As a scientist I recognise the power and safety of vaccines, and I also recognise the logic in your arguments. Most of what you say I do agree with. However, I also recognise the implicit argument in your post--that vaccination should be mandatory and or the antivax crowd should be silenced--and as a human being I'm going to tell you to shove that point of view up your ass.
If you don't like the antivax crowd, you're going to have to tackle them with argument and reason, not with the iron hand of majority rules.
Providing search services to Chinese citizens and letting their government rewrite results as they see fit may be better than denying them search altogether.
No, it isn't. No media at all is always is better than censored media. Censored media allows the censors to maintain control. Without any media, people are in fact freer to form their own opinions rather than having opinions supplied to them.
It doesn't matter how you spin it. There is no justification for Google to participate in censorship of this kind when they don't actually have to. No excuse at all. Chinese people will lose a search engine, but that is not Google's fault; it is the fault of their government.
It's not just copyright. The slow but steady alignment of copyright holders, oppressive governments, legal changes, media pressure and surveillance technology has wound itself around the internet worldwide, and now the real pressure is being applied. This is a secular change, largely unobservable over smaller intervals, but the end result is that the web in 10 and 20 years time will be a noticeably less free place than it is today. Everything you do online will be monitored, everything will be logged, everything will be legally defined and controlled, and every infringement will be subject to criminal penalties.
The parties responsible have the support of the politicians, the censors, the press, the money men and most of the public. We used to have the support of the geeks and their creativity in bypassing censorship. But let's face it; geeks have not created a truly disruptive technology since BitTorrent almost ten years ago. While Geekdom slept, the likes of Cisco and the major Telcos have constructed a frightening array of technologies for surveillance and control of the internet, and the fruit of their efforts can be seen in China, Iran and now even countries like Australia. Soon it will be seen all over the world.
The Web has changed. Governments are no longer going to tolerate the freedom and anarchy that it grants to the population at large. They now have the means, method and opportunity to put this genie back in the bottle. This crackdown is the first offensive on what is going to be a wide front. Expect the free net to lose.
The current UK trend is to deny youth any use of public space (we've just locked a churchyard because of the occasional bit of trouble), remove benches and exert social control on all gathering youth. Where are these guys and gals supposed to go?
Public Space?! Public Space?!? The young ones doan't know nought aboot the 'ardships of life these days. In my day, in my day, we; we 'ad to make do with the radio and telly and videyo games. We stayed indoors we did, playin' Super Mario and Sonic the we 'edgehog. Proper pastimes those! Taught us 'ow t'entertain ourselves they did.
'angin'g about in Public Space?! What kind've a pastime d'you call that?! Now'days with d'Internet and mobile phones, there's plenty 'nuff t'do indoars for the day without clatterin' about outside loitrin' on street coarners. Ger'roff of it ye layabouts!! Get a game handle!
The great thing about Matroska is that it supports (or at least can support) absolutely everything. The main drawback of Matroska is that it supports (or at least can support) absolutely everything.
Matroska is a great container format, but unless you have a program like mplayer or vlc you can't guarantee that a Matroska file is going to be playable on your system. You can't reasonably expect browser maker to standardise on Matroska if it will mean having to include 30+ different codecs in their software, which from a practical standpoint it will. The unfortunate reality is that most of the world's population still doesn't have access to a comprehensive library of software like apt, and while our current software IP regime reigns, they never will.
In a democracy, majority rules OK. You may think that the rule of law protects you, but you'll find more often than not that your rights are a paper shield in the face of the iron will of the general public.
.. does not give you the right to use someone's property to express it.
Music is not property. Video is not property. Words are not property. Someone can have copyrights of some content, but that does not mean the content is somehow "theirs". It's supposed to mean they were the ones that created it, though it doesn't mean that anymore.
Mickey Mouse is not the property of the Disney corporation, no matter how much they stamp their feet about on the issue. He isn't their property because he can't be their property. Mickey Mouse is not a real mouse. He's not a thing. He's an idea. And you can't own an idea. However, in our great free society, you can control the distribution of an idea.
People own things. They can sometimes also own rights. Sometimes they can own rights over ideas. But they can't own ideas, or sounds, or images. I can't believe I've even making a post which has to explain this fact. This is where the madness of modern "intellectual property" pundits has lead us.
How do you make a concurrent process in D? Perl? Ruby? C? Lisp?
