A country where the Government gets to censor what we see and hear can't function as a democracy. Democracy relies on the citizens being able to freely communicate. That can't happen under censorship.
Removal of anonymity (ubiquitous surveillance) is just as much of a problem to a democratic form of government as censorship.
We'll likely be telling our grandkids with stories of hundreds of non-automated cars screaming down the highway piloted by fallible humans. Of course, they'll just roll their eyes at us, make an "uphill both ways in the snow" comment, and tell their RobotCar to take them to the mall.
The shame in all that is they will never be able to have their robot car take them past the edge of civilization as we can currently. I drive a lot in areas where there are no real roads. I get to see all sorts of interesting stuff. They will never be able to do so. "Car, drive forward, turn left, turn right, speed up, slow down" is not really going to work where there are no truly defined roads and destinations.
That's complete and utter bullshit. I drive a '95 Impala. I can hold the brakes at a stop and floor the throttle, and cut the back tires loose.
Erm, you are wrong. I have a 500HP 500TQ car (E55 AMG is you are curious) and if I press on the brakes and the gas while moving, I stop. It causes a LOT of wear and tear on the brakes, but the car stops (not as rapidly without the throttle). Yes, the back wheels will spin. That is because the brakes apply to the front, not to the back. If you have a front wheel drive, the brakes will be even more effective since it is the drive wheels that are being braked.
In short, do not be so rude to other people, especially when YOU are the one who is wrong.
So there was a socially powerless labor class, and a means to control them. Certainly they also had force, but it wasn't the "main" means of control. The line between "peasant" and "slave" in ancient societies is a vague one.
So, that is no different than the situation that we find ourselves in today with the middle class pretty much eliminated.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
A video game publisher is likely to view people stuck on satellite as a rounding error.
ROFL. Apple became one of the most highly valued companies on the planet dealing with so-called rounding errors. How many people use OS X? How many people used iOS devices (at first) and are they dominant even now?
Sure, coast along happy in ignoring rounding errors, but those small things WILL kill you sooner or later. Kind of like Ebola.;)
Yes, but how many times does it suggest that you reboot for application and/or major library installations? With the exception of glibc, never.
You words reminded me of one of my early Linux experiences. I needed to upgrade glibc so I deleted it and... well, I was intending to copy the new file over but all of the commands were dynamically linked so no commands worked.
Utter terror! Everything I tried would not work... all commands errored out. What to do? What to do?
So I had Netscape Navigator (3 I think) open. It was statically linked. So I opened the new glibc with it and then "saved" it in/lib.
Commands started working again *sigh*. Disaster averted. I rebooted to ensure that all references in RAM to glibc would be correct.
Yeah, I had no "rescue disks". I barely even knew what a disk partition was at that time. I was just glad that I was able to avert disaster creatively with what I had available.:)
Sorry, this was not germane but your mention of glibc reminded me of it. Heh.
Hrm. I may as well say it, systemd is evil.
Oh, I always statically link basic utils such as cp to avoid any such problems in the future. The amount of extra diskspace used is utterly negligible in today's systems.
Concerning housekeeping and nursing, men generally do not get hired for those. Instead, they are pushed to other marginal jobs that are more dangerous and dirty; although to be fair, there are very different levels of nursing with some being just one step removed from being an actual M.D.
Thats a very naive viewpoint. Just by buying the drugs you're funding the entire drug machine so keeping it rolling, including the bits that hurt innocent people.
And your viewpoint is just as naive. By making it illegal, you force the people who want to participate into funding criminal enterprises with all of the associated negative bits that hurt innocent people.
Is Pfizer creating an outlaw army to assist in distribution and control of sales territories? Yeah... about that naive viewpoint...
Timing, luck, and hard work matter just as much as genius.
Wrong. You can't do shit if you are stupid.
Genius is the base requirement for success. Without it, you are going nowhere except by corrupting the system... and even then, you need some smarts to get ahead that way.
Luck and hard work are needed AFTER you have smarts. With both on top of the base, the world is your oyster. Without genius, luck and hard work will bring you a good life. Without hard work... well, winning the lottery does actually happen, just not to you.:)
I am a Brit now living in the US, and have a young son. Honestly my own (fairly average) school education in England makes that provided to him by public schools in the US look _very_ poor and low quality by comparison.
