Or how about just not using RFID at all? I don't see why passports can't use the same style chip as used widely in credit cards and debit cards.
Even the chips in credit cards aren't needed. Some years ago my credit card issuer stopped using them because the usefulness didn't justify the expense. Now if I want, such as to order something online, my issuer will issue a one tyme use credit card number.
No, people shouldn't have to pay $20 for a way to make this technology safer. The government should improve their own shielding, and use more secure protocols for RFID transmission.
People should only be worried about safety from government. And government shouldn't be using RFID nevermind IDs. It used to be that people in the US could cross the US Mexico border and the US Canadian border, which I've done a number of tymes, without needing a passport.
check back with me in a couple years.. I'm betting you won't like him then...
I cringed as I voted for Obama. But as I said during the campaign McCain scared and Hillary terrified me. I was hoping that at least Obama would take the advise of some economists of the Chicago school of economics.
You forget that they themselves will be just as trackable. As a politician I would be very worried about that.
Politicians should be more trackable than citizens. Politicians are supposed to work for, and be accountable to, citizens not the other way around.
So either they really don't care, or they just have not clue. What do you think it is?;)
Both I bet. Some probably don't know what uses can be made of with IDs and passports with embedded chips. And some of those who do probably think they're immune.
By "stop supporting Mono" you mean "stop supporting.NET 2.0"
No, for one thing I mean start threatening anyone who uses Mono for patent infringement. MS has been making noise for years saying Linux and Open Office infringe on 238 MS patents.
I suspect there would be competition for the slots, especially if States such as mine (NH) followed their Constitutions and compensated jurors as mandated ('fully' in our case).
When I was summoned about 20 years ago, twice within a couple of years, the pay was only $20 a day which if you need your pay from work doesn't cut it. I was a student then so I would have missed class, but not work. As it was I only had to show up 2 days each tyme, then sit around waiting. But at least I got some homework done.
When I got 'called' I was told that not following the judges orders on how to interpret the law could get a juror held in contempt of court.
Yea, unfortunately some judges try to prevent jury nullification. One of the questions I ask someone running for judgeships is if they support it. I will tell them point blank that I will vote against anyone who opposes the right of citizens to tell politicians a law is bad by using jury nullification, if they don't want citizen jurists judging the merits of laws then I don't want them sitting in judgment of others. If they oppose Fully Informed Juries I oppose them.
Plus there's the whole conscription aspect to be adverse to.
Though I had to go down to the office when summoned for jury duty I was never even questioned. As I said previously I consider jury duty to be one of the most important things citizens can do, and want to serve on a jury myself. There are 4 boxes to be used to defend liberty, soap box, ballot box, jury box, and ammo box. And they should be used in that order. Slashdot is one of my soap boxes. When I use the ballot box I vote, and I do vote, based on the candidates positions on the issues not on what party they are in. Unfortunately I haven't been able to use the jury box, and though I have used the ammo box I haven't in years.
which means either using the latest version of Mono
Staying compatible only until Microsoft decides it doesn't want Mono to be compatible.
Hell, even Windows developers don't necessarily care about staying current.
Guaranteed job security by using tech others don't know.
I'm a developer on two commercial apps written in C#, and they both target.NET 2.0. In the case of one of them, that's specifically so that it will be compatible with Mono.
Because you say one will, it's only logical to conclude the other will or may not be compatible. So whoever uses it may be locked into proprietary software then left out in the cold when support for it is dropped. And yes, MS does do that. I bought a brand new PC with NT4 and 3 years later MS stopped supporting downloadable patches. The last tyme I ran Windows Update the MS mothership said it no longer offered the updates online, it further said that if I wanted the latest update I'd have to order it on CD then they'd ship it.
And when.net reaches 5.1 or 10.1?
By then, presumably Mono will have caught up with.NET 4.1 or 8.5.
Unless MS wants to break compatibility, which I had already said they do.
