"This is a first. No one has ever explored our moon in the 3-D interactive environment that World Wind creates,"
Perhaps it is because in all previous versions that myself and others ran that World Wind crashed?
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People make equivocations that GPL, Open Source, and public domain are precisely the same thing; and assume that is all FREE-as-in-beer.
If I had a brilliant idea on how to make money off of dumb people
"giving" their software away for free and not give them I cut
of course I would! Its kind of like a modern day Robin Hood thing.
If you want to see the GPL be an effective means of licensing, there
will need to be more legal strongarming....otherwise all of this complaining will be seen roughly the same as a prostitute claiming
rape. (Sure, it could happen, but who cares?)
As a related note, I believe fully that the open sourcing of software has brought its value down, and along with it the value of the labor taken to create it (outsourcing to India for example). "Joe Sixpack" wants free software no matter how he can get it, if he can find it for free. "Joe Sixpack Linux Convert" will take software and have no guilt for the piracy. The results are the same; both Joes are cheap bastards, but the feelings are slightly different.
Why should anyone pay for software when there are people out there who
just want to give it away? Why should people pay for labor when the
results are FREE? The answers to these questions are why IT and software professionals are currently in a race to the bottom.
If we string together some dead bacteria and produce humidity sensor it's a good thing, but if we come up with ANY novel applications for discarded human embryos and dead fetuses it's a bad thing.
Can't we just throw all these obsolete and silly morals out the window, replace a baby's brain with an embedded single board computer, run Linux on, and mod the hell out of it?
The book may reveal new math without trig, but
let me reveal to you the New Geography: There is the USA, and there is Everywhere Else. Wales, Sydney, London...they're all in the Everywhere Else regions.
The problem here is that the casinos lump bots in with cheating....and the fact is that so long as there isn't any collusion going on...the bots are only as good as the algorithm the geek programmed it can come up with....a simple state machine with I/O.
WinHoldem and other bots with collusion options give fair-playing bots a bad name.
The rationale however is wrong. When Joe Sex Offender (who didn't get busted brings) in his family to watch pr0n on the internet in their
public library, it *still* shouldn't be the librarian's fault.
The judgment call assumes that people aren't
a) stupid b) sex offenders c) living in the Deep South.
The joy of hacking is in discovery, whether or not you are an asshole is neither here nor there. I think you really just don't "get it". There is a complete rush in obtaining "forbidden knowledge" that has been a core value in human history. There are multibillion dollar industries in place that are profiteering for just that reason. Check your inbox if you need proof: Need to be a better lover? How bout hidden transdimensional communication device secrets?
You may have smoked a bit of the ivory in the tower at your university, but you lack the understanding of discovery of science and explanation. This guy wanted answers; Dumb dumbs left weak passwords, which is essentially a weak form of security which is approximate to:
Open door == open invitation
You are putting on elitist airs by saying that you've never bothered to learn "such things", as if they were beneath you, but if you would pick up an issue of Midnight Engineering, or 2600 now and again and stop waving around your Golden Rule morals you could still potentially save yourself from a really dull life. CS should have taught you to learn how to learn and how to learn by experimentation. Every industry has a Wild West type period, until some dullards wave around their morals, and start imposing silly rules and regulations.
The fact of the matter is that you are equivocating to his act as if it were like breaking into someone's car is way off (although it is mildly amusing to liken the military to a frat boy). This guy wasn't trying to damage, nor harm the information that he was trying to view. A lot of people have become completely paranoid about security since 9/11, and the fact of the matter is that people like you need to get your heads out of your asses to know the difference between what an exploratory prank is, as opposed to a crime of malicious intent.
Now, if you believe that covering up UFOs are a matter of national security (and this would in fact be a treasonous crime) that any knowledge he may have come across would be true or dangerous if leaked (and worthy of even 2 years jailtime), he has in fact proven that UFOs exist, and I for one, welcome our new grey skinned overlords (as soon as our outsourcing Indian overlords are done with us unless they are pointing those vaporizing ray beams at us).
I wouldn't have banked on Windows. As an owner of the Korg Oasys PCI card, I had hoped and waited and waited for a Windows XP driver that was never ever made. The newest thing I could get it to work on was with Windows ME, so I assume that they
just gave up on MS altogether and figured that Linux is more like MacOS these days and that would be their new platform....
I know there are a lot of people out there into
the whole preservation-of-life thing, so I'm going
to pitch an idea here.
For the longest time we've had unmanned air vehicles, and airplanes autonomously taking off
and landing.
Instead of having our own soldiers getting blown up themselves up in Humvees and on foot with mindfields and heralding better prosthetics, why not retrofit some Asimos with killing capabilities and send them instead of human soldiers?
So you want to bust out the 5 letter S-word, huh?
