Much as I love the image of the police carting out Righthavens office furnature while some guys in suits quietly weep in the corner.. I imagine all the real assets are long gone, and the actual guys behind it all safely out of the way. Righthaven will go under.. and then re-emerge as a different LLC and keep right on trucking.
Not saying this isn't awesome, but lets not delude outselves to the nature of these trolls.
Very much not a lawyer, but I thought that was kind of the whole point of incorporating... turning the business into a seperate entity with it's own assets and protecting the owner.
Personally I think this sucks in situations like this. Righthaven will just die, and spring up as something else and keep right on going..
Well, there is a point at which an acedemic paper is so acedemic that it distinguishes itself as distinctly (or in my phrasing, very) acedemic. The meandering point was more relevant however. Reading it felt like watching a weatherman who won't just tell you what the damn temperature is gonna be.
On *nix, this tends to be the idea of the/tmp directory. A consistent place to put stuff that is temporary, and yes, many different strategies for keeping it clean.
The approach I use (on Gentoo, but this can work on any distro), is my/tmp file system is a ramdisk. In other words, it's effectively cleared out every time I reboot (which isn't often.. but I have a lot of ram and temp files are small..). This is also better if you use a SSD. Generally files in/tmp are safe to delete on reboot, at the very least I've never had a problem.
Also telling firefox (or whatever browser you prefer) to store all cache in ram is also a good way to prevent a buildup of all these silly files. If you restart your browser a lot, you can also set the cache directory to a ramdisk (similar to/tmp), however I've never found this necessary.
I couldn’t make it through the first paper. It came across as meandering and very academic. Didn’t try the second
Either way, of all the stuff that is currently broken, files are one of the few things that still mostly work. Yes would be nice to have more standardization and maybe metadata, but I don’t foresee it happening. And yes users sometimes get confused, but the generally figure stuff out.. and nothing described in the article seemed any more intuitive and would probably be just as miss-understood by users.
We’ll end up with 10 different standards, and no one will bother keeping metadata accurate on all their files. At best metadata is useful for a single person on a small subset of files where they find it useful. Everything else, the only metadata anyone is going to care about (and be bothered to enter) is title, which is served fairly effectively by the file name.
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Like everything else in health, there seems to be no concensus, so I can only go on my own personal experience..
Whether or not it made a serious difference in weight loss directly, I can't say.
The increase in energy though.. maybe placebo effect.. or maybe I falsely attributed the effects of the other stuff I was doing (excersize, eating a little better, trying to get more sleep)..
At the very least I think it's definitely hyped up more than it should be. I'll admit I bought into the hype at the time (everyone was saying it.. ). If it makes any difference, it's probably not as dramatic as it's been made out to be.
Interestingly though, while the thought of food used to turn me right off in the morning.. I've come to very much enjoy it now.
I'm not a fan of RMS, but that seemed reasonable enough.
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I’ll admit that I’m generally not a fan of RMS, but I will definitely agree he puts a lot of thought and effort into everything. It comes out in this list... he takes his viewpoint seriously and is very concerned not just with not being a hypocrite, but with not accidently encouraging the stuff he is against.. which I can respect.
And this list actually seems fairly reasonable. We've all got silly things that bug us way more than they should. Most of us just brush it off and not make a big deal, but if we had to deal with these things on a constant basis (RMS travels a lot) it would get pretty bad. I don't like eggs at all.. if I had to politely decline or choke them down to not be rude a few times a week.. I'd be putting it in writing too... NO EGGS DAMNIT!!.
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Yup!
When I made a serious effort to lose some poundage, this was something I fought against.. but once I got into it I noticed a definite difference (and also had a lot more energy).
(also cutting out the habitual daily pepsi was huge..)
Nothing to do with our ability to calculate.. has to do with the relevance (significance) of the numbers...
If you have a process that will take exactly 2 hours, 13 minutes.. I say "it's around 7pm right now, give or take" and you say "ok, this process will be finished at exactly 9:13.. the:13 bit is silly, because when I said "it's around 7pm" it could have meant "7:10" or "7:03", etc..
I can definitely get behind religion (and it's followers) being largely contradictory, and in general interpreting (or outright ignoring) to suit current needs.