By your reasoning people should still be using Windows 3.x. I doubt 1% do today.
The situation with Mono is different. If you write a bunch of C# code for Mono, using the features of.NET 2.0, because you want your software to run on Linux, you aren't going to give up on Linux compatibility and throw away all that investment just because Microsoft releases a shiny new version.
No it's not different. If a person wanted to they could still write software for Windows 3.x and those who have the OS can run it. But Someone running Vista will not. With Mono, sure something may run on the current version of Mono today, but that does not mean Mono will be current in 5 or 10 years. Anytime MS wants to they can stop supporting Mono and make.net incompatible. Heck MS doesn't even keep compatibility between different versions of Office. I doubt that many people using Office today would be able to view a document created in Office 1997, without some plugin. And I definitely would not be able to open and have rendered properly a document I create in Office 2007 in Office 1997.
You really think Linux developers are willing to give up on Linux just to "remain current" with Microsoft's releases? Seriously?
If they want to remain current but MS stops supporting Mono, and breaks.net so it is not compatible yes.
But that doesn't follow from step 2. Microsoft releasing a new version of.NET does not directly lead to anyone being forced to stop using Mono or switch to Microsoft software.
They do if they want to stay current, and I think anyone worth salt would want to stay current.
After all, Microsoft is already up to.NET 3.5. People are still using Mono, and software written for.NET 2.0 still runs fine on Mono. Developers who target Mono simply ignore the features that Mono doesn't support.
And when.net reaches 5.1 or 10.1? By your reasoning people should still be using Windows 3.x. I doubt 1% do today.
So, how exactly is the "extend and extinguish" part of this scheme supposed to work? There's still a big question mark in the middle.
The only thing needed between "Microsoft releases a new version of.NET for Windows containing features Mono doesn't support" and "Linux developers are forced to switch to Microsoft software or stop using Mono" is the need to remain current.
No I didn't. I founded the instructions here as well as looked at your link. Notice though how yours does not say how to install Eclipse in OS X whereas mine does. Your instructions are specifically for installing it on Windows. And someone else got a similar error as I did when they installed it in Ubuntu.
It's the emotional neglect that comes from being the party impaired all the time.
The one who's neglected by a drug user can move on. Otherwise my sister's a victim of a crime as well. I was hit by a moving van after my classes in college that caused a disability. Now my sister has to deal with my finances. So she should be able to sue the employer of the person who hit me too. Actually my whole family has suffered so they all should be able to sue.
Sounds ridiculous doesn't it? Not any more that what you're saying.
To be fair, all of this happens with booze as well, but, to say that drug or drink abuse is victimless is simply not true.
One, what you're describing is not a crime though there may be abuse. Two, it's not drug use that causes it, if anything it's drug abuse that does. In which case it can be handled the same way it is with alcoholics.
MJ making anyone violent? Fuck, I'd rather be in the presence of 10 stoned people than in the presence of 10 drunk.
Yeap, I've never seen someone who was just high being violent. But I've seen a number of people drunk who were violent.
If anything, MJ makes you very passive.
I read somewhere that's why Russia, the Soviets. made it illegal. They couldn't risk soldiers smoking wanting to kick back and relax and not wanting to fight.
As stated, I'm not disagreeing, jury nullification is important and should be protected.
But in the case of someone who automatically hears the word "drug" and decides to nullify, this is just dumb.
Well I didn't say what the charge was, and I wouldn't automatically nullify crime just because drugs were involved. Simple possession or dealing yes, but where someone is harmed I wouldn't. If a person is killed by someone on drugs, then I'd vote guilty for murder. If another person were charged with robbery for sticking up someone to pay for drugs, then I'd vote guilty for robbery.
In other words I'd convict on the crime that caused harm, and the use of drugs itself does not cause to those who do not use the drug.
