Remember folks, having minority or fringe views is not the hallmark of a nut-job. Having such a distorted view of reality that you don't see the world as it is is. When determining if someone is a nut-job in the political sense, a test is whether they are seeing an illusionary world that will listen to them and change once they "hear the gospel truth" when that is clearly not the case.
tax refuser/corporation sole/"free person"/gold standard etc nutjobs
Just to be sure, not all tax refusers and gold-standard advocates are nutjobs (what's "corporation sole" or "free person" in this context? Those are new terms for me.).
A tax protester who is willing to go to prison for tax evasion in the same way that George Washington et al were willing to be executed for treason is not a nutjob, he's just a person who has extreme (in the USA at least) minority political views and who is willing to stand by them. Now, a tax protester who expects to win in court, well, yeah, that's nut-job territory.
Many respected economists in the post-gold-standard era in the USA were clearly not nut-jobs. However, those that believed they could convince America to return to the Gold Standard merely by stating their case, ignoring the downsides and the difficulty of convincing an entire country that their idea was better than the status quo, were verging on or past the border of nut-job status.
Remember folks, having minority or fringe views is not the hallmark of a nut-job. Having such a distorted view of reality that you don't see the world as it is. When determining if someone is a nut-job in the political sense, a test is whether they are seeing an illusionary world that will listen to them and change once they "hear the gospel truth" when that is clearly not the case.
Seriously, this is a laudable "target" as long as everyone agrees that we are playing "horseshoe and hand grenades" rules, where close counts. If anyone thinks "we must do this, period, and if even one person on the planet can't get 20 Mbps for $20 by the end of 2020 then we've failed" and expects to "succeed," they are delusional.
... an academic/government network of devices that moved bits from place to place in a store-and-forward ("packet routed," vs. "circuit routed") system in a way that, by design, was able to route around circuit failure. This all happened in and around 1969.
If "freedom and idealism" are or were ever part of the "Internet" I would say that came later.
Remember, before the early 1990s, you had to be a "special person" or "special organization" - i.e. typically connected with the US Government, a university, or a company doing work with the government or a university to have access to "The Internet" or its predecessor network(s). That's not exactly what I would call "freedom."
By the way, I know what you are trying to say, I'm just saying you are mixing apples and oranges and, with respect to the Internet itself (the "IPv4" and now "IPv6" network that came into being in the early 1980s) you are technically not correct.
Yeah, when my process gets a SIGKILL it doens't know what happened (or even THAT it happened), but when it gets a SIGHUP it knows someone or some thing hung up on it or at least pretended to.
I think I read this maxim on/. first: "If you aren't paying for the product, you ARE the product" (this is from memory, pardon me if I misquoted it).
If it were up to me, there would be no commercial student-targeted advertising in parts of school buildings where students are required to be or at any school-managed facility where students are required to be present or within plain view of any part of any school-managed facility where students are required to be present. Advertising in teachers' lounges and other areas where students rarely have to be would be okay.
I would grant exceptions for elective courses like football or band so sports stadiums could be ad-funded, provided that those students taking non-elective courses couldn't see the ads from their classrooms and that any students taking mandatory PE classes weren't required to "run around the track" without the ads being covered first.
Extending this to the digital world:
It's impractical to tell the Internet "sorry, if you have ads we can't let you in the door" but aggressive ad-blocking should be used and paying content providers directly in exchange for providing content which is non-ad-based, no-student-data-collected or student-data-used-only-to-benefit-the-student-or-school and possibly even somewhat pre-packaged (e.g. an age-, school-, or topic-specific user interface) or pre-filtered (e.g. "safesearch on" for search engines) would be a good thing.
Someone tried to fax me a gun but it came out flat and my 3-D bullets would not load.
I bet if i download it though the inter-tubes it won't get squashed. *note to self - do NOT compress the download or the gun might be too small for my bullets*
* Give them to kids as an arts-and-crafts (not electronics) project. * Give them to kids who know enough to not electrocute themselves or burn down the house as electronics projects.
Skip the tube TVs though or make a rule that they aren't allowed to open up the TV: They have lead in them and you don't want the legal or moral responsibility of having kids around lead.
