much of the time the material would not have been purchased by the consumer had it not been available for free anyway, so the actual damage to the content creator is lower than usually represented.
That depends on how one defines selling a physical copy. If he was basically just recouping the cost of the physical media and providing to known associates then it's different than if he was selling them for-profit on the street to random strangers.
Civil engineers that design traffic flow systems are looking at the problem from a macro-scale, and from a traffic-perspective, not from a security or physical device perspective.
It's the job of the designer/implementer to put the security into the system. In that sense the vendor and manufacturer should be held liable, not the customer.
Sounds like we need them to go through the Linux Kernel, all of the communications daemons and applications, and the web browsers, and the problems with these could be solved in a few weeks!
Hosts files don't get updated with each new iteration of problem sites unless I subscribe to something to do that, and I don't run as a sysop-level account for general-purpose usage on any boxes that I own, so doing updates would be more difficult.
I have some sites manually blocked on my NAT router, but again, it's a keeping-up-with-updates issue.
Adblock runs seamlessly. Some websites complain but not most.
...and that means that their petty squabbles don't really affect me very much.
It seems like most "new" things are just reimplementations of existing things. We haven't had something revolutionary on a software front in a long time.
I expect that most technological revolution will be hardware-based for the next while and software will follow as a necessity, not as the driving force. Computing devices become wearable and less obvious (no more hulking PCs, that sort of thing) and eventually maybe the software will give us nonvisual UI, as a necessary component of shrinking and ubiquitousness.
Even worse, how is the money distributed? Who determines the "worth" of a web site or other online resource, and then allocates them their cut?
The current free-market system with sites supported by ads isn't perfect, but it's like democracy - Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
This is it in a nutshell, it's a bottom-up approach rather than top-down.
And it's not really Democracy, it's Capitalism. Literally, what's it worth to you to get to this content? Right now the burden on what it's worth to one is generally low with ads, but as the ads get more annoying the barriers get higher.
I look at it similarly to websites that only want you to get X pageviews per month without signing up or buying a subscription- I'm just not going to bother reading their content. For the time-waste that I'm engaging in using the Internet as opposed to going outside and doing something worthwhile, there's no need to commit like that.
As for ads themselves, if ads were as unobtrusive as they are in print then I probably wouldn't run adblock, but animated ads, ads with sound, ads that move around the screen, ads that remain fixed in place when the window scrolls, etc, all annoying.
No, I don't actually. But then again I have adblock, flashblock, and noscript running, so there are three barriers to that kind of thing happening, each more daunting than the previous.
What I've noticed in myself and in others is that it's not so much the act of reading as it is the act of putting into practice what one has read, from the simplest form in transcription, to the most complex in applied labs.
In myself, for something that's going to be difficult to remember from a lecture or a text, I find that writing it down with a pencil or pen makes remembering it easier than typing it does. My wife has commented similarly for herself as well. That's part of what makes me wonder about all of these electronic education means, in that I don't think they're as good at reinforcing learning as penmanship is. Rote repetition isn't necessarily fun, but it does often work.
The problems with point-and-click, as I see them, are first that there's generally less understanding of the underlying configuration and how things actually work, second that people that really aren't qualified to be administrators end up playing admin and doing a poor job of it, and third, a pretty GUI is meaningless in the way most server functions work, and the entire underbelly could be a disgusting morass of barely-functional code that is chock-full of vulnerabilities or bugs but sells because the untrained buy it based on its prettiness rather than on how solid it is.
It may not have constitutional authority, but might makes right.
Andrew Jackson force-marched indigenous people thousands of miles from the ancestral lands that they'd continuously occupied for longer than this nation had existed to open that land up to settlers of European ancestry, even against court-order, because Congress didn't join with the Supreme Court and force his hand.
Andrew Jackson is featured on our money, despite falling into your definition of a traitor.
The apps will follow the proliferation of the desktop environment, as developers will write for a widely-adopted architecture.
An architecture will follow the availability of killer applications that justify using that OS/machine when there's a need.