Now if the parent decided to nullify AFTER the facts were presented, and in the course of the presentation decided that the law was aggrevious and unconstitutional, then this should be in their right if they can convince their peers likewise.
Actually not all of the jury has to be convinced. Just one person voting innocent in a trial that requires a unanimous verdict, usually criminal vs civil trials though in the US Oregon and Louisiana do not require unanimous verdicts in criminal trials, will lead to a hung jury.
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -edward abbey
Which I try to do, using 4 boxes. I start with a soap box, as in on slashdot now, then ballot box, third box is the jury box, and the last one is the ammo box.
This may be, but you still shouldn't be allowed in a jury if your mind is already made up on your verdict, or you are unwilling to listen to the facts of this individual case. A jury verdict shouldn't be about your single opinion on an issue.
Wrong, juries are a check on an overbearing government.
Here are a couple of quotes from some Founding Fathers of the USA: Thomas Jefferson:
"I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet imagined by man by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution."
First Chief Justice John Jay:
"'You have a right to take upon yourselves to judge [both the facts and law]"
I switched from Windows to Linux and Mac OS X and I want to program cross platform. I figured that at first I could program in Java, but I want to learn to program on Macs and Linux PCs in C/C++ as well as other languages.
These companies just don't have a motivation to invest in upgrades because there isn't real competition.
Yeap! That's the problem. There is no competition. Either allow anyone and everyone to use the right of ways or separate ownership of infrastructure from ownership of the services the infrastructure can deliver. I don't thing that that many businesses would be willing to pay to lay fiber, but even if a bunch were willing to how many fibers could be laid down in one place? The problem with one business owning the infrastructure is there would not be much if any competition to improve the infrastructure. The only competition would be between different areas or locations.
I call BS. At a former job I had an account with no admin rights at all, and I installed and ran the JRE and Eclipse from a network share. No special intervention required.
You can call BS all you want. That does not make what I said, that I get errors when I try to run Eclipse in a user account wrong. I get the error "Could not create the view: An unexpected exception was thrown." The details are:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.eclipse.jface.resource.FileImageDescriptor.getFilePath(FileImageDescriptor.java:219)
at org.eclipse.jface.resource.FileImageDescriptor.createImage(FileImageDescriptor.java:172)
at org.eclipse.jface.resource.ImageDescriptor.createResource(ImageDescriptor.java:165)
at org.eclipse.jface.resource.DeviceResourceManager.allocate(DeviceResourceManager.java:56)
at org.eclipse.jface.resource.AbstractResourceManager.create(AbstractResourceManager.java:88)
at org.eclipse.jface.resource.ResourceManager.createImageWithDefault(ResourceManager.java:192)
at org.eclipse.jface.resource.ImageRegistry.get(ImageRegistry.java:212)
at org.eclipse.jface.fieldassist.FieldDecorationRegistry$Entry.getDecoration(FieldDecorationRegistry.java:197)
at org.eclipse.jface.fieldassist.FieldDecorationRegistry.recomputeMaximums(FieldDecorationRegistry.java:401)
at org.eclipse.jface.fieldassist.FieldDecorationRegistry.registerFieldDecoration(FieldDecorationRegistry.java:348)
at org.eclipse.jface.fieldassist.FieldDecorationRegistry.(FieldDecorationRegistry.java:132)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.views.markers.MarkerColumnLabelProvider.(MarkerColumnLabelProvider.java:39)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.views.markers.ExtendedMarkersView.createColumns(ExtendedMarkersView.java:409)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.views.markers.ExtendedMarkersView.createPartControl(ExtendedMarkersView.java:483)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ViewReference.createPartHelper(ViewReference.java:371)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ViewReference.createPart(ViewReference.java:230)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPartReference.getPart(WorkbenchPartReference.java:594)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartPane.setVisible(PartPane.java:306)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ViewPane.setVisible(ViewPane.java:531)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.presentations.PresentablePart.setVisible(PresentablePart.java:180)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.presentations.util.PresentablePartFolder.select(PresentablePartFolder.java:270)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.presentations.util.LeftToRightTabOrder.select(LeftToRightTabOrder.java:65)