I might be going a little too far here... maybe I am just paranoid. But, I have been analyzing some evidence, fossil and more recent too, and I have reasons to believe that there has been some fucking going on in here. The evidence is subtle, you know, just billions of individuals going around, and, I sure, I am almost sure I've seen some babies from multiple species around here. Do you think maybe animals have been braking the law without being punished for, I don't know, 3.7 billion years? I know it sounds crazy that animals have been braking the law for so long without anyone noticing, but the evidence is there. We might want to take a closer look at it. There is a terrible, pornographic book (that should be banned) that is basically an apology of all this animal sex crimes. It's called The Evolution of Species. The guy that wrote it looks like a total pervert.
Here is the first distinction that we have to make:
a) Services that publish private information b) Services that do not publish private information
Facebook and other atrocities are clearly in the a) group. They publish your information for anyone to see and there is nothing you can do about it. On the other hand, you have no right to complain, since that is the bloody purpose of the service.
Google, on the other hand, is in group b). They do collect user information, but they process that information in an automated way, gather stats, and let you store, organize and share that information. They DO NOT publish that information or make it available to any other third party. Nobody except for a perl script and a SQL server is looking at your data. And you have no right to complain, since that is the purpose of the service.
So, you don't want your information published: Do not use services in a) group. You don't want your information automatically analyzed and processed, do not use services in b) group.
It is truly that simple. I do not use any service in group a). I do use google, and many of its services. All the information is kept between google and me. You see, I want them to do what they do. I like the way they analyze my data and the way they allow me to manipulate it. You know what happens to the information I want no one to see? it is not published publicly. Do you know what happens to the info I don't want google's perl scripts to see? it doesn't get uploaded in the first place.
It's like going to a horror movie and complaining that you got scared. It was a fucking horror movie! what are you complaining about?
People upload all of their private info into some unknown "social network" and then complain about privacy. It's in the fucking name, what are you complaining about?
It's true, the hardware itself isn't exactly open right now, but it's an evolution over previously free hardware. That is, the Zapata project was extensively funded by Digium, and Zapata hardware was openly published. Today, Digium hardware isn't open, but all the specs are and so are the drivers. So, it's trivial to develop compatible hardware. There are actually several companies that produce and sell compatible hardware, like Sangoma. Mark wrote several important Free Software, including Asterisk and Gaim (now pidgin), and his company (Digium) continues to support and develop Asterisk, its drivers and other pieces of related software and content (like Audio) completely Free. So, while they are not 100% free, I certainly think that their model is Free Software, and it's been working nicely for them and for the community.
Lex looks more like the kind of guy that would take forty cakes. He would take 40 cakes. That would be as many as four tens. And that would be terrible.
Their products are amazing. In case you are not familiar, Mark Spencer and crew are the guys behind Asterisk, the best PBX ever. Their hardware business is actually pretty big, and they also provide asterisk-related services, including training and support.
Considering that 20% of all PBXs in use are Asterisk-based, I thought it was worth mentioning it.
There are cases where VIM is Better than Emacs
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For example, most censors at the FCC use Vim to generate the BEEPs over forbidden words. For everything else, you there is Emacs.
Ah, what's happening fishexe, I think I'll have to go ahead and take this from you. Ehm, why don't you go ahead and move to storage b. That would be terrific.
You know, that's a pretty accurate definition. Except for the fact that the root account is disabled for login, but you left a process running under that account (nohup/bin/queen &), and that process is still running under uid 0.
Oh, and the sudoers... they are definitely sudoing something. As usual, sudoing you.
Yes, actually none of the different variations of democracy works. After the direct democracy we knew in Antique Greece, everything has sucked badly.
The threshold to become president is huge. That is, to gain any kind of significant power, you have to go through the process of money making and power gathering, that involves corrupting yourself, effectively guaranteeing that anyone that reaches office comes from a select group of people, that answers to a specific group of interest.
No matter who we vote for, the same corporate overlords win.
Dude, would you mind reading all of my post before posting stupid crap?
