Thats not the real dichotomy, the real dichotomy is "reboot your OS to install (consumer-level) packages or break most of the software written in the past 20 years". Maybe its possible to update POSIX without doing so, but my guess is that if it was, they would have done so by now.
How exactly do you propose they would be able to test a vaccine for a virus that doesn't exist in the wild? How would you conduct human trials without the virus potentially getting into the wild?
Here, we are going to inject you with this untested vaccine and then expose you to an heretofore unknown virus, oh and since this virus is unknown we expect you to stay quarantined off from all human contact until we are 100% sure the virus is completely eliminated from your system, or you die, in which case we will incinerate your body and bury the remains in an undisclosed location. Can I pencil you in for a 2:00?
The military has developed vaccines in the past(and in secret), but those were for KNOWN diseases. Making a vaccine for a disease that isn't out in the wild yet is a pretty dicey affair.
And back in the dinosaur days(read early 80s) when I grew up the kids STILL figured out how to access the stuff, and we created a secret community stash in the woods. You contributed what you could, you took when you needed. Amazing system:P(and of course by the time I was a teen I was the one that was smart enough to dial up BBSes and d/l porn from there, and distribute it to friends in exchange for floppy disks)
Your expectation of privacy in your own house basically means that its illegal for someone to go out of their way(zoom lenses, hidden cameras etc.). If you have a giant window thats visible from the street, you cannot expect that nobody will look into it on occasion, its your job to at least take rudimentary steps to prevent people from seeing something than any peeping they do is a crime, but if you are just showing it off then its fair game.
Not the same, its more like a beautiful woman getting naked in front of a big open window in broad daylight then getting mad at people for looking because she forgot to pull down the blinds. To steal something as in your door analogy you actually have to enter the premise, itself a crime. Looking out your window into a window thats wide open, not a crime.(of course threatening to sell the vide on the internet unless the woman pays up IS a crime, and thats what these people are guilty of)
Do you even bother reading comments, or do you just respond to what you want to read so you can feel all self-righteous and indignant? Did I say that every single human being does everything in the name of competition? Didnt I specifically mention in groups and out groups(for which OSS is mostly made for the in-group, and they often times like to compete with the 'out-group', the proprietary software vendors). Monkeys also cooperate for the common good, that does not preclude them also competing and fighting as well. Next time, actually READ what someone says before responding, makes you look like less of a dumbass that way.
Because we are human beings and that is what we *do*. The desire to compete with those in the same "group" as you and win are wired into our brains, even our cousins the chimps form teams and engage in competition...though in their case eating the losers babies is always a possibility.
Able and willing are 2 different things, you have to be both to go to war. Just because you arent able does not mean you arent willing. Iran has pretty strained relations with pretty much every other country in the region(with perhaps the exception of the new Iraqi government). There are a lot of countries in the region that would have no qualms going to war with Iran if they thought it would be an easy victory, and Iran would have no qualms going to war with them if they could be assured the same.
The world is a lot more complex than "America bad, others good!".
Talk about one-stop shopping, now I can get my high-energy particle simulations done AND get a nice ribeye roast without making separate stops...FINALLY!
Human nature also dictates that you are more likely to get caught on a repeat offense than a first one(ie your probability of getting caught on event n is not independent of the other n-1 events, its closer to a markov chain). This is largely because after a string of successes we humans tend to get sloppy and make mistakes because we think we are invincible....
Its not just bank robbers, its pretty much any crime. Back in my salad(read stupid) days, I got caught shoplifting, it wasnt the first time I had done it and looking back, I was much more careful the first 5 times I had done it than the time I got caught, because I had convinced myself I wouldnt get caught. In lieu of facing charges I had to attend a class about shoplifting, and they gave us the official stats that basically said the same thing. First time shoplifters rarely get caught because they are just so damn careful, and the stores dont want to admit it but they just arent very good at catching shoplifters who arent stupid about it(ie not stealing incredibly high value items, really good about hiding them etc)..... However they are counting on the fact that eventually most people DO get stupid about it and get caught eventually.