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.presentations.util.TabbedStackPresentation.selectPart(TabbedStackPresentation.java:473)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartStack.refreshPresentationSelection(PartStack.java:1256)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartStack.createControl(PartStack.java:668)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartStack.createControl(PartStack.java:576)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartSashContainer.createControl(PartSashContainer.java:568)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PerspectiveHelper.activate(PerspectiveHelper.java:271)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Perspective.onActivate(Perspective.java:968)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.onActivate(WorkbenchPage.java:2593)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchWindow$25.run(WorkbenchWindow.java:2873)
at org.eclipse.swt.custom.BusyIndicator.showWhile(BusyIndicator.java:70)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchWindow.setActivePage(WorkbenchWindow.java:2854)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchWindow$19.runWithException(WorkbenchWindow.java:2171)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.StartupThreading$StartupRunnable.run(StartupThreading.java:31)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.RunnableLock.run(RunnableLock.java:35)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Synchronizer.runAsyncMessages(Synchronizer.java:133)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runAsyncMessages(Display.java:3342)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:3071)
at org.eclipse.ui.application.WorkbenchAdvisor.openWindows(Work
Seen enough families having to put up with that one guy whose stoned all the time, stealing money for dope, to say that drugs are not a victimless crime.
Stealing is the crime that causes victims, drugs use is not. And drug prices are high because of the fake War on Drugs, which is really a war on liberty. If drugs were legal then most of the profit would be out of drugs reducing drug related violence as well, with a lot of it being between gangs trying to control the distribution of the drugs.
With the laws politicians and drug warriors have been pushing of decades, they'd imprison many of the USA's Founding Fathers as well. Hemp aka marijuana was grown on the farms owned by, or was advocated by, the first three presidents of the USA, George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson wrote the "Declaration of Independence" on hemp paper. Benjamin Franklin owned a mill that made hemp paper.
Hemp was never made illegal because it was dangerous or bad, but for other reasons. Hemp or marijuana was called the devil weed from Mexico, when it was not from there, to stroke racist fears and fear of violence. However there is not one medical or scientific study that has shown it to cause violence or drive user to become violent, at least I have not found any that have not been discredited and I dare anyone to find one. Most studies conclude the opposite. So why was it made illegal? Because wealthy and powerful industrialists thought hemp was a threat to them.
The fact is, most people who are concerned enough about these issues to look at them are, actually, educated about them.
When you are on the wrong end of a jury... Just remember these are the people too stupid to find an excuse to get out of it.
I was summoned to show up for jury duty twice. Both tymes I was hoping to be picked to serve on a jury preferably involving drugs, but wasn't even questioned either tyme. Why would I want to serve on a jury? Because it's one of the most important duties of a citizen, as well as a privilege many don' get. Why a drug trial? So I can let politicians know victim-less crimes should never have been made crimes to begin with.
Those who want to weasel out of jury duty, or never vote, do not deserve to complain when politicians do something they don't like. I'm sure China or Cuba may want to take them.
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Or how about just not using RFID at all? I don't see why passports can't use the same style chip as used widely in credit cards and debit cards.
Even the chips in credit cards aren't needed. Some years ago my credit card issuer stopped using them because the usefulness didn't justify the expense. Now if I want, such as to order something online, my issuer will issue a one tyme use credit card number.
Falcon
No, people shouldn't have to pay $20 for a way to make this technology safer. The government should improve their own shielding, and use more secure protocols for RFID transmission.
People should only be worried about safety from government. And government shouldn't be using RFID nevermind IDs. It used to be that people in the US could cross the US Mexico border and the US Canadian border, which I've done a number of tymes, without needing a passport.
Falcon
If you shove your passport in a simple metal lined sleeve, this tech isn't trackable.
