Because this has huge implications for online security.
huge? really? i think a zero-day exploit of ${web_server} and/or ${OS} would have huge implications for online security. but this hack?
you may turn out to be right of course, if say several congressman's kids got burned then maybe we're in for draconian legislature. naked pics of Bush twins could have similar impact. otherwise, i'm thinking "meh"
Secondly if this is a VR sim, than there must be some Reality sufficiently advanced to where we could get replicated in RL from our VR selves after we proved our worth here! (another reason to be good!)
dude, you just blew my mind... Pascal's Wager put into current terminology...
but, what if this is a simulation of a simulation. the higher-level simulation would just be simulating pulling one of us out of sim into RL. we would have to be "good" in that VR in case it was just a sim and we needed to pop up another level of recursion
where flex fuel is helpful is that it helps create a market for fuels other than gasoline. since you seem to know more about the technical details versus the macroeconomics, i suggest you read about how flex fuels worked out in Brazil. at the risk of giving away the ending, the bad guys (e.g. Oil companies lost)
It could be that volcanoes won't erupt under Los Angeles, ice hurricanes won't hit New York...
next you'll be saying a holly-jolly gravitationally challenged old guy won't be landing his caribou-powered flying sled on my rooftop some time on or after the upcoming winter solstice
look, we know flying fat elves and LA being violently destroyed in a day are only dreams, but let us have those dreams, eh? they're beautiful visions that make life worth living...
Well if Broken Government[tm] can't do it in-house then they'll just have to do it out-house, err, I mean outsource it! Does Blackwater contract out astronauts?
(okay, so if you don't work for the US Govt then you won't "get it" - pay no attention to the crazy mumbling old guy)
Explain to me why an artist deserves any more consideration for their life's work than any artisan, tradesman, or professional.
market forces my friend. the supply of talent is small and someone talented should get what the market will bear, IMHO
ever buy a concert ticket? why would one pay that much for some smeggers to bang on whatever instruments? because they rock. would you buy a ticket to see me? no, 'cause i'm talentless. is it fair? is life fair?
why do Americans devalue teachers and overvalue ball players? because, as a group, we suck, we make bad choices. should ball players take a pay cut so teachers can make more? yes? great, so all we have to do is stop watching the games, stop buying the sports tickets, and sign up for higher property taxes
it's your turn now because i've already done my part
Such weak BS.
If an artist wants to take care of their heirs, they need to do like the rest of us and take care of their heirs with the money they earn while they are still alive.
Untimely accident? TFB, death sucks for all of us.
I just don't see what gives artists the right to continue to profit from their works after they die. No one else has that "right".
you can't see it because you're myopic. consult an optometrist
also, consider the life gamble someone like Heinlein makes. part of why he concludes he can make that gamble is the payoff, for him and his heirs, has high potential. you're talking about restricting and/or eliminating that potential
i know i like to keep my artists down. keeps 'em from getting uppity and acting like they deserve something for their effort
my employer has told me that my pay will be stopped when I die. Evidently I am in the wrong industry
okay, so what industry are you in? should your heirs be paid for your enduring work at the Walmart checkout? at the Ford assembly plant? well, probably not. at Microsoft? hmm, maybe not. in your studio creating a new genre of painting / literature / music? yep, that's how we've been doing it for a while
what if you author an enduring work that continues to benefit society and parenthetically continues to sell. you are going to insist you stop being paid after some time limit? and what is that limit? two years? at your death? say you die the day after your first sale. so then is your wife screwed, your children screwed?
not like we're talking about 20 lines of Java code tossed off just after lunch, we're talking about a large personal effort creating an enduring work of art
you take a year off, create a work at the same level as Stranger In A Strange Land, then give it to me. for free. thanks! and when SciFi creates the mini series, tell them to take their filthy money and piss off, you don't want it. good for you! God forbid you spend your advance on a round the world trip (i assume you'd take an advance from a publisher, if not a cut of the sales) and then you snuff it on a beach in Thailand (sorry, killed you off in a tsunami). your year old child who was too young for the trip is screwed. thanks papa!
sure, we all hate the corporate parasites currently sucking the life out of everyone and everything. but don't forget about the original author and his family who really are entitled to compensation
saying everything should be free for the children (THINK OF THE CHILDREN!) is jacked up, my $0.02
Not that you care, but the 'Slam Dunk' quote comes from a person carried-over from the previous (D) administration. IF you're going to be dick, at least be an informed dick.
*sheesh*
is that you Karl?