Thanks to court decisions, people inside a building who aren't in plain view from the outside are already protected from police using thermal imaging without a warrant in most cases (sorry, I don't have the citation handy, but it was a 21st-century Supreme Court case, I think one dealing with a marijuana grower).
Laws like this would extend this privacy to "snooping" from private citizens.
A reasonable law would, upon prior notification to the public or to the affected person *or* a hobbyists' exception, exempt any "what could a human being, using a zoom feature on a common consumer-grade camera and common consumer-grade recording equipment, get if he were in a helicopter at the location the drone were at, or a closer location that the drone had a legal right to be at" provided that the drone in question had the legal right to be where it was.
In other words, I could put a consumer-grade camera and microphone on a drone and fly it over my property and spy on my neighbors, or with FAA approval I could fly in it "airspace" that is so high that the landowner has no veto power, but I could not fly it 30 feet over his back-yard and take photos. If I used cameras that exceeded the capability of consumer-grade equipment, I would have to show that IF I was optimally located, I could have obtained similar information using only consumer-grade equipment.
"Prior notification" means either an individual notification to the target of the surveillance that there is surveillance going on, or a public notice that it will be happening. This notification would have the times and types of surveillance and enough lead time for the person to take counter-measures.
The hobbyists' exception would exempt hobbyists who do not do this sort of thing on a regular basis from being prosecuted for ignorance of the law or making a spontaneous decision to go put a camera on their RC plane some Saturday afternoon.
Among other things, school is to teach kids HOW to think logically.
How you go about that - whether you use programming or some other method - isn't quite as important.
Now, if a kid is enrolled in a jobs-training program or a pre-computer-science academic program, then yes, teaching programming is important in its own right. Likewise, if you are offering it as an elective, then it's important as long as there are enough students signed up to warrant having the class.
But otherwise I see no reason to insist, without data to back it up, that teaching programming is more (or, conversely, less) effective at teaching logical thinking skills than other methods might be.
What I would like is a "photographic memory" (with all the other senses too!) and a magic device that upon my death, would record all of my memories and have those memories stores, un-viewed, until everyone alive when I die and their children and grandchildren had been dead for several hundred years.
Imagine the fun historians could have a millennium from now if they had access to 7 billion people's perfectly-recorded memories.
Actually, I would prefer this. It lets me hold the first party - the one I'm really interacting with - responsible for not abusing the data and taking the heat from privacy groups if the data is misused.
I would go even further than Mozilla plans to go (and Safari goes already):
By default, I would require all cookies to be either 1st party or "blessed" by either the user or the 1st party.
In other words, if Slashdot had a Facebook widget, either the end user would have to whitelist Facebook to allow it to deposit cookies from anywhere, or Slashdot would have to explicitly "bless" the specific widget or the web browser would not let the embedded Facebook widget read or write cookies without prompting the user first.
By default, I would have the web browser remind the user periodically that he had non-recently-used cookies and offer to clear them out.
Of course I would give the user options that included more or less privacy than the default.
Designing computer hardware that could do virtual memory and other features that were OMGNEW in the early 1980s was very easy. As you said, it had been done for decades.
Designing a CPU that would go in sub-$2000 computers that could do these cool things, on the other hand, not so easy.
What laws have they, as individuals (vs. as a corporation) broken, specifically? Exclude laws that typically do not result in prison time.
If the answer is something other than "none," then you need to ask the relevant prosecutors, not Slashdot. If the answer is "none" then there's your answer.
Assuming that the particular terminator gene doesn't have unwanted side-effects, then I don't see a problem with it. This is the same standard I apply to other genetically modified living things.
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Don't forget Mastercard!
Remember folks, having minority or fringe views is not the hallmark of a nut-job. Having such a distorted view of reality that you don't see the world as it is is. When determining if someone is a nut-job in the political sense, a test is whether they are seeing an illusionary world that will listen to them and change once they "hear the gospel truth" when that is clearly not the case.
tax refuser/corporation sole/"free person"/gold standard etc nutjobs
Just to be sure, not all tax refusers and gold-standard advocates are nutjobs (what's "corporation sole" or "free person" in this context? Those are new terms for me.).
A tax protester who is willing to go to prison for tax evasion in the same way that George Washington et al were willing to be executed for treason is not a nutjob, he's just a person who has extreme (in the USA at least) minority political views and who is willing to stand by them. Now, a tax protester who expects to win in court, well, yeah, that's nut-job territory.