I'd rather use an oven.
Falcon
check back with me in a couple years.. I'm betting you won't like him then...
I cringed as I voted for Obama. But as I said during the campaign McCain scared and Hillary terrified me. I was hoping that at least Obama would take the advise of some economists of the Chicago school of economics.
Falcon
You forget that they themselves will be just as trackable. As a politician I would be very worried about that.
Politicians should be more trackable than citizens. Politicians are supposed to work for, and be accountable to, citizens not the other way around.
So either they really don't care, or they just have not clue. What do you think it is? ;)
Both I bet. Some probably don't know what uses can be made of with IDs and passports with embedded chips. And some of those who do probably think they're immune.
Falcon
By "stop supporting Mono" you mean "stop supporting .NET 2.0"
No, for one thing I mean start threatening anyone who uses Mono for patent infringement. MS has been making noise for years saying Linux and Open Office infringe on 238 MS patents.
Falcon
I suspect there would be competition for the slots, especially if States such as mine (NH) followed their Constitutions and compensated jurors as mandated ('fully' in our case).
When I was summoned about 20 years ago, twice within a couple of years, the pay was only $20 a day which if you need your pay from work doesn't cut it. I was a student then so I would have missed class, but not work. As it was I only had to show up 2 days each tyme, then sit around waiting. But at least I got some homework done.
Falcon
When I got 'called' I was told that not following the judges orders on how to interpret the law could get a juror held in contempt of court.
Yea, unfortunately some judges try to prevent jury nullification. One of the questions I ask someone running for judgeships is if they support it. I will tell them point blank that I will vote against anyone who opposes the right of citizens to tell politicians a law is bad by using jury nullification, if they don't want citizen jurists judging the merits of laws then I don't want them sitting in judgment of others. If they oppose Fully Informed Juries I oppose them.
Plus there's the whole conscription aspect to be adverse to.
Though I had to go down to the office when summoned for jury duty I was never even questioned. As I said previously I consider jury duty to be one of the most important things citizens can do, and want to serve on a jury myself. There are 4 boxes to be used to defend liberty, soap box, ballot box, jury box, and ammo box. And they should be used in that order. Slashdot is one of my soap boxes. When I use the ballot box I vote, and I do vote, based on the candidates positions on the issues not on what party they are in. Unfortunately I haven't been able to use the jury box, and though I have used the ammo box I haven't in years.
Falcon
My point is that 'installing' eclipse is extracting it to a directory of your choice and running the executable. That's it.
And despite doing that I get errors when I run or try to run Eclipse in my user account, but don't when it's run in an admin account.
Falcon
which means either using the latest version of Mono
Staying compatible only until Microsoft decides it doesn't want Mono to be compatible.
Hell, even Windows developers don't necessarily care about staying current.
Guaranteed job security by using tech others don't know.
I'm a developer on two commercial apps written in C#, and they both target .NET 2.0. In the case of one of them, that's specifically so that it will be compatible with Mono.
Because you say one will, it's only logical to conclude the other will or may not be compatible. So whoever uses it may be locked into proprietary software then left out in the cold when support for it is dropped. And yes, MS does do that. I bought a brand new PC with NT4 and 3 years later MS stopped supporting downloadable patches. The last tyme I ran Windows Update the MS mothership said it no longer offered the updates online, it further said that if I wanted the latest update I'd have to order it on CD then they'd ship it.
And when .net reaches 5.1 or 10.1?
By then, presumably Mono will have caught up with .NET 4.1 or 8.5.
Unless MS wants to break compatibility, which I had already said they do.
By your reasoning people should still be using Windows 3.x. I doubt 1% do today.
The situation with Mono is different. If you write a bunch of C# code for Mono, using the features of .NET 2.0, because you want your software to run on Linux, you aren't going to give up on Linux compatibility and throw away all that investment just because Microsoft releases a shiny new version.
