This is excellent news. A proactive, gentle reminder to all to be kinder is a positive step.
And, the reaction to this, by those some pejoratively call 'SJWs' will be telling: if what they truly want is peaceful and respectful interactions in and around software projects, they should be optimistic at this development.
If, on the other hand, their *real* goal is surreptitious power grabs via identity-politics-based using reverse discrimination and 'victimhood' to tear down whatever 'privilege' structure bothers them, then this will make them go absolutely *nuts*.
In the end, if the code is bad, it won't work, so who wrote it is ultimately irrelevant.
The Church insists that each member construct his or her own mythos and liturgy, if she/he hasn't already. The Church states that any and all existing Church liturgy (which includes anything said by any SubGenius anywhere) can be contradicted, rewritten, and/or ignored. IT'S RIGHT THERE ON THE TABLETS!
Commandment 1: The rest of these Commandments are bullshit.
Commandment 2: Commandment 1 is nonsense.
Commandment 3: See Commandment 3.
Commandment 4: Don't break commandment 5.
Commandment 5: Don't read commandment 4.
Commandment 6: Commandment 2 is especially bullshit.
Commandment 7: See Commandment 3 again. Who told you to stop?
Commandment 8: Commandments 2 and 5 are to be reversed.
... my wife is a teacher and her high school decided all teachers must have and use iPads. She teaches horticulture and the apps in the Apple store are all for preschoolers, maybe grade 3 max. She found one or two BBC interactive documentaries with David Attenborough but that's it. Everything else is babysitting software.
Almost (not total) waste of money, and they're laying off teachers because they don't have enough funds.
Training for the iPads? Two two-hour sessions for the staff. That's it.
I second the thoughts by others that this is a bad way to spend all-too-sparse funds in the educational system.
I sincerely wish I could add my vote to this petition but I'm Canadian.
Not that living in Canada means I, and everyone I know, probably hasn't been swept up in this sweeping surveillance. I'm sure all of our traffic is being hoovered up just the same.
I've been seeing the spam filters in my gmail really break down over the last few months, to the point where I'm working on a Hashcash gadget to generate stamps and backend app script to auto-flag emails with stamps.
I have the stamp generator google sidebar gadget working, and am working on refining the back-end script. I'll try to get something published soon via the Google App Store. Of course to be useful lots of people need to adopt Hashcash and use it send each other mail.
Wow, you've never heard of the Miller-Urey experiments, or considered that local entropy can decrease, so long as the entropy in the surroundings increases to match? There are a raft of real-world phenomena where molecules spontaneously self-organize given some energy gradient.
Ah, why am I bothering, if you can look up everything, if you're actually willing. The onus isn't on everyone else to prove some invisible sky-man doesn't exist...
Haven't they already taken the first step with compulsory driver signing in their 64-bit OSes? I hear there's a registry hack to disable it... for now. But MS would -love- it to be mandatory, they've been laying the foundations since the original "Trusted Computing Platform Alliance" days haven't they? I don't keep up to date on all this stuff so maybe it's not so true anymore.
... probably true (the part about the post being intended for India). However, the company then deserves whatever it gets. Last company I worked for had the bright idea of outsourcing to Wipro. Ended up costing them far more than they bargained for. That company would lie through its teeth about the skills of its 'consultants' and 'programmers'. I had trouble feeling sorry for my company, as they'd instituted a hiring freeze in the US and Canadian offices in order to try and save money outsourcing. The lost productivity cleaning up after the outsourced peoples' mess obliterated any savings they had hoped to get.
IANAL of course, but it's pretty common knowledge that corporations in the US are considered 'persons', and as such, truly heinous crimes such as this should merit the corporate equivalent of the 'death penalty' -- revocation of their corporate charter to operate in the U.S. and dissolution/seizing of all U.S.-based assets. So there -is- basis in law for it.
Of course this power has almost never, from what I've read, been used. Which means corporations are actually -more- than people, being immortal, immensely rich 'people' who are in all practical senses above the law.