From my post:
Except, that according to the law, the queen can still intervene. Her powers, while null in practice, are still intact on paper. Please remember the Fear of queen-intervention in Canada a few months ago, and a similar situation now in the UK. So, this arcane bitch that you keep for decorative purposes has actual power that she can use at any time. Off course, nobody will actually let her use it. The deal is: She gets to keep the crown and go to boring parties as long as she doesn't use her power. If she does, the people will kick her out in the blink of an eye.
It was right in the NEXT SENTENCE after the one you quoted.
Well, your whole democracy is a patch. A hack. You still keep the queen around, of course, she has no political power and her role is to produce news for the tabloids that the illiterate of your country can follow. The queen in the UK = Oprah in the states. Except, that according to the law, the queen can still intervene. Her powers, while null in practice, are still intact on paper. Please remember the Fear of queen-intervention in Canada a few months ago, and a similar situation now in the UK. So, this arcane bitch that you keep for decorative purposes has actual power that she can use at any time. Off course, nobody will actually let her use it. The deal is: She gets to keep the crown and go to boring parties as long as she doesn't use her power. If she does, the people will kick her out in the blink of an eye.
So, that's what I call Arcane. That's an ugly hack. A workaround.
Off course, there are systems that are even more stupid and broken that the on in the UK, for instance, the electoral-college, two-party system in the US./Disclaimer: I am neither from the States nor the UK.
Is this the M.P.L.A Or is this the U.D.A Or is this the I.R.A I thought it was the U.K or just another country another council tenancy
Isn't it sad that Lyndon is doing ads for margarine, and that Dave Mustain said he won't do the cover of Anarchy in the UK anymore because he's now a stupid Christian?
Well, I see that having an ethic code is irrelevant to you. I do not use any kind of privative software. How about that? Explain to me how is that ethical choice not a respectable one?
On the other hand, I wasn't trolling on my previous post, or even talking about the specific "use this os" issue. I was talking about doing whatever is asked from you at a job. If you are a professional, or plan on being one, you'll do what you consider to be the right thing. If you'll just do whatever your corporate overlord demands from you, then you are not a professional, you are a highly trained prostitute.
It's worse in my case. I am BOTH a software developer AND an Argentinian. If we could gather energy from my ego, we could solve the world energy crisis.
Those three things would put you immediately ahead of me as a coder (and ahead of 99% of the coders in the industry). And, for fucks sake, let go that stupid stapler.
Now, jokes aside, it all depends on what company you are working for. I own a small software (and hardware) company. We develop several solutions, including DVRs/NVRs, digital signage server/client solutions, and other video capturing/processing/streaming/recording/analysis devices. I look for smart, creative people that can truly think out of the box and work in a non-conventional environment. I look for good multitaskers, eager to get things done. I look for good hackers, and good hackers aren't good employees by definition.
There are companies that look for just good employees, other look for the best employees they can get considering they are looking for smart, creative people. There is no recipe for this. Working at Apple-like, Microsoft-like, Google-like, or ID-like companies is radically different.
My advice is: If you are worried about making a good impression, you will end up in management. I am the kind of person that on my first day would be worrying about what new challenges I will face, and what great problems I'll get to solve. If you are truly worried just about making a good impression, and job-security is your main concern, you belong with the soul-less bastards in management, not in IT.
Dude, sorry if I didn't express myself correctly. I work with people in the US on a daily basis, and also have many friends there. I know what the average guy in your country thinks, and I wasn't implying you all condone the actions of your government. Average people in most of the world are just that: Average people. With families, simple jobs, and simple desires. The average guy in the US is not a communist-hating christian-fundamentalist bent on world domination, just like the average Pakistani is not a delusional terrorist with a few kg of c4 in his backpack, and the average Cuban is not an anti-american freedom-hating communist.
I was not talking to the general population, I was talking to an imaginary figure, to the anthropomorphization of all the lobbyist and special interests groups, not to mention the government, all of them the real actors behind all the destruction that the US is causing, both outside and inside its borders.
On the other hand, it's a lie that you are powerless. What we have seen in the latest years is the pussyfication of the working classes. Guess what? During the French revolution, You had trained soldiers and a professional armed guard against people with torches. Same thing in the Red October, and other countless revolutions throughout history.
It is the duty of any population to keep its government in line. You pay the taxes, and those taxes are used to murder people overseas. So, each and every one of you are responsible. If you are too much of a pussy to stand up and do something, then you deserve what's coming, remember, Orwell was an optimist.
