Transaction safety is an evil practice of proprietary systems from the 1970's. It's not something we should be concerned with in the Web 2.0/Open Source world.
Actually if you want to organise a witch hunt it helps if you have a crime which is ubiquitous and easy to prove to organise your victims of. Software piracy is better in this regard than corruption.
Trolltech was a trojan horse though. Once they bought the company and hauled it back to Finland a load of Microsoft soldiers poured out and took over the company.
It means they are finally starting to figure out the technology in the Roswell saucer.
Withing a couple of years we'll having flying cars, interstellar spaceships, rayguns and a robot uprising. After that the aliens will come back and wipe us out for being a bunch of irresponsible, upstart monkeys.
Then they implemented my kernel as a blob, and there was nobody left to speak up for me because their systems were causing kernel panics because of all the blobs that nobody could debug.
I don't mean to worry you, but people have been debugging without source code for years. Of course they do it because people pay them, not as volunteers.
Career criminals believe that only idiots get caught, and since they're smarter than everyone else (thanks to the Dunning-Krueger effect), they won't be caught.
That paper is the best (+1 Informative), most insightful (+1 Insightful), most disturbing (+1 Troll) and funniest (+1 Funny) psychology paper I have ever read.
Environmental laws in China are much stricter that in the USA.
The ones that get enforced are much less strict - you can tell that by comparing air and water in any Chinese city compared to any US one. The difference being that in China the government can tell gullible Europeans that they have laws and then allow businesses to break them because the same people run the businesses as the government.
In most countries this would lead to angry coverage or demonstrations but in China the elite can censor the press and lock up demonstators.
They still need to be punished for that. I think we should put an extra import tax on everything American. That should give a more fair playing field too.
The US would just retaliate with tariffs and you'd have a 30's style spiral into protection and depression.
So you are saying that jobs are fleeing from the US to China because the US is becoming "redistributionist"?
You might want to investigate the political and economic system of China before you hold them up as an alternative to Obama's "socialism".
China these days is nothing like socialism. In fact it's a dictatorship of the very rich - The Communist Party has absolute control of politics, the judiciary and the press. Rich people use this to get rich and crush anyone who gets in the way.
This is actually the 'old style' socialism you are complaining about. State of the art socialism is about empowering individuals and helping them become productive members of society, wherever you can.
You should invent a catchy name for this 'new style' socialism that doesn't have any downsides at all.
May I suggest 'Socialism of the 21st century'
Denmark has a program called Flexicurity which is a popular example of this. Under that system, once you lose your job, you can get unemployment benefits as long as you are actively looking for another job. Or, if you prefer, you can go back to school, get some new skills, during which time the government will also help you out. This has worked out really well for the Danes: it allows companies to easily fire people they don't need, and allows people who are out of a job to easily find another one (or retrain for another one). It is a flexible, secure workforce.
Tax revenues in Denmark are 50% of GDP, as compared to 28% if GDP in the United States.
Don't get me wrong - a lot of things in Scandinavia are done well. Still pretending that their model doesn't have a downside is dishonest. It also seems unlikely that Americans will support doubling the size of the already massive Federal Government, which is really what the tax revenue figures are measuring. Finally even if they did it's not clear that even if they did the US Federal government would perform as well as a Scandinavian one.
I suspect that Scandinavian social models only work in small countries with a cultural homogenous population. This guy from Denmark agrees
Traditionally, Denmark has not regarded itself as a country of immigration. This is due to its relatively homogeneous population of 5.4 million, a strong sense of national identity, and the fact that, until recently, immigration flows were moderate. Most immigrants in Denmark came from other Nordic or Western countries, and the country experienced more emigration than immigration.
In addition, the welfare state was designed on the basis of a culturally similar citizenry, and the Danish economy has successfully adapted to a variety of international challenges by taking advantage of institutions built around a powerful sense of civic solidarity.
Since the end of the guest-worker program was in the early 1970s, however, a growing numbers of immigrants, mainly refugees and family dependents of refugees and former "guest workers," has challenged the status quo.
Particularly the generous welfare system works because only a small minority choose to free load on the system by living on benefits - if that minority is small enough they can be subsidised by the rest. That's not going to be the case if you extended the same model to a larger, more diverse country like the US, or even if you allow people in who don't fit in culturally as has happened with immigrants to Denmark.