Many respected economists in the post-gold-standard era in the USA were clearly not nut-jobs. However, those that believed they could convince America to return to the Gold Standard merely by stating their case, ignoring the downsides and the difficulty of convincing an entire country that their idea was better than the status quo, were verging on or past the border of nut-job status.
Remember folks, having minority or fringe views is not the hallmark of a nut-job. Having such a distorted view of reality that you don't see the world as it is. When determining if someone is a nut-job in the political sense, a test is whether they are seeing an illusionary world that will listen to them and change once they "hear the gospel truth" when that is clearly not the case.
20 mega-ponies-per-second.
About as realistic.
Seriously, this is a laudable "target" as long as everyone agrees that we are playing "horseshoe and hand grenades" rules, where close counts. If anyone thinks "we must do this, period, and if even one person on the planet can't get 20 Mbps for $20 by the end of 2020 then we've failed" and expects to "succeed," they are delusional.
... an academic/government network of devices that moved bits from place to place in a store-and-forward ("packet routed," vs. "circuit routed") system in a way that, by design, was able to route around circuit failure. This all happened in and around 1969.
If "freedom and idealism" are or were ever part of the "Internet" I would say that came later.
Remember, before the early 1990s, you had to be a "special person" or "special organization" - i.e. typically connected with the US Government, a university, or a company doing work with the government or a university to have access to "The Internet" or its predecessor network(s). That's not exactly what I would call "freedom."
By the way, I know what you are trying to say, I'm just saying you are mixing apples and oranges and, with respect to the Internet itself (the "IPv4" and now "IPv6" network that came into being in the early 1980s) you are technically not correct.
Yeah, when my process gets a SIGKILL it doens't know what happened (or even THAT it happened), but when it gets a SIGHUP it knows someone or some thing hung up on it or at least pretended to.
Pope Francis remains only the most recent non-European pope.
Pope Francis remains the most recent __FILL_IN_THE_BLANK__ Pope, at least until we have another new Pope.
I think I read this maxim on /. first: "If you aren't paying for the product, you ARE the product" (this is from memory, pardon me if I misquoted it).
If it were up to me, there would be no commercial student-targeted advertising in parts of school buildings where students are required to be or at any school-managed facility where students are required to be present or within plain view of any part of any school-managed facility where students are required to be present. Advertising in teachers' lounges and other areas where students rarely have to be would be okay.
I would grant exceptions for elective courses like football or band so sports stadiums could be ad-funded, provided that those students taking non-elective courses couldn't see the ads from their classrooms and that any students taking mandatory PE classes weren't required to "run around the track" without the ads being covered first.
Extending this to the digital world:
It's impractical to tell the Internet "sorry, if you have ads we can't let you in the door" but aggressive ad-blocking should be used and paying content providers directly in exchange for providing content which is non-ad-based, no-student-data-collected or student-data-used-only-to-benefit-the-student-or-school and possibly even somewhat pre-packaged (e.g. an age-, school-, or topic-specific user interface) or pre-filtered (e.g. "safesearch on" for search engines) would be a good thing.
That explains why I would scatter the pieces around the room when I lost at chess
back when I was still in single digits.
first they came for the ellipses
i do not use ellipses so i did nothing
then they came for capital letters
i do not use capital letters so i did nothing
then they came for lowercase letters
and between me and e e cummings we were too weak to stop them
Someone tried to fax me a gun but it came out flat and my 3-D bullets would not load.
I bet if i download it though the inter-tubes it won't get squashed. *note to self - do NOT compress the download or the gun might be too small for my bullets*
The part they printed is the part that legally makes it a gun and whose manufacture is highly regulated.
If there was a "legally key part" of a car whose manufacture was highly regulated, then you would have a good analogy.
Ideas:
* Give them to kids as an arts-and-crafts (not electronics) project.
* Give them to kids who know enough to not electrocute themselves or burn down the house as electronics projects.
Skip the tube TVs though or make a rule that they aren't allowed to open up the TV: They have lead in them and you don't want the legal or moral responsibility of having kids around lead.
This is just a special case of privacy laws.
