Thanks to your blog postings my submissions have appeared on the frontpage twice in two days by now (yesterday the story in the WSJ on women being better coders than their male counterparts). I could continue but readers will be able to find your blog by now.
BTW, thoroughly enjoy reading the archived posts too!
PAUL: I'd let California do what they want. And I didn't vote for the Constitutional Amendment to ban gay marriage, but the states can do it. This can be solved so easily, all you have to do is legalize contracts, you shouldn't even be involved in defining marriage. I think marriage should be a religious and personal ceremony and anybody who wants to call themselves married can. And if they don't want to, that's all right too. If I don't like somebody else calling themselves married, so what? It doesn't bother me any, so I just leave them alone. It's when people call themselves married and want to impose their will on other people and say, "Because now I am married, you will treat my spouse in a certain way," and demanding something either from government or from certain insurance company, that is forcing themselves on somebody else. People should be left alone. If they want to be married, fine. If they want to call it marriage, fine. But they don't have the right to impose it on other people.
Perhaps you should look beyond the party mindset. My passionate fondness for the doctor isn't because he's a Republican ('the new kind') but because he doesn't fit the mold of either party and, as has been said before, he doesn't fear speaking his because his arguments are based on reason, reasearch and principles.
I'm pretty aware of his past and voting record (more so than most I'd think) and whenever I'm puzzled by his vote (or even when they make perfect sense) I still try and find out about his particular motivations which always make perfect, logical sense. Perhaps you'd also like to know I read all his speeches and statements online which are in perfect accordance with his voting record. You should try reading some, perhaps you'll find them very revealing.
Here's a bill sponsored my Dr Paul I'm particulary interested in, in seeing passed: http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2007_cr/hr3835.html H.R. 3835: To restore the Constitution's checks and balances and protections against government abuses as envisioned by the Founding Fathers
Excerpt: SEC. 4. TORTURE OR COERCED CONFESSIONS.
No civilian or military tribunal of the United States shall admit as evidence statements extracted from the defendant by torture or coercion.
EC. 9. USE OF SECRET EVIDENCE TO MAKE FOREIGN TERRORIST DESIGNATIONS.
Notwithstanding any other law, secret evidence shall not be used by the President or any other member of the executive branch to designate an individual or organization with a United States presence as a foreign terrorist or foreign terrorist organization for purposes of the criminal law or otherwise imposing criminal or civil sanctions.
I'm not a republican supporter because it's the same as being a democrat supporter, supporting the same system which is so very flawed and which disgraces the country and treads freely on liberty. There's nothing wrong with being a libertarian either. What could anyone have against peace and liberty? I'm in fact very comfortable with people who call themselves libertarian because I know they have no inclination in telling me on how I should live my life.
This is exactly what Dr Paul has always maintained. Marriage is a religious ceremony and it's not for the state or federal government to interfere. He supports contracts between people.
It's one of the many reasons I vigorously support Dr Paul. His principled and informed view on issues guided by the constitution and the fact no one has a right telling others what to do.
That assumes keeping a person in a cell or even having a person sharing a cell with others is equally expensive as paying them their welfarce. Putting them in jail has the added benefit of not having to walk among people who have no problem cracking your skull open for financial gain.
It's simply twisted logic rewarding people for not assaulting others.
In other words, my country has quite a bit of cash to spend. And they do. Wellfare checks are about a thousand bucks a month. You can easily live on that. If you have family, you get more. And your rent is paid as well.
Why does that affect me, when I have to work so that moocher can sit on his lazy ass and get fat? Because people have something to lose. People who don't have anything to lose don't care if they have to bash your head in for the 20 bucks you have on you.
This sounds an awful lot like extortion, implemented through government. "Pay me my thousand bucks a month or I'll have nothing to lose and am forced to come round and do your head in".
I support a system where people on welfare are still required to do some sort of work that benefits the community, 40hrs a week. Even if it's opening doors at the library and helping old ladies bag their groceries.
Recently on/. : Google spotlights data center inner workings ( http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9955184-7.html ) and now this from MS: "the company is planning data centers on 'a scale that we haven't thought of before'".
Most of the time the interviews don't even grant the interviewee the time if they don't like where the reply is heading and set up a straw man (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQYyPooETcI [Kasparov] The Kasparov interview is great because he is steps ahead of what you think he'll answer. Note especially the reply when the presenter mentioned how Putin outwit Bush.