Note the problem here is not with the immigrants per se. I knew a guy from Armenia whose family moved first to Sweden and then to the US. His mother said that "when you walk down the street in Sweden people looked at you like you were a monkey. In America Armenians are regarded as being white and that is all that matters". I suspect this is partly an economic issue. Most recent immigrants to Scandinavia end up on welfare and stay there. In the US welfare is less generous and so they have to work. Still that affects people's perception of immigrants being hardworking.
Essentially the Scandinavian welfare system is creating social discord. It's not hard to imagine that Americans would behave similarly if they paid mu
The alternative is for us to BLOCK everyone that blocks our ads - a lot of sites are doing that now. We don't plan on doing it though.
How would you do this?
One option would be to put something on the server that only lets IP addresses that download from ads.pcper.com dowload the article, the others would get redirected to a nag site. Or you could let them download a bit and then throttle the connection speed unless they download from ads.pcper.com.
Or what about forcing people to answer questions based on the adverts in return for reading the article? Hmm, designing something like this would be good fun and it would make me notorious on the internets.
I've seen shame text - someone on b3ta had a site that put text behind the adverts - if you block them you get to read text saying "thanks for using AdBlock, now my family won't have food to eat this month". Reddit does this too - you see banners that say "thanks for not using AdBlock". Personally I don't bother to block ads these days because the pages load almost instantly on my internet connection even with them.
Someone in Taiwan who's familiar with such things said criminal accusations are inherently political. Pretty much all politicians are corrupt and The Party controls the courts. Best way to get rid of a rival is to denounce them for corruption. Interestingly it's not the verdict of the court case that shows they are finished, the fact that the case was not blocked is enough. Actually if you can even read about a potential case you know they are finished, because if they had a chance the coverage would have been censored. E.g. Li Peng
As the findings of the investigation leaked to the general Chinese public, the Chinese government took an unexpected stand. As victims (including some influential social citizens of Beijing) of New Nation Great Co. angrily demonstrated outside the Zhongnanhai more than a dozen times, hold up the banners that claim "Li Peng return the money to us from your son", none of the demonstrations were dispersed and none of the demonstrators were arrested. Each time, the Chinese government only sent police to watch the demonstrators and did nothing else. As the information of the investigation was leaked and circulated on the Internet, it was not immediately censored; instead, it was allowed to circulate for quite some time before the eventual ban, and none of the domestic Chinese Web sites that published the info were shut down by the Chinese governmental censorship. However, the Chinese government did not respond to the victims' and public demands either. China analysts postulate such an unusual move by the Chinese government served several purposes, including pressuring Li Peng to retire from his post of chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress when he reached the age limit, as well as putting a distance between Li Peng and the government itself for the future leadership. Whatever the reason, the investigation results concerning corruption charges of Li Peng's family that leaked to the public, was tolerated by the Chinese government for a short period of time, and certainly made Li Peng and his family become more unpopular than ever among the general Chinese populace.
I normally hate when people comment about prices, but come on... $80 or $100 for a mouse? I guess I'm a hypocrite, but that seems ridiculous. I'll be sticking with my regular laser mouse that works on *almost* any surface...
"Well Sir the majority of our less demanding customers are quite happy with a $5 mouse with pretty flashing lights. The more discerning ones want more.
Still if a $5 mouse is enough for you, Sir, I guess that's ok."
What's Logitech going to come out with next, a raman scattering microscopy, mid-infrared quantum cascade utilizing wireless mouse, for those times when you simply must do your mousing on an atomically pure, sub-angstrom microroughness telescope mirror in a class 1 cleanroom? cmon now.
Membership of the Symbian Foundation is available to organizations meeting the following criteria 1. Must be an incorporated company or organization. Individuals can not become a Member. 2. A parent company should sign on behalf of all controlled entities and the applicant company should not have a parent company. If there are reasonable reasons why a parent company may not become a member, then the parent company must co-sign the Deed of Adherence in conjunction with the applicant company. 3. Successful submission of the Membership Application Form. 4. Receipt by Symbian Foundation of Signed of the Deed of Adherence. 5. Members also wishing to contribute source code or other artefacts are further required to sign and return the Member Contribution Agreement. 6. Approval of membership by the Symbian Foundation. 7. Receipt of payment of the annual membership fee of $1500 USD + 15% VAT (where applicable).
