> Everyone knows that if you can see something with your eyes, and hear it with your ears, you can copy it.
Brings to mind a recent "Discovery Friday" show I saw where some researchers were allowed to do an extremely deep scan on the "Mona Lisa" - this scan used lasers to record every bump on the thing to a ridiculus DPI. Seems to me that the recording of this data means that in a few years, fabbers will be able to dump the file and a few layers of colored plastic (or a regular fab modded with an inket) and create their own ML to hang in their house.
As one of those folks who doens't see why so much value is placed in owning "The Original" of much of anything, I more attracted to the idea of one day owning a really really nice copy of a nice painting (and $$millions cheaper) than the frikkin original.
(tho in this particular case, I gotta admit I don't get what folk see in that frumpy woman's portrait)
> Flash Player 9 will work on the majority of systems and browsers out there today.
My AMD64-powered Ubuntu box disagrees. However, my AMD64-powered Firefox finds no fault with javascript. My cell phone doesn't seem to dig Flash, either.
> when I was 11, I would have given all my pocket money and done weeks of chores [for a machine like the OLPC]
When I was 14, I saved up all my paper-route money for months to buy a Vic20, which, if I recall, did not have access to the Internet, a GUI, Python, onboard storage, or built-in color screen. Still I grew up to become a software developer making a very good living for myself. So, who knows what these kids will be able to do with this platform?
>There's absolutely no reason in the world why we shouldn't have a complete set of open content textbooks covering all of a basic liberal education
Agreed, tho the $100M you mention seems more than should be needed; Wikipedia just raised nearly $1M all from small donations. I can't believe that textbooks for the basic 4 subjects, math, reading, science, history, for 1-8th grade, couldn't be written by a small group of writers in a year for $1M. I bet if you offered a bounty, like 'RentACoder' on two smaller projects, one that created the 'table of contents' for the books, then another to actually write all the chapters, you'd end up with free-to-use e-books that could be used by any district that wished.
Maybe some of these 'free textbook' sites are a good place to start:
>This is an extremely basic point in security of any kind: once the attacker is executing code inside your system, that's bad
Y'know, sometimes I think it's just me being paranoid, then I get a blast of fresh air from somebody else paying attention.
When in the NINE WORLDS is it good to let users of a publically-facing system upload runnable code? The last PHP-related problem I had with Mambo was thus; you could add code that allowed you to upload executable scripts to the web dir. That's just DUMB - DUMB - DUMB - so freakin' dumb that I didn't even assume, after putting a honeypot, two firewalls and port forwarding between my server and the 'net, that I'd need to dissect the PHP/Mambo install to make sure this wasn't possible. It's freakin' PHP4, fer crissakes; I'm SURE there's no way such a hole could still exist!
A month later and PHP exposes me for the freak-tard that I am for drinking THAT kool-ade.
> Simple. Based on what this research is showing, and as with most treatments, it will be released int he form of a drug. In order for that to happen, pharmeceutical companies need to release it and have FDA approval.
Well, there's always Canadaian, Mexican, Brasilian, South African or Chinese pharma companies - if folks see that they can get cured with a pill on vacation rather than face years of chemo, the "domestic" market will dry up around the healhcare "hoarders" - FDA approval be damned.
I am optimistic that once robots have supplanted the American manufacturing age, the Japanese one, our current Chinese phase and the one or two (South America, Horn of Africa) following, humans will still find productive ways to occupy their 60-100 years on this planet.
> What I never understood is why anybody would use this service. I mean you can find high quality songs in multiple formats and of questionable legality for free on p2p.
Hypothetically, maybe you already have a pretty large collection of iTunes-purchased songs, then your ipod breaks, and you have replace it, then all your purchased songs don't play on the new iPod, then you spend hours on the phone with Apple trying to get retarded iTunes to work, and you get tired of their crap and DRM in general so you figure you can get a pre-paid Visa and simply pay AllofMp3 a "burning" fee to get all the stuff YOU ALREADY OWN in a DRM-free format so you can start playing your tunes again, w/o wasting anymore HOURS using some p2p site trying to find all your songs.
That made me laugh out loud, the part when he resized the window and the two textboxes disappeared, the kind of laughter that only comes from remembering a truly painful experience.
>Yeah, haha, you're so right. I can't wait to revert to the days of "This site is viewable only in IE"
Tell me about it. I had to help my dad get some pics off of an MLS site for realtors (he's in real estate) and it said 'IE' only. I had to hit refresh a few times because I didn't believe it; what year is this?!?!