I also largely agree that there is an amazing amount of stupidity surrounding Christmas, and not just from our religious friends. Parents probably have it worse, with a certain amount of pressure to compete with other parents of the child's peers for the sake of the child (which sounds shallow, but I remember being a kid.. there was always that kid who's parents just didn't have the money, and you always felt sorry for him). I suspect that's what drives a great deal of the overspending, parents becoming convinced that if they don't spend as much as Jimmy's parents did, they are somehow being bad parents and robbing their kids of something (which I can accept is probably at least somewhat driven by Christmas advertising).
you just can't escape one thing: it is not something they would come up with and do on their own.
I don't really know about that one. I definitely agree that it is being egged on heavily by those who profit from it.. but gift giving seems to pop up throughout history.
Having said that... you have to consider whether you believe consumerism and group-think is really giving us a world that is becoming more sane and more prosperous and more pleasant to live in. I would submit that it has done very much the opposite and is not even sustainable.
Probably not, but I have a hard time seeing it go any other way given basic human nature. We can't all cooperate for the greater good, it doesn't work, we just arn't built for it. You need some hierarchy where people fight to get to the top and a large number of people on the bottom get a shitty deal. Or at least something that is compatible with humanity.
The really strange thing about hypnosis, propaganda, and other forms of manipulation is quite shocking when you really consider it: those who are swayed by it will defend the implanted suggestion as if it were their own original idea. They will defend and sometimes even fight passionately for it. It's not coercion, it's conversion. Just like politicians, businessmen long ago learned that this is an easier and more effective way to get the results you want than overt force.
Out of my area on this one. I probably am one of the converted masses, but at the same time I'm a very happy drone. Good job, no money problems, decent looking future. Really what is the alternative. It's pretty damn hard to abstain from the system.. and I don't think it's going to bring any more happiness (unless you are extremely annoyed by being a drone, in which case the happiness of not being one maybe.. ).
If one is serious about change, I honestly (and this is somewhat depressing) think the faster route to illicit change is to let the system collapse and re-build itself. It's starting.. probably not in my lifetime.. but shit is falling apart.
I don't think they'd notice. You'd have to get a huge pile of people behind you, and even then... enough crazies to ballance it out.
Personally I have nothing against materialism though. Material possessions bring pleasure. Inner joy and love and friendship and all that is great, but so is a new computer. Gift giving in general is also pleasurable in itself.. it's fun to get gifts (suddenly having a possession that you hadn't planned on is fun.. ) and it can be fun to give them. To be perfectly honest, the fact that people are making a fortune off this and doing everything they can to amp it up doesn't bother me too much. And I avoid the insanity by doing my Christmas shopping well in advance.
They just haven't the fortitude to look past that and question its foundation. Otherwise they'd understand what horseshit it really is and they'd reject the programming.
Or they do understand it, and disagree with you. The old "if people wern't idiots and would only think about this stuff everyone would agree with me" argument is often applied to just about everything and is in most cases wrong. A large portion of people participating in Christmas are intelligent people, many of whome understand the modern reality of the holiday, yet participate anyway... because it's fun.
I can appreciate that some people have a great time going overboard and nothing wrong with that (well, except these guys who start in July and have ongoing feuds with their neighbours.. they are mostly crazy..), but yeah, I can't get into it.
Did you completely skip over the "Some people do have (perfectly legal) things they want to hide for whatever social or practical reasons." bit, which pretty much covers everything you listed... and was kind of the whole point of my post.
Come on man, my post was only two paragraphs! Not even big ones!
But I also work for a living, and live alone. Wouldn't take too much Colombo style work to figure out when I'm not home. They'd of course have to know I live alone.. but the same can be said about the credit card. For all a potential thief knows, my world champion martial artist wife (hey.. if I'm gonna pretend to have a wife..) maybe stays home while I'm at the game.
Knowing what I have in the house I guess might make a difference, but I don't think we have too many sophisticated thieves around here...
I think people do have a right to privacy. The fact that I'm not overly concerned with privacy (at least not on spending habits) doesn't mean I don't recognize that people have the right to say "I don't want you to know that" if for absolutely no other reason than they don't want you to.
Time and location I'd want to keep secret for largely practical reasons.
Specific restaurants I'd probably not care but I can see if someone was trying to avoid someone else how this may be an issue.