And please don't talk about a few guys targeted by a car-bomb. There are 1000 kids killed by a bomb somewhere in the middle east every day for each US citizen that has ever been killed by terrorism. Wait, now that I think about it, way more than a 1000 most probably.
I am an asshole. I meant from the 10th to the 12th. I am American, just not from the United States (Argentina is in America too, regardless of how much USA citizens want to believe that there's not a world outside their country).
Regarding your other point, yes, it's not just the troops. The 'culture' export is a major issue too. It's actually a combination of many things, but the fact that the US truly believes that it is "the land of the free" and sells that concept throughout the world, at the same time that it goes to war with everyone, and takes economic advantage of every other country, organizes coups d'etat around the world, etc. is mostly at fault.
That little cliche that is the "land of the free" and all the truly grotesque things US citizens believe their country to be, and all the self-righteousness they have, makes of the US the Mormon of the world.
If I hear one more thing about NoSQL, I'm going to go crazy.
NoSQL is a niche application, and it's use is only valid for some very specific situations. I handle databases of several TB of data, and that is only a fraction of what some people handle, with MySQL. I have a distributed DB over 3 countries, with latencies over 150 ms between slaves, and it works like a charm. Have we suddenly forgotten how to optimize applications?
Suddenly, the min requirement to run any application is a quad core machine with 8 GB of RAM, and since we can't be bothered to optimize our RDBMS, we drop them altogether.
We don't need no NoSQL (Yeah, way too many double negatives in there). We just need to stop hiring retards in our IT departments.
We didn't need to change a thing to keep 9/11 from happening again.
Well, there are only two things you can do to prevent 9/11 from happening again:
a) Change your calendars to skip from the 8th to the 10th of September b) Take all your troops back to your country, and stop messing in other countrie's affairs.
I had the pleasure of using the original FSN (That is the name) on Irix 6.5 on a beautiful SGI O2 R10k. A friend did 3D and video edition on two O2s for years, and he still has them (and they work beautifully).
Total budget: 2.500.000 (two and a half million dollars)
Compare that to Avatar, that also has an IMDB score of 8.4... and costed ~280 million dollars (actual budget) and ~200 millions in marketing and other stuff.
It's not that the price tags are high because the movies are expensive... the movies are expensive because the price tags are very high. They need to justify the outrageous amounts of money they are spending.
And, before you tell me that the huge budget is because of Avatar's FX... all hollywood prodctions, even those without any FX at all cost dozens of million dollars, at least.
I know this has been pointed out before, and I am myself tired of repeating this, but it's necessary:
1) It doesn't matter what encryption they use, the decryption key is on the device, so we'll get it eventally 2) The signal travels a long way. They can encrypt as many miles as they want, and they can encrypt the last mile, but the last 3 meters (the 3 meters from your TV to your eyes) can't be encrypted. So, eventually, the signal will need to be decrypted and there, it is vulnerable. 3) If they resort to putting mandatory DRM on your brain, and send the signal encrypted till it reaches your eyes, refer to 1) (the decryption key will be on your brain and we can get it).
What baffles me is why we are still trying to find technical workarounds to a commercial issue. People want to produce content. People want to watch content. Companies want to make money by being the middle man. This middle man has done nothing but move group 1 further and further apart from group 2. But regardless of how much they try, they won't prevent people from producing content, and won't prevent people from wanting to watch that content. We will eventually realize the artificial limitation here, remove the middle man, and find a way to pay the producers and get our content without *AAs.
To quote Megadeth: If there's a new way, I'll be the first in line, But it better work this time.
So, while all of you keep fighting each other over this moot point, I will go over to megavideo to watch Flash Forward S01E19.
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I might be going a little too far here ... maybe I am just paranoid. But, I have been analyzing some evidence, fossil and more recent too, and I have reasons to believe that there has been some fucking going on in here. The evidence is subtle, you know, just billions of individuals going around, and, I sure, I am almost sure I've seen some babies from multiple species around here. Do you think maybe animals have been braking the law without being punished for, I don't know, 3.7 billion years? I know it sounds crazy that animals have been braking the law for so long without anyone noticing, but the evidence is there. We might want to take a closer look at it. There is a terrible, pornographic book (that should be banned) that is basically an apology of all this animal sex crimes. It's called The Evolution of Species. The guy that wrote it looks like a total pervert.