Thanks to court decisions, people inside a building who aren't in plain view from the outside are already protected from police using thermal imaging without a warrant in most cases (sorry, I don't have the citation handy, but it was a 21st-century Supreme Court case, I think one dealing with a marijuana grower).
Laws like this would extend this privacy to "snooping" from private citizens.
A reasonable law would, upon prior notification to the public or to the affected person *or* a hobbyists' exception, exempt any "what could a human being, using a zoom feature on a common consumer-grade camera and common consumer-grade recording equipment, get if he were in a helicopter at the location the drone were at, or a closer location that the drone had a legal right to be at" provided that the drone in question had the legal right to be where it was.
In other words, I could put a consumer-grade camera and microphone on a drone and fly it over my property and spy on my neighbors, or with FAA approval I could fly in it "airspace" that is so high that the landowner has no veto power, but I could not fly it 30 feet over his back-yard and take photos. If I used cameras that exceeded the capability of consumer-grade equipment, I would have to show that IF I was optimally located, I could have obtained similar information using only consumer-grade equipment.
"Prior notification" means either an individual notification to the target of the surveillance that there is surveillance going on, or a public notice that it will be happening. This notification would have the times and types of surveillance and enough lead time for the person to take counter-measures.
The hobbyists' exception would exempt hobbyists who do not do this sort of thing on a regular basis from being prosecuted for ignorance of the law or making a spontaneous decision to go put a camera on their RC plane some Saturday afternoon.
/. has had a robot overlord to read articles to you for quite some time now.
Among other things, school is to teach kids HOW to think logically.
How you go about that - whether you use programming or some other method - isn't quite as important.
Now, if a kid is enrolled in a jobs-training program or a pre-computer-science academic program, then yes, teaching programming is important in its own right. Likewise, if you are offering it as an elective, then it's important as long as there are enough students signed up to warrant having the class.
But otherwise I see no reason to insist, without data to back it up, that teaching programming is more (or, conversely, less) effective at teaching logical thinking skills than other methods might be.
What I would like is a "photographic memory" (with all the other senses too!) and a magic device that upon my death, would record all of my memories and have those memories stores, un-viewed, until everyone alive when I die and their children and grandchildren had been dead for several hundred years.
Imagine the fun historians could have a millennium from now if they had access to 7 billion people's perfectly-recorded memories.
âoePhysically Togetherâ: Hereâ(TM)s the Internal Yahoo No-Work-From-Home Memo for Remote Workers and Maybe More is an followup to TFA.
If it gets taken down, here's some key phrases to search for:
"With the introduction of initiatives like FYI, Goals and PB&J, we want everyone to participate"
"for the rest of us who occasionally have to stay home for the cable guy, please use your best judgment in the spirit of collaboration"
Comment: BP&J? Please tell me this has nothing to do with sandwiches.
Actually, I would prefer this. It lets me hold the first party - the one I'm really interacting with - responsible for not abusing the data and taking the heat from privacy groups if the data is misused.
I would go even further than Mozilla plans to go (and Safari goes already):
By default, I would require all cookies to be either 1st party or "blessed" by either the user or the 1st party.
In other words, if Slashdot had a Facebook widget, either the end user would have to whitelist Facebook to allow it to deposit cookies from anywhere, or Slashdot would have to explicitly "bless" the specific widget or the web browser would not let the embedded Facebook widget read or write cookies without prompting the user first.
By default, I would have the web browser remind the user periodically that he had non-recently-used cookies and offer to clear them out.
Of course I would give the user options that included more or less privacy than the default.
Designing computer hardware that could do virtual memory and other features that were OMGNEW in the early 1980s was very easy. As you said, it had been done for decades.
Designing a CPU that would go in sub-$2000 computers that could do these cool things, on the other hand, not so easy.
What laws have they, as individuals (vs. as a corporation) broken, specifically? Exclude laws that typically do not result in prison time.
If the answer is something other than "none," then you need to ask the relevant prosecutors, not Slashdot. If the answer is "none" then there's your answer.
I just had this image of a bunch of mini-Arnolds running around. Bad image, DO NOT WANT.
Assuming that the particular terminator gene doesn't have unwanted side-effects, then I don't see a problem with it. This is the same standard I apply to other genetically modified living things.
655,360 transistors should be enough for anyone.