Snowden chose to take part in a war. A war that takes place on many fronts; part of it is a real hot war (against the islamists - the scale may be not one of a total war but it is a real war with active killings), part of it is cold (against Russia and/or China - no shooting takes place on those fronts but there is some real struggle about shifting the power balance this or that way).
The only war going on here is the US' war with itself.
Like "Extra-ordinary rendition"/"Kidnapping" and "Pretexting"/"Wire-fraud", "metadata" is a PR euphemism at best and an outright lie at worst. Anyone who thinks the NSA has truly restricted themselves to metadata is either being disingenuous or is a fool.
Me, I just keep using old-school lab books. Unless I lose them in a fire, I can usually track down something quickly enough to not bother with anything fancier.
I use A4 refil pads. Pages can be taken out and held together with treasury tags while they are still being worked on, placed in ring binders for long term storage, and -- my personal favourite -- scanned and stored digitally.
Having used touchscreen, graphics tablets, and several stylus variants, I've come to the conclusion that there really is no replacement for paper when it comes to non-ascii content creation. The only thing paper can't do is digitally be in two places at once. Scanning helps with that, but the result is typically a non-editable file.
Give the students the task of automating their builds.
Screw that. Give them a spindle of CDs and tell them that you want a complete rips in mp3, FLAC, AAC, and in multiple bitrates with appropriate tags from CDDB. For advanced students, give them a spindle of dvds and mkvtoolnix and tell them you want the works.
By the time they've wriiten their own ripping scripts, most of them will grok the command line completely.
CS culture is American male nerd culture. It's the culture of 20th century sci-fi, Dungeons and Dragons, video games, popular science, memorising digits of pi, tech gadgets, of course computers and coding.
Weird Al basically covered the entire gamut of this culture in his parody White and Nerdy. The fact that he explicitly linked being "white" with "nerdy" leads me to believe that nerd culture in the US is viewed under the such racial spectrum at least in part.
On a personal note, another aspect of CS/nerd culture which I have observed -- and which I suppose would be described as a male aspect -- is excessive bordering on the absurdest competitiveness. Memorising digits of pi is a classic example of this, but you see typical "nerd-up-man-ship" on display in Slashdot threads all the time. Who knows more obscure facts, or more pedantic details and so forth. It's a constant and often wearying aspect of nerd culture.
As they relate to CS culture specifically, these aspects are most obviously expressed in the recent rise of the "brogrammer" culture. If there was a part of CS culture that could be described as "white and male", I suppose that would be (and increasingly large) it. While programmers are not a homogeneous block, their (sub)cultures -- and public perception of them -- can be.
4 after everything is tested and stable we start sending Managers
4.5 Rot and decay quickly sets it. Critical systems begin to fail and resources dwindle as engineers and scientists responsible for upkeep and maintenance are overwhelmed with red-tape and paperwork, and eventually outnumbered by a vast legion of administrative staff who inexplicably are given decision making responsibility in MB Beta.
The last computer log transmission from MB Beta recorded that the colonists died enmasse shortly after senior management voted to divert oxygen supplies from life support systems to more cost productive use in smelting facilities, leading to a 400% increase in executive bonuses in the quarter. Company stock soared on expectations of an imminent government bailout.
If any Earth Nation expects to shoot down transit flights to or from the moon to enforce their paper claim, the ramifications will be far more severe than if they simply did nothing.
However, if they choose to use tarriffs and protectionism to enforce their claims then the ramifications will be even more serious than that.
Basically, University administrators have become academic political officers, responsible for implementing party^H^H^H^H^Hcorporate directive and ensuring that research, teaching, and indeed knowledge itself conforms with orthodox sovie^H^H^H^H^Hcorporate ideology.
Ladies and Gentlemen; Our civilisation has given rise to many world altering revolutions. From the agricultural revolution, to the industrial revolutions, to the digital revolution, our society, economy and culture have undergone massive change and improvement.
But now we stand on the cusp of a new revolution, greater than all that has ever come before. Ladies and Gentlemen we have entered the age of the Rent Seeking Revolution.
No longer will enterprise be constrained by land, labour, or capital or competition. All that enterprise requires now is connections. With the right connections to the state, its resources, and its law making process, entrepreneurs can seek Rent with impunity. Legal Monopolies, favoured taxation rates, grants, credits, tariffs, with enough leverage even a direct tap on demand into the public treasury.
The Future is Rent. In finance, insurance, real estate, and now even heavy industries; No longer will toil or responsibility be prerequisites for success. Now, with the right connections, enterprises can have the State channel funds, taxes, and tolls directly to favoured private companies. The Wealth of entire nations channelled to the bold few who move first in these new times.