The public school system in America is absolutely terrible. Apparently, they do not even teach Geography anymore... WTF? Really?! In my own educational experiences, we did not touch fractions until 7th grade... WTF? I should have been doing Algebra by then... but whatever. K-12 education may be terrible but a K-12 education is not what gets you a job.
A University education is what gets you a job. American Universities are still among the very best on the planet by most metrics. For how much longer that will be true, I have no idea. Garbage in garbage out.
It would be naive at best to think that Google is the "one big corporate ally that OSS" has. If you want to try and hang that badge on a single company, it's probably IBM.
Erm, IBM is like a prostitute or a mercenary, no real principles concerning the situation at hand (so to speak). Google appears to make decisions based on principles and reality. How well Google follows those principles is a matter for debate.
Most of what we do is completely insecure, and it's actually kind of amazing how rarely people take advantage of it. But it's really disturbing that we aren't remotely willing to secure things that would be relatively easy to secure, and would solve lots of problems.
It is almost like we are under the rule of a third world tin pot dictatorship. The top of the control pyramid can't hear anything because control is all that matters and the bottom can't teach the top anything because the top already hires the "best and brightest" (read: best friends and shiniest coins). Heh. Gotta love what power does does to most individuals.
Have you actually read through the discussion in here that was spawned by this article? It is like a sea of stars are shining. So much information, so much intelligent discussion... and we get to see it all. Absolutely amazing. You can not find the quality of discussion about this stuff anywhere else where normal humans congregate. I feel like my understanding of the universe and certainty of direction has been solidified by seeing all of this.
I am surprised you were modded to 4 considering that you just called some of the real scientists posting here pseudo-scientists. Sure, there are a lot of ignorant people here like myself. Some of us are even posting about our ignorance... but there are real scientists posting here. And they are kind enough to correct the ignorance among us in a kind and serious manner. I feel your words are misplaced.
Sir, I feel really weird saying this, but I feel that I must.
You are an awesome person. What you do is awesome. Your attitude is awesome. You and others like you are some of the most important people in the world.
I would also like to thank you for all of the years that you have spent on Slashdot sharing information freely with us. There are others like you here, such as boristhespider, who share such incredibly amazing information.
I want to thank you sir. You have made my world a better place. Have a great day.
That assumes that anyone would want to subsidize every single site that receives ad revenue. I strongly suspect that this is not the case. But even at only $230 a year, that would be a bargain. The viruses, the flash ads, the spam. God, make it all go away please.
But it will not. They want brand awareness, not just click-throughs. Paying it would be rather like paying the danegeld. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...
That is an interesting graph. To summarize what it says, it says that we should not waste any more money studying fusion. Rather sad, but there you have it. They even said it themselves.:(
LOL. At first, I thought you might be serious, then I heard you mention the Midwest and I wondered if you had ever lived out there, but your description went on and I was wondering if you were serious again... and then you mentioned Ferguson.
Every once in a while I read a post here that starts out as normal but after a moment of thought, actually hits pretty damned hard. I am glad that your post is moderated +5. It definitely deserves it. Very insightful. I especially liked the part about the incentive to keep other cops in line. Very interesting idea there.
When I open up the tap in my kitchen sink, am I "blowing off water straight to atmosphere" ???
Erm... Heh. Actually, yes you are. Not all of it or even a significant percentage of it is blowing straight into the atmosphere but some of it assuredly is.
As a test, take two rooms of equal size, one with a running a faucet and the other without. Measure the humidity level after as little as 10 minutes.
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A country where the Government gets to censor what we see and hear can't function as a democracy. Democracy relies on the citizens being able to freely communicate. That can't happen under censorship.
Removal of anonymity (ubiquitous surveillance) is just as much of a problem to a democratic form of government as censorship.
We'll likely be telling our grandkids with stories of hundreds of non-automated cars screaming down the highway piloted by fallible humans. Of course, they'll just roll their eyes at us, make an "uphill both ways in the snow" comment, and tell their RobotCar to take them to the mall.
The shame in all that is they will never be able to have their robot car take them past the edge of civilization as we can currently. I drive a lot in areas where there are no real roads. I get to see all sorts of interesting stuff. They will never be able to do so. "Car, drive forward, turn left, turn right, speed up, slow down" is not really going to work where there are no truly defined roads and destinations.
