Would it be possible to stream the data into a mobile phone game? I'm thinking something along the lines of Pacman or Donkey Kong where you chase your children.
The paedophiles could be the bad monsters in it. It would make the experience a bit more fun while you children were being abducted.
Yet another article that confuses "Moore's law" as an actual physical law. Jouralists are often unfortunately out of their depth when it comes to Moore's law as it's a bit more complicated than using Word.
Moore's law is not a physical law whatsover and has no bearing on actual chip development or progress. It is merely a way to predict the miniaturisation of chips. It does not take into account manufacturing processes whatsover, and so there is no theoretical end to it when current chip miniturisation techniques reach their theoretical or actual fundamental physical limits.
Instead, Moore's law is a time scale that predicts microchip technological advancement and it certainly isn't a precise observation.
Every so often, somebody starts to claim that Moore's law is broken, or going to be broken, or can't hold any longer. It never happens and is usually just the PR department looking for an interesting angle on a mildly interesting discovery.
I read this book as I was encouraged to look at it by the article, and concur with the reviewer. A very worthwhile book that incorporates theory with IF history and annecdotal trivia quite elegantly. It would be a very good book for academic work too.
My sole mild criticism is that the book somewhat skirts towards the fallacy that the fantasy genre is by definition derived from Tolkien. This is incorrect, as Tolkien for the most part reworked Celtic and Norse myth.
The legislation would possibly make it more possible to prosecute and gather evidence on an foreign citizen who breaks the German law by providing Nazi material to a German in Germany.
The German government would certainly like to get it's hands on foreign organisations that support neo-nazi organisations inside of Germany, thus breaking the law there. They would not consider it a waste of time whatsoever.
This is not a change to German law - it merely helps to enforce it. You should also be aware that the precedence for this law was infact established during the American/Allied occupation of Germany after it's defeat. It is essentially, a legacy of the Allied forces martial law and in no way runs contrary to American foreign policy whatsoever.
You do not have the right to break another country's laws, nor do you have the right to support neo-Nazism or to distribute Nazi material in Germany whether by ebay or in person. You also don't have the right to use American law to hide from a crime if a legitimate and friendly government of the US desires to prosecute you. You just don't have these rights or Constitutional protections any more than than you have the constitutional right to rob a bank.
(selling historic Nazi posters on Ebay? Germany might have you wiretapped)
Up to your big headliner tricks hey again Timothy. You'd probably like Nazi propaganda Timothy. Much like your articles, they're very emotive and designed to manipulate opinion. Provoking outrage is a popular subject. Sound familiar to you?
The reason why Nazi posters are banned in Germany was because of the war against the "Nazis". It was called "World War 2". It happened to kill a great deal of people. In fact, most people who read these posts have probably lost at least one relative to that war. If you want to learn about "World War 2", search for the term on Google.
It's banned for the same reason as why Japan has no real army, as the Japanese at the time committed such gross atrocities, they were not deemed to be trusted to ever possess an army again. It keeps them well behaved when they get ideas about their Emperor and nationalism even today.
Yesterday was ANZAC day in Australia, where we commemorate Australia's War dead. I don't think many people yesterday or today are concerned about the forfeited rights of German people to buy Nazi memorobelia in Germany on ebay or any other way.
In any case, Nazi posters have very little to do with new cyberlaws, as the laws already exist.
If SUSE didn't have a clause in their contract with him to not engage in employment with a direct competitor after a certain amount of time, then it really serves them right to be so careless.
In any case however, SUSE would be better off hiring people who actually believe in their products and why they are superior to Microsoft's ones.
It wasn't quite as simple as mere leadership or authority, the original poster rejected blindly following authority. So by inference, the opposite of blindly following authority, must therefore not be a Catholic.
Nonethless, I'm sorry if I interpreted you incorrectly. Just to note, a great deal of Irish Catholic clergy and lay people that I know take the Pope and the relatively recent Doctrine of Papal Infallability with a huge pinch of salt.
Some of the most 1337 things I've ever seen done or heard about will never be made public I guess. That impresses me more than the "I've been caught with a lot of media publicity around me and now I'm forming a security company since I'm out" type.