Go actually provides a usable, platform independent method of concurrent programming that doesn't involve mucking about with pthreads, or constants like &MMDIPS_MULTICORE_AGG. You just call "go func()" and a new process is spawned.
No, it's obvious that we need even less government regulation so that the free market can allow doctors and sick patients to reach stable equilibrium with the bacterial hordes! There's a basic game theory model that proves my position!!!
It's not an evasion. It's a very solid, concrete answer to the question.
People get caught up on the question of "what is time?", but in reality, the question is no more deep or metaphysical than the question "what is length?". Both are equally distracting quagmires of philosophy and both are neatly (and appropriately) dealt with in physics by simply defining them to be something that is measured by a device, as a multiple of some defined quantity. Thus time becomes something measured by a clock, as multiples of the cycles of radiation of caesium, and length becomes something measured by a ruler, as some multiple of the distance travelled by light in one second; and so physics and science can proceed, while philosophy remains in its quagmire.
Make no mistake, the "arrow of time" and similar concepts being touted by some in the theoretical physics community are philosophical quagmire that will not advance science one whit. Even the much admired philosophy of Mach did not really have much of an impact on science in and of itself. His work on sound remains his dominant contribution. Unfortunately, unlike Mach, modern theoretical physicists of the last two or three generations have not actually provided much in the way of such concrete physical results.
Hence, my position is to begrudge them these kinds of philosophical meanderings until such time as they actually do the job their supposed to be doing.
A friend of mine actually came up with this test a few months ago and sent an email around with 8 series to see if people could spot real data from randomised ones (Maybe it got chained on to a wider audience).
The key to the test is that random walks typically don't undergo large jumps or oscillations. In fact, they're generally quite a bit smoother than real data. I see that TFA comes to more or less the same conclusion(I think).
The moral if this story is that 99% of normal probability theory does not easily apply to financial time series data.
Similarly, using another person's computer resources without explicit permission to do so, even if those resources appear to be freely available, is still illegal.
By your reasoning, if you leave your radio on so loud that the neighbours can listen to your music without having to pay for a radio themselves, then that means they're stealing.
Same survey. The only difference between the two questions was the word "homosexual" vs the term "gays and lesbians."
Why do you think that opponents keep saying "homosexual rights" and "homosexual agenda"? It's because "homosexual" is a dirty word because of centuries of religious meddling.
I don't know. I think the poll probably came out the way it did because people think lesbians are hot.
A related but more pertinent point is that no-one right now is able to archive or in most cases obtain anything because of copyrights and DRM.
I work in academia and I can tell you that future researchers are not going to be able to get their hands on 90%+ of the papers written today because the private companies that own them will lose the data when they inevitably go bust (Or just lose it). It will be one of the huge ironies of history.
If the host doesn't provide ssh access on shared accounts, they're not a professional operation.
A few years ago, the industry moved away from SSH accounts due to a fad on the tech circuit which claimed they were more hassle than they were worth. The VPS factor was also involved, with virtualisation allowing companies to offer "vitual" servers with SSH access for double or triple the price of their shared accounts. End result: shared account holders got shafted as SSH access was dropped. From experience I can say it's like losing a limb. The utility of the account drops dramatically.
The real proof of this pudding is in how the larger hosting providers still provide SSH on shared accounts. It's clear that mass SSH access can be feasible, secure and affordable when companies actually make the effort. Unfortunately, most don't. I live in Ireland and out of the about 30 or so hosting providers, only one provides SSH on shared accounts; and none provide SSH on entry level shared accounts. Meanwhile, Hostgator charges $5 a month for virtually the works, including SSH. So much for buying local.
And for all those who say you should just upgrade to VPS (which is just another shared machine anyway), screw that. Not only does it cost treble or quadruple what a shared account will, you also have to administrate the server yourself, with all the headaches that will involve. Say what you like about shared hosting, but it provides a usable, maintained and feature rich environment right out of the box; no mess, no fuss. I just want to host a simple website and have a place online to log into and store my files; I don't want to pay for the privilege of another server to babysit.
SSH is the acid test. If the company doesn't offer it, they're not worth your time.
You must remember that when they sink, their bodies sink to the deep to feed the legions of bottom feeders, which in turn grow to monstrous size. Eventually, we get dread 100,000 strong botnet krakens which rise to the surface and drag sites under with all hands lost.
In light of this, I prefer giving these users swim bands as a preventative measure.
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But does he abhor them enough to support trampling all over the rights of everyone else? That's the true test of a patriot.