Rent is Law. Law is Rent. It is pointless to resist this new human revolution. Democratic, Socialist, and Industrial Luddities cannot stand against the swelling tide of Rentiers waiting to inveigle themselves whole new businesses out of nothing but state backed favour. You can either party all night in this brave new world, or be left outside paying the bill. The risk is yours to take!
As an EU citizen you could try to change the institution.
But he's not an EU citizen. He's French. The only people who can claim in any sense to be "EU Citizens" are the various political classes across the continent. They (mis)manage, decide and direct the operation of their own countries and the EU in general, in the direction they choose, with or without the consent or support of their general populations.
As un-democratic as that sounds, in the post-war period this attitude among the EU political/executive classes did a lot of good: It stopped the Europeans from fighting one another.
However, like all elitist enterprises, the EU was inevitably taken over by vested interests. Right now, the EU's principal purpose is to facilitate the transfer of wealth from the general population to the financial/banking class. In a few years, this may still be the case, or general wealth will be going to some other group, but the essential principle is that because the EU is not a democracy it will operate for the benefit of whichever group currently controls it.
I seriously doubt that even the French would record and store all telephone conversations made in and via France. Quite apart from the cost, only the American executive class could be do dystopianly gauche.
If this is true, then it is the world's lamest, most poorly conceived, ham-handed, overblown, and expensive attempt at domestic political attention diversion I have ever heard of......So it's probably the NSA then.
This wouldn't -- no counldn't have happenned in the days before computers.
Eventually, I think centralised computer control is going to go the way of semaphore. It's too easy for a centralised computer system to glitch, break, be shutdown, and then screw up the lives and functions of millions.
What we should see is decentralised systems run using independent computer systems.
No need. Orcs mostly speak the common tongue or else their own tribal dialect. The Black Speech -- as devised by the Dark Lord in elvish runes -- was a failed attempt to linguistically distinguish his followers from those of the Alliance. It didn't take among the Orcs, but strangely the East End London accent did.
This isn't an anti-patent troll bill. It's an anti-small inventor bill.
If so, good then; the sooner the myth of patents being for the small inventor dies the sooner everyone will finally be rid of the impediment of patents forever.
It's another FU to small inventor, just like the last patent reform.
The small inventor, and the little guy in general, has been FU-ed out of the game for a long time now. Patents are now all about legal fights and trolling, not innovation or rewarding it. It's time for them to die.
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The only war going on here is the US' war with itself.
Ground penetrating radar?
Linda: The blocked content includes child pornography sir.
What will you do now?
Like "Extra-ordinary rendition"/"Kidnapping" and "Pretexting"/"Wire-fraud", "metadata" is a PR euphemism at best and an outright lie at worst. Anyone who thinks the NSA has truly restricted themselves to metadata is either being disingenuous or is a fool.
it actually works the other way around.
I use A4 refil pads. Pages can be taken out and held together with treasury tags while they are still being worked on, placed in ring binders for long term storage, and -- my personal favourite -- scanned and stored digitally.
Having used touchscreen, graphics tablets, and several stylus variants, I've come to the conclusion that there really is no replacement for paper when it comes to non-ascii content creation. The only thing paper can't do is digitally be in two places at once. Scanning helps with that, but the result is typically a non-editable file.
I get mine from comments and homepages on the internet.
Screw that. Give them a spindle of CDs and tell them that you want a complete rips in mp3, FLAC, AAC, and in multiple bitrates with appropriate tags from CDDB. For advanced students, give them a spindle of dvds and mkvtoolnix and tell them you want the works.
By the time they've wriiten their own ripping scripts, most of them will grok the command line completely.
Well you either blame the help, or else someone important is going to have to take the blame.
CS culture is American male nerd culture. It's the culture of 20th century sci-fi, Dungeons and Dragons, video games, popular science, memorising digits of pi, tech gadgets, of course computers and coding.
Weird Al basically covered the entire gamut of this culture in his parody White and Nerdy. The fact that he explicitly linked being "white" with "nerdy" leads me to believe that nerd culture in the US is viewed under the such racial spectrum at least in part.
On a personal note, another aspect of CS/nerd culture which I have observed -- and which I suppose would be described as a male aspect -- is excessive bordering on the absurdest competitiveness. Memorising digits of pi is a classic example of this, but you see typical "nerd-up-man-ship" on display in Slashdot threads all the time. Who knows more obscure facts, or more pedantic details and so forth. It's a constant and often wearying aspect of nerd culture.