Some of the stuff that went down in the 80s - now that was 1337. I respect Raven's efforts and whitehat hackers, but there is infact an underworld and to me that's hardcore 1337. I must be a too much of a romantic.
Other than your celebrity endorsements and so forth, how can you be qualified to be a psychiatrist to an artificial intelligence that does not exist and may never exist?
How do you contribute to the scientific AI field aside from speculative PR type articles and culture/art performances using robotics?
Well, perhaps you also missed when it says in the article:
"I don't know if they meant it as a lock-in play, but it works out that way. And my customer doesn't have patience for Red Hat's support.""
"Despite his comments, Perens told internetnews.com he didn't think the issue was that big a deal and hoped the community wouldn't over-react."
So he did in fact state that he has customers, and that they don't want support from Redhat, but are instead his customers.
Linus' opinion appears to be much more balanced than your selected excerpts and comments portray. The article is quite even handed, and you appear to have completely misrepresented or perhaps misunderstood the complex ideas in it.
His final comments are in fact: "So you win some, you lose some, so far I suspect it's been mostly positive."
Here are some extracts from the article that illustrate this in a more even handed light: "And even Torvalds' support of the practice comes with some caveats. "There are parts of it that worry me logistically," Torvalds wrote in the e-mail to internetnews.com. "What usually ends up happening is that the back-ported patches aren't being very cleanly maintained, and that ends up making it harder for people to do a good job of maintaining a coherent base for the stable kernel." "
"Although kernel 'coherency' is a victim of backported features, according to Torvalds, its impact is not long lived. "That lack of 'coherency' makes long-term maintenance harder (and is probably why the SuSE people aren't thrilled, because it also makes it harder to keep different trees reasonably well in sync)," Torvalds continued."
""But as long as the long-term goal ends up to drop the old stable kernel in favour of the development kernel anyway, the pain is likely to be fairly temporary.""
Bruce Perens also contributes some fairly even handed comments: "However, Bruce Perens, a former Debian Project Leader and author of the Open Source Definition, wasn't as quick to compliment Red Hat.
"In a public post, Perens wrote, "I have a large customer who refuses to run Red Hat's kernel even when they run Red Hat's distribution. And it's just for the reason that [SUSE] talks about. The kernel is so far diverged from the main thread of Linux that it's a dead-end, and there's no hope of getting it supported from anyone but Red Hat. I don't know if they meant it as a lock-in play, but it works out that way. And my customer doesn't have patience for Red Hat's support.""
"Despite his comments, Perens told internetnews.com he didn't think the issue was that big a deal and hoped the community wouldn't over-react."
I can think of a few apparent ways to start and they don't involve the Force but informed consumer choice. The Linux community could apply more pressure to hardware producers by making helpful companies more widely known and encoraging purchases of their equipment, and spending more time highlighting the problems with companies like Nvidia for instance.
Perhaps a way of endorsing a hardware company would help in that they could claim that their company is Linux endorsed and as such supports open source drivers for their hardware etc. Possibly get a Linux hardware consortium going to promote open hardware or at the very least open source drivers, to ally with hardware producers etc.
I mean the advantages for open source drivers are compelling for consumers, but the message isn't getting across at all to them. We need to be able to reward companies that look after their consumers and that's not happening.
I've run Linux for years and I'm unsure of what motherboard to buy, what chipset, etc for my next system. I still have by nvidia video card although I'd rather a better open alternative. I suggest that the kernel people also contribute to a decent compatibility system, in which kernel developers and hardware producers work more closely together, and that people can use that data to make good consumer choices.
We need to be able to make companies give us the products and drivers that we want, and really the only way to do that is to make sure that the people who are helping the community are rewarded by purchasing from them, whilst the others are not.
We also need companies who are aligned to Open Source initiatives (to varying degrees) to make their contract choices dependant on this and for them to lobby these comapnies. For example, IBM, Novell et al, when it comes to contracts with these helpful and unhelpful companies.