Other than that though, would be pretty damn boring. You'd find out I spend a lot on computer junk and play guitar.. I actually gave a short list later in this thread.
I don't know how well micropayments would really work.
I mean, it would work for larger known sites.. sure. It's the dozen sites you plough through while looking for something that are the issue.
I don't mind paying for good content (and I do..).. but I don't want to be paying for every site I quickly glance at either. Demo content doesn't work because the demo can often by very un-representative of what you get if you pay.
Unless you are planning on having it shipped to said famous actor at said park.. very few stores are going to send something to an address not matching the one on the card.
Location and time information, yes, I would want to keep off such a public site for the kind of practical reasons you have highlighted.
The fact that I eat at a place called Marios on a fairly regular basis.. not too sensitive but if I had a stalker I might be concerned...
The fact that I buy stuff from newegg, tigerdirect, NCIX, dell (ok, that is somewhat embarassing..), mouser, have a subscription to jamplay, safari books, and have a vps with slicehost.. I have a hard time seeing this hurting me.
Either way, it's a good point. Once visa starts grouping this data together, it becomes worrying who it will be distributed to. Realistically the chances of it getting anywhere that's gonna effect me directly (I'm too damn boring) is unlikely, but it's still a point..
Here in Canada, it actually made the problem worse.. because they distributed the list rather indiscriminately to everyone "so they'd know who not to call"... including people who not only ignored it but used it as a calling list.
If they had this, and signing up excluded you from using a large number of websites.. would you still sign up?
Not a snide comment but a serious question. In cases like this, you are effectively trading your privacy for access to content. If you decline to provide your private information, it would seem reasonable for them to deny you service. There is a good argument that much of the great content on the internet isn't plastered in ads... but there is still a lot of good ad-supported content out there.
Personally they could post a list of all my visa purchases on a public website with my name right at the top and I wouldn't care.. but I can still understand why other people get upset about this kinda stuff.
Some people do have (perfectly legal) things they want to hide for whatever social or practical reasons.
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Much as I love the image of the police carting out Righthavens office furnature while some guys in suits quietly weep in the corner.. I imagine all the real assets are long gone, and the actual guys behind it all safely out of the way. Righthaven will go under.. and then re-emerge as a different LLC and keep right on trucking.
Not saying this isn't awesome, but lets not delude outselves to the nature of these trolls.
Very much not a lawyer, but I thought that was kind of the whole point of incorporating... turning the business into a seperate entity with it's own assets and protecting the owner.
Personally I think this sucks in situations like this. Righthaven will just die, and spring up as something else and keep right on going..
Well, there is a point at which an acedemic paper is so acedemic that it distinguishes itself as distinctly (or in my phrasing, very) acedemic. The meandering point was more relevant however. Reading it felt like watching a weatherman who won't just tell you what the damn temperature is gonna be.
On *nix, this tends to be the idea of the /tmp directory. A consistent place to put stuff that is temporary, and yes, many different strategies for keeping it clean.
The approach I use (on Gentoo, but this can work on any distro), is my /tmp file system is a ramdisk. In other words, it's effectively cleared out every time I reboot (which isn't often.. but I have a lot of ram and temp files are small..). This is also better if you use a SSD. Generally files in /tmp are safe to delete on reboot, at the very least I've never had a problem.
Also telling firefox (or whatever browser you prefer) to store all cache in ram is also a good way to prevent a buildup of all these silly files. If you restart your browser a lot, you can also set the cache directory to a ramdisk (similar to /tmp), however I've never found this necessary.
I couldn’t make it through the first paper. It came across as meandering and very academic. Didn’t try the second
Either way, of all the stuff that is currently broken, files are one of the few things that still mostly work. Yes would be nice to have more standardization and maybe metadata, but I don’t foresee it happening. And yes users sometimes get confused, but the generally figure stuff out.. and nothing described in the article seemed any more intuitive and would probably be just as miss-understood by users.
We’ll end up with 10 different standards, and no one will bother keeping metadata accurate on all their files. At best metadata is useful for a single person on a small subset of files where they find it useful. Everything else, the only metadata anyone is going to care about (and be bothered to enter) is title, which is served fairly effectively by the file name.
Like everything else in health, there seems to be no concensus, so I can only go on my own personal experience ..