I see it rather as an indictment against closed-source OSes, if XP turns out to be incompatible with these new drives and MS never releases a patch to add support. People will need to upgrade for no good reason to one of MS's new operating systems. People should not have to deal with a complete upheaval of their tested and true systems due to a small hardware change such as this.
I can imagine MS is quietly chuckling with glee to itself, if this issue becomes a deal-breaker for machines still running XP.
I wonder why they couldn't integrate a supercapacitor rather than a battery -- while their capacity is less, they charge nearly instantaneously and have no memory. Then the lifetime would be even longer, perhaps over a decade if no extreme temperature variations were present. The things are designed for short bursts between sleeps, so a supercap could be suitable.
Yeah well Apple also stomped all over "OS-9" (google 'microware' or 'radisys' if you haven't heard of it). The OS-9 operating system dated back to oh, 1981 or so.. but some butthead judge decided, when Microware objected to Apple's then-latest release, that since Apple was, well, -Apple-, there couldn't -possibly- be any confusion.. even though anyone on usenet's comp.os.os9 was already sick and tired of Mac fanboys posting newbie mac questions there thinking it was a Mac forum; even though OS-9 and Mac OS 9 were both operating systems.. for 68k (and, at that time, PowerPC) processors.. gee, totally different markets./s
Hear, hear! The Firefox team did the right thing. MS needs to play by the rules of any third-party applications with which it wants to interact. They should have used the 'front door' when installing their plugin, and had proper versioning information. They should live with the consequences of their backhanded install procedure, just like anyone else.
You know what, it's great that some people you know were helped by Vioxx. That's honestly great.
But that in *no* way excuses the fact that, due to the drug company's *blatant lies* about the possible effects that it may have, some other people you DON'T know, may have FRICKING DIED from Vioxx.
But hey, if the people who were baldly deceived by drug companies' LIES and died/suffered as a result were all people YOU DIDN'T KNOW PERSONALLY, then that's totally OK I guess.
The fact the company had to make a whole FAKE JOURNAL up to shove their product says volumes about how much confidence they really had about the product.
You speak as though you're expecting support and free bugfixes from the commercial vendor.
Granted, some vendors do offer this, but you must evaluate the vendor on a case-by-case basis. I'm working with a rather expensive SDK at my current job, which I won't name (it has the words 'Open' and 'TV' in it); I've filed a few bugs, and the response nearly every time has been "Oh yeah, that's a bug; it'll be fixed in the new version'. Which we'll have to pay for. And our company is considering upgrading to a completely new version of their platform, so those bugfixes won't be relevant for the next release anyway. So what's the point of their support really, if the fix is just to pay for a whole new version every few years?
Do you really think a used car vendor's going to give you a warranty for $8000 worth in repairs for a $5000 car? That doesn't sound too realistic either.
.. might as well start calling it for what it is... 3D storage. if they could eliminate the spinning disc aspect, we'd have data crystals like in Babylon 5. Cool.
The wife & I were on our first (and probably only) cruise this January. To board the first time, we had to go through three checkpoints; one inside the harbour building, then once at the first end of the boarding ramp, then *again* at the ship-side end of the boarding ramp. There were absolutely NO entries or exits accessible after passing the initial checkpoint.
At each port of call, returning to the ship required two checkpoints at each end of the boarding tube.. again, no entries or exits, so they were just checking if someone magically transmuted into a terrorist in the 300 yards or so along the closed ramp. Totally useless.
No body pat-downs either, but all bags had to be put through a scanner -- obviously to prevent cheap drinks making their way onto the ship, which is all they really cared about.
The US could easily say "well if you don't honour our IP, we won't let you trade lumber..."
Yeah, well if our politicians had any balls we'd just reply "Well, we won't give you our water or oil then -- and we'll starting selling both in Euros too, just for giggles." Of course the invasion would begin the week after that, but it'd be a very satisfying (and late in coming) show of sovereignty.
The enhanced speed modes and wider bus protocols are proprietary, but nearly all SD cards support the openly-documented SPI (serial peripheral interface) mode, as used by most microcontrollers and MMC cards. I suspect a lot of manufacturers just use the SPI mode, as it's plenty fast for most applications (20MHz max. I think).