No it's not different. If a person wanted to they could still write software for Windows 3.x and those who have the OS can run it. But Someone running Vista will not. With Mono, sure something may run on the current version of Mono today, but that does not mean Mono will be current in 5 or 10 years. Anytime MS wants to they can stop supporting Mono and make .net incompatible. Heck MS doesn't even keep compatibility between different versions of Office. I doubt that many people using Office today would be able to view a document created in Office 1997, without some plugin. And I definitely would not be able to open and have rendered properly a document I create in Office 2007 in Office 1997.
You really think Linux developers are willing to give up on Linux just to "remain current" with Microsoft's releases? Seriously?
If they want to remain current but MS stops supporting Mono, and breaks .net so it is not compatible yes.
Falcon
But that doesn't follow from step 2. Microsoft releasing a new version of .NET does not directly lead to anyone being forced to stop using Mono or switch to Microsoft software.
They do if they want to stay current, and I think anyone worth salt would want to stay current.
After all, Microsoft is already up to .NET 3.5. People are still using Mono, and software written for .NET 2.0 still runs fine on Mono. Developers who target Mono simply ignore the features that Mono doesn't support.
And when .net reaches 5.1 or 10.1? By your reasoning people should still be using Windows 3.x. I doubt 1% do today.
So, how exactly is the "extend and extinguish" part of this scheme supposed to work? There's still a big question mark in the middle.
The only thing needed between "Microsoft releases a new version of .NET for Windows containing features Mono doesn't support" and "Linux developers are forced to switch to Microsoft software or stop using Mono" is the need to remain current.
Falcon
Yes it does. You did something wrong.
No I didn't. I founded the instructions here as well as looked at your link. Notice though how yours does not say how to install Eclipse in OS X whereas mine does. Your instructions are specifically for installing it on Windows. And someone else got a similar error as I did when they installed it in Ubuntu.
Falcon
It's the emotional neglect that comes from being the party impaired all the time.
The one who's neglected by a drug user can move on. Otherwise my sister's a victim of a crime as well. I was hit by a moving van after my classes in college that caused a disability. Now my sister has to deal with my finances. So she should be able to sue the employer of the person who hit me too. Actually my whole family has suffered so they all should be able to sue.
Sounds ridiculous doesn't it? Not any more that what you're saying.
To be fair, all of this happens with booze as well, but, to say that drug or drink abuse is victimless is simply not true.
One, what you're describing is not a crime though there may be abuse. Two, it's not drug use that causes it, if anything it's drug abuse that does. In which case it can be handled the same way it is with alcoholics.
Falcon
MJ making anyone violent? Fuck, I'd rather be in the presence of 10 stoned people than in the presence of 10 drunk.
Yeap, I've never seen someone who was just high being violent. But I've seen a number of people drunk who were violent.
If anything, MJ makes you very passive.
I read somewhere that's why Russia, the Soviets. made it illegal. They couldn't risk soldiers smoking wanting to kick back and relax and not wanting to fight.
Falcon
As stated, I'm not disagreeing, jury nullification is important and should be protected.
But in the case of someone who automatically hears the word "drug" and decides to nullify, this is just dumb.
Well I didn't say what the charge was, and I wouldn't automatically nullify crime just because drugs were involved. Simple possession or dealing yes, but where someone is harmed I wouldn't. If a person is killed by someone on drugs, then I'd vote guilty for murder. If another person were charged with robbery for sticking up someone to pay for drugs, then I'd vote guilty for robbery.
In other words I'd convict on the crime that caused harm, and the use of drugs itself does not cause to those who do not use the drug.
Now if the parent decided to nullify AFTER the facts were presented, and in the course of the presentation decided that the law was aggrevious and unconstitutional, then this should be in their right if they can convince their peers likewise.