Karl Rove, i know that's you! come out from behind the AC shield and take it like a man
i know you've got some time on your hands now but going on/. to bait liberals is beneath you
I find it funny how it is always put "the Euro rsing against the dollar" or "the Canadian dollar rises against the US dollar" when the truth is the US dollar is in freefall, loosing value hand over fist. I wonder how long before the Peso overtakes us?
hmm, didn't Uncle Dick (Cheney) tell us that "deficits don't matter" some time ago? is the "Slam Dunk" administration wrong on another topic?
I think you're wrong there. Isn't the point of Slashdot to report the news? Isn't it the job of the technically elite to keep an eye on mega corporations, making sure no ugly things happen to the rights of the many?
If technically elite do not watch out for everyone else, then we all get what we deserve.
oh cool, i read slashdot and now i'm elite! hoorah! i've never been elite before
but i haven't done anything to deserve being called elite. there's no justification for it so maybe, technically, i'm not... oh... well... fuck me then
on a more serious note i think most normals would request that the tech elite piss off and/or stop being wankers. i'm sure they'd laugh their ass off to think that the geek squad has their back
For instance, I knew someone that used Pascal in industry as an Engineer
early 90s, Thiokol engineers (you know, rocket scientists), PDP-11s and then, fullfilling my wetest dreams, my very own VAX. everything coded in DEC's very nice PASCAL
sweet
and that came with old school tech support. i found a bug in the compiler and they were going to have a tech fly out with the tape for a patched version of the compiler
those were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end...
a good manager acts as a blast shield to protect the team from things such as
scope creep from the customer
asinine company policies
other marauding managers
60 Minutes, and other quasi-human monsters
and then there's my manager:
scope creep? The customer is always right!
asinine company policies? We _have_ to do this, it won't just go away!
other marauding managers? Here's something Ken in Accounting would like you to work on _in_your_spare_time_ - do what you can with it. BTW, he wants it tomorrow. Thanks!
60 Minutes, and other quasi-human monsters? Sorry, nothing "funny" here, he would probably stonewall and _act_ dumb...
given roughly 31536000 seconds per year, that's about 3 seconds per year downtime. that's not a "good webhost" -- that's a f#cking phenominal webhost! that's down like one minute every 20 years. awesome! where do i sign up?
we the American people hired incompetents to run our business. or we abdicated, left the hiring up to the lamers who'll actually stand in line to vote - those dumbfucks don't have anything else better to do??
we the people used to be in charge but we slacked off. and now who's in charge? assholes. but who hired them? who _let_ them?
if the American people are ever going to be in charge of their own lives again then we have to wake up, take responsiblity, quit crying like pussies that "someone stole my country" and fucking take it back
fucking vote! even if it's for Ralph Nader. fucking vote. campaign. volunteer. shoot your mouth off. act like you give a shit! be loud. be proud. be a real patriot. and realize you might have to sacrifice something. do it anyway
my Windows box at work is "locked down" (i also work for Govt - paranoid, sissy wankers) and Firefox does a good job of installing itself and running despite supposed controls. just make sure you change the install folder to something you can write to - try "My Documents" if all else fails
i agree with you up to a point. i'm currently experiencing "medical tourism" on a family vacation, saving over half of what a dentist in the US would charge for the procedure. but i agree routine visits can't be outsourced, normally
the artificial inflation of prices for the medical industry in the US is creating one of those market inefficiencies you speak of and it's nice to think there is some downward pressure on price, weak as it may be
and just for a laugh, my regular dentist (who approved of my dental adventure, BTW) is going to start buying equipment in Canada - saving 1/2 on most items, but i didn't ask about getting the stuff across the border... she might be in the news some day:^)
Too true, Mr. Rove is not going to retire to farming nor is he going to perp-walk off to prison.
And I wonder, can he be beaten? Is America going to have another Republican president?
The terrorists are still out there you know, and you're not going to trust some sissy Democrat or even, horrors, a _woman_ to keep you safe, are you? Why heck, did you know that Osama, err, that Obama guy even went to a Muslim school?
