The solution is a counterpoint, never censorship..
Yes, ideally, combating ignorant speech with intelligent speech rather than censorship is best. Combating violence with law enforcement is best. However if in charge of a situation of a population with low education level, an obviously growing hatred level, several warnings of coming mass murder, weapons gathering, etc, as happened in Rwanda, all motivated by a few nutcases on television programs and radios using their 'freedom of speech' to promote mass murder, well, insisting on their freedom of speech and merely saying they are wrong with no actual effect, would seem to me to me closer to freedom-of-speech fundamentalism, rather than smart government. If I were in charge I would probably just find some law the pro-violence-hate-speakers are breaking and nail them for it for some time while putting something smarter on the radios. It's not always simple or black and white though when you are in charge.
From what I know, from a humanist philosophy point of view, any human being needs to have the right to full control of their body. So if someone wants to do something insane with their body, they are entitled to it. Encouraging mutilation or death however, would not be humanist. So if you decide you want to die, fine. If you want to preach people should want to die, need help to die, should be sold equipment, manuals, videos, books, have suicide parties, suicide lounges, suicide workshops, suicide encouragement boot camps, pro suicide marketing campaigns, etc, all of which is speech, well, that would be psychological violence. Thats ideals, philosophy, morality, etc however. The field of law is another matter, and how to word the law so it's not abused either way is not so easy.
There is freedom of speech, as long as nobody listens. If too many people start listening to you and doing something based on your speech, all your freedoms - not just speech - will soon start being questioned and curtailed all over. Take a look at anyone saying something unpopular, whether right or wrong. In the case of speech encouraging violence, death, etc, if people listen, there will be quite a reaction. Don't ask me if it's right or wrong. I don't think it's that simple a question, with black and white answers for every case.
While I agree in principle on the absolute-freedom-of-speech idea, there is one difficult question with it. Speech encouraging and promoting violence to be practiced, promoting hatred, planning for weapons gathering, etc. Yes, the crime is in those who practice it, not preach it. But every massacre starts with a few people preaching it, then lots of people going nuts and doing it, with no way or controlling it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Genocide --
"According to recent commentators the news media played a crucial role in the genocide: local print and radio media fueled the killings, while the international media either ignored or seriously misconstrued events on the ground.[11] The print media in Rwanda is believed to have started hate speech against Tutsis which was later continued by radio stations. According to commentators anti-Tutsi hate speech "became so systemic as to seem the norm." The state-owned newspaper Kangura had a central role, starting an anti-Tutsi and anti-RPF campaign in October 1990."
Seriously, if they want to reduce murder and violence, they should start where it happens most, where it's planned and practiced in greatest numbers. Governments and corporations, mostly. Everywhere and always. Pass a law saying "no torture, violence or killing, no exceptions for anyone", and presto, you get quite the revolution and shove society into dealing with the future. Lots of questioning and crisis getting there, but a real future nonetheless.
All your FPS addicts arses are gonna be in jail for not-so-subtly beating people's psyche to a pulp on the interwebs. NO, it was not 'just a game' -- it was meticulously gang-planned, very realistic sadistic, visceral, murder training simulation, with voice torture, body parts, blood sputtering, resulting in very real psychological damage leading directly to depression, lost productivity, income and wages, depression, anger, addiction, violence, murder, and suicides.
Software is dynamic. People get hired, leave, promoted, move. Equipment comes and goes, gets rearranged, reconfigured. Cable locations and requirements keep changing. Convenient, large cable guides running along lots of flat surface table, shelves above and below the desk to sit devices like printers, routers, switches, extra monitors, etc all around your workstation in any arrangement you want, lots of space behind the long tables to run cables in any way you want. Perhaps networking with some sort of safe 'testing network' separate from the production in the rest of the company, to run weird servers, routers, etc. No complaints that it's messy or ugly, it's a lab, not a meeting room, but efforts to keep minimum neatness and order are needed. Silence please, rules of low noise level, library like, concentration and attention is required. That's me at least.
As much as I like Google for all it's well-built, low-annoyance stuff, I have to admit there is just a fundamental, structural problem with companies - they need lots of income to keep going. I myself run, opened and closed a few... All planetary data being owned by a company is going to be a problem. But it's our own fault for directing all our attention, energy, and monies to companies, instead of community owned projects. For example there is Open Street Map there to prove that we can build stuff we own all by ourselves, no companies involved, thank you very much. Where we get salaries or monies to pay for bills and expenses is a problem, but problems always have many solutions. Open source civil engineering perhaps...
