One that has not been answered in literature aimed at us normal folk. On/. there seems to be many people who actually know something, unlike you and me. So let's work under the assumption that my question was directed at them, not you, ok?
Ever seen the bottom of a jar of nuts? That might be dense enough to get some bad shit happening.
Imagine one peb cracking, and depositing the stuff on the bottom of the bed, which reacts more strongly with a few more pebs, causing a hot spot and some convection, which can crack more, etc.
Some things that seem to be missing from the popular accounts: just what the pebs are coated with, how tough they are, and how long they are supposed to hold up to constant expansion and contraction.
There is also a strong correlation with black berets, van Dyke beards, organisers from Levenger's, and cars designed by obsessive-compulsives in Germany. It is amazing how many things these people own that are shiny, small, expensive, and have rounded corners.
... that was a CIA front running covert ops, recon and support ops in Laos for something like 20 years. When the libs decided to use that as the name for *their* brand of rumor-mongering (and honestly, why do radio wanks HAVE TO SHOUT ALL THE TIME?), I almost swallowed my teeth.
after a cataclysm happens, no matter how often the thing worked before or what mitigating circumstances there were, "once bit, forever shy" takes over. Many newly-graduated engineers are given a steel ring to remind them of fallen bridges from the 19th century.
Inflated fear can also keep good ideas from growing. How long has it been since an engineer has been able to seriously suggest using hydrogen in blimps? How many times have they had to explain that it can be used safely in balloons, cars, etc?
Imagine what the fallout would have been if Richard Feynman hadn't found impeccable software practices during the Challenger investigation. Ouch, eh?
For some jobs (i.e. ssh to box A and reboot the database) vt100 works great. For things that are more complex, say dealing with two and three-dimensional data, it is not as good as it can be. I personally would not want to go back to pine for email.
Sucks, eh?:)
The reason to have a "superuser" is because new stuff comes up all the time. The capabilities model is useful when the general applications are already known, and set out at system setup. Once a system is running for a couple years and there's a new Whizbang Network Filesystem Protocol, you either need to set the bastard up from scratch or have some user that can define new capabilities. That user is effectively r00t.
That is not the right interpretation. It means, Johnny Pirate who shares his Jimi Hendrix MP3s for free, NOT Jimi's Ghost (or whoever owns copyright) doing so.
Imagine chaining everyone's browsercaches into a p2p network....
Aw, who am I kidding? If we can't get these greedy bastards to even use meta tags or robots.txt correctly, a real distributed archive isn't even worth dreaming about.
I'm talking about archives, which can help establish truth. If you cannot establish beyond a doubt that the "archived" version of a page is what was actually published X years ago, you can't prove anything, whether you are Joe Blogger or the Vatican.
"...but when the original source is gone..."
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You are out of luck. I would consider having to pay $3 to get a copy from the original publisher that may or may not be unaltered to mean the item is "gone".
There is no such thing as "public record" on the internet.:(
I'm casting no asparagus here, but when the original source is gone and there is no "library" of archived material you can check against, how can anyone be sure that a newsitem on a geocities account is complete and faithful to the original?
If you want to know what the NYTimes printed on a certain date in 1976, you can go to any library in the world and find. out. If you want to know what the NYT.com published last month, you are out of luck. (Let's gloss over their "archives" you pay 2 bucks a pop for. I'm talking about independently verifiable records.)
On the internet, there is no such thing as "public record". It is near-impossible to establish who said what in the past, even large, venerable institutions such as the NYT, which used to call itself "The Paper Of Record".
I don't know about you, but to me it's a pretty bad situation.
"For once someone should write a book..."???
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It's called "Das Kapital", you weenie.
Of course it's adversarial. It's also based on factory-thinking, that "productivity" is something you can stack like bricks.
So. Go read up on the IWW (aka the Wobblies), or get job that involves creativity, OR, suck it up.
The IRS Modernization project is I think 4 years in. over 4 Billion of 15 allocated has been spent, and all they have to show for it are a few Shiny New Buildings filled with computers that aren't connected, and a Big Pile Of Crap off-the-shelf software that cost 250K a pop.
When has China looked at anything from the perspective of their citizens' own personal interests?
A whole generation of Chinese students are going to enter the world of global competition thinking that how things can and should be done.
