The Chinese will build IPv6 equipment, and it will be dirt cheap. There will be IPv6/IPv4 bridges, but as more and more cool apps are developed that require v6, consumers will demand it, and those ISPs that can't provide it will go out of business. Sticks in the mud will be able to run IPv4 internally to their networks indefinitely, and people will build kludges of various kinds to provide interoperation.
It's been alleged that the freelamo site existed before his arrest, and that this guy was trying to be arrested because he dreams of being the next Kevin, an internationally famous hacker martyr.
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When the feds find out that a suspected mobster is using strong crypto, they don't call the NSA and have them try to crack it. They get a warrant, break into his house and install a keylogger on his computer, or a tiny bug in his VOIP phone, and tap it that way. Perfect crypto won't protect you from that.
Academia includes fields like mathematics and the hard sciences, in which there are objective, logical measures for correctness and quality.
However, the article does not claim that deconstruction has no value at all:
So, what are we to make of all this? I earlier stated that my quest was to learn if there was any content to this stuff and if it was or was not bogus. Well, my assessment is that there is indeed some content, much of it interesting. The question of bogosity, however, is a little more difficult. It is clear that the forms used by academicians writing in this area go right off the bogosity scale, pegging my bogometer until it breaks. The quality of the actual analysis of various literary works varies tremendously and must be judged on a case-by-case basis, but I find most of it highly questionable. Buried in the muck, however, are a set of important and interesting ideas: that in reading a work it is illuminating to consider the contrast between what is said and what is not said, between what is explicit and what is assumed, and that popular notions of truth and value depend to a disturbingly high degree on the reader's credulity and willingness to accept the text's own claims as to its validity.
Keep the last sentence in mind the next time you see a political campaign commercial.
You can't tell the difference because the author of that paragraph constructed it in the exact same way as the postmodernism generator does, by stitching together a bunch of random phrases from literary criticism jargon. It is not an example from a serious paper, it is deliberately constructed to make fun of postmodernist academics.
We see new species all the time at the microbial level. Many of the viral diseases plaguing us today didn't exist on earth when your grandfather was born. And we can watch evolution in action every year as influenza strains change enough to defeat human immune systems that caught the version from only one year ago.
But viral generations can be as short as 20 minutes, while human generations take 20 years.
To be fair, the US is currently running a massive budget deficit and a massive trade deficit. In both cases, the US economy is being propped up by foreign money. As foreign investors look at the trend lines, they don't like what they see, and the US dollar is dropping like a rock.
In another year or so, I expect that OPEC will demand an oil price set in Euros instead of dollars. When that happens, the price of oil for Americans will shoot through the roof. You might want to check out one of those new hybrid cars (but you'll have to buy a Japanese one, Detroit doesn't make any).
Why is this insightful? HP is not an American company. They are a multinational, with R&D sites around the world. Carly doesn't want anything to keep her from moving her engineering to India or China, but she still wants American taxpayers to give her R&D tax subsidies.
I don't think we should make outsourcing illegal, but we should make sure that we eliminate any active tax advantages to outsourcing, as well as any advantages coused by lack of environmental protection or worker rights. Workers voluntarily working for less is one thing. However, a lot of clothing sold in the US is made in countries where asking for better wages or working conditions literally gets you
shot at.
Not any more. Thanks to free trade agreements, the cost of living in the third world is soaring. This is especially true in Mexico thanks to NAFTA: if there is any good that is ten times cheaper in Mexico than in the US, you can move it to the US and get ten times more. The result is that it's hard to survive in Mexico if you work there; you have to send a family member to the US and have them mail money back to you.
If you can only download 30 gigabytes per month, you'd better not listen to Internet radio. At
128 kbps, you'll use up your 30G in 65 hours, so
if you listen three hours per day, you'll hit your cap on the 22nd.
Paso Robles has far fewer people and was considably further from the epicenter; had the earthquake happened at the same distance from a densely populated area, we would might have seen hundred dead in California. Still, we wouldn't have seen anywhere near that many deaths. Though to be fair, St. Louis, MO will be in big trouble when they get their next earthquake, because they don't have California-style building codes.
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If Microsoft thinks it's a bluff, they will call the bluff. The reason that they hand out discounts instead is because they know that it's not. OpenOffice/StarOffice might be an even bigger threat to their revenue stream than Linux is; it's already good enough for most office workers and is vastly cheaper. If a few people in the organization still need a function that they can only buy from Microsoft, no matter: the organization just buys a very small number of MS Office licenses.
The last hypothesis, that HIV does not cause AIDS, was scientific in form when it was first advanced (most notably by Duesburg). What changed it into a crackpot theory was the ridiculous contortions Duesburg and his followers engaged in to ignore all evidence to the contrary that later developed.
When Duesburg first presented his ideas, HIV had not yet been firmly established as the cause of AIDS. Now it's obvious, and is demonstrated by the effectiveness of AIDS antiviral drugs and measurement of viral load. Simply put, if HIV didn't cause AIDS, attacking HIV in the body wouldn't help patients, and a patient's health wouldn't directly correlate to the amount of HIV in the blood. No doubt you could come up with some convoluted theory that there is a mysterious factor X, but then you'd have X as well as HIV both needing to be present, and you'd have to disregard Occam's Razor.
