Patenting ideas is a very bad idea, and to this date that's not allowed. You want to stifle innovation, start patenting ideas. Thankfully, patents still require a working model, or a detailed drawing, or something tangible to show the patent examiners.
Its very bad for science that this got politicized so soon...
There was no way to avoid that. We're talking about a problem that has many consequences if militant steps were taken right now to solve it. And its not going to happen without armed authority. No one is going to start winding down how they make a living becuase it means they reduce their carbon output even a little. A lot, its gonna disrupt billions of lives and cause the death of millions of people. So governments are probably going to take up arms to force their entire economies to start down the road to zero carbon emission. Even just starting down the road toward reducing carbon emission in a real way would require complete changes in economic and social policies, and would probably mean the introduction of totalitarian government intervention to some degree. You're not going to have a free economy yet dictate how much carbon everyone produces other than at the point of a gun. SO... "it gets politicized"...
I'll give you one reason its on the decline, sort of (actually, I think that's overstating the state of it but yeah, its getting a little stupid.) Updates, fast and furious. They're updating ff so much a release graph looks like their graphing the motion of a nervous umbrella. Enough already. I really don't need to have my hour disrupted with another ff update. The software needs to be updated this often? Seriously?
Its still my go-to browser for now but yeah, all the weird version nonsense and the updates every few hours make it more of a pain in the ass than the useful thing it once was. But chrome or chromium? blah. I don't get why people use it as much as they do, chrome aint all that in my opinion.
It might help if politicians didn't have commercial insterest in bills that are before them. I really don't see the worth of have a pack of bosses who have car dealerships vote on anything that has to do with car dealerships. Of course they're going to vote status quo.
The number of lawmakers in California who have interests in car dealerships is staggering. I'd be truly surprised if the number is less in the Carolinas.
(In the US) private entities don't need warrants. Warrants are a control on government. Microsoft can do whatever they want on communication channels they own. You don't have to use those channels of course.
Of course some one just HAS to bring in the theoretical limits of the subject and muddy my point. I'm an engineer, I deal in practicality. Don't you have something better to do?
Given that the visibility you're talking about is less than 10% of the entire spectrum, I'd disagree and say that invisibility to any particular part of the spectrum, especially the parts used for detection of any kind is pretty damned impressive.
As much as I'd love to not use bloated junk like Steam...
Really? In any case, I suppose, secure institutions don't as a rule allow random software installations, espiecally games, so, unless you want to p0wn your friend's pc, we're probably ok here.
No. I can call them out RIGHT NOW because what they're proposing is NOT a blind-to-gender society.
I don't support them either, and if you believe I do you mis-read me. They have lost the way. Watching a woman get dressed down because she's a woman, that's a life changing event. I see I got modded down for expressing my opinion. Right is right. 70's feminism was misguided. Equality for everyone; that's right.
Sad too that I refuse to support any tech millionaires who are willing to fund H1B's rather than invest in American children for tech education. Never have, never will. What little control I have over my taxes; I send directly to scholorships for American children that send them to technical schools and write off those funds on my taxes on the next tax schedule. Best way to write down my taxes, giving to tech scholorships. I have a list of such funds if anyone is interested. Its activist, its American, and a visible protest against the large companies that make all kinds of money from America but refuse to invest in it.
After all, nobody would have watched if an adult male programmer won it...
A friend of mine whom I respect and admire as a programmer very much might have a lot to say about this. Men receive accolades for being great programmers all the time, the industry is completely dominated by men. Everytime my friend has gotten a new job (she's on her second one in S.V., she's from the east coast and a Carnigie-Mellon grad, very accomplished) she gets hit on by the men in the staff, and knowing she's a lesbian doesn't seem to phaze them. She's gotten held back on other jobs because the admin and IT staff were chauvinistic, gotten practically raped by cabbies, and treated like shit professionally becuase she's attractive. Its absurd and it needs to stop. When we have a truly blind-to-gender society you can call out the feminists. Until then you're full of shit. I can't have respect of my male friends when their bias shows simply becuase a fellow engineer has a vagina between her legs. Its ridiculous.
Actually, and I do need to research this, I think it is carved in stone somewhere in DC (or elsewhere) the the results of publically funded research should be made freely available to those who funded it. Like I said, I need to check that. But if true, its in direct violoation of the will of the People. Like everything else going on in this country.
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Patenting ideas is a very bad idea, and to this date that's not allowed. You want to stifle innovation, start patenting ideas. Thankfully, patents still require a working model, or a detailed drawing, or something tangible to show the patent examiners.
Its very bad for science that this got politicized so soon...