Good luck on your move to Canada. I live here, and was bitten by a cat I tried adopting when it was fighting with my existing cat, behind the sofa (they didn't get along; had to give it to someone else, at least it was a happy ending). Silly, I never would have put my hand between two angry/scared cats but they were behind the sofa and really going at it, so I couldn't use my boot... anyways. Both fangs fully into the top of my hands, right between the 2nd and 3rd metacarpal. Nice, clean holes...
I did the dumb thing and waited overnight to see if the bite was serious. Hint to all readers: ALL cat bites are serious -- I was told the next day that 70% of cat bites that sink into real meat will progress towards sepsis if untreated. The next morning when I went into the drop-in clinic, the doc saw my red, puffy hand and drew a felt line around the swelling across my wrist to my 2nd knuckles, which I knew was bad -- he was tracking how quickly the infection was progressing hour-by-hour.
True, the Canadian system can be a bit slow, but when they see a serious, rapidly-progressing situation they will get it taken care of quickly 99% of the time. I had to wait in Emergency for an hour or so, but they got me set up with intravenous antibiotics straight away. They had to try two more different types the next day, but they finally got the infection under control. I even was given a take-home intravenous pump on days 2,3 to keep my system fully flushed. Within a week my hand was clear and I luckily hadn't any cut tendons or nerves. Total cost to me: to be honest, I can't remember, it was that inexpensive. $60? I think I had to pay for the emergency treatment of antibiotics the first night? Really nothing in the grand scheme of things. I was covered by my employer's health care, but even without that I know I still would have gotten those treatments.
It's scary to read the US-resident comments to your thread.. I would have probably been facing a $5k+ bill for the same thing down there!
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This is excellent news. A proactive, gentle reminder to all to be kinder is a positive step.
And, the reaction to this, by those some pejoratively call 'SJWs' will be telling: if what they truly want is peaceful and respectful interactions in and around software projects, they should be optimistic at this development.
If, on the other hand, their *real* goal is surreptitious power grabs via identity-politics-based using reverse discrimination and 'victimhood' to tear down whatever 'privilege' structure bothers them, then this will make them go absolutely *nuts*.
In the end, if the code is bad, it won't work, so who wrote it is ultimately irrelevant.
ON THE CORRUPTION OF THE CHURCH OF THE SUBGENIUS
The Church insists that each member construct his or her own
mythos and liturgy, if she/he hasn't already. The Church states
that any and all existing Church liturgy (which includes anything
said by any SubGenius anywhere) can be contradicted, rewritten,
and/or ignored. IT'S RIGHT THERE ON THE TABLETS!
Commandment 1: The rest of these Commandments are bullshit.
Commandment 2: Commandment 1 is nonsense.
Commandment 3: See Commandment 3.
Commandment 4: Don't break commandment 5.
Commandment 5: Don't read commandment 4.
Commandment 6: Commandment 2 is especially bullshit.
Commandment 7: See Commandment 3 again. Who told you to stop?
Commandment 8: Commandments 2 and 5 are to be reversed.
Commandment 9: Write Commandment 10.
Commandment 10:
There are still systemd-free distros out there, support them if you care. I'm happy with the above.
... my wife is a teacher and her high school decided all teachers must have and use iPads. She teaches horticulture and the apps in the Apple store are all for preschoolers, maybe grade 3 max. She found one or two BBC interactive documentaries with David Attenborough but that's it. Everything else is babysitting software.
Almost (not total) waste of money, and they're laying off teachers because they don't have enough funds.
Training for the iPads? Two two-hour sessions for the staff. That's it.
I second the thoughts by others that this is a bad way to spend all-too-sparse funds in the educational system.
You mean "meta-data". :p
I sincerely wish I could add my vote to this petition but I'm Canadian.
Not that living in Canada means I, and everyone I know, probably hasn't been swept up in this sweeping surveillance. I'm sure all of our traffic is being hoovered up just the same.
Oh wait, it didn't.