Why do we have this discussion every single week?
Here is the first distinction that we have to make:
a) Services that publish private information
b) Services that do not publish private information
Facebook and other atrocities are clearly in the a) group. They publish your information for anyone to see and there is nothing you can do about it. On the other hand, you have no right to complain, since that is the bloody purpose of the service.
Google, on the other hand, is in group b). They do collect user information, but they process that information in an automated way, gather stats, and let you store, organize and share that information. They DO NOT publish that information or make it available to any other third party. Nobody except for a perl script and a SQL server is looking at your data. And you have no right to complain, since that is the purpose of the service.
So, you don't want your information published: Do not use services in a) group.
You don't want your information automatically analyzed and processed, do not use services in b) group.
It is truly that simple. I do not use any service in group a). I do use google, and many of its services. All the information is kept between google and me. You see, I want them to do what they do. I like the way they analyze my data and the way they allow me to manipulate it. You know what happens to the information I want no one to see? it is not published publicly. Do you know what happens to the info I don't want google's perl scripts to see? it doesn't get uploaded in the first place.
It's like going to a horror movie and complaining that you got scared. It was a fucking horror movie! what are you complaining about?
People upload all of their private info into some unknown "social network" and then complain about privacy. It's in the fucking name, what are you complaining about?
Can we really get over this?
It's true, the hardware itself isn't exactly open right now, but it's an evolution over previously free hardware. That is, the Zapata project was extensively funded by Digium, and Zapata hardware was openly published. Today, Digium hardware isn't open, but all the specs are and so are the drivers. So, it's trivial to develop compatible hardware. There are actually several companies that produce and sell compatible hardware, like Sangoma. Mark wrote several important Free Software, including Asterisk and Gaim (now pidgin), and his company (Digium) continues to support and develop Asterisk, its drivers and other pieces of related software and content (like Audio) completely Free. So, while they are not 100% free, I certainly think that their model is Free Software, and it's been working nicely for them and for the community.
I don't think so.
Lex looks more like the kind of guy that would take forty cakes. He would take 40 cakes. That would be as many as four tens. And that would be terrible.
Their products are amazing. In case you are not familiar, Mark Spencer and crew are the guys behind Asterisk, the best PBX ever. Their hardware business is actually pretty big, and they also provide asterisk-related services, including training and support.
Considering that 20% of all PBXs in use are Asterisk-based, I thought it was worth mentioning it.
For example, most censors at the FCC use Vim to generate the BEEPs over forbidden words. For everything else, you there is Emacs.
Ah, what's happening fishexe, I think I'll have to go ahead and take this from you. Ehm, why don't you go ahead and move to storage b. That would be terrific.
You know, that's a pretty accurate definition. Except for the fact that the root account is disabled for login, but you left a process running under that account (nohup /bin/queen &), and that process is still running under uid 0.
Oh, and the sudoers ... they are definitely sudoing something. As usual, sudoing you.
hehehe, well played.
Yes, actually none of the different variations of democracy works. After the direct democracy we knew in Antique Greece, everything has sucked badly.
The threshold to become president is huge. That is, to gain any kind of significant power, you have to go through the process of money making and power gathering, that involves corrupting yourself, effectively guaranteeing that anyone that reaches office comes from a select group of people, that answers to a specific group of interest.
No matter who we vote for, the same corporate overlords win.
Dude, would you mind reading all of my post before posting stupid crap?
From my post:
Except, that according to the law, the queen can still intervene. Her powers, while null in practice, are still intact on paper. Please remember the Fear of queen-intervention in Canada a few months ago, and a similar situation now in the UK. So, this arcane bitch that you keep for decorative purposes has actual power that she can use at any time. Off course, nobody will actually let her use it. The deal is: She gets to keep the crown and go to boring parties as long as she doesn't use her power. If she does, the people will kick her out in the blink of an eye.
It was right in the NEXT SENTENCE after the one you quoted.