Also, as a whole, I think the Linux community needs to be more aware of projects that try to divert from or undermine Open source. NeverWinter nights is a good example - it's a great game, and I love playing it, but in creating it, Bioware manages to make a good deal of money for something that isn't open source. They're happy to get people to write games for it, thus taking people from us who could be making Nethack any good. Real's Helix Player is just the same. It appears to me to be private industry's way of wanting our community to do the work for them, and they'll give us little to nothing back while they pocket the money. Apple Computers are the same, they take from Konqueror, yet with all their resources, can't get a single programmer to port some of their things the other way, or to even get OpenOffice.org running on OSX.
I think the Linux community needs to start organisations that will get involved in politicing and law to support it's growth.
I think regardless of how much I personally like Linux, sound card set up is a real problem in Linux and the point is valid.
Regardless of whether sound card manufacturers offer Linux drivers or refuse to reveal hardware specs, the point still remains that this is a major weakness that should have been addressed years ago, much like XF86 and their completely uninspired offering.
It also occurs to me that there's a lot of duplication of effort too. There are way too many distros offering the same crap, and then only a handful worth supporting who aren't getting as much help as they need.
There's a million different versions of Nethack produced by competent programmers, and yet they are all breathtakingly bad. A familiar story perhaps?
When it comes to HCI, configuring KDE in the control panel is just plain terrible. Konqueror doesn't have a default homepage for god's sake! What's granny going to make of that!
If Mom and Pop can't use Linux, then it shows that the people who contribute are just out of touch with good design principles. Complain all you want, them's the facts. The general public don't have the skills or time to play around with badly written software. Further, nobody ever got laid by using badly designed software, so forget about that idea boys.
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Sadly, I'm an over educated agnostic munching on a bread roll, and I've heard it all before.
Finger licking good.
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Should one wear a "tux" to a Linux distro's funeral?
Just when you think you've got all the answers AC, I changed all the questions. I'm so damn clever, I should bill you just for replying to you.
Perhaps there's a law that produces less "spin" and greater science.
One is not likely to see it on Slashdot however.
Would it be possible to stream the data into a mobile phone game? I'm thinking something along the lines of Pacman or Donkey Kong where you chase your children.
The paedophiles could be the bad monsters in it. It would make the experience a bit more fun while you children were being abducted.
Yet another article that confuses "Moore's law" as an actual physical law. Jouralists are often unfortunately out of their depth when it comes to Moore's law as it's a bit more complicated than using Word.
Moore's law is not a physical law whatsover and has no bearing on actual chip development or progress. It is merely a way to predict the miniaturisation of chips. It does not take into account manufacturing processes whatsover, and so there is no theoretical end to it when current chip miniturisation techniques reach their theoretical or actual fundamental physical limits.
Instead, Moore's law is a time scale that predicts microchip technological advancement and it certainly isn't a precise observation.
Every so often, somebody starts to claim that Moore's law is broken, or going to be broken, or can't hold any longer. It never happens and is usually just the PR department looking for an interesting angle on a mildly interesting discovery.
I read this book as I was encouraged to look at it by the article, and concur with the reviewer. A very worthwhile book that incorporates theory with IF history and annecdotal trivia quite elegantly. It would be a very good book for academic work too.
My sole mild criticism is that the book somewhat skirts towards the fallacy that the fantasy genre is by definition derived from Tolkien. This is incorrect, as Tolkien for the most part reworked Celtic and Norse myth.
The legislation would possibly make it more possible to prosecute and gather evidence on an foreign citizen who breaks the German law by providing Nazi material to a German in Germany.
The German government would certainly like to get it's hands on foreign organisations that support neo-nazi organisations inside of Germany, thus breaking the law there. They would not consider it a waste of time whatsoever.
This is not a change to German law - it merely helps to enforce it. You should also be aware that the precedence for this law was infact established during the American/Allied occupation of Germany after it's defeat. It is essentially, a legacy of the Allied forces martial law and in no way runs contrary to American foreign policy whatsoever.
You do not have the right to break another country's laws, nor do you have the right to support neo-Nazism or to distribute Nazi material in Germany whether by ebay or in person. You also don't have the right to use American law to hide from a crime if a legitimate and friendly government of the US desires to prosecute you. You just don't have these rights or Constitutional protections any more than than you have the constitutional right to rob a bank.