As a scientist I recognise the power and safety of vaccines, and I also recognise the logic in your arguments. Most of what you say I do agree with. However, I also recognise the implicit argument in your post--that vaccination should be mandatory and or the antivax crowd should be silenced--and as a human being I'm going to tell you to shove that point of view up your ass.
If you don't like the antivax crowd, you're going to have to tackle them with argument and reason, not with the iron hand of majority rules.
No, it isn't. No media at all is always is better than censored media. Censored media allows the censors to maintain control. Without any media, people are in fact freer to form their own opinions rather than having opinions supplied to them.
It doesn't matter how you spin it. There is no justification for Google to participate in censorship of this kind when they don't actually have to. No excuse at all. Chinese people will lose a search engine, but that is not Google's fault; it is the fault of their government.
And sometimes its a simply connected, three dimensional topological space isomorphic to a spherical ball.
It's not just copyright. The slow but steady alignment of copyright holders, oppressive governments, legal changes, media pressure and surveillance technology has wound itself around the internet worldwide, and now the real pressure is being applied. This is a secular change, largely unobservable over smaller intervals, but the end result is that the web in 10 and 20 years time will be a noticeably less free place than it is today. Everything you do online will be monitored, everything will be logged, everything will be legally defined and controlled, and every infringement will be subject to criminal penalties.
The parties responsible have the support of the politicians, the censors, the press, the money men and most of the public. We used to have the support of the geeks and their creativity in bypassing censorship. But let's face it; geeks have not created a truly disruptive technology since BitTorrent almost ten years ago. While Geekdom slept, the likes of Cisco and the major Telcos have constructed a frightening array of technologies for surveillance and control of the internet, and the fruit of their efforts can be seen in China, Iran and now even countries like Australia. Soon it will be seen all over the world.
The Web has changed. Governments are no longer going to tolerate the freedom and anarchy that it grants to the population at large. They now have the means, method and opportunity to put this genie back in the bottle. This crackdown is the first offensive on what is going to be a wide front. Expect the free net to lose.
Public Space?! Public Space?!? The young ones doan't know nought aboot the 'ardships of life these days. In my day, in my day, we; we 'ad to make do with the radio and telly and videyo games. We stayed indoors we did, playin' Super Mario and Sonic the we 'edgehog. Proper pastimes those! Taught us 'ow t'entertain ourselves they did.
'angin'g about in Public Space?! What kind've a pastime d'you call that?! Now'days with d'Internet and mobile phones, there's plenty 'nuff t'do indoars for the day without clatterin' about outside loitrin' on street coarners. Ger'roff of it ye layabouts!! Get a game handle!
The great thing about Matroska is that it supports (or at least can support) absolutely everything.
The main drawback of Matroska is that it supports (or at least can support) absolutely everything.
Matroska is a great container format, but unless you have a program like mplayer or vlc you can't guarantee that a Matroska file is going to be playable on your system. You can't reasonably expect browser maker to standardise on Matroska if it will mean having to include 30+ different codecs in their software, which from a practical standpoint it will. The unfortunate reality is that most of the world's population still doesn't have access to a comprehensive library of software like apt, and while our current software IP regime reigns, they never will.
There's still a point. Google does not avoid China but... they do deny it their essence.
In a democracy, majority rules OK. You may think that the rule of law protects you, but you'll find more often than not that your rights are a paper shield in the face of the iron will of the general public.
Music is not property. Video is not property. Words are not property. Someone can have copyrights of some content, but that does not mean the content is somehow "theirs". It's supposed to mean they were the ones that created it, though it doesn't mean that anymore.
Mickey Mouse is not the property of the Disney corporation, no matter how much they stamp their feet about on the issue. He isn't their property because he can't be their property. Mickey Mouse is not a real mouse. He's not a thing. He's an idea. And you can't own an idea. However, in our great free society, you can control the distribution of an idea.
People own things. They can sometimes also own rights. Sometimes they can own rights over ideas. But they can't own ideas, or sounds, or images. I can't believe I've even making a post which has to explain this fact. This is where the madness of modern "intellectual property" pundits has lead us.
How do you make a concurrent process in D? Perl? Ruby? C? Lisp?
Go actually provides a usable, platform independent method of concurrent programming that doesn't involve mucking about with pthreads, or constants like &MMDIPS_MULTICORE_AGG. You just call "go func()" and a new process is spawned.
