You know you're seriously off the rails when you start provoking the planet's grand champions at killing people and breaking things and Russia and China are telling you to calm down.
Finally something progressives and conservatives can team up to fight.
The last briefing I heard there were something like 200 Chinese front companies operating in the U.S. gathering data on Americans, particularly those with security clearances.
Maybe we stop the obvious stuff and the cloud databases being stored all over the world before we go all 1984 on our own citizens.
In the same briefing I found out the French are also spying on our defense related industries. And the Israelis. Some allies we have. The ones not spying on us think we're idiots.
I've used a Ubuntu desktop for years and make my living working online. I use it because it just works. Once I get my desktop setup right it stays that way.
Maybe someone could explain what's not working so I know what I'm missing.
The real problem we're facing is that the 'say' you get with billions in corporate money is worth more than the 'say' you and I get as individuals.
You can have your say, I can have mine, but when ExxonMobile speaks they blanket the airwaves.
The Koch family billions also go to business schools, provided they let them make faculty appointments. How many faculty appointments have you made recently?
Corporations use our own money against us and have a bigger say in government and policy.
There were a lot of people here at/. who voted for those type of morons. I'm not sure how they mentally justify promoting scientific ignorance, or maybe that was just a side effect but it's the reality all the same.
This is not rocket science, folks. It's machine shop 101.
You can make a suppressor out of a few simple tools and a clean oil filter but it's still 15 years if you get caught using it.
If high cap mags are illegal, that will make it easy to spot the criminals. It doesn't matter if it was printed on the 3D printer or stamped out of sheet metal if whoever makes it is looking at 10 years.
The whole argument that we can't regulate mag size because people can make them is absolute nonsense. You can make a bong but it's still drug paraphernalia.
The argument postulates that the earth's energy consumption is going to continue expanding at 2 to 3 percent per year and the population is going to continue to increase.
There is some speculation that the population is not going to increase indefinitely and ignores the potential for advances in energy conservation.
The universe burns nearly limitless amounts of power. All we have to do is hang on long enough to figure out how to utilize them. The more solar and renewable power we can generate, the longer we can stretch the remaining fossil fuels.
This to address the shortage of developers who will work 70 hours a week for $35K a year and are afraid to complain about working conditions for fear of being deported.
Network operators have been fuming for years that Google, with its search engine and YouTube video service, generates huge amounts of traffic but does not compensate them for using their networks.
I remember when the US government turned over the internet backbone to the telecos. The deal was they would get the infrastructure in exchange for upgrading the network and the telecos were all about that deal, for a few years. Then AT&T started making noise about places like Google not paying for "their" pipe.
If it's that unprofitable, give it back to the government or sell it. Get out of the network business if it's that hard. Notice that idea never comes up.
NASA has turned into a disorganized formation of risk-adverse contract managers loosely connected to a rusting theme park playing endless reruns of their glory days. Their big accomplishment these days is dismantling some of the old launch platforms.
They are not the agency that's going to make the next leaps in space technology. Hell, the fricking electric car guy is making faster advances than NASA. Put him in charge. They had their day, it's time to start over.
The judge also recommended that Samsung post a bond for 88 percent of the value of its infringing mobile phones, as well as 32.5 percent of the value of infringing media players, and 37.6 percent of the value of infringing tablets.
Software patents are completely out hand. This is not what the patent system was intended to do, this is madness.
But you want those millions of people to buy you a pony!
You want people to fund your kid's school.
You want millions of people to subsidize the roads you drive on.
How is this really that much different? Before motorcars took over, millions of people got by just fine with their horses. You ignore that internet service isn't as much an entertainment option as a utility today. A utility that's rapidly changing the way information and notices are delivered to homes and it's in the hands of private companies colluding to keep prices high and speeds slow.
The market is not going to fix this problem. I'm sorry you have to help pay for the new railroad coming through town, but it will make getting goods from the big city out to the frontier easier, there grandpa.
Critics suggest this system is flawed because many authors are impartial and are experts on novels
I had problems with other authors of similar books writing bad reviews of my book on Amazon. It was pretty obvious who was doing it because every time I'd get a good review, a bad one would pop up a couple days later from someone who obviously hadn't read the book.
I'm not vain enough to think everyone who reads my book should like it but the neg reviews were sometimes disagreements about topics not even covered in the book.