So don't let any government official of bureaucrat use the excuse governments need this "... to stop terrorism", ever again.
I've been seeing the spam filters in my gmail really break down over the last few months, to the point where I'm working on a Hashcash gadget to generate stamps and backend app script to auto-flag emails with stamps.
I have the stamp generator google sidebar gadget working, and am working on refining the back-end script. I'll try to get something published soon via the Google App Store. Of course to be useful lots of people need to adopt Hashcash and use it send each other mail.
Wow, you've never heard of the Miller-Urey experiments, or considered that local entropy can decrease, so long as the entropy in the surroundings increases to match? There are a raft of real-world phenomena where molecules spontaneously self-organize given some energy gradient.
Ah, why am I bothering, if you can look up everything, if you're actually willing. The onus isn't on everyone else to prove some invisible sky-man doesn't exist...
Haven't they already taken the first step with compulsory driver signing in their 64-bit OSes? I hear there's a registry hack to disable it... for now. But MS would -love- it to be mandatory, they've been laying the foundations since the original "Trusted Computing Platform Alliance" days haven't they? I don't keep up to date on all this stuff so maybe it's not so true anymore.
... probably true (the part about the post being intended for India). However, the company then deserves whatever it gets. Last company I worked for had the bright idea of outsourcing to Wipro. Ended up costing them far more than they bargained for. That company would lie through its teeth about the skills of its 'consultants' and 'programmers'. I had trouble feeling sorry for my company, as they'd instituted a hiring freeze in the US and Canadian offices in order to try and save money outsourcing. The lost productivity cleaning up after the outsourced peoples' mess obliterated any savings they had hoped to get.
IANAL of course, but it's pretty common knowledge that corporations in the US are considered 'persons', and as such, truly heinous crimes such as this should merit the corporate equivalent of the 'death penalty' -- revocation of their corporate charter to operate in the U.S. and dissolution/seizing of all U.S.-based assets. So there -is- basis in law for it.
Of course this power has almost never, from what I've read, been used. Which means corporations are actually -more- than people, being immortal, immensely rich 'people' who are in all practical senses above the law.
I see it rather as an indictment against closed-source OSes, if XP turns out to be incompatible with these new drives and MS never releases a patch to add support. People will need to upgrade for no good reason to one of MS's new operating systems. People should not have to deal with a complete upheaval of their tested and true systems due to a small hardware change such as this.
I can imagine MS is quietly chuckling with glee to itself, if this issue becomes a deal-breaker for machines still running XP.
I wonder why they couldn't integrate a supercapacitor rather than a battery -- while their capacity is less, they charge nearly instantaneously and have no memory. Then the lifetime would be even longer, perhaps over a decade if no extreme temperature variations were present. The things are designed for short bursts between sleeps, so a supercap could be suitable.
Yeah well Apple also stomped all over "OS-9" (google 'microware' or 'radisys' if you haven't heard of it). The OS-9 operating system dated back to oh, 1981 or so.. but some butthead judge decided, when Microware objected to Apple's then-latest release, that since Apple was, well, -Apple-, there couldn't -possibly- be any confusion.. even though anyone on usenet's comp.os.os9 was already sick and tired of Mac fanboys posting newbie mac questions there thinking it was a Mac forum; even though OS-9 and Mac OS 9 were both operating systems.. for 68k (and, at that time, PowerPC) processors.. gee, totally different markets. /s
Hear, hear! The Firefox team did the right thing. MS needs to play by the rules of any third-party applications with which it wants to interact. They should have used the 'front door' when installing their plugin, and had proper versioning information. They should live with the consequences of their backhanded install procedure, just like anyone else.
You know what, it's great that some people you know were helped by Vioxx. That's honestly great.
But that in *no* way excuses the fact that, due to the drug company's *blatant lies* about the possible effects that it may have, some other people you DON'T know, may have FRICKING DIED from Vioxx.
But hey, if the people who were baldly deceived by drug companies' LIES and died/suffered as a result were all people YOU DIDN'T KNOW PERSONALLY, then that's totally OK I guess.