Yep, because that's what built them a school in the first place.
It's all well and good to advocate but China isn't going to change until they are ready, when they've industrialized enough to worry about it. More precisely, when the people are doing well enough to look up from the basic grub of living. Have you ever worked a farm without electricity?
Same goes for environmental protection, education, and human rights.
China is not producing "IP" value anywhere near what they do in pirated material or manufactured goods. What you are proposing is that a country voluntarily cuts the profits of HUGE industries in order to help a very small one... and so that other countries can make more money. Heh.
It may yet happen if the equation changes or it buys something else they want (such as access to markets or Taiwan), but not before. Speed of communications does not alter the basic process of industrialization.
Your position is mostly valid, but it speaks from purely personal interest. There is no such thing as a "level playing field" between countries with a 150-year industrialization gap.
The US's advantages are money, influence, markets, and patents/trademarks/copyrights enforced by mutual agreement. China's advantages are a large, cheap workforce, endless land, raw materials, and the (temporary) advantage of using (not stealing) knowledge that is already out there. You use the tools available to you. You try your damndest to make your competitors meet you were you are strongest and they are weakest.
This was true back when the American Colonists were using English designs for textile mills, steam engines, and everything else, and the English were taxing the holy bejesus out of them because they wanted the Colonies to be only suppliers of raw materials. The US wants China to be a supplier of manufactured goods and nothing else.
Let's say there was only ONE incident of lasering, instead of the number that have been reported all over the country. I am willing to bet large cash that this man would not have gotten the same amount of publicity or bail, and would not be used as an "example" to boost the efficacy of a draconian law.
But since there have been many incidents, this IS happening to him. His situation is much worse than it would be because of the sins of others. He is a scapegoat. Scapegoats don't have to be the squeaky-clean innocents TV tells us they are.
someone is being made a scapegoat. This "rash" of laser attacks has been reported all over the country, not just this guy's house, else a suspect would have been found much sooner. He is a suspect, and the law does state such-and-such punishment. No argument there.
But a vital piece is missing from the information we have: exactly what part of the "Patriot" Act was involved, and exactly how did it make it easier to find him? From the report, he was caught after the chopper investigating the incident was shined on as well.
This man is a double-scapegoat; his case is also being used to boost the efficacy of the "Patriot" Act, even though no specifics are given. The USA Today article even has a bootless frission about how these dangerous terrorist weapons are available over the Internet for $15.
I was responding to the GP's attitude that the suspect is not only guilty, but should be intentionally overpunished lest it contribute to "the decline of this society". I'm getting pretty sick of the moralistic, "hang the buggers" attitude in recent years.
Instead of talking about justice or equity, the reasoning centers around social control and the realative worthlessness of individual citizens (not to mention non-citizens).
I recall a few EMP experiments at a certain Army base that disabled every piece of unshielded electronics for miles around. Luckily there were no aircraft nearby. Punishments? Apologies? None.
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Is he beta-testing the new version of ViaVoice?
One that has not been answered in literature aimed at us normal folk. On /. there seems to be many people who actually know something, unlike you and me. So let's work under the assumption that my question was directed at them, not you, ok?
You are a discount private investigator?
Imagine one peb cracking, and depositing the stuff on the bottom of the bed, which reacts more strongly with a few more pebs, causing a hot spot and some convection, which can crack more, etc.
Some things that seem to be missing from the popular accounts: just what the pebs are coated with, how tough they are, and how long they are supposed to hold up to constant expansion and contraction.
(I have a Mac. Relax. It's a fricken joke.)
... that was a CIA front running covert ops, recon and support ops in Laos for something like 20 years. When the libs decided to use that as the name for *their* brand of rumor-mongering (and honestly, why do radio wanks HAVE TO SHOUT ALL THE TIME?), I almost swallowed my teeth.
Inflated fear can also keep good ideas from growing. How long has it been since an engineer has been able to seriously suggest using hydrogen in blimps? How many times have they had to explain that it can be used safely in balloons, cars, etc?
Imagine what the fallout would have been if Richard Feynman hadn't found impeccable software practices during the Challenger investigation. Ouch, eh?
It's easy to be too alarmist as to be too blasé.