And the sad thing is that due to incompetence and/or greed, the DoD not only permits Windows on its networks, it actually ENCOURAGES it. Many of the security reqs are written such that only Windows can really do all them(basically they throw in some pointless shit that only windows does but doesnt offer any security and call it a major issue). The PLA really should write Redmond a thank you letter for writing such shitty software then lobbying the hell out of the people in power to get it installed everywhere at the DoD. Redmonds incompetence is allowing the PLA to access 10s of billions of dollars worth of defense research for free.
Because people in general, and the US in particular cling to this whole "law and order" fantasy that states the stricter the punishment(and more people you arrest for it), the less the problem occurs. And have we seen with drugs, that simply doesn't work. And the paranoia and bloodlust surrounding child abuse/porn in the US probably results in MORE child rape, not less. In most places in the US psychiatrists are REQUIRED by law to report any people that come to them for help with pedophilia, regardless of whether they actually pose a real threat to anyone(and in fact may be going to the dr to help them avoid doing so, therapy has been shown effective for past offenders). So they have to essentially "go it alone" or else risk ruining their entire lives by being outed. And what often happens is that they cannot cope and end up hurting a child. And this is pretty much the only disorder that they are required to report, someone comes to them to try to avoid going on drugs or to help them with their violent tendencies nothing has to be reported unless there is a high probability the person is going to hurt themselves or others, but pedophiles are different, we somehow feel that they should be locked up for seeking help....
HAHAHA, you win the award for dumbest thing said on slashdot today, congrats! You somehow think that less people having the surgery will cause the price to DROP? It's no wonder you are a conservative because you are clearly a moron. Surgery isn't like a bunch of wireless routers sitting in the back of a best buy, it doesn't have a very elastic price curve, in fact often times the most expensive surgeries are the least common because the scarcity of the necessary skills and equipment tend to drive prices up, but the very high technical barriers(very expensive and specialized equipment and lack of chances to gain experience) mean that it's very difficult to bring extra capacity online. But then again, if you actually had a brain that required surgery you wouldn't be parroting Limbaugh, so I guess you are safe in that regard. But thanks for making me laugh, it's not just your stupidity, but how arrogant you ate about your stupidity that really turns a run of the mill idiotic comment into comedy gold.
Wow, the article wasted a lot of words essentially saying nothing. Heres the article in 1 sentence: Facebook is big now, but like others before it, it may not be big forever.
I would say that before you go jumping into any particular framework you spend a bit of time up front to learn the low-level details of how web apps actually work(something a lot of devs seem to skip). Learn exactly how HTTP post and get operations work, learn about how sessions and related to that cookies work, learn about SSL and security, learn about how various push technologies(such as web sockets and...sigh....comet) work. Also learn about data interchanges(mainly JSON) work.
Doing this up front will not only help you develop a better website, it will also make it MUCH simpler for you to develop and maintain your mobile apps, esp. if you really want to go beyond bolting a few buttons to a web view
unprecedented move for a company known for not discussing the technical details of its products, let alone the security architecture.
Um...no...not by a long shot. While obviously nowhere NEAR as open as Android, iOS is based on Darwin, which is open source(though I am sure they have modified parts of it but not released them, and of course 99.9% of userland is closed). This is the base from where most of the "security architecture" of iOS is derived, and briefing though the guide, most of what it talks about is based on these open source OS level features(and the parts that arent are basically references to APIs that Apple has documented for years). Yeah, author needs to get a clue
This survey is done by Gartner, and thats all you really need to know. Basically its a clever ad for Gartners consulting services "cleverly" disguised as a survey to try to give it some sort of credibility.
This isnt the first time they have done this, this wont be the last. I remember back in 2003 they basically came out with a survey that stated something along the lines of "by 2010 around 50% of all US IT jobs will be offshored...oh and apropos of nothing, we just HAPPEN to have an offshore IT consulting service. What a coincidence! Contact us now for a no-fee consultation, and remember, 50% of all jobs, you dont want to be left behind, call today!"