wow, that's a lot of verbiage. so, to sum up: colonization is hard so let's not
what i fail to understand from your post is why you've jumped to "colonize the galaxy and the universe" when i believe the original intention here was just to get beyond Earth. the solar system is a big place, we can muck about in our own neighborhood for quite a while. no it's not easy, and creative people will have to figure out how to make such enterprise pay for itself, but i think we should at least have a go of it
and inherent in your argument, which i gather is an extension of someone else's, is that "i am not smart enough to leave Earth, therefore you lot should really just give up" and that is in my opinion an extremely unattractive combination of ignorance and arrogance. please do stay home and try to stay out of the way of people who are going places
since all y'all make an artform out of bigotry, i'll accept your keen judgement against me. one query however, does calling me names make you more civilized? or is blameless stone-throwing a privilege one accrues when one is extraordinarily righteous? sorry - that's two queries. and rather an unhealthy amount of snarkiness. i guess you'll have to take me to task again for insulting the south, pointing out your less than sharp thinking, etcetera. never imagined you'd bring your wife into it - sorry about that. the texas comment comes from desparately hating bush and the ruin he's wrought. call it a dixie chicks moment on my part. mea culpa, bubba
having a death penalty implies that life is cheap [see China's roving vans of death]
places where life is cheap tend to not be very civilized [see Baghdad, Darfur, Texas]
arguments like "if we just kill all the killers, then the rest of us will be safe" (which i believe you are implying) unfortunately ignores the fact that any of us, given the wrong circumstances, is capable of dire deeds
what the world needs is more compassion, not more death chambers
and hey, if you're not into compassion (and you don't seem to be), ask yourself this: do you think murderers enjoy being locked up for life or might they prefer a quick out? do you really want to give them what they want, the quick out?
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huge? really? i think a zero-day exploit of ${web_server} and/or ${OS} would have huge implications for online security. but this hack?
you may turn out to be right of course, if say several congressman's kids got burned then maybe we're in for draconian legislature. naked pics of Bush twins could have similar impact. otherwise, i'm thinking "meh"
dude, you just blew my mind... Pascal's Wager put into current terminology...
but, what if this is a simulation of a simulation. the higher-level simulation would just be simulating pulling one of us out of sim into RL. we would have to be "good" in that VR in case it was just a sim and we needed to pop up another level of recursion
zzzz, pop! (welcome back NEO)
where flex fuel is helpful is that it helps create a market for fuels other than gasoline. since you seem to know more about the technical details versus the macroeconomics, i suggest you read about how flex fuels worked out in Brazil. at the risk of giving away the ending, the bad guys (e.g. Oil companies lost)
look, we know flying fat elves and LA being violently destroyed in a day are only dreams, but let us have those dreams, eh? they're beautiful visions that make life worth living...
COTSS? Commercial Off The Shelf Spaceflight?
Well if Broken Government[tm] can't do it in-house then they'll just have to do it out-house, err, I mean outsource it! Does Blackwater contract out astronauts?
(okay, so if you don't work for the US Govt then you won't "get it" - pay no attention to the crazy mumbling old guy)
market forces my friend. the supply of talent is small and someone talented should get what the market will bear, IMHO
ever buy a concert ticket? why would one pay that much for some smeggers to bang on whatever instruments? because they rock. would you buy a ticket to see me? no, 'cause i'm talentless. is it fair? is life fair?
why do Americans devalue teachers and overvalue ball players? because, as a group, we suck, we make bad choices. should ball players take a pay cut so teachers can make more? yes? great, so all we have to do is stop watching the games, stop buying the sports tickets, and sign up for higher property taxes
it's your turn now because i've already done my part
you can't see it because you're myopic. consult an optometrist
also, consider the life gamble someone like Heinlein makes. part of why he concludes he can make that gamble is the payoff, for him and his heirs, has high potential. you're talking about restricting and/or eliminating that potential
i know i like to keep my artists down. keeps 'em from getting uppity and acting like they deserve something for their effort
okay, so what industry are you in? should your heirs be paid for your enduring work at the Walmart checkout? at the Ford assembly plant? well, probably not. at Microsoft? hmm, maybe not. in your studio creating a new genre of painting / literature / music? yep, that's how we've been doing it for a while
what if you author an enduring work that continues to benefit society and parenthetically continues to sell. you are going to insist you stop being paid after some time limit? and what is that limit? two years? at your death? say you die the day after your first sale. so then is your wife screwed, your children screwed?
not like we're talking about 20 lines of Java code tossed off just after lunch, we're talking about a large personal effort creating an enduring work of art
you take a year off, create a work at the same level as Stranger In A Strange Land, then give it to me. for free. thanks! and when SciFi creates the mini series, tell them to take their filthy money and piss off, you don't want it. good for you! God forbid you spend your advance on a round the world trip (i assume you'd take an advance from a publisher, if not a cut of the sales) and then you snuff it on a beach in Thailand (sorry, killed you off in a tsunami). your year old child who was too young for the trip is screwed. thanks papa!
you're being shortsighted
sure, we all hate the corporate parasites currently sucking the life out of everyone and everything. but don't forget about the original author and his family who really are entitled to compensation
saying everything should be free for the children (THINK OF THE CHILDREN!) is jacked up, my $0.02
dead authors may have live heirs who need the money
it would be nice to think that one's work could benefit one's children for some time
OTOH, current corporate perversions attempting to lock revenue streams in perpetuity are abominations
OTTH, Admiral Heinlein, I salute you sir!
is that you Karl?