"Last week hundreds of people got over a million dollars in paychecks, and others got negative values. Something about data corruption. Who is this Data and what money is he getting?"
"Why are you telling me? Call some software people and fix it. And investigate about this money thing."
"They said they it can't be fixed, the whole things needs replacing. The company that made it closed, and we have no sauce codes for it, and it will take at least a month, and cost a gazillion more to adapt with all the other databases that have no sauce."
"I do remember something about this sauce for the codes back when we got it in 1982, we talked about it in the city council but nobody understood anything."
Download the latest VMware player e.g. VMware-Player-2.5.1-126130.i386.bundle (download the bundle version, not the rpm one) and run it as root using gksudo. You'll get a graphical installer that installs VMware player for you.
We all spend so much time on money, it's a good to study better it's mechanics. Barter, without currencies, indeed works only in very limited situations - two people only, only if they need each others stuff. Otherwise it becomes difficult to make work. But I have made it work sometimes. Easier to trade between two businesses, as businesses buy lots of different stuff in one central purchasing planning. But actual alternative currencies do work in many places.
Code reuse can save lots of work, and open source does it fairly well at the source level, but increasing it would reduce work a lot. To increase it requires some work and planning. Object-oriented magic, and a dozen other things, were supposed to magically make all code reusable. Never worked. It's not easy to do, but waste of resources in programming can indeed create quite a lot of problems. And it can be done. One trick is obviously "don't change the base too much". Explains why old binary emulators are so popular.
The amount of money printed to pay for the banks bailout was quite a bit. They are indeed needing to reduce inflation, and this is one way. Some old bills, as well as fake bills will both get knocked out of the money supply. A few people will indeed simply accept they lost the money of their old bills, but it's hard to figure out how many. A lot of the old bills will find their way back to the US or some currency-exchange place to get traded.
Really, I don't understand how paper money still exists.
So you do not have to have your own credit card swiping machine and an account with a processor to sell something on craigslist.
I have little use for credit myself. I just don't understand how fake money hasn't grown so much that real paper money becomes impossible. Perhaps because the counterfeiters really just can't manage much volume.
Students have to learn a lot in a short time, you need to optimize their time.they can't be mucking around with hypervisors, getting the os to boot, and every possible problem they can meet to get an OS to run, every time they boot it, they don't know about dozens of these concepts and there's no time to learn absolutely everything, the course material is enough already. They need persistent changes, every place they boot their pendrive can't have a different problem, and not have the system exactly as they left it. So therefore I vote for OpenVZ on a shared server, perhaps with CentOS. There are other virtual computing labs around.
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Just build another platform. In the smartphone-tablet-ebook, there are no standards or monopolies. Anyone can build a decent platform, adopt some OS and publish an API and it just works, no backward compatibility needed. People will buy it with just a few apps, you don't need compatibility with thousands of apps. It might actually start helping to break the Windows monopoly and create some more multiplatform interconnection standards, such as file formats, api's, protocols, etc.
I moved completely to linux to get away from drm of this kind.
The million-dollar question is, how to get more developers. It takes huge amounts of time to develop all software, games or whatever else, and the time needed grows exponentially with how good you want it to be. How to get programmers so much time, while they still manage to pay their bills. It's understood the software will not be for sale, so...
Oh, it'll run, but you've got to give it permission.
No, it's because the malware programmers have little motivation to create software for the 1% of computers that have more qualified admins. If linux reaches 99% of users, suddenly it will have all kinds of software for it which run very well, hordes of people looking for exploits, etc - malware. MacOS is getting more popular, soon it will start having trouble, I'm sure. Market shares are at http://marketshare.hitslink.com/os-market-share.aspx?qprid=9
Lets have open-source software money. Everyone neighborhood or town run their own bank. Most of our work goes to just pay bills because of all this financial waste.
Local Exchange Trading Systems (LETS) also known as LETSystems are local, non-profit exchange networks in which goods and services can be traded without the need for printed currency. In some places, e.g. Toronto, the scheme has been called the Local Employment and Trading System.
I can already envision all kinds of geeks staring at it with a microscope, dropping odd fluids on it, etc, in labs across the world. Really, I don't understand how paper money still exists.
It would be quite wonderful if someone could figure out a way to make packages installable easily on all linux distros, or at least create a few "compatibility profiles". This whole repository ubuntu-vs-debian-vs-redhat-vs-mandriva-vs-older-versions-of-same is a nightmare for newbie users.
