We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.
Not really. The Archos 605 case is entirely different. Here, we're talking about a wireless router that (presumably) is locked down by Verizon to prevent unauthorized modification by Verizon's customers, for purposes of keeping Verizon's network secure, right?
Yes, but isn't it true that most of the stuff is actually built by private contractors? I mean, NASA does the overall project management of building something like Landsat or Orion, and, yes, they actually launch it, but everything else is already built by private contractors, right?
So what would be the difference if a private contractor picked up the remaining two pieces -- project management and launching/operation?
Being stuck on a plane for 4 hours is a good time to catch up on some reading or to bring a laptop and screw around with some code you've been writing or to write a long letter to a friend you haven't seen in ages or to meditate or maybe even to just take a nap (reommended for red-eye flights.)
OTOH, I agree that listening to people yap on the phone can be irritating -- OTOH, on a 4 hour flight, you won't have to listen to someone yapping too loudly anway.
Look at it this way: for a 4 hour flight, you sit there on the tarmack waiting for the plane to load for half an hour or so. Maybe longer if the flight is really packed, but my experience has been about half and hour. During takeoff and until you reach crusing altitude, they won't let anyone use their phones anyway. That can last a half hour or so. As you start your descent, they won't let you use anyone use their phone either. That's usually about a half hour or so. At cruising altitude, you're not likely to get much of a signal anyhow, so no one's phone is likely to work anyhow -- that part of the flight lasts about 3 hours. So that basically leaves the time you're sitting on the tarmack to use a phone. At the most, you have to listen to someone yap for an hour in two half-hour stretches.
Of course, if they allowed VOIP, it would be worse since during those 3 hours those phone yappers would be yappin' for sure the whole time.
Now, I'm not defending Wikipedia per se, but if the Linux kernel were developed like that -- "everyone contributes, and everyone is equal", we'd probably end up with a kernel that combines all the bloat of Microsoft Office with all of the elegance of ed. (Wrap your head around that one!)
The fact is that open source projects aren't democracies, they're meritocracies. You wanna be one of the cool kids of the LKML? Write a few killer features for the kernel or write a bunch of drivers or find and squash a bunch of bugs or something.
The idea behind Wikipedia was to develop an encyclopedia around open source principles, right? Well, adopt a open source principles and you'll end up with an open source mentality. Hence, as TFA says:
We aren't democratic." That's how Wikipedia founder Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales described his famously-collaborative online encyclopedia in a recent puff piece from The New York Times Magazine. "The core community appreciates when someone is knowledgeable," he said, "and thinks some people are idiots and shouldn't be writing."
As someone else said, they can hear you talking on the phone. And they might very well block VPN traffic, as I'm sure the Internet uplink for the plane is a rather expensive connection.
But not on all planes. I've been on three flights recently, a 737, a DC-10 and a 767, none of of which had in-seat phones, at least not in coach. It's possible that first class had them on the 767, but I know that first class did not have them on the 737 (I sat directly behind first class). The DC-10 didn't offer first class seating.
Correct. And given that most of us choose flights that are not nonstop (i.e., flights with layovers) due to their cost usually being much lower than nonstop flights (though this is not always the case), you probably won't wind up on too many domestic flights that are more than 4 hours anyway. So unless you travel overseas, you're probably not likely to see this very much in 2008.
So remember, if you are passionate about a technology, do not declare this "the year of it," as you are only hurting it. Well, in that case I declare that 2008 will be the year of Vista on the desktop!
They could easily block ports commonly used for VoIP and/or VoIP proxies. In fact, they could make all Internet access go through a proxy server, just like they do in a corporate setting. This is getting to be increasingly common in hotel Internet access.
You don't seem to understand the difference between racism and racial discrimination. They are also not the same thing. Discrimination is where there is preferential treatment for one race over another, while racism is the belief that your race is superior to that of others.
Affirmative action is racial discrimination, for sure. Whether or not it is racism depends on whether you believe that the underlying reason for it is that minorities can't obtain employment, advancement or schooling is due the minorities' inabilities or due to external forces beyond the minorities' control. It's a fine line, and there is at least some degree of underlying assumption by many who support affirmative action that minorities cannot succeed in the current environment due to problems within their own ranks. That belief, IMHO, is racism.
Correct. Racism != prejudice. Racism is a belief that your race is superior to that of others. Usually this also means that you think your race should get preferential treatment over others, but that's not necessarily so. Prejudice is just that -- prejudging someone based on external factors that can -- but do not necessarily include -- race.
Supporting the abolition of affirmative action -- i.e., hiring, promoting or admitting into school, etc., on the basis of racial quotas -- as Ron Paul does is also not racism. If anything, the entire concept of affirmative action could arguably be viewed as racism since there is some underlying notion that minorities would otherwise be unable to gain schooling or employment were it not for racial quotas. I think that underestimates the abilities of minorities to the extreme.
They are probable horrified because if all the kids grow up on linux they will prefer linux in the future. I know I use windows more because that is what I learned when I was younger and so it is less work to get adjusted to the next version. I used MS-DOS when I was younger. By your logic, I should be using FreeDOS.
Well, if the 6 billion dollar figure is correct, give 1-1/2 billion to ISPs to filter and police. Use 1-1/2 billion to pay off the pirates and... PROFIT! Why do people talk about 'the pirates' like it's some nebulous group?
'The pirates' == just about everybody with a computer. And you don't even need one of those -- all really you need is a tape deck, as long as you're not too picky about quality.
Anybody who has a computer and an Internet connection that tells that they've never pirated music is probably lying to you.
