Do we want a future dominated by technophobes who would condemn all humans to hideous decrepitude and death after a mere 70ish years? I don't think so. Kurzweil's vision is highly benign and has no fascism or borg-like parts at all. The poster's slur is beneath contempt. What could be more fascist than the poster's implied wish to outlaw thoughts the poster finds uncomfortable?
Are we surprised that Bill Gates is not on the bleeding edge? Hardly. Are we surprised that a bunch of slashdoters are at least as anachronistic and myopic? Nope. Move along.
If you have to ask and haven't much of a clue then you definitely aren't senior software developer material unless you have done just tons of major design and implementation. But if you had you wouldn't need to ask. I like Paul Graham's advice. Forget the job. Be poor for a while more and do a startup with some like minded folks. There is no real security just getting a job these days anyhow. And you will have a lot more fun and learn more. It will also look better if you ever do go out job hunting. And who knows. The startup might make it leaving you independently wealthy in say 4-5 years. If I was just getting out of school it is exactly what I would do.
What the hell do you like doing? What kind of project gets you excited? If you do go after a job in a non-startup then the upside is generally only the salary and bennies. So if you don't lke what you are working on then you are just killing what talent you might possess and turning yourself into a whoring drone. Be honest with yourself.
The FBI has gained nothing until Congress passes this thing. After all the years of color coded nuttiness, expanding deficits, unanswerable administration, airline frisking, illegal detentions, balck bag searches. librarian browbeating and lies and obfuscations over what happened on 911 it is beyond belief that this more of the same will pass Congress. Of couse it is only a new act of terrorism away.
It doesn't require such expensive real estate for towers and the level of service isn't that competitive with things costing 1/10th as much but less ubiquitous. So where is such a stupid pricing model coming from and why would anyone believe they will find many takers?
Since the OSS community works rather hard to avoid patent trouble I fail to see how using OSS puts any user/incorporator more at risk than using proprietary software. Also, if any entity could afford the legal fights that *might* arise it is the government. If it surfaces in their face maybe it would even motivate them to clean up the patent mess that they created in the first place.
He is forgetting that the information that Microsoft has performed a proprietary encryption on belongs to the user. It is not the property of Microsoft. Just because I or some other user entered the information into a Microsoft tool does not mean that I or others should forever thereafter have to use Microsoft tools to read or edit the information.
Just decoding the encryption is hardly stealing how the Microsoft program works. It looks like Linus has been turned to the dark side.
Many years ago I had ricochet access in my area. Having always available intenet connectivity made a huge difference in my life. It is pretty easy to see that a lot of new applications and companies could take advantagge of ubiqitous wifi. Wearable and ubiquitous computing would especially be enabled.
I have waited years for the corps to bring out ubiquitous wifi at decent price/performance. I am still waiting even here in th heart of Silicon Valley! I should not be without such access in the 21st century. All of us annd the writers of such apps and our very competitiveness as a people should not be held up by some contrived argument that only by waiting on the telco are we good capitalists! The telcos are not up to the job. I doubt vry much that they wish to be. It is much more profitable to instead sell the public a feature or two at a time on cell phones and require continuous upgrade of cell phones to use the features to boot. Ubiquitous open internet at reasonable speeds is the last thing they want. Why with that any old programmer could write new apps and put them up for $$ or free with no $$ to the telcos. So don't hold your breath waiting for telcos to roll out area-wide unlimited wifi.
I am sorry but I will not sit still for the future being held hostage to the balance sheets of these companies.
I very much agree. Waitng for the corporations to get around to providing universal access means that the market for internet enabled apps is limited in the US until such time. Also the corps tend to try to bleed each service increment for all it is worth thus again exerting anti-competitive pessure on providers of internet apps. The corps are also attempting to corner some application spaces which again is anti-competitive.
Why are we discussing this in this forum where only a few are well informed on the subject? Nanotech will be regulated to some extent and there are active knowledgeable groups like the Center for Responsible Nanotech and the Foresight Institutte that are able to say what is likely to be needed with credibility.
Surely the people will not allow the very freedom to communicate and do so widely and instaneously that my generation of geeks worked hard to produce - this generation and ours shall not suffer this great gift to be shut down because it worries those in power. They have reason to be worried because they have done evil things. Now they have even more to be worried about because they are threaetenig to silence the people. They act as if the Net and the Web is their property. They are not. They are the property of the people.