Duesburg recruited Thabo Mbeki of South Africa to his ideas, and it has cost the lives of vast numbers of South Africans to date.
Oh, and your first item is correct: we won't run out of oil by the end of the 21st century. However, remaining oil deposits might be prohibitively expensive to extract. It's kind of like the California gold rush: you can still pan for gold in the Sierra foothills. But you'll work half the day and get a few flakes.
Cool. Gives me a chance to say something heretical, and true!
The position taken by the Inquisition (in the case of Galileo) was as consistent with general relativity as Galileo's position was. That is, the Inquisition said that the official doctrine was something like Tycho's, that the earth is the center and the other planets orbit the sun, which orbits the earth, but that it was fine to do calculations as if the sun were the center, as long as you don't go around saying that the earth moves. In general relativity this is a perfectly valid accelerated reference frame, but you wind up with a lot of artificial forces in such a frame, so it's easier to do calculations in the sun-centered frame. But the whole point of general relativity is that you can choose any reference frame, you just trade off between acceleration and gravity if you do.
What this means is that Einstein showed that Galileo and the Inquisition were equally right.
Cool, huh?
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The Washington Post story exists, but it doesn't say what this guy claims it does. You can find it, for example,
here.
The mysterious IM warnings talked about an attack, but they didn't say where.
You talk about "asbestos underwear". But people flaming you because they disapprove of what you say are exercising their free speech rights!
Also, labeling you as a racist or a reactionary is free speech as well. Your problem is you can't stand being disapproved of. You have no First Amendment right to be liked, and you have no right to demand that people associate with you.
People like you typically moved from a more conservative location (in high school) to a less conservative location (in college) and are shocked that your new neighbors don't think your jokes are funny.
As for your second to last sentence: dude, I went to Berkeley. Rent control in the city of Berkeley has always been a hotly debated topic with plenty of people vigorously arguing both sides. If you oppose rent control you'll find that about 40% of town strongly agrees with you and another 40% hates your guts (the rest is the swing vote). On campus, the pro-rent-control faction is larger because there are far more renters. Both sides use very strong language against each other. But that's what free speech is all about!
You can express conservative opinions all you want, and people can flame you for it all they want. You are not a delicate flower; you can take it.
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The Helix license is GPL-incompatible, meaning that Helix can't be linked with GPL code.
Mozilla fixed that problem with dual licensing, as did Trolltech for QT. Real should fix it as well.
KDE already uses the gphoto2 library in Kamera. There's no reason to write low-level digital camera support twice.
Should they develop a new compiler called k++ and license under the KPL?
You make the mistake of thinking that "g" means "gnome" and that therefore the KDE folks must replace the g by a k. It's GUI-independent.
It's the same with gphoto2, which is the digital camera library used both by Gnome apps like gtkam and by KDE apps like Kamera.
But if the paperwork is good, that means that there will be lots of documentation for others to use to maintain and extend the work.
The Chinese will build IPv6 equipment, and it will be dirt cheap. There will be IPv6/IPv4 bridges, but as more and more cool apps are developed that require v6, consumers will demand it, and those ISPs that can't provide it will go out of business. Sticks in the mud will be able to run IPv4 internally to their networks indefinitely, and people will build kludges of various kinds to provide interoperation.
It's been alleged that the freelamo site existed before his arrest, and that this guy was trying to be arrested because he dreams of being the next Kevin, an internationally famous hacker martyr.
When the feds find out that a suspected mobster is using strong crypto, they don't call the NSA and have them try to crack it. They get a warrant, break into his house and install a keylogger on his computer, or a tiny bug in his VOIP phone, and tap it that way. Perfect crypto won't protect you from that.
Academia includes fields like mathematics and the hard sciences, in which there are objective, logical measures for correctness and quality.
However, the article does not claim that deconstruction has no value at all:
Keep the last sentence in mind the next time you see a political campaign commercial.
You can't tell the difference because the author of that paragraph constructed it in the exact same way as the postmodernism generator does, by stitching together a bunch of random phrases from literary criticism jargon. It is not an example from a serious paper, it is deliberately constructed to make fun of postmodernist academics.
We see new species all the time at the microbial level. Many of the viral diseases plaguing us today didn't exist on earth when your grandfather was born. And we can watch evolution in action every year as influenza strains change enough to defeat human immune systems that caught the version from only one year ago.
But viral generations can be as short as 20 minutes, while human generations take 20 years.
She didn't say that, but she meant that.
To be fair, the US is currently running a massive budget deficit and a massive trade deficit. In both cases, the US economy is being propped up by foreign money. As foreign investors look at the trend lines, they don't like what they see, and the US dollar is dropping like a rock.
In another year or so, I expect that OPEC will demand an oil price set in Euros instead of dollars. When that happens, the price of oil for Americans will shoot through the roof. You might want to check out one of those new hybrid cars (but you'll have to buy a Japanese one, Detroit doesn't make any).