As they relate to CS culture specifically, these aspects are most obviously expressed in the recent rise of the "brogrammer" culture. If there was a part of CS culture that could be described as "white and male", I suppose that would be (and increasingly large) it. While programmers are not a homogeneous block, their (sub)cultures -- and public perception of them -- can be.
4.5 Rot and decay quickly sets it. Critical systems begin to fail and resources dwindle as engineers and scientists responsible for upkeep and maintenance are overwhelmed with red-tape and paperwork, and eventually outnumbered by a vast legion of administrative staff who inexplicably are given decision making responsibility in MB Beta.
The last computer log transmission from MB Beta recorded that the colonists died enmasse shortly after senior management voted to divert oxygen supplies from life support systems to more cost productive use in smelting facilities, leading to a 400% increase in executive bonuses in the quarter. Company stock soared on expectations of an imminent government bailout.
However, if they choose to use tarriffs and protectionism to enforce their claims then the ramifications will be even more serious than that.
Well, they're currently behind a paywall, so I don't see how most of us were even supposed to find them in the first place.
Basically, University administrators have become academic political officers, responsible for implementing party^H^H^H^H^Hcorporate directive and ensuring that research, teaching, and indeed knowledge itself conforms with orthodox sovie^H^H^H^H^Hcorporate ideology.
Ladies and Gentlemen; Our civilisation has given rise to many world altering revolutions. From the agricultural revolution, to the industrial revolutions, to the digital revolution, our society, economy and culture have undergone massive change and improvement.
But now we stand on the cusp of a new revolution, greater than all that has ever come before. Ladies and Gentlemen we have entered the age of the Rent Seeking Revolution.
No longer will enterprise be constrained by land, labour, or capital or competition. All that enterprise requires now is connections. With the right connections to the state, its resources, and its law making process, entrepreneurs can seek Rent with impunity. Legal Monopolies, favoured taxation rates, grants, credits, tariffs, with enough leverage even a direct tap on demand into the public treasury.
The Future is Rent. In finance, insurance, real estate, and now even heavy industries; No longer will toil or responsibility be prerequisites for success. Now, with the right connections, enterprises can have the State channel funds, taxes, and tolls directly to favoured private companies. The Wealth of entire nations channelled to the bold few who move first in these new times.
Rent is Law. Law is Rent. It is pointless to resist this new human revolution. Democratic, Socialist, and Industrial Luddities cannot stand against the swelling tide of Rentiers waiting to inveigle themselves whole new businesses out of nothing but state backed favour. You can either party all night in this brave new world, or be left outside paying the bill. The risk is yours to take!
But he's not an EU citizen. He's French. The only people who can claim in any sense to be "EU Citizens" are the various political classes across the continent. They (mis)manage, decide and direct the operation of their own countries and the EU in general, in the direction they choose, with or without the consent or support of their general populations.
As un-democratic as that sounds, in the post-war period this attitude among the EU political/executive classes did a lot of good: It stopped the Europeans from fighting one another.
However, like all elitist enterprises, the EU was inevitably taken over by vested interests. Right now, the EU's principal purpose is to facilitate the transfer of wealth from the general population to the financial/banking class. In a few years, this may still be the case, or general wealth will be going to some other group, but the essential principle is that because the EU is not a democracy it will operate for the benefit of whichever group currently controls it.
I seriously doubt that even the French would record and store all telephone conversations made in and via France. Quite apart from the cost, only the American executive class could be do dystopianly gauche.
If this is true, then it is the world's lamest, most poorly conceived, ham-handed, overblown, and expensive attempt at domestic political attention diversion I have ever heard of... ...So it's probably the NSA then.
Corporate Suit
Thinks it's a hoot
$10B in loot
GM still a coot
Burma Shaved
For all its servers and software, Google does not have an Army or a Navy.
This wouldn't -- no counldn't have happenned in the days before computers.
Eventually, I think centralised computer control is going to go the way of semaphore. It's too easy for a centralised computer system to glitch, break, be shutdown, and then screw up the lives and functions of millions.
What we should see is decentralised systems run using independent computer systems.
No need. Orcs mostly speak the common tongue or else their own tribal dialect. The Black Speech -- as devised by the Dark Lord in elvish runes -- was a failed attempt to linguistically distinguish his followers from those of the Alliance. It didn't take among the Orcs, but strangely the East End London accent did.
Nationalise the journals.
If so, good then; the sooner the myth of patents being for the small inventor dies the sooner everyone will finally be rid of the impediment of patents forever.
The small inventor, and the little guy in general, has been FU-ed out of the game for a long time now. Patents are now all about legal fights and trolling, not innovation or rewarding it. It's time for them to die.