It was very frustrating and I complained to Amazon. They didn't respond directly but a short time later the behavior stopped.
I pay attention to what readers like and don't like and make refinements based on their feedback, so I appreciate thoughtful feedback even if it's not positive.
Obviously the author has never tried to untangle outsource code. If he thinks home grown code is bad, wait until he wades through a bowl of Bangalore spaghetti code. Yummy.
Although I did make a lot of money sorting through that crap. Many companies would just assume outsource code would work when they needed it and couldn't figure out how come their wonder app, that they got done for half of what U.S. programmers would have cost, kept crashing.
When we used to do experiments like that at the lab we would get death threats from the religious crazies.
The only death threat I got was in college doing research on skewing the sex ratio in horses toward females. I was surprised a few people got so wrapped around the axle by that, doesn't seem like any big deal, even in hindsight.
I don't think this is just a R problem...I think both R's and D's up there are so bought and paid for that no reform will likely happen that will benefit you...
I don't see that. Saying both sides are equally bad is an intellectual cop out that let's one side keep moving the corruption goal post.
Once we deal with the side openly on the side of the wealthy and big money interests, we can start picking through the exceptions in the other side.
I can totally see Microsoft threatening Dell's volume license if they sell the Ubuntu version for less than Windows. Maybe not in any way that would be outwardly anti-competitive, just the old mafia strategy of telling Dell you would hate it if something bad happened to their volume license.
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You know you're seriously off the rails when you start provoking the planet's grand champions at killing people and breaking things and Russia and China are telling you to calm down.
Finally something progressives and conservatives can team up to fight.
The last briefing I heard there were something like 200 Chinese front companies operating in the U.S. gathering data on Americans, particularly those with security clearances.
Maybe we stop the obvious stuff and the cloud databases being stored all over the world before we go all 1984 on our own citizens.
In the same briefing I found out the French are also spying on our defense related industries. And the Israelis. Some allies we have. The ones not spying on us think we're idiots.
The notion of funding alternative energy research with fossil fuel revenues has been endorsed in different forms by Republican politicians
Until the president proposes it, then it automatically becomes "socialism" and they'll oppose it.
I've used a Ubuntu desktop for years and make my living working online. I use it because it just works. Once I get my desktop setup right it stays that way.
Maybe someone could explain what's not working so I know what I'm missing.
You can make a suppressor with a few hand tools and a clean oil filter, but you'll still get hard time getting caught with it.
If assault-style weapons are banned and someone prints one, it will be just as illegal.
Why isn't Google sticking up for Android?
It is fine that everyone can have their say.
The real problem we're facing is that the 'say' you get with billions in corporate money is worth more than the 'say' you and I get as individuals.
You can have your say, I can have mine, but when ExxonMobile speaks they blanket the airwaves.
The Koch family billions also go to business schools, provided they let them make faculty appointments. How many faculty appointments have you made recently?
Corporations use our own money against us and have a bigger say in government and policy.
There were a lot of people here at /. who voted for those type of morons. I'm not sure how they mentally justify promoting scientific ignorance, or maybe that was just a side effect but it's the reality all the same.
71% of respondents agreed that the US will send a human to Mars within the next two decades.
The other 29 percent know we don't have a launch platform capable of getting us there.
This is not rocket science, folks. It's machine shop 101.
You can make a suppressor out of a few simple tools and a clean oil filter but it's still 15 years if you get caught using it.
If high cap mags are illegal, that will make it easy to spot the criminals. It doesn't matter if it was printed on the 3D printer or stamped out of sheet metal if whoever makes it is looking at 10 years.
The whole argument that we can't regulate mag size because people can make them is absolute nonsense. You can make a bong but it's still drug paraphernalia.
The argument postulates that the earth's energy consumption is going to continue expanding at 2 to 3 percent per year and the population is going to continue to increase.
There is some speculation that the population is not going to increase indefinitely and ignores the potential for advances in energy conservation.
The universe burns nearly limitless amounts of power. All we have to do is hang on long enough to figure out how to utilize them. The more solar and renewable power we can generate, the longer we can stretch the remaining fossil fuels.
This to address the shortage of developers who will work 70 hours a week for $35K a year and are afraid to complain about working conditions for fear of being deported.
Network operators have been fuming for years that Google, with its search engine and YouTube video service, generates huge amounts of traffic but does not compensate them for using their networks.
