Now these same environmentalists would tell you "don't alter this forest or that ecosystem because that is tampering with nature!" Why is this blatant double standard not obvious?
Because it needs to be. Let's say Global warming is entirely natural for now. It's about survival my good man. Tampering with the forests and the ecosystem will screw with oxygen levels and things we need to survive. So these 'eco freaks' need to be doing this to help us survive. Attempting to reverse this warming will allow more arible and livable land. If we let it go, it may well wipe us out or atleast push us into a small corner of the world that can only inhabit a fraction of our current population.
So regardless of whether or not it was caused by us, we need to try and do something. And even if it turns out to be futile and we are all staring at the appocolypse, we can atleast say we tried our best.
He asked IBM to deprecate its open-source license and instead put it under the General Public License, the most popular license for free software that gives users the freedom run the program for any purpose, to study how it works, to modify and improve it and distribute copies. In contrast, an open-source license, like IBM's, is copyrighted.
This statement confuses the hell out of me. Are they saying that the GPL license is not copyrighted or that the software can not also be copyrighted?
And on another note, why is every trend always "troubling", every impact "profound"? I find it amusing that those who would, say, be fully in support of embryonic stem cell research, apparently throwing any ethical concerns to the wind, all of a sudden see "troubling" ethical implications for employers trying to use the same essential tools.
There is a big difference here. The company is modivated by money, and stem cell research is motivated by potentially curing many tough illnesses.
Well, your analogy is a little strange. If what you describe a collision as is just out of sequence packets, that shouldn't matter. And if the AP was level 2 aware, you'd think it could sort it out.
Unless you are talking about peices smaller then a packet which would no doubt screw things up.
It's much easier to understand in the wired world. In a normal collision, electrical signals distort other electrical signals making them unreadable. It's all electromagnetics, I guess.
In fact, while sueing someone, you can open up new suits during the trial. Against the jury or judge... They may even be able to swing your way if you promise them indemnity, heh.
I'm not understanding how it is impossible for full duplex communication over RF. Why couldn't you do something like the GP suggested and have dual antennas, one for Tx and another for Rx? The only place signals can conlict are in/on the antenna, correct?
Is the premise the same in the air as it is on a wire? Do signals on the same frequency really interfere with each other that much?
Excuse my ignorance in the RF field. And yes, I was talking about the Pre-N equipment in my previous post.
I've searched thoroughly for network intrusion detection and prevention systems, but the choices and technologies seem somewhat limited or proprietary-- Snort appears an obvious open source solution for intrusion detection but many users many find it lacking in intrusion prevention capabilities.
You can balance FLOSS and proprietary techs with something like Astaro Security Linux. They do appliances or standalone software.
> that means that areas on the edge of commercial
> farming become viable, that the growing season
> lengthens as you go further south, and the year-round
> growing seasons of florida and parts of california
> move north, allowing more food to be grown. But do
> they mention this? Nope...
I guess that makes it all ok then.
By the way, you forgot to mention that this would make a good portion of the world uninhabitable.
You have to have 'oops' moments. It is impossible to forsee everything that can happen. The reality is that this is a dangerous program and shit will happen.
I really don't understand why people are so freaked out about the 2 disasters. There were only 2. That's what, 14 people that died in this program? After how many successfull launches and how much valuable information? Not to mention that these people signed up for this. They know the risks, they know that they may not be coming back. It's a reality of the business.
Hundreds of US soldiers died in Iraq. Do you see them suspending war to fix these problems?
A handfull of people die on fishing ships in Alaska every year. Do they stop doing business to fix these problems? No. It's a fact of the job.
> WTF? So instead of innocent until proven guilty...
Innocent until proven guilty really only applies as the -black and white- form in criminal cases. Since this is a civil suit, there are degrees of guilty and innocent.
Global warming is just a bad name for this. It should from now on be called 'Climate Change' and leave it at that. We have Global Cooling and Global Warming going on at the same time which is partially counteracting each other with an obsurd balance. This balance is very delicate and may be tipped very easily.
The global warming, as you know is being sped up by the way we run our civilization. We are adding greenhouse gasses, which is not helping at all. Your example of "only a 1 degree Celsius over a _century_ increase." is a LOT of temp increase. A global 1C temp increase is not minute(especially over only a century).
At the same time, we have global cooling. This is still a touchy subject but it has merit. This is caused by our increased cloud cover, mostly over industrialized nations. The cloud cover is caused by particulate matter which causes water vapor to accumulate easier. Since this is only really over industrialized nations, we don't notice much of global warming. But if you look in certain parts of africa, where massive droughts are going on, you can definetly see the effects.
So overall, the average American or Britan will not notice much of this climate change, but if you look at the entire world, and all the data, it's quite convincing.
Yeah, the MicroCenter here in PA is no doubt the best computer store I have ever been in. They are large enough to keep the prices down, yet small enough to cater to the geeks. You can get pretty much any part you will ever need there.
This was the first thing I thought of when reading this. I don't think this will stop 'schoolyard' piracy but it will give them use of the DMCA. Only logical reason I can come to.
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Now these same environmentalists would tell you "don't alter this forest or that ecosystem because that is tampering with nature!" Why is this blatant double standard not obvious?
Because it needs to be. Let's say Global warming is entirely natural for now. It's about survival my good man. Tampering with the forests and the ecosystem will screw with oxygen levels and things we need to survive. So these 'eco freaks' need to be doing this to help us survive. Attempting to reverse this warming will allow more arible and livable land. If we let it go, it may well wipe us out or atleast push us into a small corner of the world that can only inhabit a fraction of our current population.
So regardless of whether or not it was caused by us, we need to try and do something. And even if it turns out to be futile and we are all staring at the appocolypse, we can atleast say we tried our best.