However their predictions werent even CLOSE to being true, I would be surprised if 10% of all IT jobs are now done offshore, still a large % to be sure, but nowhere near what Gartner was predicting. Of course, Gartner doesnt have a vested interest in being truthful, they have a vested interest in creating alarmist headlines to try to drum up business for their shitty consulting arm.
Actually they are turning into something akin to Microsoft, but not for the reasons you described. In the past(and to a lesser extent even today) Microsoft would often release several different, but completely incompatible, versions of the same thing. For instance 2 different DRM schemes, neither which was compatible with the other or even many of Microsofts own products for that matter. At one point they had THREE mobile operating systems on the market, all incompatible with the others software. This is not a recipe for success, and Microsofts slow, painful, but inexorable decline proves it.
This just seems like yet another step towards employers treating their employees like children(that unlike real children they can, and do fire) rather than adults. Monitoring internet, asking for social network passwords, and now this....if they wanted to run a kindergarten, they should have gone into that field.
The Germans basically want to eliminate anything that would make Hitler look "human", including of course Mein Kampf, but even things like the Fuhrer bunker(whose destruction was sad, not at least for the reason that it was a marvelous piece of engineering). Even the wax figure of Hitler they put in a museum of famous Germans was covered in shadow, lest people believe he is an actual human.....
I guess its easier to reconcile with their past of they paint Hitler to be a monster. Monsters are pure evil and can force us to do things that we wouldnt do otherwise. Humans on the other hand are weak creatures who cannot do anything without the willing help of other humans(the German people in this case)....
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Thats not the real dichotomy, the real dichotomy is "reboot your OS to install (consumer-level) packages or break most of the software written in the past 20 years". Maybe its possible to update POSIX without doing so, but my guess is that if it was, they would have done so by now.
How exactly do you propose they would be able to test a vaccine for a virus that doesn't exist in the wild? How would you conduct human trials without the virus potentially getting into the wild?
Here, we are going to inject you with this untested vaccine and then expose you to an heretofore unknown virus, oh and since this virus is unknown we expect you to stay quarantined off from all human contact until we are 100% sure the virus is completely eliminated from your system, or you die, in which case we will incinerate your body and bury the remains in an undisclosed location. Can I pencil you in for a 2:00?
The military has developed vaccines in the past(and in secret), but those were for KNOWN diseases. Making a vaccine for a disease that isn't out in the wild yet is a pretty dicey affair.
And back in the dinosaur days(read early 80s) when I grew up the kids STILL figured out how to access the stuff, and we created a secret community stash in the woods. You contributed what you could, you took when you needed. Amazing system :P(and of course by the time I was a teen I was the one that was smart enough to dial up BBSes and d/l porn from there, and distribute it to friends in exchange for floppy disks)
Computer free speech is all fun and games until some computer shouts "Water!" in a crowded beowulf cluster.....
Your expectation of privacy in your own house basically means that its illegal for someone to go out of their way(zoom lenses, hidden cameras etc.). If you have a giant window thats visible from the street, you cannot expect that nobody will look into it on occasion, its your job to at least take rudimentary steps to prevent people from seeing something than any peeping they do is a crime, but if you are just showing it off then its fair game.
Not the same, its more like a beautiful woman getting naked in front of a big open window in broad daylight then getting mad at people for looking because she forgot to pull down the blinds. To steal something as in your door analogy you actually have to enter the premise, itself a crime. Looking out your window into a window thats wide open, not a crime.(of course threatening to sell the vide on the internet unless the woman pays up IS a crime, and thats what these people are guilty of)
Do you even bother reading comments, or do you just respond to what you want to read so you can feel all self-righteous and indignant? Did I say that every single human being does everything in the name of competition? Didnt I specifically mention in groups and out groups(for which OSS is mostly made for the in-group, and they often times like to compete with the 'out-group', the proprietary software vendors). Monkeys also cooperate for the common good, that does not preclude them also competing and fighting as well. Next time, actually READ what someone says before responding, makes you look like less of a dumbass that way.