Whether or not it made a serious difference in weight loss directly, I can't say.
The increase in energy though.. maybe placebo effect.. or maybe I falsely attributed the effects of the other stuff I was doing (excersize, eating a little better, trying to get more sleep) ..
At the very least I think it's definitely hyped up more than it should be. I'll admit I bought into the hype at the time (everyone was saying it.. ). If it makes any difference, it's probably not as dramatic as it's been made out to be.
Interestingly though, while the thought of food used to turn me right off in the morning.. I've come to very much enjoy it now.
The brain is weird..
I'm not a fan of RMS, but that seemed reasonable enough.
I’ll admit that I’m generally not a fan of RMS, but I will definitely agree he puts a lot of thought and effort into everything. It comes out in this list... he takes his viewpoint seriously and is very concerned not just with not being a hypocrite, but with not accidently encouraging the stuff he is against.. which I can respect.
And this list actually seems fairly reasonable. We've all got silly things that bug us way more than they should. Most of us just brush it off and not make a big deal, but if we had to deal with these things on a constant basis (RMS travels a lot) it would get pretty bad. I don't like eggs at all.. if I had to politely decline or choke them down to not be rude a few times a week.. I'd be putting it in writing too... NO EGGS DAMNIT!!.
Yup!
When I made a serious effort to lose some poundage, this was something I fought against.. but once I got into it I noticed a definite difference (and also had a lot more energy).
(also cutting out the habitual daily pepsi was huge..)
Nothing to do with our ability to calculate.. has to do with the relevance (significance) of the numbers...
If you have a process that will take exactly 2 hours, 13 minutes .. I say "it's around 7pm right now, give or take" and you say "ok, this process will be finished at exactly 9:13 .. the :13 bit is silly, because when I said "it's around 7pm" it could have meant "7:10" or "7:03", etc ..
You raise interesting points.
I can definitely get behind religion (and it's followers) being largely contradictory, and in general interpreting (or outright ignoring) to suit current needs.
I also largely agree that there is an amazing amount of stupidity surrounding Christmas, and not just from our religious friends. Parents probably have it worse, with a certain amount of pressure to compete with other parents of the child's peers for the sake of the child (which sounds shallow, but I remember being a kid.. there was always that kid who's parents just didn't have the money, and you always felt sorry for him). I suspect that's what drives a great deal of the overspending, parents becoming convinced that if they don't spend as much as Jimmy's parents did, they are somehow being bad parents and robbing their kids of something (which I can accept is probably at least somewhat driven by Christmas advertising) .
you just can't escape one thing: it is not something they would come up with and do on their own.
I don't really know about that one. I definitely agree that it is being egged on heavily by those who profit from it.. but gift giving seems to pop up throughout history.
Having said that ... you have to consider whether you believe consumerism and group-think is really giving us a world that is becoming more sane and more prosperous and more pleasant to live in. I would submit that it has done very much the opposite and is not even sustainable.
Probably not, but I have a hard time seeing it go any other way given basic human nature. We can't all cooperate for the greater good, it doesn't work, we just arn't built for it. You need some hierarchy where people fight to get to the top and a large number of people on the bottom get a shitty deal. Or at least something that is compatible with humanity.
The really strange thing about hypnosis, propaganda, and other forms of manipulation is quite shocking when you really consider it: those who are swayed by it will defend the implanted suggestion as if it were their own original idea. They will defend and sometimes even fight passionately for it. It's not coercion, it's conversion. Just like politicians, businessmen long ago learned that this is an easier and more effective way to get the results you want than overt force.
Out of my area on this one. I probably am one of the converted masses, but at the same time I'm a very happy drone. Good job, no money problems, decent looking future. Really what is the alternative. It's pretty damn hard to abstain from the system.. and I don't think it's going to bring any more happiness (unless you are extremely annoyed by being a drone, in which case the happiness of not being one maybe.. ).
If one is serious about change, I honestly (and this is somewhat depressing) think the faster route to illicit change is to let the system collapse and re-build itself. It's starting.. probably not in my lifetime.. but shit is falling apart.
The one they would really notice is Christmas.
I don't think they'd notice. You'd have to get a huge pile of people behind you, and even then... enough crazies to ballance it out.