Actually I didn't quite understand if the favored linux virtualization code switched from xen to kvm because of Citrix buying xen and messing with the project, or some other reason.
It's a good example of a glaring barrier for open source growth: programmer man-hours, and corporations filling in those man-hours and buying the product, basically for the technical features already reached and marketing effect, with no commitment whatsoever with open source. Then nobody can quite fork the product and continue maintaining it open, simply out of a man-hours shortage. More options to get people working on open-source projects, keeping them open, are needed. I sort of lean toward feature pledges, with qualified project-manager reviewers, programmers in developing countries will likely start jumping at these.
In NYC there is a sweatshop tour in Chinatown, a historical building that's like 100 years old. At one point the guide points to the smoke from the current shops. Slavery, people trafficking, semi-forced labor, exist practically everywhere in prostitution, manufacturing, home labor, fashion, many industries, yes, still. I have spoken to immigrants involved in nyc and sao paulo many times, in fact there are thousands of clothing sweatshops not far from here. The choice of place to work is generally based on fear, ignorance, false information, etc there are generally much better options available, but they don't see it, fear blinds people. The sweatshops-masters simply seek out people who can be pressured, conned, threatened, etc but, somehow, won't leave. Some will actually resort to locking doors and putting in high walls and guards, but it generally apparently isn't the most effective method, trickery and lies work better. In fact many companies, armies, managers, use similar techniques to gather lots of cheap, dedicated, qualified labor. Pressure, threats, lies, false promises, legal trickery, indebting, contracts. Soldiers and salesmen are the victims and perpetrators of the same grand scheme, generally to the advantage of a few insane maniacs, ignorant also. Full Metal Jacket sort of illustrated that. The UN and many institutions have anti-slavery campaigns to this day. I heard slavery in fact is growing.
All of China is the same, all products from there are made in some sort of sweatshop, or semi slavery condition. These people's backbones are what holds up the China boom. It's all based on cheap labor and no rights-no laws which add costs. England did the same at one time. It's the logical conclusion of a society where everything is measured in money terms. Slaves are the ultimate efficient factory "technology"- intelligent human labor, no cost. The economy, competition, lower costs pressure, demand this. Socialism or capitalism, it's the same, they are societies where production of stuff and money is king, human beings and everything else are at the service of these priorities. We need to get past the capitalism-or-socialism two sides of the same coin, and look to other alternatives, humanism is my favorite, but there are others too.
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The solution is a counterpoint, never censorship..
Yes, ideally, combating ignorant speech with intelligent speech rather than censorship is best. Combating violence with law enforcement is best. However if in charge of a situation of a population with low education level, an obviously growing hatred level, several warnings of coming mass murder, weapons gathering, etc, as happened in Rwanda, all motivated by a few nutcases on television programs and radios using their 'freedom of speech' to promote mass murder, well, insisting on their freedom of speech and merely saying they are wrong with no actual effect, would seem to me to me closer to freedom-of-speech fundamentalism, rather than smart government. If I were in charge I would probably just find some law the pro-violence-hate-speakers are breaking and nail them for it for some time while putting something smarter on the radios. It's not always simple or black and white though when you are in charge.
Suicide should be a human right.
From what I know, from a humanist philosophy point of view, any human being needs to have the right to full control of their body. So if someone wants to do something insane with their body, they are entitled to it. Encouraging mutilation or death however, would not be humanist. So if you decide you want to die, fine. If you want to preach people should want to die, need help to die, should be sold equipment, manuals, videos, books, have suicide parties, suicide lounges, suicide workshops, suicide encouragement boot camps, pro suicide marketing campaigns, etc, all of which is speech, well, that would be psychological violence. Thats ideals, philosophy, morality, etc however. The field of law is another matter, and how to word the law so it's not abused either way is not so easy.
There is freedom of speech, as long as nobody listens. If too many people start listening to you and doing something based on your speech, all your freedoms - not just speech - will soon start being questioned and curtailed all over. Take a look at anyone saying something unpopular, whether right or wrong. In the case of speech encouraging violence, death, etc, if people listen, there will be quite a reaction. Don't ask me if it's right or wrong. I don't think it's that simple a question, with black and white answers for every case.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Genocide -- "According to recent commentators the news media played a crucial role in the genocide: local print and radio media fueled the killings, while the international media either ignored or seriously misconstrued events on the ground.[11] The print media in Rwanda is believed to have started hate speech against Tutsis which was later continued by radio stations. According to commentators anti-Tutsi hate speech "became so systemic as to seem the norm." The state-owned newspaper Kangura had a central role, starting an anti-Tutsi and anti-RPF campaign in October 1990."