> I moved to government for stability, but my sub-sub-department of application developers has a 26% annual turnover rate;
I've been contemplating a move to DC (from MI); if I went it would be in the gov IT arena (I'm a java jockey). I've been reading how the "greying" of the gov workforce and the perceived dis-advantages of gov employment (lack of interesting projects and lower pay) trump the advantages (stability and um, stability) will exacerbate efforts to compete against the private sector for brains.
Then again, it was probably a slow news day and some cub reporter was just regurgitating what he'd read on./
Perusing usajobs.gov and Avue it appears that IT pay is quite competitive (not including web masters who are paid like mail room clerks) - tho the run up in the cost of living in and around the capital in the last 5yrs has probably nullified any recent gov pay gains. How soon will the middle class all be commuting to DC from KY?
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> are you talking about porn or labor?
I think he's talking about what soap, toothpaste, soda and automobile commercial makers refer to as "target market".
> Janet Epp Buckingham and her League of Decency
No.. frakkin... way!?!? "League of Decency"?!?!?
I have SO gotta join THAT!!!
God, the decisions I gotta make! Tights and cape? Monacle and knickers? Speed suit? Adventurin' boots?
I'm off to Joann Fabrics....!
> When I'm setting up a new system, I hate using sudo for a ton of commands
sudo -s?
> Everyone knows that if you can see something with your eyes, and hear it with your ears, you can copy it.
Brings to mind a recent "Discovery Friday" show I saw where some researchers were allowed to do an extremely deep scan on the "Mona Lisa" - this scan used lasers to record every bump on the thing to a ridiculus DPI. Seems to me that the recording of this data means that in a few years, fabbers will be able to dump the file and a few layers of colored plastic (or a regular fab modded with an inket) and create their own ML to hang in their house.
As one of those folks who doens't see why so much value is placed in owning "The Original" of much of anything, I more attracted to the idea of one day owning a really really nice copy of a nice painting (and $$millions cheaper) than the frikkin original.
(tho in this particular case, I gotta admit I don't get what folk see in that frumpy woman's portrait)
> Teenagers.
Curmudgeon. The anti-teenager.
> Javascript can do a lot, but it wasn't originally designed for heavy application logic
And by following even a tiny bit of MVC, one can keep application logic out of the display layer where it don't belong.
servers: "all ur service layer r belong to us"
> thin clients .. require downloads exceeding 2MB(!) for their "thin client" Javascript apps
.25T
Yes, back to VB apps I say! what's VBrun.dll up to these days,
All ur bandwidth r belong to us.
> Flash Player 9 will work on the majority of systems and browsers out there today.
My AMD64-powered Ubuntu box disagrees. However, my AMD64-powered Firefox finds no fault with javascript. My cell phone doesn't seem to dig Flash, either.
> all HP printers work in Linux
Well, my HP 1600 color laser *does* print, tho not in all those vibrant colors I saw in the store
>.. why do I own a Lexmark C510
nu?
> rant .. x64 ...rant
Yeah, what he said.
> when I was 11, I would have given all my pocket money and done weeks of chores [for a machine like the OLPC]
When I was 14, I saved up all my paper-route money for months to buy a Vic20, which, if I recall, did not have access to the Internet, a GUI, Python, onboard storage, or built-in color screen. Still I grew up to become a software developer making a very good living for myself. So, who knows what these kids will be able to do with this platform?
Viva la OLPC!
>There's absolutely no reason in the world why we shouldn't have a complete set of open content textbooks covering all of a basic liberal education
0 Books.htm o ks_on_one_website
Agreed, tho the $100M you mention seems more than should be needed; Wikipedia just raised nearly $1M all from small donations. I can't believe that textbooks for the basic 4 subjects, math, reading, science, history, for 1-8th grade, couldn't be written by a small group of writers in a year for $1M. I bet if you offered a bounty, like 'RentACoder' on two smaller projects, one that created the 'table of contents' for the books, then another to actually write all the chapters, you'd end up with free-to-use e-books that could be used by any district that wished.
Maybe some of these 'free textbook' sites are a good place to start:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.businessbookmall.com/Free%20Business%2
http://digg.com/tech_news/Hundreds_of_Free_Textbo
http://www.textbookrevolution.org/
>This is an extremely basic point in security of any kind: once the attacker is executing code inside your system, that's bad
Y'know, sometimes I think it's just me being paranoid, then I get a blast of fresh air from somebody else paying attention.