Personally I have nothing against materialism though. Material possessions bring pleasure. Inner joy and love and friendship and all that is great, but so is a new computer. Gift giving in general is also pleasurable in itself.. it's fun to get gifts (suddenly having a possession that you hadn't planned on is fun.. ) and it can be fun to give them. To be perfectly honest, the fact that people are making a fortune off this and doing everything they can to amp it up doesn't bother me too much. And I avoid the insanity by doing my Christmas shopping well in advance.
They just haven't the fortitude to look past that and question its foundation. Otherwise they'd understand what horseshit it really is and they'd reject the programming.
Or they do understand it, and disagree with you. The old "if people wern't idiots and would only think about this stuff everyone would agree with me" argument is often applied to just about everything and is in most cases wrong. A large portion of people participating in Christmas are intelligent people, many of whome understand the modern reality of the holiday, yet participate anyway... because it's fun.
Mostly my approach.. same as Christmas..
I can appreciate that some people have a great time going overboard and nothing wrong with that (well, except these guys who start in July and have ongoing feuds with their neighbours.. they are mostly crazy..), but yeah, I can't get into it.
Did you completely skip over the "Some people do have (perfectly legal) things they want to hide for whatever social or practical reasons." bit, which pretty much covers everything you listed... and was kind of the whole point of my post.
Come on man, my post was only two paragraphs! Not even big ones!
I guess..
But I also work for a living, and live alone. Wouldn't take too much Colombo style work to figure out when I'm not home. They'd of course have to know I live alone.. but the same can be said about the credit card. For all a potential thief knows, my world champion martial artist wife (hey.. if I'm gonna pretend to have a wife..) maybe stays home while I'm at the game.
Knowing what I have in the house I guess might make a difference, but I don't think we have too many sophisticated thieves around here...
I agree with this too.
I think people do have a right to privacy. The fact that I'm not overly concerned with privacy (at least not on spending habits) doesn't mean I don't recognize that people have the right to say "I don't want you to know that" if for absolutely no other reason than they don't want you to.
Time and location I'd want to keep secret for largely practical reasons.
Specific restaurants I'd probably not care but I can see if someone was trying to avoid someone else how this may be an issue.
Other than that though, would be pretty damn boring. You'd find out I spend a lot on computer junk and play guitar .. I actually gave a short list later in this thread.
I don't know how well micropayments would really work.
I mean, it would work for larger known sites.. sure. It's the dozen sites you plough through while looking for something that are the issue.
I don't mind paying for good content (and I do..) .. but I don't want to be paying for every site I quickly glance at either. Demo content doesn't work because the demo can often by very un-representative of what you get if you pay.
Unless you are planning on having it shipped to said famous actor at said park.. very few stores are going to send something to an address not matching the one on the card.
Location and time information, yes, I would want to keep off such a public site for the kind of practical reasons you have highlighted.
The fact that I eat at a place called Marios on a fairly regular basis.. not too sensitive but if I had a stalker I might be concerned...
The fact that I buy stuff from newegg, tigerdirect, NCIX, dell (ok, that is somewhat embarassing..), mouser, have a subscription to jamplay, safari books, and have a vps with slicehost .. I have a hard time seeing this hurting me.
Either way, it's a good point. Once visa starts grouping this data together, it becomes worrying who it will be distributed to. Realistically the chances of it getting anywhere that's gonna effect me directly (I'm too damn boring) is unlikely, but it's still a point..
You have to "activate" those by providing your name and address in order to use them at said online stores, so doesn't do much good.
Here in Canada, it actually made the problem worse.. because they distributed the list rather indiscriminately to everyone "so they'd know who not to call"... including people who not only ignored it but used it as a calling list.
If they had this, and signing up excluded you from using a large number of websites.. would you still sign up?
Not a snide comment but a serious question. In cases like this, you are effectively trading your privacy for access to content. If you decline to provide your private information, it would seem reasonable for them to deny you service. There is a good argument that much of the great content on the internet isn't plastered in ads... but there is still a lot of good ad-supported content out there.
In an envelope to some online store?
Biggest thing keeping me tied to visa is online shopping..
Personally they could post a list of all my visa purchases on a public website with my name right at the top and I wouldn't care.. but I can still understand why other people get upset about this kinda stuff.
Some people do have (perfectly legal) things they want to hide for whatever social or practical reasons.