That's complete and utter bullshit. I drive a '95 Impala. I can hold the brakes at a stop and floor the throttle, and cut the back tires loose.
Erm, you are wrong. I have a 500HP 500TQ car (E55 AMG is you are curious) and if I press on the brakes and the gas while moving, I stop. It causes a LOT of wear and tear on the brakes, but the car stops (not as rapidly without the throttle). Yes, the back wheels will spin. That is because the brakes apply to the front, not to the back. If you have a front wheel drive, the brakes will be even more effective since it is the drive wheels that are being braked.
In short, do not be so rude to other people, especially when YOU are the one who is wrong.
So there was a socially powerless labor class, and a means to control them. Certainly they also had force, but it wasn't the "main" means of control. The line between "peasant" and "slave" in ancient societies is a vague one.
So, that is no different than the situation that we find ourselves in today with the middle class pretty much eliminated.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
A video game publisher is likely to view people stuck on satellite as a rounding error.
ROFL. Apple became one of the most highly valued companies on the planet dealing with so-called rounding errors. How many people use OS X? How many people used iOS devices (at first) and are they dominant even now?
Sure, coast along happy in ignoring rounding errors, but those small things WILL kill you sooner or later. Kind of like Ebola. ;)
Let me count the guesses: A publisher paranoid about prohibited copying may be willing to license its game at a lower price...
LOL no. They will just see the increased profits as profits that were not lost to piracy.
What they fail to understand is this will not bring increased revenue or increased profits... but that is for another discussion.
Less Discovery Channel for you, buster.
Actually, it was the BBC doing an investigation of the Bermuda Triangle.
Yes, but how many times does it suggest that you reboot for application and/or major library installations? With the exception of glibc, never.
You words reminded me of one of my early Linux experiences. I needed to upgrade glibc so I deleted it and... well, I was intending to copy the new file over but all of the commands were dynamically linked so no commands worked.
Utter terror! Everything I tried would not work... all commands errored out. What to do? What to do?
So I had Netscape Navigator (3 I think) open. It was statically linked. So I opened the new glibc with it and then "saved" it in /lib.
Commands started working again *sigh*. Disaster averted. I rebooted to ensure that all references in RAM to glibc would be correct.
Yeah, I had no "rescue disks". I barely even knew what a disk partition was at that time. I was just glad that I was able to avert disaster creatively with what I had available. :)
Sorry, this was not germane but your mention of glibc reminded me of it. Heh.
Hrm. I may as well say it, systemd is evil.
Oh, I always statically link basic utils such as cp to avoid any such problems in the future. The amount of extra diskspace used is utterly negligible in today's systems.
Hey, the focus is on where women are not excelling at. Stop pointing out that they are excelling overall.
Please ignore my crossed eyes.
On the flip side, there have been few articles that talk about why men often avoid female dominated jobs such as
Hm.
primary school teaching
Accusations of sexual abuse are a career killer at a minimum.
social working
Accusations of sexual abuse are a career killer at a minimum.
accounting
WTF? Citations please.
This what I found: http://fortune.com/2013/03/11/...
Hardly ruled by and indeed, a recent change.
Concerning housekeeping and nursing, men generally do not get hired for those. Instead, they are pushed to other marginal jobs that are more dangerous and dirty; although to be fair, there are very different levels of nursing with some being just one step removed from being an actual M.D.
Thats a very naive viewpoint. Just by buying the drugs you're funding the entire drug machine so keeping it rolling, including the bits that hurt innocent people.
And your viewpoint is just as naive. By making it illegal, you force the people who want to participate into funding criminal enterprises with all of the associated negative bits that hurt innocent people.
Is Pfizer creating an outlaw army to assist in distribution and control of sales territories? Yeah... about that naive viewpoint...
Now is a 33 month prison sentence fair for gross stupidity? /shrug I've heard of worse . . .
During much of history, gross stupidity was a death sentence.
Timing, luck, and hard work matter just as much as genius.
Wrong. You can't do shit if you are stupid.
Genius is the base requirement for success. Without it, you are going nowhere except by corrupting the system... and even then, you need some smarts to get ahead that way.
