Yet Genesis the band said "not enough love to go 'round, tell me why this is the land of confusion". I submit, Sir, that this invalidates your argument.
What, exactly, do the people who want an "independent" ICANN want that they don't have now? And are their stated reasons the real ones? If they get their way, does the DNS system become even more chaotic than it is now?
Bottom line is I don't trust any of these people to put the interests of the actual users of the Internet first. Of course, I don't really trust ICANN either. Maybe it's me...
Gee, I'm an exempt employee also. If I wasn't, and worked overtime, and the company didn't pay for it, I'd be out the door.
If I'd been doing my job, and my employer cut my pay by 15% because they'd been breaking the rules, I'd be out the door. You can abhor unions if you want, but if you let employers take advantage of you they'll do it every time.
As an exempt employee, I work 40 hours most weeks. If there's a crunch, I don't mind doing more. But if they company starts expecting me to do that every week as a normal thing, that's a problem. Unlike many of you, I have a life. (j/k)
Um, actually... 1. We don't have much of a negative result at all yet. What we can say is that we found no intelligent signals in a) a short span of time b) at very specific frequencies c) over some region of the observable sky d) with power greater than some large figure I don't know e) which match our best guess as to what an intelligent signal will look like. What people don't realize is that the "search space" for intelligent signals is extremely large. We make educated guesses as to the most likely parameters and look there. But SETI is a very long-term project, unless we get lucky.
2. A negative result in science can be as important as a positive one. If we're the only intelligent life in this part of the galaxy, it might be crucial to know why.
if, in fact, China was a nation run by law. Since it's not, and the central government doesn't even have control anymore, this is just pissing in the wind.
Republicans are only anti-Government power when they're not running the government. It's OK for their guys to break the law as long as those horrible liberals aren't in power. They talk a lot about morality but that doesn't mean they have any.
Actually most of these races are said to be allergic to either silver or iron, or both. Guess what's all around us now, all the time? The last elf was killed in 1921, when he was accidentally splashed with used photographic developer. Tragic, really.
A lot, and I mean A LOT, of fantasy books released for a good while were really bad imitations of Tolkein. This is why they all seemed the same. One of the first to break the mold and do something different was Stephen Donaldson. If you haven't read the first Thomas Covenant trilogy you should check it out.
I'm pretty sure these forfeiture laws are still on the books. The madness gets worse every year. People will just tolerate it until it gets so bad we practically have to have a civil war to stop it. People are stupid.
Hey, I remember when Shadowrun came out -- as a role-playing game (i.e. books, pencils, paper and dice). Great concept. Somehow I missed the transition to electronics completely. I'm not getting old, am I?
Nope, sorry, he's right. Authentication of bank customers is one thing, posting articles is something else. The Internet was designed for sharing information and for free linking. A lot of people are trying to use the Internet but want it to work THEIR way. To which I say, you don't like it, build your own freakin' network.
Ah, but maybe the low-level electronics are important. There are some good arguments that true intelligence can't be produced with standard digital circuits. For one thing, neurons are radically different in operation. I'd find some good links, but my neurons are misfiring at the moment.
Actually, I'm pretty sure turning over encryption keys should be covered by the Fifth Amendment. It's self-incrimination. Not that we're paying much attention to the Constitution these days. After all, we're at war, right? Wait, the Constitution says Congress has to declare that...
Paranoia is ALWAYS justified! I'm sure the NSA has something undocumented you can't disable. The existence of a semi-public non-backdoor doesn't preclude the existence of a non-public backdoor.
This actually would have been a great idea for eBay at 2.6 million, probably even 26 million. eBay fell into the "it's only paper money anyway" trap, I suspect.
IANAL. However, I don't think the contents of a private agreement between MS and Novell would have any bearing on a patent case between MS and, say, Red Hat. This would be particularly true if Red Hat's tactic was to get the MS patents invalidated, rather than claim they didn't violate them.
By the way, if Novell wasn't worried about patents in Linux, what did they get out of this? One hell of a lot of publicity for their integration-with-windows projects, that's what they got. Every time Novell, MS, and Linux are in the same news story some company is going to license Novell's distribution.
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Actually the main reason I oppose OOXML is that I've been convinced it's a really crappy standard. A sub-standard standard, as it were. But whatever.
Cool movie, but I actually preferred Crash and Burn. I'm a sucker for cute female hackers who stumble across abandoned giant robots, I guess.
Yet Genesis the band said "not enough love to go 'round, tell me why this is the land of confusion". I submit, Sir, that this invalidates your argument.