Karl Rove, i know that's you! come out from behind the AC shield and take it like a man
i know you've got some time on your hands now but going on /. to bait liberals is beneath you
(oh fsck me, what am i saying...)
getting into Somone's briefcase is satisfying but getting into her pants is even more satisfying
schwing!
hmm, didn't Uncle Dick (Cheney) tell us that "deficits don't matter" some time ago? is the "Slam Dunk" administration wrong on another topic?
say it ain't so...
but i haven't done anything to deserve being called elite. there's no justification for it so maybe, technically, i'm not... oh... well... fuck me then
on a more serious note i think most normals would request that the tech elite piss off and/or stop being wankers. i'm sure they'd laugh their ass off to think that the geek squad has their back
sweet
and that came with old school tech support. i found a bug in the compiler and they were going to have a tech fly out with the tape for a patched version of the compiler
those were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end...
given roughly 31536000 seconds per year, that's about 3 seconds per year downtime. that's not a "good webhost" -- that's a f#cking phenominal webhost! that's down like one minute every 20 years. awesome! where do i sign up?
we the American people hired incompetents to run our business. or we abdicated, left the hiring up to the lamers who'll actually stand in line to vote - those dumbfucks don't have anything else better to do??
we the people used to be in charge but we slacked off. and now who's in charge? assholes. but who hired them? who _let_ them?
if the American people are ever going to be in charge of their own lives again then we have to wake up, take responsiblity, quit crying like pussies that "someone stole my country" and fucking take it back
fucking vote! even if it's for Ralph Nader. fucking vote. campaign. volunteer. shoot your mouth off. act like you give a shit! be loud. be proud. be a real patriot. and realize you might have to sacrifice something. do it anyway
that must be why we have all this money laying about! last i heard, we had like 8 trillion!
what's that? that's how much we're in debt???
oh, okay. fuck me...
my Windows box at work is "locked down" (i also work for Govt - paranoid, sissy wankers) and Firefox does a good job of installing itself and running despite supposed controls. just make sure you change the install folder to something you can write to - try "My Documents" if all else fails
btw, my condolences re: your employer ;^)
the artificial inflation of prices for the medical industry in the US is creating one of those market inefficiencies you speak of and it's nice to think there is some downward pressure on price, weak as it may be
and just for a laugh, my regular dentist (who approved of my dental adventure, BTW) is going to start buying equipment in Canada - saving 1/2 on most items, but i didn't ask about getting the stuff across the border... she might be in the news some day :^)
Too true, Mr. Rove is not going to retire to farming nor is he going to perp-walk off to prison.
And I wonder, can he be beaten? Is America going to have another Republican president?
The terrorists are still out there you know, and you're not going to trust some sissy Democrat or even, horrors, a _woman_ to keep you safe, are you? Why heck, did you know that Osama, err, that Obama guy even went to a Muslim school?
Get your funky SPIN on MC Rove!
what i fail to understand from your post is why you've jumped to "colonize the galaxy and the universe" when i believe the original intention here was just to get beyond Earth. the solar system is a big place, we can muck about in our own neighborhood for quite a while. no it's not easy, and creative people will have to figure out how to make such enterprise pay for itself, but i think we should at least have a go of it
and inherent in your argument, which i gather is an extension of someone else's, is that "i am not smart enough to leave Earth, therefore you lot should really just give up" and that is in my opinion an extremely unattractive combination of ignorance and arrogance. please do stay home and try to stay out of the way of people who are going places
since all y'all make an artform out of bigotry, i'll accept your keen judgement against me. one query however, does calling me names make you more civilized? or is blameless stone-throwing a privilege one accrues when one is extraordinarily righteous? sorry - that's two queries. and rather an unhealthy amount of snarkiness. i guess you'll have to take me to task again for insulting the south, pointing out your less than sharp thinking, etcetera. never imagined you'd bring your wife into it - sorry about that. the texas comment comes from desparately hating bush and the ruin he's wrought. call it a dixie chicks moment on my part. mea culpa, bubba
having a death penalty implies that life is cheap [see China's roving vans of death]
places where life is cheap tend to not be very civilized [see Baghdad, Darfur, Texas]
arguments like "if we just kill all the killers, then the rest of us will be safe" (which i believe you are implying) unfortunately ignores the fact that any of us, given the wrong circumstances, is capable of dire deeds
what the world needs is more compassion, not more death chambers
and hey, if you're not into compassion (and you don't seem to be), ask yourself this: do you think murderers enjoy being locked up for life or might they prefer a quick out? do you really want to give them what they want, the quick out?