There was no way to avoid that. We're talking about a problem that has many consequences if militant steps were taken right now to solve it. And its not going to happen without armed authority. No one is going to start winding down how they make a living becuase it means they reduce their carbon output even a little. A lot, its gonna disrupt billions of lives and cause the death of millions of people. So governments are probably going to take up arms to force their entire economies to start down the road to zero carbon emission. Even just starting down the road toward reducing carbon emission in a real way would require complete changes in economic and social policies, and would probably mean the introduction of totalitarian government intervention to some degree. You're not going to have a free economy yet dictate how much carbon everyone produces other than at the point of a gun. SO... "it gets politicized"...
I'll give you one reason its on the decline, sort of (actually, I think that's overstating the state of it but yeah, its getting a little stupid.) Updates, fast and furious. They're updating ff so much a release graph looks like their graphing the motion of a nervous umbrella. Enough already. I really don't need to have my hour disrupted with another ff update. The software needs to be updated this often? Seriously?
Right. Switched to Mint after canonical's switch to Unity. Never have looked back.
Its still my go-to browser for now but yeah, all the weird version nonsense and the updates every few hours make it more of a pain in the ass than the useful thing it once was. But chrome or chromium? blah. I don't get why people use it as much as they do, chrome aint all that in my opinion.
...conservatives anywhere say some really dumb shit sometimes.
Yeah really, they should take a queue from the golden wisdom that liberals say all the time.
So we need controls on private entities then.
We already do, its called the criminal code (or penal code, i.e; laws).
Start button for Windows 7 and Windows 8...
What am I missing here? My windows 7 machine has a start button. Is it the wrong one?
It might help if politicians didn't have commercial insterest in bills that are before them. I really don't see the worth of have a pack of bosses who have car dealerships vote on anything that has to do with car dealerships. Of course they're going to vote status quo.
The number of lawmakers in California who have interests in car dealerships is staggering. I'd be truly surprised if the number is less in the Carolinas.
(In the US) private entities don't need warrants. Warrants are a control on government. Microsoft can do whatever they want on communication channels they own. You don't have to use those channels of course.
LOL!!
So it's a TLA about a critical CPU that's gonna clear up all this FUD.
Idiot. How many hideous acts does one group have to commit to get moved from the "racist slur" pile to the "enemy of civilization" pile?
And they laughed at me when I warned them about buying facebook stock...
Less than 10% of infinity?
Of course some one just HAS to bring in the theoretical limits of the subject and muddy my point. I'm an engineer, I deal in practicality. Don't you have something better to do?
Yep, when you see Icahn circling it just mean the carcass still has some meat on it.
Given that the visibility you're talking about is less than 10% of the entire spectrum, I'd disagree and say that invisibility to any particular part of the spectrum, especially the parts used for detection of any kind is pretty damned impressive.
What do they all do, move to Croatia as soon as they graduate?
As much as I'd love to not use bloated junk like Steam...
Really? In any case, I suppose, secure institutions don't as a rule allow random software installations, espiecally games, so, unless you want to p0wn your friend's pc, we're probably ok here.
...they are made managers. And there's not a damn thing you can do about it.
No. I can call them out RIGHT NOW because what they're proposing is NOT a blind-to-gender society.
I don't support them either, and if you believe I do you mis-read me. They have lost the way. Watching a woman get dressed down because she's a woman, that's a life changing event. I see I got modded down for expressing my opinion. Right is right. 70's feminism was misguided. Equality for everyone; that's right.
Sad but true.
Sad too that I refuse to support any tech millionaires who are willing to fund H1B's rather than invest in American children for tech education. Never have, never will. What little control I have over my taxes; I send directly to scholorships for American children that send them to technical schools and write off those funds on my taxes on the next tax schedule. Best way to write down my taxes, giving to tech scholorships. I have a list of such funds if anyone is interested. Its activist, its American, and a visible protest against the large companies that make all kinds of money from America but refuse to invest in it.
After all, nobody would have watched if an adult male programmer won it...
A friend of mine whom I respect and admire as a programmer very much might have a lot to say about this. Men receive accolades for being great programmers all the time, the industry is completely dominated by men. Everytime my friend has gotten a new job (she's on her second one in S.V., she's from the east coast and a Carnigie-Mellon grad, very accomplished) she gets hit on by the men in the staff, and knowing she's a lesbian doesn't seem to phaze them. She's gotten held back on other jobs because the admin and IT staff were chauvinistic, gotten practically raped by cabbies, and treated like shit professionally becuase she's attractive. Its absurd and it needs to stop. When we have a truly blind-to-gender society you can call out the feminists. Until then you're full of shit. I can't have respect of my male friends when their bias shows simply becuase a fellow engineer has a vagina between her legs. Its ridiculous.
Actually, and I do need to research this, I think it is carved in stone somewhere in DC (or elsewhere) the the results of publically funded research should be made freely available to those who funded it. Like I said, I need to check that. But if true, its in direct violoation of the will of the People. Like everything else going on in this country.