Let me tell you what REALLY is stupid:
1) Internet Usage Policies.
They are typically mandated by HR departments for employees to sign so that that companies can legally cover their asses and give free reign to fire employees. Why are they stupid? Because they are just EULAs, they are usually just either signed/clicked on to get rid of whatever is currently in your way to do something.
The fact is that EULAs and Internet Usage policies share the similar fact that they are designed to take away rights from the individuals. Employers attempt to take away as many rights as they can as a concession in
exchange for a salary.
2) The fact that IT and software professionals are treated like wage slaves in hard economic times and that ignorant twits like Tom Hayes are in power positions.
Several years ago, you had to roll out the red carpets and give great job perks to IT and software professionals just to keep them around.
They were gods among men; and that is the way it should still be.
Doing things like cracking keys, searching for aliens, and protein calculations are what separates geeks from idiots, burning the midnight oil for whatever crazy ventures swarm inside your head is the moral motivator that keeps brilliant people from going nuts and killing everybody.
Anyone who has to go through jedi math and CS courses deserves to be treated with respect and decency.
We are all going under the assumption that he got fired sans warning, and if that assumption is true, his treatment was unjust and unwarranted.
You can take your play-nice-because-corporate-practices-and-Crossing -the-Chasm-says-so rules and shove them. They cripple men into emasculated rabbits.
Microsoft did indeed have anticompetitive practices that they conceded to by paying out for
the lawsuit. However, it is not the sole reason.
(NetPositive still has the least number of exploits around.;))
You cannot blame Microsoft for the fact that as a company they "shifted focus" and sent out press releases stating so. Having a business is a gamble. Microsoft took the blame because they were the biggest monopolist around.
It could have just as easily been Apple that the lawsuit was targeted at.
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"This is a first. No one has ever explored our moon in the 3-D interactive environment that World Wind creates," Perhaps it is because in all previous versions that myself and others ran that World Wind crashed?
Dips? Isn't that *drips*?
People make equivocations that GPL, Open Source, and public domain are precisely the same thing; and assume that is all FREE-as-in-beer.
If I had a brilliant idea on how to make money off of dumb people "giving" their software away for free and not give them I cut of course I would! Its kind of like a modern day Robin Hood thing.
If you want to see the GPL be an effective means of licensing, there will need to be more legal strongarming....otherwise all of this complaining will be seen roughly the same as a prostitute claiming rape. (Sure, it could happen, but who cares?)
As a related note, I believe fully that the open sourcing of software has brought its value down, and along with it the value of the labor taken to create it (outsourcing to India for example). "Joe Sixpack" wants free software no matter how he can get it, if he can find it for free. "Joe Sixpack Linux Convert" will take software and have no guilt for the piracy. The results are the same; both Joes are cheap bastards, but the feelings are slightly different.
Why should anyone pay for software when there are people out there who just want to give it away? Why should people pay for labor when the results are FREE? The answers to these questions are why IT and software professionals are currently in a race to the bottom.
In the why-stop-there-dept....
If we string together some dead bacteria and produce humidity sensor it's a good thing, but if we come up with ANY novel applications for discarded human embryos and dead fetuses it's a bad thing.
Can't we just throw all these obsolete and silly morals out the window, replace a baby's brain with an embedded single board computer, run Linux on, and mod the hell out of it?
The book may reveal new math without trig, but let me reveal to you the New Geography: There is the USA, and there is Everywhere Else. Wales, Sydney, London...they're all in the Everywhere Else regions.
Your geography simplified.
.. So long as he doesn't kill himself geocaching
at that site his find might be worthwhile!
The problem here is that the casinos lump bots in with cheating....and the fact is that so long as there isn't any collusion going on...the bots are only as good as the algorithm the geek programmed it can come up with....a simple state machine with I/O.
WinHoldem and other bots with collusion options give fair-playing bots a bad name.
I, for one, am waiting for the A Developer's Notebook edition.
It's going to be much cooler than Bioengineering Hacks, Bioengineering Cookbook, and Bioengineering In a Nutshell.
Did I steal your job ... and now your iPod?
The rationale however is wrong. When Joe Sex Offender (who didn't get busted brings) in his family to watch pr0n on the internet in their public library, it *still* shouldn't be the librarian's fault.
The judgment call assumes that people aren't a) stupid b) sex offenders c) living in the Deep South.
The joy of hacking is in discovery, whether or not you are an asshole is neither here nor there. I think you really just don't "get it". There is a complete rush in obtaining "forbidden knowledge" that has been a core value in human history. There are multibillion dollar industries in place that are profiteering for just that reason. Check your inbox if you need proof: Need to be a better lover? How bout hidden transdimensional communication device secrets?