Why is this insightful? HP is not an American company. They are a multinational, with R&D sites around the world. Carly doesn't want anything to keep her from moving her engineering to India or China, but she still wants American taxpayers to give her R&D tax subsidies.
I don't think we should make outsourcing illegal, but we should make sure that we eliminate any active tax advantages to outsourcing, as well as any advantages coused by lack of environmental protection or worker rights. Workers voluntarily working for less is one thing. However, a lot of clothing sold in the US is made in countries where asking for better wages or working conditions literally gets you shot at.
Not any more. Thanks to free trade agreements, the cost of living in the third world is soaring. This is especially true in Mexico thanks to NAFTA: if there is any good that is ten times cheaper in Mexico than in the US, you can move it to the US and get ten times more. The result is that it's hard to survive in Mexico if you work there; you have to send a family member to the US and have them mail money back to you.
You're right. I apologize for the bogosity.
Listening to a 128 kbps MP3 stream transfers 1 Gb every 130 minutes.
If you can only download 30 gigabytes per month, you'd better not listen to Internet radio. At 128 kbps, you'll use up your 30G in 65 hours, so if you listen three hours per day, you'll hit your cap on the 22nd.
It's certainly true that some companies have accused white hats of blackmail and worse, when they were only trying to help.
If, on the other hand, the alleged white hat asks for $2.5 million, it would seem that blackmail is the right word.
Paso Robles has far fewer people and was considably further from the epicenter; had the earthquake happened at the same distance from a densely populated area, we would might have seen hundred dead in California. Still, we wouldn't have seen anywhere near that many deaths. Though to be fair, St. Louis, MO will be in big trouble when they get their next earthquake, because they don't have California-style building codes.
Because Odigo is based in Israel, not New York.
If Microsoft thinks it's a bluff, they will call the bluff. The reason that they hand out discounts instead is because they know that it's not. OpenOffice/StarOffice might be an even bigger threat to their revenue stream than Linux is; it's already good enough for most office workers and is vastly cheaper. If a few people in the organization still need a function that they can only buy from Microsoft, no matter: the organization just buys a very small number of MS Office licenses.
The last hypothesis, that HIV does not cause AIDS, was scientific in form when it was first advanced (most notably by Duesburg). What changed it into a crackpot theory was the ridiculous contortions Duesburg and his followers engaged in to ignore all evidence to the contrary that later developed.
When Duesburg first presented his ideas, HIV had not yet been firmly established as the cause of AIDS. Now it's obvious, and is demonstrated by the effectiveness of AIDS antiviral drugs and measurement of viral load. Simply put, if HIV didn't cause AIDS, attacking HIV in the body wouldn't help patients, and a patient's health wouldn't directly correlate to the amount of HIV in the blood. No doubt you could come up with some convoluted theory that there is a mysterious factor X, but then you'd have X as well as HIV both needing to be present, and you'd have to disregard Occam's Razor.
Duesburg recruited Thabo Mbeki of South Africa to his ideas, and it has cost the lives of vast numbers of South Africans to date.
Oh, and your first item is correct: we won't run out of oil by the end of the 21st century. However, remaining oil deposits might be prohibitively expensive to extract. It's kind of like the California gold rush: you can still pan for gold in the Sierra foothills. But you'll work half the day and get a few flakes.
Cool. Gives me a chance to say something heretical, and true!
The position taken by the Inquisition (in the case of Galileo) was as consistent with general relativity as Galileo's position was. That is, the Inquisition said that the official doctrine was something like Tycho's, that the earth is the center and the other planets orbit the sun, which orbits the earth, but that it was fine to do calculations as if the sun were the center, as long as you don't go around saying that the earth moves. In general relativity this is a perfectly valid accelerated reference frame, but you wind up with a lot of artificial forces in such a frame, so it's easier to do calculations in the sun-centered frame. But the whole point of general relativity is that you can choose any reference frame, you just trade off between acceleration and gravity if you do.
What this means is that Einstein showed that Galileo and the Inquisition were equally right. Cool, huh?
The mysterious IM warnings talked about an attack, but they didn't say where.
You talk about "asbestos underwear". But people flaming you because they disapprove of what you say are exercising their free speech rights!
Also, labeling you as a racist or a reactionary is free speech as well. Your problem is you can't stand being disapproved of. You have no First Amendment right to be liked, and you have no right to demand that people associate with you.
People like you typically moved from a more conservative location (in high school) to a less conservative location (in college) and are shocked that your new neighbors don't think your jokes are funny.
As for your second to last sentence: dude, I went to Berkeley. Rent control in the city of Berkeley has always been a hotly debated topic with plenty of people vigorously arguing both sides. If you oppose rent control you'll find that about 40% of town strongly agrees with you and another 40% hates your guts (the rest is the swing vote). On campus, the pro-rent-control faction is larger because there are far more renters. Both sides use very strong language against each other. But that's what free speech is all about!
You can express conservative opinions all you want, and people can flame you for it all they want. You are not a delicate flower; you can take it.