I remember when the US government turned over the internet backbone to the telecos. The deal was they would get the infrastructure in exchange for upgrading the network and the telecos were all about that deal, for a few years. Then AT&T started making noise about places like Google not paying for "their" pipe.
If it's that unprofitable, give it back to the government or sell it. Get out of the network business if it's that hard. Notice that idea never comes up.
I can make a really good suppressor with a few basic tools and a clean oil filter, but it's still illegal as hell.
30 round mags would still be illegal if the were stamped out of metal or produced on a 3D printer.
That doesn't mean the regulations would be useless. It means anyone using a 3D printer to make one risks jail time.
CES may lose some of it's star appeal, but as long as it's still upstairs from the porn convention it's sure not going to lose any of its popularity.
We used to sneak downstairs during breaks. It may have changed, but in the early days a vendor badge got you in either place.
NASA has turned into a disorganized formation of risk-adverse contract managers loosely connected to a rusting theme park playing endless reruns of their glory days. Their big accomplishment these days is dismantling some of the old launch platforms.
They are not the agency that's going to make the next leaps in space technology. Hell, the fricking electric car guy is making faster advances than NASA. Put him in charge. They had their day, it's time to start over.
The judge also recommended that Samsung post a bond for 88 percent of the value of its infringing mobile phones, as well as 32.5 percent of the value of infringing media players, and 37.6 percent of the value of infringing tablets.
Software patents are completely out hand. This is not what the patent system was intended to do, this is madness.
But you want those millions of people to buy you a pony!
You want people to fund your kid's school.
You want millions of people to subsidize the roads you drive on.
How is this really that much different? Before motorcars took over, millions of people got by just fine with their horses. You ignore that internet service isn't as much an entertainment option as a utility today. A utility that's rapidly changing the way information and notices are delivered to homes and it's in the hands of private companies colluding to keep prices high and speeds slow.
The market is not going to fix this problem. I'm sorry you have to help pay for the new railroad coming through town, but it will make getting goods from the big city out to the frontier easier, there grandpa.
Critics suggest this system is flawed because many authors are impartial and are experts on novels
I had problems with other authors of similar books writing bad reviews of my book on Amazon. It was pretty obvious who was doing it because every time I'd get a good review, a bad one would pop up a couple days later from someone who obviously hadn't read the book.
I'm not vain enough to think everyone who reads my book should like it but the neg reviews were sometimes disagreements about topics not even covered in the book.
It was very frustrating and I complained to Amazon. They didn't respond directly but a short time later the behavior stopped.
I pay attention to what readers like and don't like and make refinements based on their feedback, so I appreciate thoughtful feedback even if it's not positive.
>hunts for vulnerabilities in 'large-scale' utilities
It's not like they're spying wholesale on American citizens...wait, they're already doing that, too.
I think the whole foreign/domestic spy division is pretty much gone at this point. Not saying it's right, just the reality.
Obviously the author has never tried to untangle outsource code. If he thinks home grown code is bad, wait until he wades through a bowl of Bangalore spaghetti code. Yummy.
Although I did make a lot of money sorting through that crap. Many companies would just assume outsource code would work when they needed it and couldn't figure out how come their wonder app, that they got done for half of what U.S. programmers would have cost, kept crashing.
When we used to do experiments like that at the lab we would get death threats from the religious crazies.
The only death threat I got was in college doing research on skewing the sex ratio in horses toward females. I was surprised a few people got so wrapped around the axle by that, doesn't seem like any big deal, even in hindsight.
Not like making fish grow hands or anything.
I don't think this is just a R problem...I think both R's and D's up there are so bought and paid for that no reform will likely happen that will benefit you...
I don't see that. Saying both sides are equally bad is an intellectual cop out that let's one side keep moving the corruption goal post.
Once we deal with the side openly on the side of the wealthy and big money interests, we can start picking through the exceptions in the other side.
Back home IBM is one of the top 10 companies utilizing H1-B visas.
And companies keep complaining they can't find enough locally grown peasants with the skills they need.
I can totally see Microsoft threatening Dell's volume license if they sell the Ubuntu version for less than Windows. Maybe not in any way that would be outwardly anti-competitive, just the old mafia strategy of telling Dell you would hate it if something bad happened to their volume license.
Yes, sir, that would be a real shame.