Well if they want to open source it, why don't they just open source it? Then you could say "They HAVE open sourced it", and I'd agree. What's irritating is making a pseudo commitment to open source at some point in the future (which they could still welch on) and trying to claim the credit for that now.
Open source or not it still blows though, both for users and developers. And now that both Sony Ericsson and Nokia are distancing themselves from it, I'd predict it won't be so common in ten years time. Which is why they're trying to put some open source gloss onto it without actually following through.
Uhm...don't forget that Nokia LGPL-ed Qt, and recently is open sourcing Symbian.
So while of course there are also practical reasons for what Nokia is doing, don't, FFS DON'T, paint their actions like they're sleazy bastards that are conspiring against you!
This "is open sourcing Symbian" meme is irritating. Can you download the full source code now? No? Then it's not open source.
Plus Symbian's C++ API blows for development. They're just trying to keep the dead horse alive by talking about open sourcing it sometime in the distant future.
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Heretic!
Transaction safety is an evil practice of proprietary systems from the 1970's. It's not something we should be concerned with in the Web 2.0/Open Source world.
Actually if you want to organise a witch hunt it helps if you have a crime which is ubiquitous and easy to prove to organise your victims of. Software piracy is better in this regard than corruption.
I think he just accidentally out one word. We hacker genii often use language in a quirky way you neurotypicals don't grokq.
Trolltech was a trojan horse though. Once they bought the company and hauled it back to Finland a load of Microsoft soldiers poured out and took over the company.
It means they are finally starting to figure out the technology in the Roswell saucer.
Withing a couple of years we'll having flying cars, interstellar spaceships, rayguns and a robot uprising. After that the aliens will come back and wipe us out for being a bunch of irresponsible, upstart monkeys.
Still it'll be quite a ride.
Then they implemented my kernel as a blob, and there was nobody left to speak up for me because their systems were causing kernel panics because of all the blobs that nobody could debug.
I don't mean to worry you, but people have been debugging without source code for years. Of course they do it because people pay them, not as volunteers.
Career criminals believe that only idiots get caught, and since they're smarter than everyone else (thanks to the Dunning-Krueger effect), they won't be caught.
That paper is the best (+1 Informative), most insightful (+1 Insightful), most disturbing (+1 Troll) and funniest (+1 Funny) psychology paper I have ever read.
http://www.apa.org/journals/features/psp7761121.pdf
Environmental laws in China are much stricter that in the USA.
The ones that get enforced are much less strict - you can tell that by comparing air and water in any Chinese city compared to any US one. The difference being that in China the government can tell gullible Europeans that they have laws and then allow businesses to break them because the same people run the businesses as the government.
In most countries this would lead to angry coverage or demonstrations but in China the elite can censor the press and lock up demonstators.
They still need to be punished for that. I think we should put an extra import tax on everything American. That should give a more fair playing field too.
The US would just retaliate with tariffs and you'd have a 30's style spiral into protection and depression.
So you are saying that jobs are fleeing from the US to China because the US is becoming "redistributionist"?
You might want to investigate the political and economic system of China before you hold them up as an alternative to Obama's "socialism".
China these days is nothing like socialism. In fact it's a dictatorship of the very rich - The Communist Party has absolute control of politics, the judiciary and the press. Rich people use this to get rich and crush anyone who gets in the way.
This is actually the 'old style' socialism you are complaining about. State of the art socialism is about empowering individuals and helping them become productive members of society, wherever you can.
You should invent a catchy name for this 'new style' socialism that doesn't have any downsides at all.
May I suggest 'Socialism of the 21st century'
Denmark has a program called Flexicurity which is a popular example of this. Under that system, once you lose your job, you can get unemployment benefits as long as you are actively looking for another job. Or, if you prefer, you can go back to school, get some new skills, during which time the government will also help you out. This has worked out really well for the Danes: it allows companies to easily fire people they don't need, and allows people who are out of a job to easily find another one (or retrain for another one). It is a flexible, secure workforce.