No, no. You missed out an essential step
1. Place files full of random data on comptetitor's machines
2. Tip off the authorities to their "terrorist plans"
3. Watch them get five years for "refusing" to decrypt the "data"
4.Profit!
A previous post by a fellow/.-er also on the GPLv3 he outlined how right and wrong and not clearly definable. Im not sure if it was also a humerus attempt but I would really liked to find it again. It was more or less a list of what to expect in upcoming versions of the GPL.
1. Webservices communicating with the gpl licensed code also need to be opened up. 2... | 6...
Stuff like this usually get me excited (for reasons unknown) but a follow up on/. would be nice.
Same with the patent covering technologies where user interface and code in a s/w project are separated. i.e. describing the UI in XML. Whatever happened to that (the excitement at the time mainly consisted of fantasies of a patent troll (M$) getting a taste of its own medicine). Anyone remember that post?
I use Gnomad2 with my Creative JukeBox Zen Xtra 30Gb. Works a charm. (Even better than the software Creative ships with it which integrates with your explorer).
Also, have you looked at whether there are any SDK's available for the problematic device?
You can always get the budget version..
http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus-mini/
Can anyone tell me what the purpose of it is? It's not wireless and only has three buttons so would barely function as a remote (volume up, down, pause toggle?) Or would you need to remember various key combinations ala morse code to start typing away with it?
Also, has anyone noticed the displays/keys are 48/48 pixels (of the full version). Would the firefox logo look anywhere near as good as potrayed on the product page? At least it is able to animate at 10fps..imagine having a roommate with a arcade hall k/b when trying to get to sleep...
At first there may seem to be a similarity but when you look at the index page you'll see the idea behind it - standing out from the crowd (though the crowd is now made up of birds representing s/w products).
They might as well have used a range of black cars with a radioactive green one in the middle.
I'm not sure what would be M$'s gain by having the logo of one of their web products look like that of a major competitor of their Windows product. ("PHB: SHould we be migrating to Miss Suse Linux or Popfly? )
On a side note, it this not a copy of another innovative product of a competitor? Pipes of Yahoo? Something Scoble recently commented on, saying they should innovate such products?
"If we ever identify a fully patched machine that got exploited, we got a big problem. We would involve the IE team and show them the threat."
Ofcourse..it's always IE...
A Mozilla system and all they have is their hands and the internet....
I am always recommending people to switch to Linux yet I never do. I installed Open Office and export my documents to word format yet at college they end up in a mess. to put it plainly so I have yet to revert back to M$ Office. M$ their education monopoly strategy paying off. Dual boot isn't a lot of use as Windows still requires all the maintenance [2 nights ago I had to do a complete reinstall of XP as it got hit by a virus or some other malicious code project and after "checking" the services settings it failed to work.] I don't update as it will helpl my OS to crash every 5 min anyway and service packs refuse to install. I rely on Norton Internet Security for to protect me from all malicious intent but am seriously considering purchasing a hardware firewall or getting a linux machine to protect me. I would permanently switch to linux if: I can play my games smoothly Get my office work done [i know - a superior alternative to Windows the combination of OP] Develop [currently using VS studio and Sharp develop]
I can't wait for the day Windows is required to run a linux emulator.
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Thanks to your blog postings my submissions have appeared on the frontpage twice in two days by now (yesterday the story in the WSJ on women being better coders than their male counterparts). I could continue but readers will be able to find your blog by now.
BTW, thoroughly enjoy reading the archived posts too!
To quote the man himself:
PAUL: I'd let California do what they want. And I didn't vote for the Constitutional Amendment to ban gay marriage, but the states can do it. This can be solved so easily, all you have to do is legalize contracts, you shouldn't even be involved in defining marriage. I think marriage should be a religious and personal ceremony and anybody who wants to call themselves married can. And if they don't want to, that's all right too. If I don't like somebody else calling themselves married, so what? It doesn't bother me any, so I just leave them alone. It's when people call themselves married and want to impose their will on other people and say, "Because now I am married, you will treat my spouse in a certain way," and demanding something either from government or from certain insurance company, that is forcing themselves on somebody else. People should be left alone. If they want to be married, fine. If they want to call it marriage, fine. But they don't have the right to impose it on other people.
source: http://www.infowars.com/?p=2420
Perhaps you should look beyond the party mindset. My passionate fondness for the doctor isn't because he's a Republican ('the new kind') but because he doesn't fit the mold of either party and, as has been said before, he doesn't fear speaking his because his arguments are based on reason, reasearch and principles.