Well, your whole democracy is a patch. A hack. You still keep the queen around, of course, she has no political power and her role is to produce news for the tabloids that the illiterate of your country can follow. The queen in the UK = Oprah in the states. Except, that according to the law, the queen can still intervene. Her powers, while null in practice, are still intact on paper. Please remember the Fear of queen-intervention in Canada a few months ago, and a similar situation now in the UK. So, this arcane bitch that you keep for decorative purposes has actual power that she can use at any time. Off course, nobody will actually let her use it. The deal is: She gets to keep the crown and go to boring parties as long as she doesn't use her power. If she does, the people will kick her out in the blink of an eye.
So, that's what I call Arcane. That's an ugly hack. A workaround.
Off course, there are systems that are even more stupid and broken that the on in the UK, for instance, the electoral-college, two-party system in the US. /Disclaimer: I am neither from the States nor the UK.
Is this the M.P.L.A
Or is this the U.D.A
Or is this the I.R.A
I thought it was the U.K or just
another country
another council tenancy
Isn't it sad that Lyndon is doing ads for margarine, and that Dave Mustain said he won't do the cover of Anarchy in the UK anymore because he's now a stupid Christian?
Sorry to go off-topic ... my mind wonders ....
Well, I see that having an ethic code is irrelevant to you. I do not use any kind of privative software. How about that? Explain to me how is that ethical choice not a respectable one?
On the other hand, I wasn't trolling on my previous post, or even talking about the specific "use this os" issue. I was talking about doing whatever is asked from you at a job. If you are a professional, or plan on being one, you'll do what you consider to be the right thing. If you'll just do whatever your corporate overlord demands from you, then you are not a professional, you are a highly trained prostitute.
That wasn't humility. I actually have the BIGGEST ego ever. Nobody's ego is bigger than Mine. ;)
I am not in the US, why do you assume that, I said I was an Argentinian ... isn't it logical to assume I live in ... let's say, Argentina?
And, since you were wondering, I have sex every day, thank you very much.
It's worse in my case. I am BOTH a software developer AND an Argentinian. If we could gather energy from my ego, we could solve the world energy crisis.
Ah ... the leave your soul at the front door approach. Nice.
Those three things would put you immediately ahead of me as a coder (and ahead of 99% of the coders in the industry). And, for fucks sake, let go that stupid stapler.
Now, jokes aside, it all depends on what company you are working for. I own a small software (and hardware) company. We develop several solutions, including DVRs/NVRs, digital signage server/client solutions, and other video capturing/processing/streaming/recording/analysis devices. I look for smart, creative people that can truly think out of the box and work in a non-conventional environment. I look for good multitaskers, eager to get things done. I look for good hackers, and good hackers aren't good employees by definition.
There are companies that look for just good employees, other look for the best employees they can get considering they are looking for smart, creative people. There is no recipe for this. Working at Apple-like, Microsoft-like, Google-like, or ID-like companies is radically different.
My advice is: If you are worried about making a good impression, you will end up in management. I am the kind of person that on my first day would be worrying about what new challenges I will face, and what great problems I'll get to solve. If you are truly worried just about making a good impression, and job-security is your main concern, you belong with the soul-less bastards in management, not in IT.
Dude, sorry if I didn't express myself correctly. I work with people in the US on a daily basis, and also have many friends there. I know what the average guy in your country thinks, and I wasn't implying you all condone the actions of your government. Average people in most of the world are just that: Average people. With families, simple jobs, and simple desires. The average guy in the US is not a communist-hating christian-fundamentalist bent on world domination, just like the average Pakistani is not a delusional terrorist with a few kg of c4 in his backpack, and the average Cuban is not an anti-american freedom-hating communist.
I was not talking to the general population, I was talking to an imaginary figure, to the anthropomorphization of all the lobbyist and special interests groups, not to mention the government, all of them the real actors behind all the destruction that the US is causing, both outside and inside its borders.
On the other hand, it's a lie that you are powerless. What we have seen in the latest years is the pussyfication of the working classes. Guess what? During the French revolution, You had trained soldiers and a professional armed guard against people with torches. Same thing in the Red October, and other countless revolutions throughout history.