(selling historic Nazi posters on Ebay? Germany might have you wiretapped)
Up to your big headliner tricks hey again Timothy. You'd probably like Nazi propaganda Timothy. Much like your articles, they're very emotive and designed to manipulate opinion. Provoking outrage is a popular subject. Sound familiar to you?
The reason why Nazi posters are banned in Germany was because of the war against the "Nazis". It was called "World War 2". It happened to kill a great deal of people. In fact, most people who read these posts have probably lost at least one relative to that war. If you want to learn about "World War 2", search for the term on Google.
It's banned for the same reason as why Japan has no real army, as the Japanese at the time committed such gross atrocities, they were not deemed to be trusted to ever possess an army again. It keeps them well behaved when they get ideas about their Emperor and nationalism even today.
Yesterday was ANZAC day in Australia, where we commemorate Australia's War dead. I don't think many people yesterday or today are concerned about the forfeited rights of German people to buy Nazi memorobelia in Germany on ebay or any other way.
In any case, Nazi posters have very little to do with new cyberlaws, as the laws already exist.
Imagine 526 years of car registration fees.
Fabulous - just one more nail in the hetero male coffin.
People once believed that if a train went too fast, that all the air would be pushed out of it.
This proposition is just a modern equivalent of that idea.
Perhaps electromagnetic pulses have a physical limitation with data transfer accuracy, but that is by no means the threshold of data speed in any way.
Once again, RTFA. It speaks of EM data - not all data.
If SUSE didn't have a clause in their contract with him to not engage in employment with a direct competitor after a certain amount of time, then it really serves them right to be so careless.
In any case however, SUSE would be better off hiring people who actually believe in their products and why they are superior to Microsoft's ones.
I'd even settle for an artist's rendition of said new invention.
It wasn't quite as simple as mere leadership or authority, the original poster rejected blindly following authority. So by inference, the opposite of blindly following authority, must therefore not be a Catholic.
Nonethless, I'm sorry if I interpreted you incorrectly. Just to note, a great deal of Irish Catholic clergy and lay people that I know take the Pope and the relatively recent Doctrine of Papal Infallability with a huge pinch of salt.
Some of the most 1337 things I've ever seen done or heard about will never be made public I guess. That impresses me more than the "I've been caught with a lot of media publicity around me and now I'm forming a security company since I'm out" type.
Some of the stuff that went down in the 80s - now that was 1337. I respect Raven's efforts and whitehat hackers, but there is infact an underworld and to me that's hardcore 1337. I must be a too much of a romantic.
Other than your celebrity endorsements and so forth, how can you be qualified to be a psychiatrist to an artificial intelligence that does not exist and may never exist?
How do you contribute to the scientific AI field aside from speculative PR type articles and culture/art performances using robotics?
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Well, perhaps you also missed when it says in the article:
"I don't know if they meant it as a lock-in play, but it works out that way. And my customer doesn't have patience for Red Hat's support.""
"Despite his comments, Perens told internetnews.com he didn't think the issue was that big a deal and hoped the community wouldn't over-react."
So he did in fact state that he has customers, and that they don't want support from Redhat, but are instead his customers.
That comment is quite offensive.
Much of my family are Catholics, and they could out reason, out free think, and out qualify you any day of the week.
What's your real agenda in saying such a thing pipsqueak?
Linus' opinion appears to be much more balanced than your selected excerpts and comments portray. The article is quite even handed, and you appear to have completely misrepresented or perhaps misunderstood the complex ideas in it.
His final comments are in fact: "So you win some, you lose some, so far I suspect it's been mostly positive."
Here are some extracts from the article that illustrate this in a more even handed light:
"And even Torvalds' support of the practice comes with some caveats. "There are parts of it that worry me logistically," Torvalds wrote in the e-mail to internetnews.com. "What usually ends up happening is that the back-ported patches aren't being very cleanly maintained, and that ends up making it harder for people to do a good job of maintaining a coherent base for the stable kernel." "
"Although kernel 'coherency' is a victim of backported features, according to Torvalds, its impact is not long lived. "That lack of 'coherency' makes long-term maintenance harder (and is probably why the SuSE people aren't thrilled, because it also makes it harder to keep different trees reasonably well in sync)," Torvalds continued."
""But as long as the long-term goal ends up to drop the old stable kernel in favour of the development kernel anyway, the pain is likely to be fairly temporary.""