What, exactly, do the people who want an "independent" ICANN want that they don't have now? And are their stated reasons the real ones? If they get their way, does the DNS system become even more chaotic than it is now?
Bottom line is I don't trust any of these people to put the interests of the actual users of the Internet first. Of course, I don't really trust ICANN either. Maybe it's me...
Gee, I'm an exempt employee also. If I wasn't, and worked overtime, and the company didn't pay for it, I'd be out the door.
If I'd been doing my job, and my employer cut my pay by 15% because they'd been breaking the rules, I'd be out the door. You can abhor unions if you want, but if you let employers take advantage of you they'll do it every time.
As an exempt employee, I work 40 hours most weeks. If there's a crunch, I don't mind doing more. But if they company starts expecting me to do that every week as a normal thing, that's a problem. Unlike many of you, I have a life. (j/k)
"Publishing their binary specs in an Open Source compatible way"? Surely you're not referring to OOXML?
Um, actually...
1. We don't have much of a negative result at all yet. What we can say is that we found no intelligent signals in
a) a short span of time
b) at very specific frequencies
c) over some region of the observable sky
d) with power greater than some large figure I don't know
e) which match our best guess as to what an intelligent signal will look like.
What people don't realize is that the "search space" for intelligent signals is extremely large. We make educated guesses as to the most likely parameters and look there. But SETI is a very long-term project, unless we get lucky.
2. A negative result in science can be as important as a positive one. If we're the only intelligent life in this part of the galaxy, it might be crucial to know why.
if, in fact, China was a nation run by law. Since it's not, and the central government doesn't even have control anymore, this is just pissing in the wind.
Good Lord, you're judging Americans by what's posted on Slashdot? No darn wonder you're upset.
Norton a 4 or 5? Really? Well it was true 10 years ago... Geez.
"I have an even better suggestion: Find a woman and impress her. :)"
Whoa! WAY too much work. And don't get me started on the expense.
Republicans are only anti-Government power when they're not running the government. It's OK for their guys to break the law as long as those horrible liberals aren't in power. They talk a lot about morality but that doesn't mean they have any.
I feel compelled to point out that's the unclassified speed record. Its actual top speed is still speculative.
Actually most of these races are said to be allergic to either silver or iron, or both. Guess what's all around us now, all the time? The last elf was killed in 1921, when he was accidentally splashed with used photographic developer. Tragic, really.
A lot, and I mean A LOT, of fantasy books released for a good while were really bad imitations of Tolkein. This is why they all seemed the same. One of the first to break the mold and do something different was Stephen Donaldson. If you haven't read the first Thomas Covenant trilogy you should check it out.
I'm pretty sure these forfeiture laws are still on the books. The madness gets worse every year. People will just tolerate it until it gets so bad we practically have to have a civil war to stop it. People are stupid.
Hey, I remember when Shadowrun came out -- as a role-playing game (i.e. books, pencils, paper and dice). Great concept. Somehow I missed the transition to electronics completely. I'm not getting old, am I?
Nope, sorry, he's right. Authentication of bank customers is one thing, posting articles is something else. The Internet was designed for sharing information and for free linking. A lot of people are trying to use the Internet but want it to work THEIR way. To which I say, you don't like it, build your own freakin' network.
polled could spell "nanotechnology"?
Wow, this one really had me rolling in the aisles. Those guys at the Onion are comic geniuses.
Hey, wait a minute...
Ah, but maybe the low-level electronics are important. There are some good arguments that true intelligence can't be produced with standard digital circuits. For one thing, neurons are radically different in operation. I'd find some good links, but my neurons are misfiring at the moment.
Actually, I'm pretty sure turning over encryption keys should be covered by the Fifth Amendment. It's self-incrimination. Not that we're paying much attention to the Constitution these days. After all, we're at war, right? Wait, the Constitution says Congress has to declare that...
Paranoia is ALWAYS justified! I'm sure the NSA has something undocumented you can't disable. The existence of a semi-public non-backdoor doesn't preclude the existence of a non-public backdoor.
This actually would have been a great idea for eBay at 2.6 million, probably even 26 million. eBay fell into the "it's only paper money anyway" trap, I suspect.
IANAL. However, I don't think the contents of a private agreement between MS and Novell would have any bearing on a patent case between MS and, say, Red Hat. This would be particularly true if Red Hat's tactic was to get the MS patents invalidated, rather than claim they didn't violate them.
By the way, if Novell wasn't worried about patents in Linux, what did they get out of this? One hell of a lot of publicity for their integration-with-windows projects, that's what they got. Every time Novell, MS, and Linux are in the same news story some company is going to license Novell's distribution.