Right now Linux doesn't really have either, as far as desktops go, and even in server architecture a generation of Microsoft users-turned-admins are looking to Redmond for server solutions even though the underlying OS is less reliable, because point-and-click.
Well, to an extent he's right; the kernel does what kernels do, and that is, talk to the hardware at the lowest level. It does that just fine.
Unfortunately the stuff piled on top of it is either not keeping up with trends (X and the way modern video changes on the fly), or not really good at handling what a user would want automagically.
I attempted to use the most integrated desktop with vanilla Ubuntu 14.04, but I found its window manager to be so restrictive as to be useless to me. It handled a lot automagically, but not what I wanted, and it was also very unclear how to go about getting to what I needed to change. It wasn't even intuitive on how to bring up a terminal window, for example, which is basically the bulk of what I use Linux for.
The lack of documentation is also hurting, badly. I'm working on building a multiseat box at home and LightDM was redone sometime between Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04, and there wasn't any good support documentation explaining how the configuration files now work. I ended up switching to kdm even though I'm not using KDE, just so that I could configure a display manager that would actually work right.
I think that the golden age of FOSS documentation is over. For a long time Linux and other FOSS docs were based on how commercial UNIX documentation was written, but slowly more and more developers aren't creating volumes of use or configuration docs in the UNIX model anymore, and as few UNIX-era developers work on Linux and other FOSS, there are less people who remember how those documents were made and why. I think that is what will hurt FOSS the most, simply being unable to figure out how to do the things that one wants to do because the docs don't exist.
You fly involuntarily? Someone kidnaps you and forces you on to a plane and it takes off before your objection to being there is realized by the cabin crew?
Or do you mean, "work requires me to fly even though I don't want to, but I want to keep my job so I do it anyway"?
Any branch of government has all of the power that another branch of government allows it to have. As long as two branches agree then the third branch can be worked-around even if they object.
Unfortunately for your position, the courts have always provided interpretation to the Constitution, and many instances of limits on the defined words of the Constitution are found in law.
If you want to get all strict-constructionist on this matter though, planes, cars, buses, and rail didn't even exist when the Constitution was written, so one could argue that there's no Constitutional protection when travelling by anything beyond horseback, carriage, or walking.
Then there's the other side, where airlines were allowed to be in charge of their own security, letting "the market" set the balance, but then nineteen men decided to kill about 3500 men, women, and children one day, and our society realized that it wasn't gonna work to let the airlines be in charge of security.
Actually they're already being replaced with millimeter-wave scanners. But unfortunately they're being sent to places like prisons, and I expect that they'll be abused there too.
I never quite knew how to pronounce the name of the device. It kind of looks like it should be "Rape igh scan" to me...
Well, if my Ph.D in Wikipedia is any good, there's only one modern manufacturer of consumer-oriented automotive products left in Finland, and they're basically an engineering firm that other car makers go to when they want something special developed and/or manufactured, similar to how ASC modifies stock vehicles into convertibles and the like.
Given that this one company sells to the luxury market principally, I don't think this change in Helsinki's transportation would affect them very much.
...the headline and article summary at the top says that air travel is threatened, but the quote from the article indicates that Iceland is concerned with ground effects of an eruption, without much concerns for the air.
Which is it, is one party just playing alarmist to sell more subscriptions?
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And if people drink too much then others can get hurt, and if people smoke too much then people can get hurt, and if people go down to the track and go auto racing then people can get hurt, and if people go skiing then people can get hurt, etc, etc, etc.
Legalizing drugs comes with its own pitfalls, but the militarization of police means that law enforcement and the subsequent criminal justice system is becoming increasingly draconian toward people that aren't causing intentional harm to others. When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
I worked for a small company where the two guys writing the communications protocols were ESL, one was Hispanic, the other was Russian. They basically couldn't understand each other in English. Amusing that it was comm protocols in particular.
Yes, this happened in the UK, not the US, but I don't think that the point I'm about to make is invalid...