Because we are human beings and that is what we *do*. The desire to compete with those in the same "group" as you and win are wired into our brains, even our cousins the chimps form teams and engage in competition...though in their case eating the losers babies is always a possibility.
Able and willing are 2 different things, you have to be both to go to war. Just because you arent able does not mean you arent willing. Iran has pretty strained relations with pretty much every other country in the region(with perhaps the exception of the new Iraqi government). There are a lot of countries in the region that would have no qualms going to war with Iran if they thought it would be an easy victory, and Iran would have no qualms going to war with them if they could be assured the same.
The world is a lot more complex than "America bad, others good!".
Talk about one-stop shopping, now I can get my high-energy particle simulations done AND get a nice ribeye roast without making separate stops...FINALLY!
Human nature also dictates that you are more likely to get caught on a repeat offense than a first one(ie your probability of getting caught on event n is not independent of the other n-1 events, its closer to a markov chain). This is largely because after a string of successes we humans tend to get sloppy and make mistakes because we think we are invincible....
Its not just bank robbers, its pretty much any crime. Back in my salad(read stupid) days, I got caught shoplifting, it wasnt the first time I had done it and looking back, I was much more careful the first 5 times I had done it than the time I got caught, because I had convinced myself I wouldnt get caught. In lieu of facing charges I had to attend a class about shoplifting, and they gave us the official stats that basically said the same thing. First time shoplifters rarely get caught because they are just so damn careful, and the stores dont want to admit it but they just arent very good at catching shoplifters who arent stupid about it(ie not stealing incredibly high value items, really good about hiding them etc)..... However they are counting on the fact that eventually most people DO get stupid about it and get caught eventually.
And the sad thing is that due to incompetence and/or greed, the DoD not only permits Windows on its networks, it actually ENCOURAGES it. Many of the security reqs are written such that only Windows can really do all them(basically they throw in some pointless shit that only windows does but doesnt offer any security and call it a major issue). The PLA really should write Redmond a thank you letter for writing such shitty software then lobbying the hell out of the people in power to get it installed everywhere at the DoD. Redmonds incompetence is allowing the PLA to access 10s of billions of dollars worth of defense research for free.
Because people in general, and the US in particular cling to this whole "law and order" fantasy that states the stricter the punishment(and more people you arrest for it), the less the problem occurs. And have we seen with drugs, that simply doesn't work. And the paranoia and bloodlust surrounding child abuse/porn in the US probably results in MORE child rape, not less. In most places in the US psychiatrists are REQUIRED by law to report any people that come to them for help with pedophilia, regardless of whether they actually pose a real threat to anyone(and in fact may be going to the dr to help them avoid doing so, therapy has been shown effective for past offenders). So they have to essentially "go it alone" or else risk ruining their entire lives by being outed. And what often happens is that they cannot cope and end up hurting a child. And this is pretty much the only disorder that they are required to report, someone comes to them to try to avoid going on drugs or to help them with their violent tendencies nothing has to be reported unless there is a high probability the person is going to hurt themselves or others, but pedophiles are different, we somehow feel that they should be locked up for seeking help....
HAHAHA, you win the award for dumbest thing said on slashdot today, congrats! You somehow think that less people having the surgery will cause the price to DROP? It's no wonder you are a conservative because you are clearly a moron. Surgery isn't like a bunch of wireless routers sitting in the back of a best buy, it doesn't have a very elastic price curve, in fact often times the most expensive surgeries are the least common because the scarcity of the necessary skills and equipment tend to drive prices up, but the very high technical barriers(very expensive and specialized equipment and lack of chances to gain experience) mean that it's very difficult to bring extra capacity online. But then again, if you actually had a brain that required surgery you wouldn't be parroting Limbaugh, so I guess you are safe in that regard. But thanks for making me laugh, it's not just your stupidity, but how arrogant you ate about your stupidity that really turns a run of the mill idiotic comment into comedy gold.