He asked IBM to deprecate its open-source license and instead put it under the General Public License, the most popular license for free software that gives users the freedom run the program for any purpose, to study how it works, to modify and improve it and distribute copies. In contrast, an open-source license, like IBM's, is copyrighted.
This statement confuses the hell out of me. Are they saying that the GPL license is not copyrighted or that the software can not also be copyrighted?
And on another note, why is every trend always "troubling", every impact "profound"? I find it amusing that those who would, say, be fully in support of embryonic stem cell research, apparently throwing any ethical concerns to the wind, all of a sudden see "troubling" ethical implications for employers trying to use the same essential tools.
There is a big difference here. The company is modivated by money, and stem cell research is motivated by potentially curing many tough illnesses.
Well, your analogy is a little strange. If what you describe a collision as is just out of sequence packets, that shouldn't matter. And if the AP was level 2 aware, you'd think it could sort it out.
Unless you are talking about peices smaller then a packet which would no doubt screw things up.
It's much easier to understand in the wired world. In a normal collision, electrical signals distort other electrical signals making them unreadable. It's all electromagnetics, I guess.
...information knows you!
In fact, while sueing someone, you can open up new suits during the trial. Against the jury or judge... They may even be able to swing your way if you promise them indemnity, heh.
I'm not understanding how it is impossible for full duplex communication over RF. Why couldn't you do something like the GP suggested and have dual antennas, one for Tx and another for Rx? The only place signals can conlict are in/on the antenna, correct?
Is the premise the same in the air as it is on a wire? Do signals on the same frequency really interfere with each other that much?
Excuse my ignorance in the RF field. And yes, I was talking about the Pre-N equipment in my previous post.
Then we may as well thank epicRealm for their outstanding public service.
Shall I assume that you are an employer? No sane worker would sell himself as a commodity.
This is totally fucked up. The first thing I thought when I read the summary was; "This is the perfect way to keep unions from forming".
Isn't this law essentially illegal?
I was at CompUSA yesterday(shudder) and IIRC, the box stated that n was full duplex.
I've searched thoroughly for network intrusion detection and prevention systems, but the choices and technologies seem somewhat limited or proprietary-- Snort appears an obvious open source solution for intrusion detection but many users many find it lacking in intrusion prevention capabilities.
You can balance FLOSS and proprietary techs with something like Astaro Security Linux. They do appliances or standalone software.
1984 or StarTrek. Which ever is more geeky.
Yeah but I'm fairly certain that Google pays license fees to use those materials.
> that means that areas on the edge of commercial
> farming become viable, that the growing season
> lengthens as you go further south, and the year-round
> growing seasons of florida and parts of california
> move north, allowing more food to be grown. But do
> they mention this? Nope...
I guess that makes it all ok then.
By the way, you forgot to mention that this would make a good portion of the world uninhabitable.
You have to have 'oops' moments. It is impossible to forsee everything that can happen. The reality is that this is a dangerous program and shit will happen.
I really don't understand why people are so freaked out about the 2 disasters. There were only 2. That's what, 14 people that died in this program? After how many successfull launches and how much valuable information? Not to mention that these people signed up for this. They know the risks, they know that they may not be coming back. It's a reality of the business.
Hundreds of US soldiers died in Iraq. Do you see them suspending war to fix these problems?
A handfull of people die on fishing ships in Alaska every year. Do they stop doing business to fix these problems? No. It's a fact of the job.
> WTF? So instead of innocent until proven guilty...
Innocent until proven guilty really only applies as the -black and white- form in criminal cases. Since this is a civil suit, there are degrees of guilty and innocent.
What happens if you have an emergency? Like a truck full of guys with AK's or your wife having a baby. I mean, I should be able to speed if I have to.
>Bush said Iraq harbors terrorists, at first I didn't beleive him,
>but now I do. given how Iraqi's are blowing up their own people.
Actually, the majority of the insurgancy is made up of people from outside of Iraq. I think the citizens of Iraq just want this over.
I wish that every story on slashdot didn't end up in a political or religious debate...
>I know. How would we read slashdot during lunch?
Durning Lunch? Then what do you do during the rest of the day?
Global warming is just a bad name for this. It should from now on be called 'Climate Change' and leave it at that. We have Global Cooling and Global Warming going on at the same time which is partially counteracting each other with an obsurd balance. This balance is very delicate and may be tipped very easily.
The global warming, as you know is being sped up by the way we run our civilization. We are adding greenhouse gasses, which is not helping at all. Your example of "only a 1 degree Celsius over a _century_ increase." is a LOT of temp increase. A global 1C temp increase is not minute(especially over only a century).
At the same time, we have global cooling. This is still a touchy subject but it has merit. This is caused by our increased cloud cover, mostly over industrialized nations. The cloud cover is caused by particulate matter which causes water vapor to accumulate easier. Since this is only really over industrialized nations, we don't notice much of global warming. But if you look in certain parts of africa, where massive droughts are going on, you can definetly see the effects.
So overall, the average American or Britan will not notice much of this climate change, but if you look at the entire world, and all the data, it's quite convincing.
Actually, if you dig around, you'll find that those papers were not falsified. They were even confirmed by commanders from the base.
Yeah, the MicroCenter here in PA is no doubt the best computer store I have ever been in. They are large enough to keep the prices down, yet small enough to cater to the geeks. You can get pretty much any part you will ever need there.
This was the first thing I thought of when reading this. I don't think this will stop 'schoolyard' piracy but it will give them use of the DMCA. Only logical reason I can come to.
manmade polymer molecule called a dendrimer
Yeah, getting rid of cancer using something that may cause cancer... Sounds like self-propelling profit machines.