Actually not all of the jury has to be convinced. Just one person voting innocent in a trial that requires a unanimous verdict, usually criminal vs civil trials though in the US Oregon and Louisiana do not require unanimous verdicts in criminal trials, will lead to a hung jury.
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -edward abbey
Which I try to do, using 4 boxes. I start with a soap box, as in on slashdot now, then ballot box, third box is the jury box, and the last one is the ammo box.
Falcon
I would hate to think someone like my dad, who is the technological equivalent of a sloth, would have any kind of say over this kind of issue.
Yea, we can't have taxpayers having a say in how their money is spent.
Falcon
This may be, but you still shouldn't be allowed in a jury if your mind is already made up on your verdict, or you are unwilling to listen to the facts of this individual case. A jury verdict shouldn't be about your single opinion on an issue.
Wrong, juries are a check on an overbearing government.
Here are a couple of quotes from some Founding Fathers of the USA:
Thomas Jefferson:
"I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet imagined by man by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution."
First Chief Justice John Jay:
"'You have a right to take upon yourselves to judge [both the facts and law]"
There are more quotes.
Falcon
Number 4, "4. Linux developers are forced to switch to Microsoft software or stop using Mono" , is number 3.
Falcon
I switched from Windows to Linux and Mac OS X and I want to program cross platform. I figured that at first I could program in Java, but I want to learn to program on Macs and Linux PCs in C/C++ as well as other languages.
Falcon
These companies just don't have a motivation to invest in upgrades because there isn't real competition.
Yeap! That's the problem. There is no competition. Either allow anyone and everyone to use the right of ways or separate ownership of infrastructure from ownership of the services the infrastructure can deliver. I don't thing that that many businesses would be willing to pay to lay fiber, but even if a bunch were willing to how many fibers could be laid down in one place? The problem with one business owning the infrastructure is there would not be much if any competition to improve the infrastructure. The only competition would be between different areas or locations.
Falcon
their only motivation to do the job is to make sure it gets tilted toward their bias.
Which may mean getting hired by one of the companies if they aren't already working for one.
Falcon
I call BS. At a former job I had an account with no admin rights at all, and I installed and ran the JRE and Eclipse from a network share. No special intervention required.
You can call BS all you want. That does not make what I said, that I get errors when I try to run Eclipse in a user account wrong. I get the error "Could not create the view: An unexpected exception was thrown." The details are:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.eclipse.jface.resource.FileImageDescriptor.getFilePath(FileImageDescriptor.java:219)
at org.eclipse.jface.resource.FileImageDescriptor.createImage(FileImageDescriptor.java:172)
at org.eclipse.jface.resource.ImageDescriptor.createResource(ImageDescriptor.java:165)
at org.eclipse.jface.resource.DeviceResourceManager.allocate(DeviceResourceManager.java:56)
at org.eclipse.jface.resource.AbstractResourceManager.create(AbstractResourceManager.java:88)
at org.eclipse.jface.resource.ResourceManager.createImageWithDefault(ResourceManager.java:192)
at org.eclipse.jface.resource.ImageRegistry.get(ImageRegistry.java:212)
at org.eclipse.jface.fieldassist.FieldDecorationRegistry$Entry.getDecoration(FieldDecorationRegistry.java:197)
at org.eclipse.jface.fieldassist.FieldDecorationRegistry.recomputeMaximums(FieldDecorationRegistry.java:401)
at org.eclipse.jface.fieldassist.FieldDecorationRegistry.registerFieldDecoration(FieldDecorationRegistry.java:348)
at org.eclipse.jface.fieldassist.FieldDecorationRegistry.(FieldDecorationRegistry.java:132)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.views.markers.MarkerColumnLabelProvider.(MarkerColumnLabelProvider.java:39)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.views.markers.ExtendedMarkersView.createColumns(ExtendedMarkersView.java:409)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.views.markers.ExtendedMarkersView.createPartControl(ExtendedMarkersView.java:483)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ViewReference.createPartHelper(ViewReference.java:371)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ViewReference.createPart(ViewReference.java:230)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPartReference.getPart(WorkbenchPartReference.java:594)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartPane.setVisible(PartPane.java:306)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