Seriously, if they want to reduce murder and violence, they should start where it happens most, where it's planned and practiced in greatest numbers. Governments and corporations, mostly. Everywhere and always. Pass a law saying "no torture, violence or killing, no exceptions for anyone", and presto, you get quite the revolution and shove society into dealing with the future. Lots of questioning and crisis getting there, but a real future nonetheless.
All your FPS addicts arses are gonna be in jail for not-so-subtly beating people's psyche to a pulp on the interwebs. NO, it was not 'just a game' -- it was meticulously gang-planned, very realistic sadistic, visceral, murder training simulation, with voice torture, body parts, blood sputtering, resulting in very real psychological damage leading directly to depression, lost productivity, income and wages, depression, anger, addiction, violence, murder, and suicides.
Software is dynamic. People get hired, leave, promoted, move. Equipment comes and goes, gets rearranged, reconfigured. Cable locations and requirements keep changing. Convenient, large cable guides running along lots of flat surface table, shelves above and below the desk to sit devices like printers, routers, switches, extra monitors, etc all around your workstation in any arrangement you want, lots of space behind the long tables to run cables in any way you want. Perhaps networking with some sort of safe 'testing network' separate from the production in the rest of the company, to run weird servers, routers, etc. No complaints that it's messy or ugly, it's a lab, not a meeting room, but efforts to keep minimum neatness and order are needed. Silence please, rules of low noise level, library like, concentration and attention is required. That's me at least.
As much as I like Google for all it's well-built, low-annoyance stuff, I have to admit there is just a fundamental, structural problem with companies - they need lots of income to keep going. I myself run, opened and closed a few... All planetary data being owned by a company is going to be a problem. But it's our own fault for directing all our attention, energy, and monies to companies, instead of community owned projects. For example there is Open Street Map there to prove that we can build stuff we own all by ourselves, no companies involved, thank you very much. Where we get salaries or monies to pay for bills and expenses is a problem, but problems always have many solutions. Open source civil engineering perhaps...
"Last week hundreds of people got over a million dollars in paychecks, and others got negative values. Something about data corruption. Who is this Data and what money is he getting?"
"Why are you telling me? Call some software people and fix it. And investigate about this money thing."
"They said they it can't be fixed, the whole things needs replacing. The company that made it closed, and we have no sauce codes for it, and it will take at least a month, and cost a gazillion more to adapt with all the other databases that have no sauce."
"I do remember something about this sauce for the codes back when we got it in 1982, we talked about it in the city council but nobody understood anything."
From https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VMware/Player
Installing VMware Player on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and Ubuntu 8.10
Install required packages build-essential, linux-kernel-headers and linux-kernel-devel
sudo aptitude install build-essential linux-kernel-headers linux-kernel-devel
Download the latest VMware player e.g. VMware-Player-2.5.1-126130.i386.bundle (download the bundle version, not the rpm one) and run it as root using gksudo. You'll get a graphical installer that installs VMware player for you.
We all spend so much time on money, it's a good to study better it's mechanics. Barter, without currencies, indeed works only in very limited situations - two people only, only if they need each others stuff. Otherwise it becomes difficult to make work. But I have made it work sometimes. Easier to trade between two businesses, as businesses buy lots of different stuff in one central purchasing planning. But actual alternative currencies do work in many places.
Code reuse can save lots of work, and open source does it fairly well at the source level, but increasing it would reduce work a lot. To increase it requires some work and planning. Object-oriented magic, and a dozen other things, were supposed to magically make all code reusable. Never worked. It's not easy to do, but waste of resources in programming can indeed create quite a lot of problems. And it can be done. One trick is obviously "don't change the base too much". Explains why old binary emulators are so popular.
The amount of money printed to pay for the banks bailout was quite a bit. They are indeed needing to reduce inflation, and this is one way. Some old bills, as well as fake bills will both get knocked out of the money supply. A few people will indeed simply accept they lost the money of their old bills, but it's hard to figure out how many. A lot of the old bills will find their way back to the US or some currency-exchange place to get traded.
So you do not have to have your own credit card swiping machine and an account with a processor to sell something on craigslist.
I have little use for credit myself. I just don't understand how fake money hasn't grown so much that real paper money becomes impossible. Perhaps because the counterfeiters really just can't manage much volume.