I never thougt to see in my time this awful mixture of great evil from politicians and the people making excuses as to why removing their freedom is just fine. Is their no level of political evil and spitting malice from our supposed servants that will cause us to stand up in masse for freedom, for justice, for our lives, for anything? Are we rotten and empty to the core?
Never mind the government acting in a patently nconstitutional manner. Blame the victims for not somehow succesfully getting out of the way fast enough. It seems to me a lot of people here are working real hard not to see that the freaking house is on fire and that if something isn't done about it soon the next thing they will smell is their own ass getting burned.
Did you ever hear of the fourth amendment? Apparently not. There is plenty of reasons to gripe when the government goes on this kind of e-search fishing trip. There is even more reason to gripe (at the least) when the government attempts to silence you even speaking out about what the government is doing. This is way beyond the bounds of what a free people should put up with.
Since 9/11 they can pretty much do whatever the hell they want. Since then I receive a lot more mail that seems to have been opened. I advise strong encryption and fighting to keep the right to do so. I don't agrre with the notion that all must be treated as rightless and/or as suspects to "keep us safe". Such treatment is precisely what we are supposed to be safe from.
Let's see. They naturally want to regulate frre speech concerning polical candidates by supposedly free people. Hmmm. there could be thousands of mud slinging sites without there being any good reason for such regulation. Everyone is free to start counter sites. Where exactly does any party get an unfair advantage or decome somehow beholden to bloggers who write in support of its candidate? This should have been the first question asked if this little regulation fest was remotely above board.
It should be made crystal clear to our "public servants" that such shenanigans will be considered an act of war launched against we the people they purportedly serve and a gross violation of the constitution theyare sworn to uphold. This trial balloon should be blasted out of our cultural skies with extreme and unequivocable prejudice.
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hypocrite! taxpayers don't get any say already except for their meaningless vote. so why bring out this BS response to this issue? Do you understand how cheap free wifi really is? Several groups offer it with no tax $$$ involved for whatever your weak argument is worth.
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Exactly how am I supposed to find this information that is copyrighted if a search cannot inform me of its existence?
Do we want a future dominated by technophobes who would condemn all humans to hideous decrepitude and death after a mere 70ish years? I don't think so. Kurzweil's vision is highly benign and has no fascism or borg-like parts at all. The poster's slur is beneath contempt. What could be more fascist than the poster's implied wish to outlaw thoughts the poster finds uncomfortable?
Are we surprised that Bill Gates is not on the bleeding edge? Hardly. Are we surprised that a bunch of slashdoters are at least as anachronistic and myopic? Nope. Move along.
If you have to ask and haven't much of a clue then you definitely aren't senior software developer material unless you have done just tons of major design and implementation. But if you had you wouldn't need to ask. I like Paul Graham's advice. Forget the job. Be poor for a while more and do a startup with some like minded folks. There is no real security just getting a job these days anyhow. And you will have a lot more fun and learn more. It will also look better if you ever do go out job hunting. And who knows. The startup might make it leaving you independently wealthy in say 4-5 years. If I was just getting out of school it is exactly what I would do.
What the hell do you like doing? What kind of project gets you excited? If you do go after a job in a non-startup then the upside is generally only the salary and bennies. So if you don't lke what you are working on then you are just killing what talent you might possess and turning yourself into a whoring drone. Be honest with yourself.
The FBI has gained nothing until Congress passes this thing. After all the years of color coded nuttiness, expanding deficits, unanswerable administration, airline frisking, illegal detentions, balck bag searches. librarian browbeating and lies and obfuscations over what happened on 911 it is beyond belief that this more of the same will pass Congress. Of couse it is only a new act of terrorism away.
It doesn't require such expensive real estate for towers and the level of service isn't that competitive with things costing 1/10th as much but less ubiquitous. So where is such a stupid pricing model coming from and why would anyone believe they will find many takers?
Since the OSS community works rather hard to avoid patent trouble I fail to see how using OSS puts any user/incorporator more at risk than using proprietary software. Also, if any entity could afford the legal fights that *might* arise it is the government. If it surfaces in their face maybe it would even motivate them to clean up the patent mess that they created in the first place.
Why would I want to fly slower than I can roll along on the ground? It rather misses the point.
He is forgetting that the information that Microsoft has performed a proprietary encryption on belongs to the user. It is not the property of Microsoft. Just because I or some other user entered the information into a Microsoft tool does not mean that I or others should forever thereafter have to use Microsoft tools to read or edit the information.