Hey now, banning video games is done for the good of the children who play them, stopping the nightly news from showing you broken and bloodied bodies is stepping on their first amendment rights. Right. Because all we all know how the first amendment doesn't apply to video games. Why, if video games were protected by the first amendment, you'd be able to copyright them....oh wait...
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Um, that information is classified.
Thanks,
The CIA
Hey! I resembleth thine remark, thou clod insensitiveth!
Well, I for one welcome our new undead zombie retrovirus overlords!
Not really. The Archos 605 case is entirely different. Here, we're talking about a wireless router that (presumably) is locked down by Verizon to prevent unauthorized modification by Verizon's customers, for purposes of keeping Verizon's network secure, right?
Hmmm...you bring up an interesting point. If busybox were GPL 3, would Verizon then be forced to give users admin rights to the router?
Yes, but isn't it true that most of the stuff is actually built by private contractors? I mean, NASA does the overall project management of building something like Landsat or Orion, and, yes, they actually launch it, but everything else is already built by private contractors, right?
So what would be the difference if a private contractor picked up the remaining two pieces -- project management and launching/operation?
You missed: Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of private sector spacecraft?
Unenjoyable? Oh, c'mon now. It isn't that bad.
Being stuck on a plane for 4 hours is a good time to catch up on some reading or to bring a laptop and screw around with some code you've been writing or to write a long letter to a friend you haven't seen in ages or to meditate or maybe even to just take a nap (reommended for red-eye flights.)
OTOH, I agree that listening to people yap on the phone can be irritating -- OTOH, on a 4 hour flight, you won't have to listen to someone yapping too loudly anway.
Look at it this way: for a 4 hour flight, you sit there on the tarmack waiting for the plane to load for half an hour or so. Maybe longer if the flight is really packed, but my experience has been about half and hour. During takeoff and until you reach crusing altitude, they won't let anyone use their phones anyway. That can last a half hour or so. As you start your descent, they won't let you use anyone use their phone either. That's usually about a half hour or so. At cruising altitude, you're not likely to get much of a signal anyhow, so no one's phone is likely to work anyhow -- that part of the flight lasts about 3 hours. So that basically leaves the time you're sitting on the tarmack to use a phone. At the most, you have to listen to someone yap for an hour in two half-hour stretches.
Of course, if they allowed VOIP, it would be worse since during those 3 hours those phone yappers would be yappin' for sure the whole time.
Yep. Screw them. No VOIP.
The fact is that open source projects aren't democracies, they're meritocracies. You wanna be one of the cool kids of the LKML? Write a few killer features for the kernel or write a bunch of drivers or find and squash a bunch of bugs or something.
The idea behind Wikipedia was to develop an encyclopedia around open source principles, right? Well, adopt a open source principles and you'll end up with an open source mentality. Hence, as TFA says:
Sounds like a meritocracy to me.
Passionate doesn't necessarily mean you like it. You can passionately hate Vista, too.
As someone else said, they can hear you talking on the phone. And they might very well block VPN traffic, as I'm sure the Internet uplink for the plane is a rather expensive connection.
Or:
One moon to rule them all
One moon to find them
One moon to bring them all into the darkness
and bind them!
Okay, okay...hey! No hard fruits!
But not on all planes. I've been on three flights recently, a 737, a DC-10 and a 767, none of of which had in-seat phones, at least not in coach. It's possible that first class had them on the 767, but I know that first class did not have them on the 737 (I sat directly behind first class). The DC-10 didn't offer first class seating.
Correct. And given that most of us choose flights that are not nonstop (i.e., flights with layovers) due to their cost usually being much lower than nonstop flights (though this is not always the case), you probably won't wind up on too many domestic flights that are more than 4 hours anyway. So unless you travel overseas, you're probably not likely to see this very much in 2008.
They could easily block ports commonly used for VoIP and/or VoIP proxies. In fact, they could make all Internet access go through a proxy server, just like they do in a corporate setting. This is getting to be increasingly common in hotel Internet access.
You don't seem to understand the difference between racism and racial discrimination. They are also not the same thing. Discrimination is where there is preferential treatment for one race over another, while racism is the belief that your race is superior to that of others.
Affirmative action is racial discrimination, for sure. Whether or not it is racism depends on whether you believe that the underlying reason for it is that minorities can't obtain employment, advancement or schooling is due the minorities' inabilities or due to external forces beyond the minorities' control. It's a fine line, and there is at least some degree of underlying assumption by many who support affirmative action that minorities cannot succeed in the current environment due to problems within their own ranks. That belief, IMHO, is racism.
Pffft. Lots of luck with government enforcement, especially when just about everyone is doing it. Don't they get it?
Besides, I'll bet the federal courts strike this law down as being unconstitutional.
Correct. Racism != prejudice. Racism is a belief that your race is superior to that of others. Usually this also means that you think your race should get preferential treatment over others, but that's not necessarily so. Prejudice is just that -- prejudging someone based on external factors that can -- but do not necessarily include -- race.
Supporting the abolition of affirmative action -- i.e., hiring, promoting or admitting into school, etc., on the basis of racial quotas -- as Ron Paul does is also not racism. If anything, the entire concept of affirmative action could arguably be viewed as racism since there is some underlying notion that minorities would otherwise be unable to gain schooling or employment were it not for racial quotas. I think that underestimates the abilities of minorities to the extreme.
'The pirates' == just about everybody with a computer. And you don't even need one of those -- all really you need is a tape deck, as long as you're not too picky about quality.
Anybody who has a computer and an Internet connection that tells that they've never pirated music is probably lying to you.
Wow. That was certainly a cheerful tail!