Students have to learn a lot in a short time, you need to optimize their time.they can't be mucking around with hypervisors, getting the os to boot, and every possible problem they can meet to get an OS to run, every time they boot it, they don't know about dozens of these concepts and there's no time to learn absolutely everything, the course material is enough already. They need persistent changes, every place they boot their pendrive can't have a different problem, and not have the system exactly as they left it. So therefore I vote for OpenVZ on a shared server, perhaps with CentOS. There are other virtual computing labs around.
Just build another platform. In the smartphone-tablet-ebook, there are no standards or monopolies. Anyone can build a decent platform, adopt some OS and publish an API and it just works, no backward compatibility needed. People will buy it with just a few apps, you don't need compatibility with thousands of apps. It might actually start helping to break the Windows monopoly and create some more multiplatform interconnection standards, such as file formats, api's, protocols, etc.
I moved completely to linux to get away from drm of this kind.
The million-dollar question is, how to get more developers. It takes huge amounts of time to develop all software, games or whatever else, and the time needed grows exponentially with how good you want it to be. How to get programmers so much time, while they still manage to pay their bills. It's understood the software will not be for sale, so...
Oh, it'll run, but you've got to give it permission.
No, it's because the malware programmers have little motivation to create software for the 1% of computers that have more qualified admins. If linux reaches 99% of users, suddenly it will have all kinds of software for it which run very well, hordes of people looking for exploits, etc - malware. MacOS is getting more popular, soon it will start having trouble, I'm sure. Market shares are at http://marketshare.hitslink.com/os-market-share.aspx?qprid=9
Local Exchange Trading Systems (LETS) also known as LETSystems are local, non-profit exchange networks in which goods and services can be traded without the need for printed currency. In some places, e.g. Toronto, the scheme has been called the Local Employment and Trading System.
I can already envision all kinds of geeks staring at it with a microscope, dropping odd fluids on it, etc, in labs across the world. Really, I don't understand how paper money still exists.
It would be quite wonderful if someone could figure out a way to make packages installable easily on all linux distros, or at least create a few "compatibility profiles". This whole repository ubuntu-vs-debian-vs-redhat-vs-mandriva-vs-older-versions-of-same is a nightmare for newbie users.
Actually I didn't quite understand if the favored linux virtualization code switched from xen to kvm because of Citrix buying xen and messing with the project, or some other reason.
It's a good example of a glaring barrier for open source growth: programmer man-hours, and corporations filling in those man-hours and buying the product, basically for the technical features already reached and marketing effect, with no commitment whatsoever with open source. Then nobody can quite fork the product and continue maintaining it open, simply out of a man-hours shortage. More options to get people working on open-source projects, keeping them open, are needed. I sort of lean toward feature pledges, with qualified project-manager reviewers, programmers in developing countries will likely start jumping at these.
In NYC there is a sweatshop tour in Chinatown, a historical building that's like 100 years old. At one point the guide points to the smoke from the current shops. Slavery, people trafficking, semi-forced labor, exist practically everywhere in prostitution, manufacturing, home labor, fashion, many industries, yes, still. I have spoken to immigrants involved in nyc and sao paulo many times, in fact there are thousands of clothing sweatshops not far from here. The choice of place to work is generally based on fear, ignorance, false information, etc there are generally much better options available, but they don't see it, fear blinds people. The sweatshops-masters simply seek out people who can be pressured, conned, threatened, etc but, somehow, won't leave. Some will actually resort to locking doors and putting in high walls and guards, but it generally apparently isn't the most effective method, trickery and lies work better. In fact many companies, armies, managers, use similar techniques to gather lots of cheap, dedicated, qualified labor. Pressure, threats, lies, false promises, legal trickery, indebting, contracts. Soldiers and salesmen are the victims and perpetrators of the same grand scheme, generally to the advantage of a few insane maniacs, ignorant also. Full Metal Jacket sort of illustrated that. The UN and many institutions have anti-slavery campaigns to this day. I heard slavery in fact is growing.
All of China is the same, all products from there are made in some sort of sweatshop, or semi slavery condition. These people's backbones are what holds up the China boom. It's all based on cheap labor and no rights-no laws which add costs. England did the same at one time. It's the logical conclusion of a society where everything is measured in money terms. Slaves are the ultimate efficient factory "technology"- intelligent human labor, no cost. The economy, competition, lower costs pressure, demand this. Socialism or capitalism, it's the same, they are societies where production of stuff and money is king, human beings and everything else are at the service of these priorities. We need to get past the capitalism-or-socialism two sides of the same coin, and look to other alternatives, humanism is my favorite, but there are others too.