For some jobs (i.e. ssh to box A and reboot the database) vt100 works great. For things that are more complex, say dealing with two and three-dimensional data, it is not as good as it can be. I personally would not want to go back to pine for email.
Sucks, eh? :)
The reason to have a "superuser" is because new stuff comes up all the time. The capabilities model is useful when the general applications are already known, and set out at system setup. Once a system is running for a couple years and there's a new Whizbang Network Filesystem Protocol, you either need to set the bastard up from scratch or have some user that can define new capabilities. That user is effectively r00t.
"We reserve the right to change the terms of this License from time to time." is the biggest broken broomstick of contract law.
That is not the right interpretation. It means, Johnny Pirate who shares his Jimi Hendrix MP3s for free, NOT Jimi's Ghost (or whoever owns copyright) doing so.
Aw, who am I kidding? If we can't get these greedy bastards to even use meta tags or robots.txt correctly, a real distributed archive isn't even worth dreaming about.
It's a good shot and a noble project, but would you want to have only one library, with limited funding and space, for the entire world?
I'm talking about archives, which can help establish truth. If you cannot establish beyond a doubt that the "archived" version of a page is what was actually published X years ago, you can't prove anything, whether you are Joe Blogger or the Vatican.
There is no such thing as "public record" on the internet. :(
I'm casting no asparagus here, but when the original source is gone and there is no "library" of archived material you can check against, how can anyone be sure that a newsitem on a geocities account is complete and faithful to the original?
On the internet, there is no such thing as "public record". It is near-impossible to establish who said what in the past, even large, venerable institutions such as the NYT, which used to call itself "The Paper Of Record".
I don't know about you, but to me it's a pretty bad situation.
It's called "Das Kapital", you weenie.
Of course it's adversarial. It's also based on factory-thinking, that "productivity" is something you can stack like bricks.
So. Go read up on the IWW (aka the Wobblies), or get job that involves creativity, OR, suck it up.
Your tax dollars at work....
You just linked to the laws as of April 2004. When did this redefinition happen?
A whole generation of Chinese students are going to enter the world of global competition thinking that how things can and should be done.
Yep, because that's what built them a school in the first place.
It's all well and good to advocate but China isn't going to change until they are ready, when they've industrialized enough to worry about it. More precisely, when the people are doing well enough to look up from the basic grub of living. Have you ever worked a farm without electricity?
Same goes for environmental protection, education, and human rights.
China is not producing "IP" value anywhere near what they do in pirated material or manufactured goods. What you are proposing is that a country voluntarily cuts the profits of HUGE industries in order to help a very small one... and so that other countries can make more money. Heh.
It may yet happen if the equation changes or it buys something else they want (such as access to markets or Taiwan), but not before. Speed of communications does not alter the basic process of industrialization.
The US's advantages are money, influence, markets, and patents/trademarks/copyrights enforced by mutual agreement. China's advantages are a large, cheap workforce, endless land, raw materials, and the (temporary) advantage of using (not stealing) knowledge that is already out there. You use the tools available to you. You try your damndest to make your competitors meet you were you are strongest and they are weakest.
This was true back when the American Colonists were using English designs for textile mills, steam engines, and everything else, and the English were taxing the holy bejesus out of them because they wanted the Colonies to be only suppliers of raw materials. The US wants China to be a supplier of manufactured goods and nothing else.
But since there have been many incidents, this IS happening to him. His situation is much worse than it would be because of the sins of others. He is a scapegoat. Scapegoats don't have to be the squeaky-clean innocents TV tells us they are.
But a vital piece is missing from the information we have: exactly what part of the "Patriot" Act was involved, and exactly how did it make it easier to find him? From the report, he was caught after the chopper investigating the incident was shined on as well.
This man is a double-scapegoat; his case is also being used to boost the efficacy of the "Patriot" Act, even though no specifics are given. The USA Today article even has a bootless frission about how these dangerous terrorist weapons are available over the Internet for $15.
Instead of talking about justice or equity, the reasoning centers around social control and the realative worthlessness of individual citizens (not to mention non-citizens).
I recall a few EMP experiments at a certain Army base that disabled every piece of unshielded electronics for miles around. Luckily there were no aircraft nearby. Punishments? Apologies? None.