I'm pretty aware of his past and voting record (more so than most I'd think) and whenever I'm puzzled by his vote (or even when they make perfect sense) I still try and find out about his particular motivations which always make perfect, logical sense. Perhaps you'd also like to know I read all his speeches and statements online which are in perfect accordance with his voting record. You should try reading some, perhaps you'll find them very revealing.
This video should be right up the street of the average slashdot reader: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5792391565012624048&hl=en (speech here: http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2007/cr0522107.htm ) or his recent speech on the farm bill should demonstrate his principal standing and familiarity with the issues: http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2008/tst060108.htm .
Here's a bill sponsored my Dr Paul I'm particulary interested in, in seeing passed: http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2007_cr/hr3835.html H.R. 3835: To restore the Constitution's checks and balances and protections against government abuses as envisioned by the Founding Fathers
Excerpt:
SEC. 4. TORTURE OR COERCED CONFESSIONS.
No civilian or military tribunal of the United States shall admit as evidence statements extracted from the defendant by torture or coercion.
EC. 9. USE OF SECRET EVIDENCE TO MAKE FOREIGN TERRORIST DESIGNATIONS.
Notwithstanding any other law, secret evidence shall not be used by the President or any other member of the executive branch to designate an individual or organization with a United States presence as a foreign terrorist or foreign terrorist organization for purposes of the criminal law or otherwise imposing criminal or civil sanctions.
I'm not a republican supporter because it's the same as being a democrat supporter, supporting the same system which is so very flawed and which disgraces the country and treads freely on liberty. There's nothing wrong with being a libertarian either. What could anyone have against peace and liberty? I'm in fact very comfortable with people who call themselves libertarian because I know they have no inclination in telling me on how I should live my life.
This is exactly what Dr Paul has always maintained. Marriage is a religious ceremony and it's not for the state or federal government to interfere. He supports contracts between people.
It's one of the many reasons I vigorously support Dr Paul. His principled and informed view on issues guided by the constitution and the fact no one has a right telling others what to do.
And to back that one up:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/katz-j/katz-j28.html
That assumes keeping a person in a cell or even having a person sharing a cell with others is equally expensive as paying them their welfarce. Putting them in jail has the added benefit of not having to walk among people who have no problem cracking your skull open for financial gain.
It's simply twisted logic rewarding people for not assaulting others.
Why does that affect me, when I have to work so that moocher can sit on his lazy ass and get fat? Because people have something to lose. People who don't have anything to lose don't care if they have to bash your head in for the 20 bucks you have on you.
This sounds an awful lot like extortion, implemented through government. "Pay me my thousand bucks a month or I'll have nothing to lose and am forced to come round and do your head in".
I support a system where people on welfare are still required to do some sort of work that benefits the community, 40hrs a week. Even if it's opening doors at the library and helping old ladies bag their groceries.
Recently on /. : Google spotlights data center inner workings ( http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9955184-7.html ) and now this from MS: "the company is planning data centers on 'a scale that we haven't thought of before'".
Surprising? I think not.
So, nothing to worry about until it is technically feasible.
Back to some MS/MAFIAA bashing it is..
Like the others I would suggest looking at Ron Paul. I think he is very compatible with your beliefs.
There's always #RonPaul on freenode if you have any doubts.
http://www.expertvoter.org/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG2Ra_eI680&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6t_H69yOKE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3xovHYYOrg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHS_y94H1Dk&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG2Ra_eI680&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3Kuf9a4SQ4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UuivYdiS5w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCM_wQy4YVg - Google interviewing RP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmKwlE3fO-Y - Google summary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8pLpI5rzKI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efrt2h1AH_A&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP5ON9jjoLc&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyUcrBQIiJI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwJKGfAWQUo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK-_x2l9aM8&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev4AEyac10o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2KU02lsfH8 O'reilly, Malmedy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zex8uW_9pqo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=styYIG-fiEc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Ron_Paul
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJrtUpptYGE&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kll9-nR4uVs - Land of the Free
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Rh6KIRflYg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdx9803IEgE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emPzgtywYNU&feature=related Ron Paul's Fight For Freedom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWmWlhBtA-w&NR=1 - Summary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAwvlDJgJbM - Ron Paul Schools Ben Bernanke Again
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJUXIb27AOI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ3T5REZ11Q&NR=1 Ron Paul Mops the Floor with CNN Anchor (05/20/07)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wmc60JmaLbE "The Constitution is just a piece of paper" - G.W. Bush (CIA)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzLidmu_UpY&feature=related - Ron Paul Debates Federal Reserve
That's a great and worrying video.