The fact the company had to make a whole FAKE JOURNAL up to shove their product says volumes about how much confidence they really had about the product.
You speak as though you're expecting support and free bugfixes from the commercial vendor.
Granted, some vendors do offer this, but you must evaluate the vendor on a case-by-case basis. I'm working with a rather expensive SDK at my current job, which I won't name (it has the words 'Open' and 'TV' in it); I've filed a few bugs, and the response nearly every time has been "Oh yeah, that's a bug; it'll be fixed in the new version'. Which we'll have to pay for. And our company is considering upgrading to a completely new version of their platform, so those bugfixes won't be relevant for the next release anyway. So what's the point of their support really, if the fix is just to pay for a whole new version every few years?
Do you really think a used car vendor's going to give you a warranty for $8000 worth in repairs for a $5000 car? That doesn't sound too realistic either.
.. might as well start calling it for what it is... 3D storage. if they could eliminate the spinning disc aspect, we'd have data crystals like in Babylon 5. Cool.
The wife & I were on our first (and probably only) cruise this January. To board the first time, we had to go through three checkpoints; one inside the harbour building, then once at the first end of the boarding ramp, then *again* at the ship-side end of the boarding ramp. There were absolutely NO entries or exits accessible after passing the initial checkpoint.
At each port of call, returning to the ship required two checkpoints at each end of the boarding tube.. again, no entries or exits, so they were just checking if someone magically transmuted into a terrorist in the 300 yards or so along the closed ramp. Totally useless.
No body pat-downs either, but all bags had to be put through a scanner -- obviously to prevent cheap drinks making their way onto the ship, which is all they really cared about.
The US could easily say "well if you don't honour our IP, we won't let you trade lumber..."
Yeah, well if our politicians had any balls we'd just reply "Well, we won't give you our water or oil then -- and we'll starting selling both in Euros too, just for giggles." Of course the invasion would begin the week after that, but it'd be a very satisfying (and late in coming) show of sovereignty.
The enhanced speed modes and wider bus protocols are proprietary, but nearly all SD cards support the openly-documented SPI (serial peripheral interface) mode, as used by most microcontrollers and MMC cards. I suspect a lot of manufacturers just use the SPI mode, as it's plenty fast for most applications (20MHz max. I think).
So why is that fish struggling and breathing so hard while it's being swallowed whole? Yeah right, it was already dead. I don't think so.
... or Jacob's Ladder. Way better.
Good luck on your move to Canada. I live here, and was bitten by a cat I tried adopting when it was fighting with my existing cat, behind the sofa (they didn't get along; had to give it to someone else, at least it was a happy ending). Silly, I never would have put my hand between two angry/scared cats but they were behind the sofa and really going at it, so I couldn't use my boot... anyways. Both fangs fully into the top of my hands, right between the 2nd and 3rd metacarpal. Nice, clean holes...
I did the dumb thing and waited overnight to see if the bite was serious. Hint to all readers: ALL cat bites are serious -- I was told the next day that 70% of cat bites that sink into real meat will progress towards sepsis if untreated. The next morning when I went into the drop-in clinic, the doc saw my red, puffy hand and drew a felt line around the swelling across my wrist to my 2nd knuckles, which I knew was bad -- he was tracking how quickly the infection was progressing hour-by-hour.
True, the Canadian system can be a bit slow, but when they see a serious, rapidly-progressing situation they will get it taken care of quickly 99% of the time. I had to wait in Emergency for an hour or so, but they got me set up with intravenous antibiotics straight away. They had to try two more different types the next day, but they finally got the infection under control. I even was given a take-home intravenous pump on days 2,3 to keep my system fully flushed. Within a week my hand was clear and I luckily hadn't any cut tendons or nerves. Total cost to me: to be honest, I can't remember, it was that inexpensive. $60? I think I had to pay for the emergency treatment of antibiotics the first night? Really nothing in the grand scheme of things. I was covered by my employer's health care, but even without that I know I still would have gotten those treatments.
It's scary to read the US-resident comments to your thread.. I would have probably been facing a $5k+ bill for the same thing down there!