It is the duty of any population to keep its government in line. You pay the taxes, and those taxes are used to murder people overseas. So, each and every one of you are responsible. If you are too much of a pussy to stand up and do something, then you deserve what's coming, remember, Orwell was an optimist.
And please don't talk about a few guys targeted by a car-bomb. There are 1000 kids killed by a bomb somewhere in the middle east every day for each US citizen that has ever been killed by terrorism. Wait, now that I think about it, way more than a 1000 most probably.
I am an asshole. I meant from the 10th to the 12th. I am American, just not from the United States (Argentina is in America too, regardless of how much USA citizens want to believe that there's not a world outside their country).
Regarding your other point, yes, it's not just the troops. The 'culture' export is a major issue too. It's actually a combination of many things, but the fact that the US truly believes that it is "the land of the free" and sells that concept throughout the world, at the same time that it goes to war with everyone, and takes economic advantage of every other country, organizes coups d'etat around the world, etc. is mostly at fault.
That little cliche that is the "land of the free" and all the truly grotesque things US citizens believe their country to be, and all the self-righteousness they have, makes of the US the Mormon of the world.
If I hear one more thing about NoSQL, I'm going to go crazy.
NoSQL is a niche application, and it's use is only valid for some very specific situations. I handle databases of several TB of data, and that is only a fraction of what some people handle, with MySQL. I have a distributed DB over 3 countries, with latencies over 150 ms between slaves, and it works like a charm. Have we suddenly forgotten how to optimize applications?
Suddenly, the min requirement to run any application is a quad core machine with 8 GB of RAM, and since we can't be bothered to optimize our RDBMS, we drop them altogether.
We don't need no NoSQL (Yeah, way too many double negatives in there). We just need to stop hiring retards in our IT departments.
We didn't need to change a thing to keep 9/11 from happening again.
Well, there are only two things you can do to prevent 9/11 from happening again:
a) Change your calendars to skip from the 8th to the 10th of September
b) Take all your troops back to your country, and stop messing in other countrie's affairs.
I had the pleasure of using the original FSN (That is the name) on Irix 6.5 on a beautiful SGI O2 R10k. A friend did 3D and video edition on two O2s for years, and he still has them (and they work beautifully).
If you want http://fsv.sourceforge.net/ is a clone that works just fine in Ubuntu.
Regarding 3D desktops, it's not the same concept, but Compiz is amazing (Yes, it's more than just nice effects :D )
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1305806/
El secreto de sus ojos
Won Oscar. Another 34 wins & 19 nominations
IMDB score: 8.4
Total budget: 2.500.000 (two and a half million dollars)
Compare that to Avatar, that also has an IMDB score of 8.4 ... and costed ~280 million dollars (actual budget) and ~200 millions in marketing and other stuff.
It's not that the price tags are high because the movies are expensive ... the movies are expensive because the price tags are very high. They need to justify the outrageous amounts of money they are spending.
And, before you tell me that the huge budget is because of Avatar's FX ... all hollywood prodctions, even those without any FX at all cost dozens of million dollars, at least.
I know this has been pointed out before, and I am myself tired of repeating this, but it's necessary:
1) It doesn't matter what encryption they use, the decryption key is on the device, so we'll get it eventally
2) The signal travels a long way. They can encrypt as many miles as they want, and they can encrypt the last mile, but the last 3 meters (the 3 meters from your TV to your eyes) can't be encrypted. So, eventually, the signal will need to be decrypted and there, it is vulnerable.
3) If they resort to putting mandatory DRM on your brain, and send the signal encrypted till it reaches your eyes, refer to 1) (the decryption key will be on your brain and we can get it).
What baffles me is why we are still trying to find technical workarounds to a commercial issue. People want to produce content. People want to watch content. Companies want to make money by being the middle man. This middle man has done nothing but move group 1 further and further apart from group 2. But regardless of how much they try, they won't prevent people from producing content, and won't prevent people from wanting to watch that content. We will eventually realize the artificial limitation here, remove the middle man, and find a way to pay the producers and get our content without *AAs.
To quote Megadeth: If there's a new way, I'll be the first in line, But it better work this time.
So, while all of you keep fighting each other over this moot point, I will go over to megavideo to watch Flash Forward S01E19.