Crimes and punishments need to be re-evaluated. No truly-victimless crime (personally using drugs without any intent to distribute, for example), when being the only crime, should never receive stronger sentences than crimes that don't affect persons directly and only lightly, at best, affect corporations (like this theatre-cam incident), and those types of crimes should never receive stronger sentences than for those where a person is individually victimized or significant chattel property is stolen (mugging, home burglary, car theft, etc), then would come violent personal crimes (any crime involving brandishing of a weapon, battery, threats of a greater harm like using the claim of a planted bomb, etc) and crimes where a person's life-savings were taken putting them into severe hardship, etc.
The scale should be steep; it should take numerous, numerous counts of the small crimes to even approach the sentences of the next crime up the scale, and the nature of what becomes a count should accurately reflect what's going on. In the case of providing copyrighted material, the law needs to bear in mind that much of the time the material would not have been purchased by the consumer had it not been available for free anyway, so the actual damage to the content creator is lower than usually represented.
That depends on how one defines selling a physical copy. If he was basically just recouping the cost of the physical media and providing to known associates then it's different than if he was selling them for-profit on the street to random strangers.
Civil engineers that design traffic flow systems are looking at the problem from a macro-scale, and from a traffic-perspective, not from a security or physical device perspective.
It's the job of the designer/implementer to put the security into the system. In that sense the vendor and manufacturer should be held liable, not the customer.
Sounds like we need them to go through the Linux Kernel, all of the communications daemons and applications, and the web browsers, and the problems with these could be solved in a few weeks!
Hosts files don't get updated with each new iteration of problem sites unless I subscribe to something to do that, and I don't run as a sysop-level account for general-purpose usage on any boxes that I own, so doing updates would be more difficult.
I have some sites manually blocked on my NAT router, but again, it's a keeping-up-with-updates issue.
Adblock runs seamlessly. Some websites complain but not most.
...and that means that their petty squabbles don't really affect me very much.
It seems like most "new" things are just reimplementations of existing things. We haven't had something revolutionary on a software front in a long time.
I expect that most technological revolution will be hardware-based for the next while and software will follow as a necessity, not as the driving force. Computing devices become wearable and less obvious (no more hulking PCs, that sort of thing) and eventually maybe the software will give us nonvisual UI, as a necessary component of shrinking and ubiquitousness.
This is it in a nutshell, it's a bottom-up approach rather than top-down.
And it's not really Democracy, it's Capitalism. Literally, what's it worth to you to get to this content? Right now the burden on what it's worth to one is generally low with ads, but as the ads get more annoying the barriers get higher.
I look at it similarly to websites that only want you to get X pageviews per month without signing up or buying a subscription- I'm just not going to bother reading their content. For the time-waste that I'm engaging in using the Internet as opposed to going outside and doing something worthwhile, there's no need to commit like that.
As for ads themselves, if ads were as unobtrusive as they are in print then I probably wouldn't run adblock, but animated ads, ads with sound, ads that move around the screen, ads that remain fixed in place when the window scrolls, etc, all annoying.
No, I don't actually. But then again I have adblock, flashblock, and noscript running, so there are three barriers to that kind of thing happening, each more daunting than the previous.
What I've noticed in myself and in others is that it's not so much the act of reading as it is the act of putting into practice what one has read, from the simplest form in transcription, to the most complex in applied labs.
In myself, for something that's going to be difficult to remember from a lecture or a text, I find that writing it down with a pencil or pen makes remembering it easier than typing it does. My wife has commented similarly for herself as well. That's part of what makes me wonder about all of these electronic education means, in that I don't think they're as good at reinforcing learning as penmanship is. Rote repetition isn't necessarily fun, but it does often work.
The problems with point-and-click, as I see them, are first that there's generally less understanding of the underlying configuration and how things actually work, second that people that really aren't qualified to be administrators end up playing admin and doing a poor job of it, and third, a pretty GUI is meaningless in the way most server functions work, and the entire underbelly could be a disgusting morass of barely-functional code that is chock-full of vulnerabilities or bugs but sells because the untrained buy it based on its prettiness rather than on how solid it is.
It may not have constitutional authority, but might makes right.
