DARPA has been very successful in getting the general public and academia involved in helping them to figure out how to make war robots, which you've gotta admit has to be their only goal.
They are a cool group, to be sure, but should we really be so enthusiastic? I mean JDAM's are cool and all, but personal house invasion robot's are not.
And they are inevitable. But why accelerate the process?
I remember in the '90's when we stopped shipment of some F-16's to Pakistan. Being a news hound, I was outraged by the US government's underhandedness.
Later, of course, I found out that Pakistan was backing the Taliban, and of course that the Taliban were/are a nasty piece of work.
Even so--there is literally no reason in the world for the President to have the power of *required, indefinite, and arbitrary* detention of US citizens. If nothing else some time limits would be in order and acceptable to deal with any conceivable threat.
Try streaming some high quality Shoutcast radio, or videos.
You'll find the limits are pitifully slow for that.
Point is, in the future you may (certainly will) want to do more with your wireless connection, and if we want the future to be good, you will want to be able to do this with some ease.
I was amazed that HP had the sense to open source web OS. But now I see where they really don't get it.
Successful, large, open source projects typically have one major sponsor who actually does quite a lot of work on it. Open sourcing it merely gives people more reason to use it and work on it with them.
Nobody's going to take the ball and run with this if HP, or somebody else, doesn't make it a major responsibility for themselves to do so.
To dam bad, they almost figured it out (and even then the odds would be against them)
I think it comes down to contempt towards MS because they had the temerity to actually think they could compete with Apple on this turf. I mean, seriously--if you know MS at all you knew they had zero chance of competing, because they just don't understand users. I mean, they hate their users.
Apple is also a piece of shit company, but they do (or did) understand users.
I realize you're being a smartass, but just the same why not ask the question--if we are dumb enough to expect pieces of paper to not be reproduceable, is what they are doing really wrong?
Only one problem--all those tools suck to use. As in, really really suck. Do you really want to surf over Tor all day?
People in China can get around the Great Firewall if they really want to, too. The problem is that the gov't is allowed to have the Great Firewall at all, and that is the problem here, as well.
In other words: fuck these guys, it's not tolerable just because we have ways around it.
Hook up a meter to all your equipment to find out how much electricity it's using. Then do the same on some new equipment.
Odds are, you're wasting rather a lot of money on electricity for the sake of running your "frugal" noisy ugly old components.
It's a bitch, really...I'm highly sympathetic to your point of view. It's just the reality of it is that the newer stuff generally really is *better*. And much of the time it's cheaper to buy that new stuff--especially if you go out of your way to get energy efficient stuff, which is light years better even than give years ago.
When, exactly, have you seen prices on these services *ever* come down?
It hasn't happened because the market is *not* free--it is controlled by a few, large, companies--who have quite obviously conspired to keep prices high.
So, by your logic, the fact that thousands line up for work there is proof that it's not such a bad place to work.
So it couldn't be that general conditions in China are just so poor that those thousands of people could just be desperate, and that the company is abusing that desperation for its profit?
Check out any of numerous documentaries on the subject. For example, workers who live in their dormitories are not permitted to socialize. You know, because then they might unionize or something. But is this a humane policy? No. They are douchebags and deserve to be publicly excoriated.
It's not the warming per se, but the *speed* of it.
As you say--in geological timescales, it's no big deal. But we're talking about a significant increase in CO2 in a hundred freaking years. That's lightning fast, and at best will cause only major famines and disease outbreaks.
We have enough trouble feeding the people we have now, without a) adding another couple billion people and b) having to deal with massive climate change in a short period of time.
You're not thinking this through. How, exactly, would that help?
Think about it...the problem isn't that they're sniffing traffic. They're just looking at Tweets and not liking some of them. They can disapprove while reading them via https just as easily as not.
I do agree that it's spineless of US companies to give in on this.
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They still can--it's not as hard as all that.
Or, they can use an existing engine and just do the fun part, like I did.
It's not so bad.
DARPA has been very successful in getting the general public and academia involved in helping them to figure out how to make war robots, which you've gotta admit has to be their only goal.
They are a cool group, to be sure, but should we really be so enthusiastic? I mean JDAM's are cool and all, but personal house invasion robot's are not.
And they are inevitable. But why accelerate the process?
Yeah, but not all the folks involved got bailouts, in spite of the responsibility they should have held.
And still got bonuses.
That's the difference, to me.
Yes, but...
Someone has to file an objection, which takes time and money.
Or they bring up prior art when being sued over the patent, which takes LOTS of time and money.
As usual, no justice without money in this country.
No, he saw democracy produce that in Germany, Italy, et. al.