No, it's obvious that we need even less government regulation so that the free market can allow doctors and sick patients to reach stable equilibrium with the bacterial hordes! There's a basic game theory model that proves my position!!!
It's not an evasion. It's a very solid, concrete answer to the question.
People get caught up on the question of "what is time?", but in reality, the question is no more deep or metaphysical than the question "what is length?". Both are equally distracting quagmires of philosophy and both are neatly (and appropriately) dealt with in physics by simply defining them to be something that is measured by a device, as a multiple of some defined quantity. Thus time becomes something measured by a clock, as multiples of the cycles of radiation of caesium, and length becomes something measured by a ruler, as some multiple of the distance travelled by light in one second; and so physics and science can proceed, while philosophy remains in its quagmire.
Make no mistake, the "arrow of time" and similar concepts being touted by some in the theoretical physics community are philosophical quagmire that will not advance science one whit. Even the much admired philosophy of Mach did not really have much of an impact on science in and of itself. His work on sound remains his dominant contribution. Unfortunately, unlike Mach, modern theoretical physicists of the last two or three generations have not actually provided much in the way of such concrete physical results.
Hence, my position is to begrudge them these kinds of philosophical meanderings until such time as they actually do the job their supposed to be doing.
A friend of mine actually came up with this test a few months ago and sent an email around with 8 series to see if people could spot real data from randomised ones (Maybe it got chained on to a wider audience).
The key to the test is that random walks typically don't undergo large jumps or oscillations. In fact, they're generally quite a bit smoother than real data. I see that TFA comes to more or less the same conclusion(I think).
The moral if this story is that 99% of normal probability theory does not easily apply to financial time series data.
By your reasoning, if you leave your radio on so loud that the neighbours can listen to your music without having to pay for a radio themselves, then that means they're stealing.
Something tell me that's not how it works either.
I don't know. I think the poll probably came out the way it did because people think lesbians are hot.
Well, where the rest of us come from they have something called "lawyers", which renders your equitable defence moot.
A related but more pertinent point is that no-one right now is able to archive or in most cases obtain anything because of copyrights and DRM.
I work in academia and I can tell you that future researchers are not going to be able to get their hands on 90%+ of the papers written today because the private companies that own them will lose the data when they inevitably go bust (Or just lose it). It will be one of the huge ironies of history.
If the host doesn't provide ssh access on shared accounts, they're not a professional operation.
A few years ago, the industry moved away from SSH accounts due to a fad on the tech circuit which claimed they were more hassle than they were worth. The VPS factor was also involved, with virtualisation allowing companies to offer "vitual" servers with SSH access for double or triple the price of their shared accounts. End result: shared account holders got shafted as SSH access was dropped. From experience I can say it's like losing a limb. The utility of the account drops dramatically.
The real proof of this pudding is in how the larger hosting providers still provide SSH on shared accounts. It's clear that mass SSH access can be feasible, secure and affordable when companies actually make the effort. Unfortunately, most don't. I live in Ireland and out of the about 30 or so hosting providers, only one provides SSH on shared accounts; and none provide SSH on entry level shared accounts. Meanwhile, Hostgator charges $5 a month for virtually the works, including SSH. So much for buying local.
And for all those who say you should just upgrade to VPS (which is just another shared machine anyway), screw that. Not only does it cost treble or quadruple what a shared account will, you also have to administrate the server yourself, with all the headaches that will involve. Say what you like about shared hosting, but it provides a usable, maintained and feature rich environment right out of the box; no mess, no fuss. I just want to host a simple website and have a place online to log into and store my files; I don't want to pay for the privilege of another server to babysit.
SSH is the acid test. If the company doesn't offer it, they're not worth your time.
You must remember that when they sink, their bodies sink to the deep to feed the legions of bottom feeders, which in turn grow to monstrous size. Eventually, we get dread 100,000 strong botnet krakens which rise to the surface and drag sites under with all hands lost.
In light of this, I prefer giving these users swim bands as a preventative measure.
Now you must unlearn it.
Specifically, you're going to need to learn how to use verbs again.
Try php. It's got a great function library and you can build webpages quickly and easily.
Curious. I would think knowing how to write a memo that wasn't two or more pages long would have been the requirement.
But not enough to stop using iTunes it would seem.
Why not after all; if you have nothing to hide (from me) then you have nothing to fear (from me).
They won't be so girly when you see them mounted on frickin' sharks!!