Andrew Jackson force-marched indigenous people thousands of miles from the ancestral lands that they'd continuously occupied for longer than this nation had existed to open that land up to settlers of European ancestry, even against court-order, because Congress didn't join with the Supreme Court and force his hand.
Andrew Jackson is featured on our money, despite falling into your definition of a traitor.
You meant, "bungling", right?
I've seen several apps and window managers "get it right" only to jump the shark when updated.
The apps will follow the proliferation of the desktop environment, as developers will write for a widely-adopted architecture.
An architecture will follow the availability of killer applications that justify using that OS/machine when there's a need.
Right now Linux doesn't really have either, as far as desktops go, and even in server architecture a generation of Microsoft users-turned-admins are looking to Redmond for server solutions even though the underlying OS is less reliable, because point-and-click.
Well, to an extent he's right; the kernel does what kernels do, and that is, talk to the hardware at the lowest level. It does that just fine.
Unfortunately the stuff piled on top of it is either not keeping up with trends (X and the way modern video changes on the fly), or not really good at handling what a user would want automagically.
I attempted to use the most integrated desktop with vanilla Ubuntu 14.04, but I found its window manager to be so restrictive as to be useless to me. It handled a lot automagically, but not what I wanted, and it was also very unclear how to go about getting to what I needed to change. It wasn't even intuitive on how to bring up a terminal window, for example, which is basically the bulk of what I use Linux for.
The lack of documentation is also hurting, badly. I'm working on building a multiseat box at home and LightDM was redone sometime between Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04, and there wasn't any good support documentation explaining how the configuration files now work. I ended up switching to kdm even though I'm not using KDE, just so that I could configure a display manager that would actually work right.
I think that the golden age of FOSS documentation is over. For a long time Linux and other FOSS docs were based on how commercial UNIX documentation was written, but slowly more and more developers aren't creating volumes of use or configuration docs in the UNIX model anymore, and as few UNIX-era developers work on Linux and other FOSS, there are less people who remember how those documents were made and why. I think that is what will hurt FOSS the most, simply being unable to figure out how to do the things that one wants to do because the docs don't exist.
Rapey-scan
...etc
Rape-igh-scan
I believe that exact flaw in the tech was demonstrated some years ago.
You fly involuntarily? Someone kidnaps you and forces you on to a plane and it takes off before your objection to being there is realized by the cabin crew?
Or do you mean, "work requires me to fly even though I don't want to, but I want to keep my job so I do it anyway"?
Any branch of government has all of the power that another branch of government allows it to have. As long as two branches agree then the third branch can be worked-around even if they object.
Unfortunately for your position, the courts have always provided interpretation to the Constitution, and many instances of limits on the defined words of the Constitution are found in law.
If you want to get all strict-constructionist on this matter though, planes, cars, buses, and rail didn't even exist when the Constitution was written, so one could argue that there's no Constitutional protection when travelling by anything beyond horseback, carriage, or walking.
Then there's the other side, where airlines were allowed to be in charge of their own security, letting "the market" set the balance, but then nineteen men decided to kill about 3500 men, women, and children one day, and our society realized that it wasn't gonna work to let the airlines be in charge of security.
Actually they're already being replaced with millimeter-wave scanners. But unfortunately they're being sent to places like prisons, and I expect that they'll be abused there too.
I never quite knew how to pronounce the name of the device. It kind of looks like it should be "Rape igh scan" to me...
Well, if my Ph.D in Wikipedia is any good, there's only one modern manufacturer of consumer-oriented automotive products left in Finland, and they're basically an engineering firm that other car makers go to when they want something special developed and/or manufactured, similar to how ASC modifies stock vehicles into convertibles and the like.
Given that this one company sells to the luxury market principally, I don't think this change in Helsinki's transportation would affect them very much.
...the headline and article summary at the top says that air travel is threatened, but the quote from the article indicates that Iceland is concerned with ground effects of an eruption, without much concerns for the air.
Which is it, is one party just playing alarmist to sell more subscriptions?
*waves magic wand*
*POOF!*
Congratulations, you are now a chicken sandwich!