Luck and hard work are needed AFTER you have smarts. With both on top of the base, the world is your oyster. Without genius, luck and hard work will bring you a good life. Without hard work... well, winning the lottery does actually happen, just not to you. :)
I am a Brit now living in the US, and have a young son. Honestly my own (fairly average) school education in England makes that provided to him by public schools in the US look _very_ poor and low quality by comparison.
The public school system in America is absolutely terrible. Apparently, they do not even teach Geography anymore... WTF? Really?! In my own educational experiences, we did not touch fractions until 7th grade... WTF? I should have been doing Algebra by then... but whatever. K-12 education may be terrible but a K-12 education is not what gets you a job.
A University education is what gets you a job. American Universities are still among the very best on the planet by most metrics. For how much longer that will be true, I have no idea. Garbage in garbage out.
It would be naive at best to think that Google is the "one big corporate ally that OSS" has. If you want to try and hang that badge on a single company, it's probably IBM.
Erm, IBM is like a prostitute or a mercenary, no real principles concerning the situation at hand (so to speak). Google appears to make decisions based on principles and reality. How well Google follows those principles is a matter for debate.
My friend Neil and I have a law: You know you have enough security when you can't do your job anymore.
As a "security guru" and a Heinlein fan, I love to twist some words that Mr. Heinlein wrote:
My job is to help you do, in a safer manner, what you were going to do anyway, not to prevent you from doing it in the first place.
This was concerning an exchange of a Mr. Harriman to his lawyer with me speaking from the lawyer's point of view.
Most of what we do is completely insecure, and it's actually kind of amazing how rarely people take advantage of it. But it's really disturbing that we aren't remotely willing to secure things that would be relatively easy to secure, and would solve lots of problems.
It is almost like we are under the rule of a third world tin pot dictatorship. The top of the control pyramid can't hear anything because control is all that matters and the bottom can't teach the top anything because the top already hires the "best and brightest" (read: best friends and shiniest coins). Heh. Gotta love what power does does to most individuals.
Have you actually read through the discussion in here that was spawned by this article? It is like a sea of stars are shining. So much information, so much intelligent discussion... and we get to see it all. Absolutely amazing. You can not find the quality of discussion about this stuff anywhere else where normal humans congregate. I feel like my understanding of the universe and certainty of direction has been solidified by seeing all of this.
I am surprised you were modded to 4 considering that you just called some of the real scientists posting here pseudo-scientists. Sure, there are a lot of ignorant people here like myself. Some of us are even posting about our ignorance... but there are real scientists posting here. And they are kind enough to correct the ignorance among us in a kind and serious manner. I feel your words are misplaced.
Sir, I feel really weird saying this, but I feel that I must.
You are an awesome person. What you do is awesome. Your attitude is awesome. You and others like you are some of the most important people in the world.
I would also like to thank you for all of the years that you have spent on Slashdot sharing information freely with us. There are others like you here, such as boristhespider, who share such incredibly amazing information.
I want to thank you sir. You have made my world a better place. Have a great day.
That assumes that anyone would want to subsidize every single site that receives ad revenue. I strongly suspect that this is not the case. But even at only $230 a year, that would be a bargain. The viruses, the flash ads, the spam. God, make it all go away please.
But it will not. They want brand awareness, not just click-throughs. Paying it would be rather like paying the danegeld. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...
That is an interesting graph. To summarize what it says, it says that we should not waste any more money studying fusion. Rather sad, but there you have it. They even said it themselves. :(
LOL. At first, I thought you might be serious, then I heard you mention the Midwest and I wondered if you had ever lived out there, but your description went on and I was wondering if you were serious again... and then you mentioned Ferguson.
LOL. What a wild ride. Thank you. :)
Every once in a while I read a post here that starts out as normal but after a moment of thought, actually hits pretty damned hard. I am glad that your post is moderated +5. It definitely deserves it. Very insightful. I especially liked the part about the incentive to keep other cops in line. Very interesting idea there.
I cry every damn time I read that one.
I understand why. Definitely high art there. It has great impact.
When I open up the tap in my kitchen sink, am I "blowing off water straight to atmosphere" ???
Erm... Heh. Actually, yes you are. Not all of it or even a significant percentage of it is blowing straight into the atmosphere but some of it assuredly is.
As a test, take two rooms of equal size, one with a running a faucet and the other without. Measure the humidity level after as little as 10 minutes.
Have a nice day. :)