And if they choose to use that freedom by violating societal standards, I have no problem removing their freedoms until they grow up. But it is sad that we as a society have to step an in pick up where parenting skills are clearly lacking. You have to pass a basic skills test to drive a car but any moron can have a child. And heaven forbid teaching parenting or sex education in schools!
Yes you are correct. I forgot that most/.rs live in their parents basement and no real grasp of how the real world works since they only ever see it through their firewall filter.
If you consider a free country as one that allows youth mobs running around robbing and beating the crap out of random people, then you can have it. Personally I consider a free country to be one where I can walk around freely and not have to worry about such things. Where I live there are no curfews cause there is no NEED of a curfew. There are no flash mobs, there are no race driven gang fights
Freedom is great until people abuse those freedoms and impact the freedoms of others. Restricting the freedom of a few teenagers to stay out at night when there is no valid reason to stay out is minor compared to the freedom gained by not having to worry about being mobbed.
I'd much rather live in my world than yours. Your freedom is imaginary - mine is real.
- "Windows CE" Any device must be proven by the manufacturer to not cause patient harm if an component within it fails. This includes software, and when calculating probability of failure, software is assumed to fail 100% of the time.
- "cheap TTL monitor" Any hardware must conform to stringent medical standards and if fails be proven not to cause patient harm
- "Developed fast" The amount of documentation required on process, design, testing and validation means it simply cannot be 'developed fast'
- "breezed through FDA certification" FDA certification takes years, including patient trials to show it is safe. You simply cannot 'breeze' a product through certification.
The poster is simply talking out of his ass, not knowing what he's saying.
The regulations surrounding medical devices require documentation, disclosure to regulatory bodies and fault analysis to the same degree of the safety surrounding manned space flight. It takes literally years to prove your device is safe before it can get released to the general public.
Richard Stallman is one of the geniuses of our time. All he wants is to share software with his friends. and to have his friends share it back.
No. If thats all he was doing then fine. But he wants everyone to ship free source and to not do so is an attack on freedom. He wants the word GNU to be used in every project that uses GNU. Thnks GNU is the primary architect of Linux. Likes socialist regimes and has worked with Chavez. Used to live in his office. Thinks Sept 2001 was an inside job. He scans everything he buys with an RFID scanner just in case someone is tracking him. Wants to boycott books like Harry Potter.
But if you had a smart meter, all you need to do is to logon to your meter from any web browser and check the log. Far easier than what you are suggesting.
Well there is no "App" for smart meters yet as utilities want to hold on to the data...they do not want to let you know how much you consume in real time.
Depends where you live. My power utilities' smart meter allows secure real-time access to my power usage from a web browser, and therefore by default my smartphone.
The only useful thing Edison actually invented was the lightbulb. Most everything else was invented by his staff and patented under the Edison company. His rejection of AC in the face of its clear benefits and his insistence on 'magnetic ore mining' as the future way to dig for gold shows he didn't have much creative talent.
Not sure but it sounds like what he GPLd was part or entirely what he was contracted to do for the company. In that case then while he is the author, he is not the owner and therefore had no rights to GPL the code without explicit permission from the company to do so.
Yes this is completely arbitrary and useless. The argument made in the article by beowulf only shows that he has no idea how an economy works. Basically every statement and assumption in that article is blatantly wrong.
I can take your list and say in all truthfullness that the US (Republican and Conservative)
- putting people in jail, and creating huge mega-prisons (all over the US, the most jailed population in the world)
- forced labour penal chain gangs (in the US south)
- dramatically increased mega-legislation of "law and order" type suppression (the US military spends more on air conditioning than the entire budget for NASA)
- courting big businesses and the Conservative elite (can you spell bailout?)
- accepting money from rich people, and undermining unions (Hitler actually killed off the "socialists" in his "National Socialist" party, after he was finished using them) (some states like Florida actually make unions illegal)
- in favour of censorship (us TV and radio is incredibly censored and there are still book burnings of all things in the US)
- in favour of ubiquitous and warrant-less government surveillance. (can you say Patriot Act and Homeland Security?)
- against homosexuality (outlawed in many states and actively rallied against)
- against marijuana users (Hitler was big time against drug users; read Ceremonial Chemistry by Dr. Thomas Szasz some time) (so is the US)
So based on your arguments, you seem to also be comparing the US to Hitler.
Did you fill out the long form or the short form? The short form is still mandatory and gives a lot of information to the government for social programs. I see no difference in the quality of information by making the long form mandatory when the short form (which is quite long) is still there and still mandatory. This is a non-issue.
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And if they choose to use that freedom by violating societal standards, I have no problem removing their freedoms until they grow up. But it is sad that we as a society have to step an in pick up where parenting skills are clearly lacking. You have to pass a basic skills test to drive a car but any moron can have a child. And heaven forbid teaching parenting or sex education in schools!
Yes you are correct. I forgot that most /.rs live in their parents basement and no real grasp of how the real world works since they only ever see it through their firewall filter.
For an adult, thats fine. For a 14 year old, they dont need to be running around at night for a walk. Get a grip.
If you consider a free country as one that allows youth mobs running around robbing and beating the crap out of random people, then you can have it. Personally I consider a free country to be one where I can walk around freely and not have to worry about such things. Where I live there are no curfews cause there is no NEED of a curfew. There are no flash mobs, there are no race driven gang fights
Freedom is great until people abuse those freedoms and impact the freedoms of others. Restricting the freedom of a few teenagers to stay out at night when there is no valid reason to stay out is minor compared to the freedom gained by not having to worry about being mobbed.