Tax revenues in Denmark are 50% of GDP, as compared to 28% if GDP in the United States.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_revenue_as_percentage_of_GDP
Don't get me wrong - a lot of things in Scandinavia are done well. Still pretending that their model doesn't have a downside is dishonest. It also seems unlikely that Americans will support doubling the size of the already massive Federal Government, which is really what the tax revenue figures are measuring. Finally even if they did it's not clear that even if they did the US Federal government would perform as well as a Scandinavian one.
I suspect that Scandinavian social models only work in small countries with a cultural homogenous population. This guy from Denmark agrees
http://www.migrationinformation.org/Profiles/display.cfm?ID=485
Traditionally, Denmark has not regarded itself as a country of immigration. This is due to its relatively homogeneous population of 5.4 million, a strong sense of national identity, and the fact that, until recently, immigration flows were moderate. Most immigrants in Denmark came from other Nordic or Western countries, and the country experienced more emigration than immigration.
In addition, the welfare state was designed on the basis of a culturally similar citizenry, and the Danish economy has successfully adapted to a variety of international challenges by taking advantage of institutions built around a powerful sense of civic solidarity.
Since the end of the guest-worker program was in the early 1970s, however, a growing numbers of immigrants, mainly refugees and family dependents of refugees and former "guest workers," has challenged the status quo.
Particularly the generous welfare system works because only a small minority choose to free load on the system by living on benefits - if that minority is small enough they can be subsidised by the rest. That's not going to be the case if you extended the same model to a larger, more diverse country like the US, or even if you allow people in who don't fit in culturally as has happened with immigrants to Denmark.
Note the problem here is not with the immigrants per se. I knew a guy from Armenia whose family moved first to Sweden and then to the US. His mother said that "when you walk down the street in Sweden people looked at you like you were a monkey. In America Armenians are regarded as being white and that is all that matters". I suspect this is partly an economic issue. Most recent immigrants to Scandinavia end up on welfare and stay there. In the US welfare is less generous and so they have to work. Still that affects people's perception of immigrants being hardworking.
Essentially the Scandinavian welfare system is creating social discord. It's not hard to imagine that Americans would behave similarly if they paid mu
The alternative is for us to BLOCK everyone that blocks our ads - a lot of sites are doing that now. We don't plan on doing it though.
How would you do this?
One option would be to put something on the server that only lets IP addresses that download from ads.pcper.com dowload the article, the others would get redirected to a nag site. Or you could let them download a bit and then throttle the connection speed unless they download from ads.pcper.com.
Or what about forcing people to answer questions based on the adverts in return for reading the article? Hmm, designing something like this would be good fun and it would make me notorious on the internets.
I've seen shame text - someone on b3ta had a site that put text behind the adverts - if you block them you get to read text saying "thanks for using AdBlock, now my family won't have food to eat this month". Reddit does this too - you see banners that say "thanks for not using AdBlock". Personally I don't bother to block ads these days because the pages load almost instantly on my internet connection even with them.
Someone should write a Firefox extension that depaginates articles. I.e. concatenates page n onto the end of page n-1.
Both the US and Germany meet his minimum standards for being considered Open Societies?
So let me get this straight. The largest piracy case ever in the largest country in the world with the most piracy in the world included 4 people?
Yes and three Tibetan activists and two Uigher ones. What are you trying to imply?
(I was going to make a Soviet Russia/Communist China joke here but I decided not to)
In Soviet Taiwan, Windows steals you!
Someone in Taiwan who's familiar with such things said criminal accusations are inherently political. Pretty much all politicians are corrupt and The Party controls the courts. Best way to get rid of a rival is to denounce them for corruption. Interestingly it's not the verdict of the court case that shows they are finished, the fact that the case was not blocked is enough. Actually if you can even read about a potential case you know they are finished, because if they had a chance the coverage would have been censored. E.g. Li Peng
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Peng#Alleged_Corruption
As the findings of the investigation leaked to the general Chinese public, the Chinese government took an unexpected stand. As victims (including some influential social citizens of Beijing) of New Nation Great Co. angrily demonstrated outside the Zhongnanhai more than a dozen times, hold up the banners that claim "Li Peng return the money to us from your son", none of the demonstrations were dispersed and none of the demonstrators were arrested. Each time, the Chinese government only sent police to watch the demonstrators and did nothing else. As the information of the investigation was leaked and circulated on the Internet, it was not immediately censored; instead, it was allowed to circulate for quite some time before the eventual ban, and none of the domestic Chinese Web sites that published the info were shut down by the Chinese governmental censorship. However, the Chinese government did not respond to the victims' and public demands either. China analysts postulate such an unusual move by the Chinese government served several purposes, including pressuring Li Peng to retire from his post of chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress when he reached the age limit, as well as putting a distance between Li Peng and the government itself for the future leadership. Whatever the reason, the investigation results concerning corruption charges of Li Peng's family that leaked to the public, was tolerated by the Chinese government for a short period of time, and certainly made Li Peng and his family become more unpopular than ever among the general Chinese populace.