Of course I hung around on YouTube and found these on how spin by the media is put in practice:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEB8OCN-lo8&NR=1 [Ron Paul]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nkfg0PixtnU [Ron Paul]
Most of the time the interviews don't even grant the interviewee the time if they don't like where the reply is heading and set up a straw man (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQYyPooETcI [Kasparov]
The Kasparov interview is great because he is steps ahead of what you think he'll answer. Note especially the reply when the presenter mentioned how Putin outwit Bush.
No, no. You missed out an essential step
1. Place files full of random data on comptetitor's machines
2. Tip off the authorities to their "terrorist plans"
3. Watch them get five years for "refusing" to decrypt the "data"
4.Profit!
A previous post by a fellow /.-er also on the GPLv3 he outlined how right and wrong and not clearly definable. Im not sure if it was also a humerus attempt but I would really liked to find it again.
It was more or less a list of what to expect in upcoming versions of the GPL.
1. Webservices communicating with the gpl licensed code also need to be opened up.
2...
|
6...
it was truly genius..
I'm going back to calc.
(Yes I have tested it. Perhaps they should open up it's API to Excel).
--Skype. The whole world can talk for free.-- Skype. The whole world can be spied on for $2 Billion
Stuff like this usually get me excited (for reasons unknown) but a follow up on /. would be nice.
Same with the patent covering technologies where user interface and code in a s/w project are separated. i.e. describing the UI in XML. Whatever happened to that (the excitement at the time mainly consisted of fantasies of a patent troll (M$) getting a taste of its own medicine). Anyone remember that post?
I use Gnomad2 with my Creative JukeBox Zen Xtra 30Gb. Works a charm. (Even better than the software Creative ships with it which integrates with your explorer).
Also, have you looked at whether there are any SDK's available for the problematic device?
You can always get the budget version.. http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus-mini/
Can anyone tell me what the purpose of it is? It's not wireless and only has three buttons so would barely function as a remote (volume up, down, pause toggle?) Or would you need to remember various key combinations ala morse code to start typing away with it?
Also, has anyone noticed the displays/keys are 48/48 pixels (of the full version). Would the firefox logo look anywhere near as good as potrayed on the product page? At least it is able to animate at 10fps..imagine having a roommate with a arcade hall k/b when trying to get to sleep...
At first there may seem to be a similarity but when you look at the index page you'll see the idea behind it - standing out from the crowd (though the crowd is now made up of birds representing s/w products). They might as well have used a range of black cars with a radioactive green one in the middle. I'm not sure what would be M$'s gain by having the logo of one of their web products look like that of a major competitor of their Windows product. ("PHB: SHould we be migrating to Miss Suse Linux or Popfly? ) On a side note, it this not a copy of another innovative product of a competitor? Pipes of Yahoo? Something Scoble recently commented on, saying they should innovate such products?
The fact that the mod didn't get that Asian joke just proves jokes stop being funny at the border.
People with asparagus syndrome apparently have greater mentail ability... maybe there is a correlation between professors and no sense of humor?
"If we ever identify a fully patched machine that got exploited, we got a big problem. We would involve the IE team and show them the threat." Ofcourse..it's always IE... A Mozilla system and all they have is their hands and the internet....
I am always recommending people to switch to Linux yet I never do. I installed Open Office and export my documents to word format yet at college they end up in a mess. to put it plainly so I have yet to revert back to M$ Office. M$ their education monopoly strategy paying off.
Dual boot isn't a lot of use as Windows still requires all the maintenance [2 nights ago I had to do a complete reinstall of XP as it got hit by a virus or some other malicious code project and after "checking" the services settings it failed to work.]
I don't update as it will helpl my OS to crash every 5 min anyway and service packs refuse to install. I rely on Norton Internet Security for to protect me from all malicious intent but am seriously considering purchasing a hardware firewall or getting a linux machine to protect me.
I would permanently switch to linux if:
I can play my games smoothly
Get my office work done [i know - a superior alternative to Windows the combination of OP]
Develop [currently using VS studio and Sharp develop]
I can't wait for the day Windows is required to run a linux emulator.
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