I'd much rather live in my world than yours. Your freedom is imaginary - mine is real.
Clearly you didn't name any good reasons either
I actually agree with that quote. There is no good reason whatsoever for any teenager to be out after midnight, unless they are coming home from work.
Basically everything stated:
- "Windows CE" Any device must be proven by the manufacturer to not cause patient harm if an component within it fails. This includes software, and when calculating probability of failure, software is assumed to fail 100% of the time.
- "cheap TTL monitor" Any hardware must conform to stringent medical standards and if fails be proven not to cause patient harm
- "Developed fast" The amount of documentation required on process, design, testing and validation means it simply cannot be 'developed fast'
- "breezed through FDA certification" FDA certification takes years, including patient trials to show it is safe. You simply cannot 'breeze' a product through certification.
The poster is simply talking out of his ass, not knowing what he's saying.
The regulations surrounding medical devices require documentation, disclosure to regulatory bodies and fault analysis to the same degree of the safety surrounding manned space flight. It takes literally years to prove your device is safe before it can get released to the general public.
but people aren't really going think that walking past the microwave or the 802.11 router is really a threat.
If it is a certified medical device, there is no way walking past a router or microwave is going to change the settings.
As a designer of medical devices, based on the description device #2 could never exist.
Of course at the limit the attacker does away with the subtle apporach and just blasts the device with an EMP (or you with a shotgun)
Yes, because an attacker is going to set off a nuke to generate an EMP with the sole purpose of frying everyones medical implants.
Agree a shotgun would be a lot easier and less evil-fanatic like.
Richard Stallman is one of the geniuses of our time. All he wants is to share software with his friends. and to have his friends share it back.
No. If thats all he was doing then fine. But he wants everyone to ship free source and to not do so is an attack on freedom. He wants the word GNU to be used in every project that uses GNU. Thnks GNU is the primary architect of Linux. Likes socialist regimes and has worked with Chavez. Used to live in his office. Thinks Sept 2001 was an inside job. He scans everything he buys with an RFID scanner just in case someone is tracking him. Wants to boycott books like Harry Potter.
Basically an extremist crackpot.
Yes, well Stallman is quite the crackpot, so anything he says should be questioned as to ulterior purposes.
Because 'cloud based' is the new buzzword just like 'synergy' was a while ago. A meaningless word used to pretend you know what you are talking about.
But if you had a smart meter, all you need to do is to logon to your meter from any web browser and check the log. Far easier than what you are suggesting.
Well there is no "App" for smart meters yet as utilities want to hold on to the data...they do not want to let you know how much you consume in real time.
Depends where you live. My power utilities' smart meter allows secure real-time access to my power usage from a web browser, and therefore by default my smartphone.
The two moons would have been millions of years before any religious texts were written.
The only useful thing Edison actually invented was the lightbulb. Most everything else was invented by his staff and patented under the Edison company. His rejection of AC in the face of its clear benefits and his insistence on 'magnetic ore mining' as the future way to dig for gold shows he didn't have much creative talent.
He killed thousands of dogs and cats, including horses and an elephant. Read the book "The Electric Chair: An Unnatural American History". Here's a link to an electronic version from Google: http://books.google.com/books?id=nSLU3ge91NoC&source=gbs_navlinks_s
Specifically pages 74 and 77-79 (and others) talk about the animals he murdered. He really was a sadistic bastard.
The Egyptians who built the pyramids were white (or at least, the people who DESIGNED them were white)
White? Really? Can you please explain why Scandinavians were living in Egypt?
Not sure but it sounds like what he GPLd was part or entirely what he was contracted to do for the company. In that case then while he is the author, he is not the owner and therefore had no rights to GPL the code without explicit permission from the company to do so.
You cannot retroactively de-GPL code.
You can if that code was released by the author without the company's permission (it's theirs since they paid for it). It's effectively stealing.
Yes this is completely arbitrary and useless. The argument made in the article by beowulf only shows that he has no idea how an economy works. Basically every statement and assumption in that article is blatantly wrong.
(quote)ranting nonsense(/quote)
I can take your list and say in all truthfullness that the US (Republican and Conservative)
- putting people in jail, and creating huge mega-prisons (all over the US, the most jailed population in the world)
- forced labour penal chain gangs (in the US south)
- dramatically increased mega-legislation of "law and order" type suppression (the US military spends more on air conditioning than the entire budget for NASA)
- courting big businesses and the Conservative elite (can you spell bailout?)
- accepting money from rich people, and undermining unions (Hitler actually killed off the "socialists" in his "National Socialist" party, after he was finished using them) (some states like Florida actually make unions illegal)
- in favour of censorship (us TV and radio is incredibly censored and there are still book burnings of all things in the US)
- in favour of ubiquitous and warrant-less government surveillance. (can you say Patriot Act and Homeland Security?)
- against homosexuality (outlawed in many states and actively rallied against)
- against marijuana users (Hitler was big time against drug users; read Ceremonial Chemistry by Dr. Thomas Szasz some time) (so is the US)
So based on your arguments, you seem to also be comparing the US to Hitler.
Did you fill out the long form or the short form? The short form is still mandatory and gives a lot of information to the government for social programs. I see no difference in the quality of information by making the long form mandatory when the short form (which is quite long) is still there and still mandatory. This is a non-issue.
Short form is still mandatory