Don't panic, someone will launch a $500 four laser mouse that will work on it in a few years.
I normally hate when people comment about prices, but come on... $80 or $100 for a mouse? I guess I'm a hypocrite, but that seems ridiculous. I'll be sticking with my regular laser mouse that works on *almost* any surface...
"Well Sir the majority of our less demanding customers are quite happy with a $5 mouse with pretty flashing lights. The more discerning ones want more.
Still if a $5 mouse is enough for you, Sir, I guess that's ok."
What's Logitech going to come out with next, a raman scattering microscopy, mid-infrared quantum cascade utilizing wireless mouse, for those times when you simply must do your mousing on an atomically pure, sub-angstrom microroughness telescope mirror in a class 1 cleanroom? cmon now.
Do any of those use THREE LASERS?
Actually in this case it means you need to have a company, sign a bunch of documents and pay $1500 per year
http://developer.symbian.com/wiki/display/pub/Symbian+Foundation+Membership+Guide#SymbianFoundationMembershipGuide-Membershipeligibilitycriteria
Membership of the Symbian Foundation is available to organizations meeting the following criteria
1. Must be an incorporated company or organization. Individuals can not become a Member.
2. A parent company should sign on behalf of all controlled entities and the applicant company should not have a parent company. If there are reasonable reasons why a parent company may not become a member, then the parent company must co-sign the Deed of Adherence in conjunction with the applicant company.
3. Successful submission of the Membership Application Form.
4. Receipt by Symbian Foundation of Signed of the Deed of Adherence.
5. Members also wishing to contribute source code or other artefacts are further required to sign and return the Member Contribution Agreement.
6. Approval of membership by the Symbian Foundation.
7. Receipt of payment of the annual membership fee of $1500 USD + 15% VAT (where applicable).
Well if they want to open source it, why don't they just open source it? Then you could say "They HAVE open sourced it", and I'd agree. What's irritating is making a pseudo commitment to open source at some point in the future (which they could still welch on) and trying to claim the credit for that now.
Open source or not it still blows though, both for users and developers. And now that both Sony Ericsson and Nokia are distancing themselves from it, I'd predict it won't be so common in ten years time. Which is why they're trying to put some open source gloss onto it without actually following through.
Uhm...don't forget that Nokia LGPL-ed Qt, and recently is open sourcing Symbian.
So while of course there are also practical reasons for what Nokia is doing, don't, FFS DON'T, paint their actions like they're sleazy bastards that are conspiring against you!
This "is open sourcing Symbian" meme is irritating. Can you download the full source code now? No? Then it's not open source.
Plus Symbian's C++ API blows for development. They're just trying to keep the dead horse alive by talking about open sourcing it sometime in the distant future.
How can you justify that cost? For $800, you could buy a netbook, a basic smart phone, plus hookers and blow.
Thanks to the Communists in Congress we can only rent hookers now.
I wonder what the name means in Chinese.
Hsiao Mei (Wade Giles a deprecated but still common Romanization method in Taiwan) = Xiao3 Mei4 in Hanyu Pinyin = little sister.
http://www.mandarintools.com/cgi-bin/charlook.pl?searchmode=standard&printtype=utf8&chartype=all&ordering=frequency&display=char&display=radstroke&display=strokes&display=pinyin&display=english&display=variants&display=unicode&english=&pinyin=&cantonese=&enctype=utf8&whatchar=%E5%B0%8F%E5%A6%B9&searchchar=Search+by+Character&lowerb=&upperb=
Well I understood you were making a joke about the innumeracy of liberal arts types. I thought it was funny.
Ignore these peons.