When in the NINE WORLDS is it good to let users of a publically-facing system upload runnable code? The last PHP-related problem I had with Mambo was thus; you could add code that allowed you to upload executable scripts to the web dir. That's just DUMB - DUMB - DUMB - so freakin' dumb that I didn't even assume, after putting a honeypot, two firewalls and port forwarding between my server and the 'net, that I'd need to dissect the PHP/Mambo install to make sure this wasn't possible. It's freakin' PHP4, fer crissakes; I'm SURE there's no way such a hole could still exist!
A month later and PHP exposes me for the freak-tard that I am for drinking THAT kool-ade.
> Simple. Based on what this research is showing, and as with most treatments, it will be released int he form of a drug. In order for that to happen, pharmeceutical companies need to release it and have FDA approval.
Well, there's always Canadaian, Mexican, Brasilian, South African or Chinese pharma companies - if folks see that they can get cured with a pill on vacation rather than face years of chemo, the "domestic" market will dry up around the healhcare "hoarders" - FDA approval be damned.
> A cure for cancer is worthless to most of the population if it costs a million bucks.
You mean "self selecting", as in only those who can afford a $1M treatment are worth saving anyway
(says I, fishing in my pocket for a buck to purchase a powerball ticket at the gas station)
> still no cure for 17 stab wounds in the back
Not so, if you're carrying some of that new coagulating agent medics are using in Iraq; even better if you're wearing one of their flac jackets.
I am optimistic that once robots have supplanted the American manufacturing age, the Japanese one, our current Chinese phase and the one or two (South America, Horn of Africa) following, humans will still find productive ways to occupy their 60-100 years on this planet.
> What I never understood is why anybody would use this service. I mean you can find high quality songs in multiple formats and of questionable legality for free on p2p.
Hypothetically, maybe you already have a pretty large collection of iTunes-purchased songs, then your ipod breaks, and you have replace it, then all your purchased songs don't play on the new iPod, then you spend hours on the phone with Apple trying to get retarded iTunes to work, and you get tired of their crap and DRM in general so you figure you can get a pre-paid Visa and simply pay AllofMp3 a "burning" fee to get all the stuff YOU ALREADY OWN in a DRM-free format so you can start playing your tunes again, w/o wasting anymore HOURS using some p2p site trying to find all your songs.
Hypothetically, of course.
> anti-enviro's whipping boy
I thought that was Jane Fonda? Or maybe it's Donald Sutherland?
That made me laugh out loud, the part when he resized the window and the two textboxes disappeared, the kind of laughter that only comes from remembering a truly painful experience.
>Yeah, haha, you're so right. I can't wait to revert to the days of "This site is viewable only in IE"
Tell me about it. I had to help my dad get some pics off of an MLS site for realtors (he's in real estate) and it said 'IE' only. I had to hit refresh a few times because I didn't believe it; what year is this?!?!
>sooner or later your callous attitude and stupid, unfunny jokes will breed a flu virus or something that our science won't be able to stop.
Can someone say "moonbase"?
> ugliest tail lights
Ugly is the new glamorous ( Uggs Boots, Paris Hilton)
Didn't you get the memo?
God%^%2 f-!^$=ing mother-#$@#^@#2!!!
Where in HELL is Tomcat looking for THIS class file NOW?!?#
Mother-f@#$# s$@t-eating piss-ant mother@#!$@#$@
Sorry, the pills haven't kicked in yet to help me get over my last week with this thing.
God$%@!@#2 sucking @#$!*^##!......
FRRRRAAAAAAAAAAKKKKKKK!
Okay, feeling a bit better now.
> I moved to government for stability, but my sub-sub-department of application developers has a 26% annual turnover rate;
./
I've been contemplating a move to DC (from MI); if I went it would be in the gov IT arena (I'm a java jockey). I've been reading how the "greying" of the gov workforce and the perceived dis-advantages of gov employment (lack of interesting projects and lower pay) trump the advantages (stability and um, stability) will exacerbate efforts to compete against the private sector for brains.
Then again, it was probably a slow news day and some cub reporter was just regurgitating what he'd read on
Perusing usajobs.gov and Avue it appears that IT pay is quite competitive (not including web masters who are paid like mail room clerks) - tho the run up in the cost of living in and around the capital in the last 5yrs has probably nullified any recent gov pay gains. How soon will the middle class all be commuting to DC from KY?