Bruce Perens also contributes some fairly even handed comments:
"However, Bruce Perens, a former Debian Project Leader and author of the Open Source Definition, wasn't as quick to compliment Red Hat.
"In a public post, Perens wrote, "I have a large customer who refuses to run Red Hat's kernel even when they run Red Hat's distribution. And it's just for the reason that [SUSE] talks about. The kernel is so far diverged from the main thread of Linux that it's a dead-end, and there's no hope of getting it supported from anyone but Red Hat. I don't know if they meant it as a lock-in play, but it works out that way. And my customer doesn't have patience for Red Hat's support.""
"Despite his comments, Perens told internetnews.com he didn't think the issue was that big a deal and hoped the community wouldn't over-react."
That's true, but I now have a bigger penis.
If they were really oh so 1337, nobody would have ever heard of them, and they wouldn't be talking about their escapades either.
I can think of a few apparent ways to start and they don't involve the Force but informed consumer choice. The Linux community could apply more pressure to hardware producers by making helpful companies more widely known and encoraging purchases of their equipment, and spending more time highlighting the problems with companies like Nvidia for instance.
Perhaps a way of endorsing a hardware company would help in that they could claim that their company is Linux endorsed and as such supports open source drivers for their hardware etc. Possibly get a Linux hardware consortium going to promote open hardware or at the very least open source drivers, to ally with hardware producers etc.
I mean the advantages for open source drivers are compelling for consumers, but the message isn't getting across at all to them. We need to be able to reward companies that look after their consumers and that's not happening.
I've run Linux for years and I'm unsure of what motherboard to buy, what chipset, etc for my next system. I still have by nvidia video card although I'd rather a better open alternative. I suggest that the kernel people also contribute to a decent compatibility system, in which kernel developers and hardware producers work more closely together, and that people can use that data to make good consumer choices.
We need to be able to make companies give us the products and drivers that we want, and really the only way to do that is to make sure that the people who are helping the community are rewarded by purchasing from them, whilst the others are not.
We also need companies who are aligned to Open Source initiatives (to varying degrees) to make their contract choices dependant on this and for them to lobby these comapnies. For example, IBM, Novell et al, when it comes to contracts with these helpful and unhelpful companies.
Also, as a whole, I think the Linux community needs to be more aware of projects that try to divert from or undermine Open source. NeverWinter nights is a good example - it's a great game, and I love playing it, but in creating it, Bioware manages to make a good deal of money for something that isn't open source. They're happy to get people to write games for it, thus taking people from us who could be making Nethack any good. Real's Helix Player is just the same. It appears to me to be private industry's way of wanting our community to do the work for them, and they'll give us little to nothing back while they pocket the money. Apple Computers are the same, they take from Konqueror, yet with all their resources, can't get a single programmer to port some of their things the other way, or to even get OpenOffice.org running on OSX.
I think the Linux community needs to start organisations that will get involved in politicing and law to support it's growth.
I noticed on the 2004 site that you can vote for "Most exciting part of Linuxfest?"
Well, where's the "Linux Klingon Debate" box then??
I think regardless of how much I personally like Linux, sound card set up is a real problem in Linux and the point is valid.
Regardless of whether sound card manufacturers offer Linux drivers or refuse to reveal hardware specs, the point still remains that this is a major weakness that should have been addressed years ago, much like XF86 and their completely uninspired offering.
It also occurs to me that there's a lot of duplication of effort too. There are way too many distros offering the same crap, and then only a handful worth supporting who aren't getting as much help as they need.
There's a million different versions of Nethack produced by competent programmers, and yet they are all breathtakingly bad. A familiar story perhaps?
When it comes to HCI, configuring KDE in the control panel is just plain terrible. Konqueror doesn't have a default homepage for god's sake! What's granny going to make of that!
If Mom and Pop can't use Linux, then it shows that the people who contribute are just out of touch with good design principles. Complain all you want, them's the facts. The general public don't have the skills or time to play around with badly written software. Further, nobody ever got laid by using badly designed software, so forget about that idea boys.
Sadly, I'm an over educated agnostic munching on a bread roll, and I've heard it all before. Finger licking good.