I remember in the '90's when we stopped shipment of some F-16's to Pakistan. Being a news hound, I was outraged by the US government's underhandedness.
Later, of course, I found out that Pakistan was backing the Taliban, and of course that the Taliban were/are a nasty piece of work.
Even so--there is literally no reason in the world for the President to have the power of *required, indefinite, and arbitrary* detention of US citizens. If nothing else some time limits would be in order and acceptable to deal with any conceivable threat.
So I'm not a believer.
Try streaming some high quality Shoutcast radio, or videos.
You'll find the limits are pitifully slow for that.
Point is, in the future you may (certainly will) want to do more with your wireless connection, and if we want the future to be good, you will want to be able to do this with some ease.
I was amazed that HP had the sense to open source web OS. But now I see where they really don't get it.
Successful, large, open source projects typically have one major sponsor who actually does quite a lot of work on it. Open sourcing it merely gives people more reason to use it and work on it with them.
Nobody's going to take the ball and run with this if HP, or somebody else, doesn't make it a major responsibility for themselves to do so.
To dam bad, they almost figured it out (and even then the odds would be against them)
I think it comes down to contempt towards MS because they had the temerity to actually think they could compete with Apple on this turf. I mean, seriously--if you know MS at all you knew they had zero chance of competing, because they just don't understand users. I mean, they hate their users.
Apple is also a piece of shit company, but they do (or did) understand users.
I realize you're being a smartass, but just the same why not ask the question--if we are dumb enough to expect pieces of paper to not be reproduceable, is what they are doing really wrong?
Just playing devil's advocate.
lol I just had this conversation with someone.
Speaking as someone who resisted it for many years--the thing to do is accept the reality of the situation.
It's not wholly evil--after all, would you rather hire someone you'd worked with before well, or a stranger?
mod parent up and up and up. what the fuck is wrong with us?
Ah, mea culpa. You're right, I was confusing power/performance with just power. Thanks for straightening me out, again!
Only one problem--all those tools suck to use. As in, really really suck. Do you really want to surf over Tor all day?
People in China can get around the Great Firewall if they really want to, too. The problem is that the gov't is allowed to have the Great Firewall at all, and that is the problem here, as well.
In other words: fuck these guys, it's not tolerable just because we have ways around it.
Ah, mea culpa. You're right, I was confusing power/performance with just power. Thanks for straightening me out!
So...are you defending Apple suing all and sundry over rounded rectangles?
Seriously?
lol no, you only think you're being frugal.
Hook up a meter to all your equipment to find out how much electricity it's using. Then do the same on some new equipment.
Odds are, you're wasting rather a lot of money on electricity for the sake of running your "frugal" noisy ugly old components.
It's a bitch, really...I'm highly sympathetic to your point of view. It's just the reality of it is that the newer stuff generally really is *better*. And much of the time it's cheaper to buy that new stuff--especially if you go out of your way to get energy efficient stuff, which is light years better even than give years ago.
Good Lord, you seem to be quite naive.
When, exactly, have you seen prices on these services *ever* come down?
It hasn't happened because the market is *not* free--it is controlled by a few, large, companies--who have quite obviously conspired to keep prices high.
Or are you living in a different country than me?
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So, by your logic, the fact that thousands line up for work there is proof that it's not such a bad place to work.
So it couldn't be that general conditions in China are just so poor that those thousands of people could just be desperate, and that the company is abusing that desperation for its profit?
Check out any of numerous documentaries on the subject. For example, workers who live in their dormitories are not permitted to socialize. You know, because then they might unionize or something. But is this a humane policy? No. They are douchebags and deserve to be publicly excoriated.
It's not the warming per se, but the *speed* of it.
As you say--in geological timescales, it's no big deal. But we're talking about a significant increase in CO2 in a hundred freaking years. That's lightning fast, and at best will cause only major famines and disease outbreaks.
We have enough trouble feeding the people we have now, without a) adding another couple billion people and b) having to deal with massive climate change in a short period of time.
Trust me, many of us who kinda felt that way about him are changing our tune.
Too bad the Republicans haven't offered us an alternative, however.
You're not thinking this through. How, exactly, would that help?
Think about it...the problem isn't that they're sniffing traffic. They're just looking at Tweets and not liking some of them. They can disapprove while reading them via https just as easily as not.
I do agree that it's spineless of US companies to give in on this.
Hi John,
You mention that you don't want to deal with customers on sites like e-lance and co. but what is the alternative?
Please, by all means, go for it.
Look what Wikipedia going black for a day did for ordinary (non geek) citizens' awareness of these issues.