Japan also does a lot of hydroelectric, problem is there are basically no more rivers left to dam in the entire country, so thats a problem.
Wow, the article wasted a lot of words essentially saying nothing. Heres the article in 1 sentence: Facebook is big now, but like others before it, it may not be big forever.
See, was that so hard?
Come on, we all know that Charles Lindbergh killed her after she saw how the Lindbergh baby got sucked down the toilet.
I would say that before you go jumping into any particular framework you spend a bit of time up front to learn the low-level details of how web apps actually work(something a lot of devs seem to skip). Learn exactly how HTTP post and get operations work, learn about how sessions and related to that cookies work, learn about SSL and security, learn about how various push technologies(such as web sockets and...sigh....comet) work. Also learn about data interchanges(mainly JSON) work.
Doing this up front will not only help you develop a better website, it will also make it MUCH simpler for you to develop and maintain your mobile apps, esp. if you really want to go beyond bolting a few buttons to a web view
unprecedented move for a company known for not discussing the technical details of its products, let alone the security architecture.
Um...no...not by a long shot. While obviously nowhere NEAR as open as Android, iOS is based on Darwin, which is open source(though I am sure they have modified parts of it but not released them, and of course 99.9% of userland is closed). This is the base from where most of the "security architecture" of iOS is derived, and briefing though the guide, most of what it talks about is based on these open source OS level features(and the parts that arent are basically references to APIs that Apple has documented for years). Yeah, author needs to get a clue
This survey is done by Gartner, and thats all you really need to know. Basically its a clever ad for Gartners consulting services "cleverly" disguised as a survey to try to give it some sort of credibility.
This isnt the first time they have done this, this wont be the last. I remember back in 2003 they basically came out with a survey that stated something along the lines of "by 2010 around 50% of all US IT jobs will be offshored...oh and apropos of nothing, we just HAPPEN to have an offshore IT consulting service. What a coincidence! Contact us now for a no-fee consultation, and remember, 50% of all jobs, you dont want to be left behind, call today!"
However their predictions werent even CLOSE to being true, I would be surprised if 10% of all IT jobs are now done offshore, still a large % to be sure, but nowhere near what Gartner was predicting. Of course, Gartner doesnt have a vested interest in being truthful, they have a vested interest in creating alarmist headlines to try to drum up business for their shitty consulting arm.
Actually they are turning into something akin to Microsoft, but not for the reasons you described. In the past(and to a lesser extent even today) Microsoft would often release several different, but completely incompatible, versions of the same thing. For instance 2 different DRM schemes, neither which was compatible with the other or even many of Microsofts own products for that matter. At one point they had THREE mobile operating systems on the market, all incompatible with the others software. This is not a recipe for success, and Microsofts slow, painful, but inexorable decline proves it.
Yeah, but those can be meta-modded so they are rarely used to say "I disagree"
Why is it so many open source projects sound like names for run down strip clubs?
This just seems like yet another step towards employers treating their employees like children(that unlike real children they can, and do fire) rather than adults. Monitoring internet, asking for social network passwords, and now this....if they wanted to run a kindergarten, they should have gone into that field.
The Germans basically want to eliminate anything that would make Hitler look "human", including of course Mein Kampf, but even things like the Fuhrer bunker(whose destruction was sad, not at least for the reason that it was a marvelous piece of engineering). Even the wax figure of Hitler they put in a museum of famous Germans was covered in shadow, lest people believe he is an actual human.....
I guess its easier to reconcile with their past of they paint Hitler to be a monster. Monsters are pure evil and can force us to do things that we wouldnt do otherwise. Humans on the other hand are weak creatures who cannot do anything without the willing help of other humans(the German people in this case)....