Just decoding the encryption is hardly stealing how the Microsoft program works. It looks like Linus has been turned to the dark side.
Many years ago I had ricochet access in my area. Having always available intenet connectivity made a huge difference in my life. It is pretty easy to see that a lot of new applications and companies could take advantagge of ubiqitous wifi. Wearable and ubiquitous computing would especially be enabled.
I have waited years for the corps to bring out ubiquitous wifi at decent price/performance. I am still waiting even here in th heart of Silicon Valley! I should not be without such access in the 21st century. All of us annd the writers of such apps and our very competitiveness as a people should not be held up by some contrived argument that only by waiting on the telco are we good capitalists! The telcos are not up to the job. I doubt vry much that they wish to be. It is much more profitable to instead sell the public a feature or two at a time on cell phones and require continuous upgrade of cell phones to use the features to boot. Ubiquitous open internet at reasonable speeds is the last thing they want. Why with that any old programmer could write new apps and put them up for $$ or free with no $$ to the telcos. So don't hold your breath waiting for telcos to roll out area-wide unlimited wifi.
I am sorry but I will not sit still for the future being held hostage to the balance sheets of these companies.
I very much agree. Waitng for the corporations to get around to providing universal access means that the market for internet enabled apps is limited in the US until such time. Also the corps tend to try to bleed each service increment for all it is worth thus again exerting anti-competitive pessure on providers of internet apps. The corps are also attempting to corner some application spaces which again is anti-competitive.
Why are we discussing this in this forum where only a few are well informed on the subject? Nanotech will be regulated to some extent and there are active knowledgeable groups like the Center for Responsible Nanotech and the Foresight Institutte that are able to say what is likely to be needed with credibility.
Surely the people will not allow the very freedom to communicate and do so widely and instaneously that my generation of geeks worked hard to produce - this generation and ours shall not suffer this great gift to be shut down because it worries those in power. They have reason to be worried because they have done evil things. Now they have even more to be worried about because they are threaetenig to silence the people. They act as if the Net and the Web is their property. They are not. They are the property of the people.
I never thougt to see in my time this awful mixture of great evil from politicians and the people making excuses as to why removing their freedom is just fine. Is their no level of political evil and spitting malice from our supposed servants that will cause us to stand up in masse for freedom, for justice, for our lives, for anything? Are we rotten and empty to the core?
Something like bookmarks.r.us would be MUCH clearer.
Tell it to the Founding Fathers. They meant what they wrote. To a man they would fight to the death against the monstrosity we live under today.
Never mind the government acting in a patently nconstitutional manner. Blame the victims for not somehow succesfully getting out of the way fast enough. It seems to me a lot of people here are working real hard not to see that the freaking house is on fire and that if something isn't done about it soon the next thing they will smell is their own ass getting burned.
Did you ever hear of the fourth amendment? Apparently not. There is plenty of reasons to gripe when the government goes on this kind of e-search fishing trip. There is even more reason to gripe (at the least) when the government attempts to silence you even speaking out about what the government is doing. This is way beyond the bounds of what a free people should put up with.
Since 9/11 they can pretty much do whatever the hell they want. Since then I receive a lot more mail that seems to have been opened. I advise strong encryption and fighting to keep the right to do so. I don't agrre with the notion that all must be treated as rightless and/or as suspects to "keep us safe". Such treatment is precisely what we are supposed to be safe from.
I wasn't remotely glad. It was pure repression and is murder on third party campaigns.
Let's see. They naturally want to regulate frre speech concerning polical candidates by supposedly free people. Hmmm. there could be thousands of mud slinging sites without there being any good reason for such regulation. Everyone is free to start counter sites. Where exactly does any party get an unfair advantage or decome somehow beholden to bloggers who write in support of its candidate? This should have been the first question asked if this little regulation fest was remotely above board.
It should be made crystal clear to our "public servants" that such shenanigans will be considered an act of war launched against we the people they purportedly serve and a gross violation of the constitution theyare sworn to uphold. This trial balloon should be blasted out of our cultural skies with extreme and unequivocable prejudice.
Anyone that rites a library wold generally se LGPL. Proprietary code can then use it just fine.
Prove that you are right, moron!
hypocrite! taxpayers don't get any say already except for their meaningless vote. so why bring out this BS response to this issue? Do you understand how cheap free wifi really is? Several groups offer it with no tax $$$ involved for whatever your weak argument is worth.
How about free services offered by free citizens at their own expense?