You may have smoked a bit of the ivory in the tower at your university, but you lack the
understanding of discovery of science and explanation. This guy wanted answers; Dumb dumbs left weak passwords, which is essentially a weak form of security which is approximate to:
Open door == open invitation
You are putting on elitist airs by saying that
you've never bothered to learn "such things", as if they were beneath you, but if you would pick up an issue of Midnight Engineering, or 2600 now and again and stop waving around your Golden Rule morals you could still potentially save yourself from a really dull life. CS should have
taught you to learn how to learn and how to learn by experimentation. Every industry has a Wild West type period, until some dullards wave around their morals, and start imposing silly rules and regulations.
The fact of the matter is that you are equivocating to his act as if it were like breaking into someone's car is way off (although it is mildly amusing to liken the military to a frat boy). This guy wasn't trying to damage, nor harm the information that he was trying to view. A lot of people have become completely paranoid about security since 9/11, and the fact of the matter is that people like you need to get your heads out of your asses to know the difference between what an exploratory prank is, as opposed to a crime of malicious intent.
Now, if you believe that covering up UFOs are a matter of national security (and this would in fact be a treasonous crime) that any knowledge he may have come across would be true or dangerous if leaked (and worthy of even 2 years jailtime), he has in fact proven that UFOs exist, and I for one, welcome our new grey skinned overlords (as soon as our outsourcing Indian overlords are done with us unless they are pointing those vaporizing ray beams at us).
Is there any reason Nigeria was omitted from
this list, or are they the remaining ~%19?
Now IBM can rehire some of the 13000 workers it just laid off.
Can Microsoft keep up with the quality of Claria's 'Anti-Spyware Commitment'?
"Because the e-Scrabble URL is of no use to you, it should be transferred to Hasbro."
Why didn't they just write:
"All your e-Scrabble are belong to us?"
Of course there's a way to make a profit on it.
Put a casino up there!
I wouldn't have banked on Windows. As an owner of the Korg Oasys PCI card, I had hoped and waited and waited for a Windows XP driver that was never ever made. The newest thing I could get it to work on was with Windows ME, so I assume that they just gave up on MS altogether and figured that Linux is more like MacOS these days and that would be their new platform....
I know there are a lot of people out there into the whole preservation-of-life thing, so I'm going to pitch an idea here.
For the longest time we've had unmanned air vehicles, and airplanes autonomously taking off and landing.
Instead of having our own soldiers getting blown up themselves up in Humvees and on foot with mindfields and heralding better prosthetics, why not retrofit some Asimos with killing capabilities and send them instead of human soldiers?
http://www.vidovic.org/
If that's a pic of your family its got "serial killers" written all over it.
Revenge is a part of human nature. We cover up our humanity with pacifistic laws.
... but how do you stop random object selection of objects by passersby who want to do shadow puppet shows?
I just downloaded the LoC.ps.tgz from the local WPI Internet2 tap using gnutella and my printer just ran out of ink....
So you want to bust out the 5 letter S-word, huh? Let me tell you what REALLY is stupid:
1) Internet Usage Policies.
They are typically mandated by HR departments for employees to sign so that that companies can legally cover their asses and give free reign to fire employees. Why are they stupid? Because they are just EULAs, they are usually just either signed/clicked on to get rid of whatever is currently in your way to do something.
The fact is that EULAs and Internet Usage policies share the similar fact that they are designed to take away rights from the individuals. Employers attempt to take away as many rights as they can as a concession in exchange for a salary.
2) The fact that IT and software professionals are treated like wage slaves in hard economic times and that ignorant twits like Tom Hayes are in power positions.
Several years ago, you had to roll out the red carpets and give great job perks to IT and software professionals just to keep them around. They were gods among men; and that is the way it should still be.
Doing things like cracking keys, searching for aliens, and protein calculations are what separates geeks from idiots, burning the midnight oil for whatever crazy ventures swarm inside your head is the moral motivator that keeps brilliant people from going nuts and killing everybody.
Anyone who has to go through jedi math and CS courses deserves to be treated with respect and decency.
We are all going under the assumption that he got fired sans warning, and if that assumption is true, his treatment was unjust and unwarranted. You can take your play-nice-because-corporate-practices-and-Crossing -the-Chasm-says-so rules and shove them. They cripple men into emasculated rabbits.
Check out this paper on "Image Matching Using A Criminal Database":
http://mailweb.udlap.mx/~ingrid/caminoreal/Bobbie. pdf
Microsoft did indeed have anticompetitive practices that they conceded to by paying out for the lawsuit. However, it is not the sole reason. (NetPositive still has the least number of exploits around. ;))
You cannot blame Microsoft for the fact that as a company they "shifted focus" and sent out press releases stating so. Having a business is a gamble. Microsoft took the blame because they were the biggest monopolist around.
It could have just as easily been Apple that the lawsuit was targeted at.