ViewPane.setVisible(ViewPane.java:531)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.presentations.PresentablePart.setVisible(PresentablePart.java:180)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.presentations.util.PresentablePartFolder.select(PresentablePartFolder.java:270)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.presentations.util.LeftToRightTabOrder.select(LeftToRightTabOrder.java:65)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.presentations.util.TabbedStackPresentation.selectPart(TabbedStackPresentation.java:473)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartStack.refreshPresentationSelection(PartStack.java:1256)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartStack.createControl(PartStack.java:668)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartStack.createControl(PartStack.java:576)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartSashContainer.createControl(PartSashContainer.java:568)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PerspectiveHelper.activate(PerspectiveHelper.java:271)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Perspective.onActivate(Perspective.java:968)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.onActivate(WorkbenchPage.java:2593)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchWindow$25.run(WorkbenchWindow.java:2873)
at org.eclipse.swt.custom.BusyIndicator.showWhile(BusyIndicator.java:70)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchWindow.setActivePage(WorkbenchWindow.java:2854)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchWindow$19.runWithException(WorkbenchWindow.java:2171)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.StartupThreading$StartupRunnable.run(StartupThreading.java:31)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.RunnableLock.run(RunnableLock.java:35)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Synchronizer.runAsyncMessages(Synchronizer.java:133)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runAsyncMessages(Display.java:3342)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:3071)
at org.eclipse.ui.application.WorkbenchAdvisor.openWindows(Work
Seen enough families having to put up with that one guy whose stoned all the time, stealing money for dope, to say that drugs are not a victimless crime.
Stealing is the crime that causes victims, drugs use is not. And drug prices are high because of the fake War on Drugs, which is really a war on liberty. If drugs were legal then most of the profit would be out of drugs reducing drug related violence as well, with a lot of it being between gangs trying to control the distribution of the drugs.
With the laws politicians and drug warriors have been pushing of decades, they'd imprison many of the USA's Founding Fathers as well. Hemp aka marijuana was grown on the farms owned by, or was advocated by, the first three presidents of the USA, George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson wrote the "Declaration of Independence" on hemp paper. Benjamin Franklin owned a mill that made hemp paper.
Hemp was never made illegal because it was dangerous or bad, but for other reasons. Hemp or marijuana was called the devil weed from Mexico, when it was not from there, to stroke racist fears and fear of violence. However there is not one medical or scientific study that has shown it to cause violence or drive user to become violent, at least I have not found any that have not been discredited and I dare anyone to find one. Most studies conclude the opposite. So why was it made illegal? Because wealthy and powerful industrialists thought hemp was a threat to them.
There isn't? You'd better tell the 1.1 million websites that are returned when googling "java 6".
Look at the software source code and package names, and try typing 'java -version" at the command line.
Better yet, I can open the Java Preferences Application. It shows:
Java Applet Plugin
As well as:
Java Applications
The book I have from Sun is titled:
"Core Java(TM), Volume I--Fundamentals (8th Edition)" and is for Java SE 6.
Falcon
The fact is, most people who are concerned enough about these issues to look at them are, actually, educated about them.
When you are on the wrong end of a jury... Just remember these are the people too stupid to find an excuse to get out of it.
I was summoned to show up for jury duty twice. Both tymes I was hoping to be picked to serve on a jury preferably involving drugs, but wasn't even questioned either tyme. Why would I want to serve on a jury? Because it's one of the most important duties of a citizen, as well as a privilege many don' get. Why a drug trial? So I can let politicians know victim-less crimes should never have been made crimes to begin with.
Those who want to weasel out of jury duty, or never vote, do not deserve to complain when politicians do something they don't like. I'm sure China or Cuba may want to take them.
Falcon