Why is it that every single article that references any scientific development in the fields of genetics or molecular biology gets the "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" tag on Slashdot?
Are you nuts? Do you get even a tenth of the ramifications of this? I'm all for progress and research and knowledge, but I just saw the headline, and immediately thought, "if there was EVER an article that deserved the 'whatcouldpossiblygowrong' tag, this is it."
Yes, it's called communication. Shocking technology, isn't it? I blame the guy who invented speech;)
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Actually, GTK is less free than Qt. It's licensed under LGPL, and RMS himself said that was a "retreat for free software". It's not called the Lesser GPL for nothing.
but trying to say it's not pornography is nonsense.
Actually, you could easily argue that. Is it pornography when someone documents a hot date in their own diary? You could make the argument that it is. You could also make the argument (perhaps more strongly) that it's a therapeutic tool, or a historical account, or a memory aid, or just a personal method of progress monitoring or sanity checking. I don't see why any other form of personal documentation -- be it video, tattoeing meaningful symbols on oneself, or anything else -- is any less valid.
There -are- other, legal, sources of radiation, especially in the scientific community. This is a horrible idea that passes the costs on to the end user for no benefit and oodles of false positives. What could go wrong?
That's the good part -- how often are you going to need to detect nuclear weapons in your life? BUT, having a phone with a variety of sensors that can scan for stuff I'm interested in? That's way more like it. Done right, with the right competition behind it, this could be the first step towards tricorders.
That said, I do see some serious issues with using this as part of a global anti-terror system. Not least of which, that I don't like the term "terrorist", but that's another issue. For one thing, what happens when some kid's mobile goes off, and there's just him and some shifty-looking guy on a train, with a big bag? That kid's life is now in direct danger. This would make ordinary people the untrained, uninformed, and panicky and probably irrational front end of a police taskforce.
And Vista supposedly has a "completely rewritten TCP/IP stack"
And Bill Gates is supposedly a "kinder capitalist". While he sits on enough money to feed a small country, that is. Since money = tokens for exchange of work, you can take the average salary, divide it into Bill's fortune, factor in his age, and see just how much money he has that he couldn't possibly have earned off his own back.
Would have thought by this time the editors would have learned apostrophe rules. They aren't that hard.
People who can't use the word "that" or the word "learnt" probably shouldn't throw stones;) With just a bit more tolerance and understanding, and we'll all be better off. I admit though, slashdot editors deserve everything they get;)
if TV disappeared tomorrow, so would all your torrents.
Actually, that's not true. There are thousands of shows on the net that are independently produced, watched by many (via Miro, KatchTV, etc). Many of them are making money commercially too, with advertisements, sponsorship, offers, promotions, etc.
I'd actually like to see standard TV die, just to see independent, standardised broadcatching flourish.
I'm sure some of us could, but why would we want to? Design our own prison? Encumber data? Stop whistleblowers?
Exactly. The poster says:
I haven't seen many articles address open source solutions for protecting business data like CAD / MS Office / PDF / etc. documents, which is a real need in business today.
I'd like to see real proof of that need. Corporations were created to serve society. Keeping secrets from the public, or preventing competition by keeping secrets from competitors instead of cooperating for maximum return on time and investment, does not help society.
There's been talk lately of forcing companies that work on government (i.e. public) projects to do all related dealings in the open. I'd like to see that idea become more popular, and to extend to the rest of corporate dealings as well, since it all affects society and government eventually.
I would also think about the way IE turned into an awfully modularized insecure POS after winning.
It turned into a piece of shit? I'm pretty sure it was one of the Microsoft-types who showcased IE7 said that it started out as a piece of shit. Of course, he was claiming it had improved, particularly with 7, but we all know the truth of that.
Just bear in mind that once your preferred broken browser is in the minority, us web developers will stop spending hours or days at a time going out of way
By "preferred broken browser", you mean IE (as opposed to a specific version of IE)... right?
Well said. If we're going to start counting lives saved by such games, we also need to count how many people are killed because kids play this stuff, grow up thinking war is cool, then join an army and find out the truth.
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Wrong. None of those are directly limited by LGPL, but they are not preserved fully, either.
I mentioned ramifications. That includes potential further advancements.
Are you nuts? Do you get even a tenth of the ramifications of this? I'm all for progress and research and knowledge, but I just saw the headline, and immediately thought, "if there was EVER an article that deserved the 'whatcouldpossiblygowrong' tag, this is it."
Yes, it's called communication. Shocking technology, isn't it? I blame the guy who invented speech ;)
Actually, GTK is less free than Qt. It's licensed under LGPL, and RMS himself said that was a "retreat for free software". It's not called the Lesser GPL for nothing.
Actually, you could easily argue that. Is it pornography when someone documents a hot date in their own diary? You could make the argument that it is. You could also make the argument (perhaps more strongly) that it's a therapeutic tool, or a historical account, or a memory aid, or just a personal method of progress monitoring or sanity checking. I don't see why any other form of personal documentation -- be it video, tattoeing meaningful symbols on oneself, or anything else -- is any less valid.
I think you misunderstood the "devil's advocate" part of his post ;) You're agreeing with him.
GTK: ?
ONE? Hahhha, where did you learn to count -- in Intel's processor dept.?
That's the good part -- how often are you going to need to detect nuclear weapons in your life? BUT, having a phone with a variety of sensors that can scan for stuff I'm interested in? That's way more like it. Done right, with the right competition behind it, this could be the first step towards tricorders.
That said, I do see some serious issues with using this as part of a global anti-terror system. Not least of which, that I don't like the term "terrorist", but that's another issue. For one thing, what happens when some kid's mobile goes off, and there's just him and some shifty-looking guy on a train, with a big bag? That kid's life is now in direct danger. This would make ordinary people the untrained, uninformed, and panicky and probably irrational front end of a police taskforce.
That's the point -- the "rest of her body" took on the identity of the foreign invader, so it's all harmonised now.
Careful. It doesn't take comments much different from that to start a mob ;)
And Bill Gates is supposedly a "kinder capitalist". While he sits on enough money to feed a small country, that is. Since money = tokens for exchange of work, you can take the average salary, divide it into Bill's fortune, factor in his age, and see just how much money he has that he couldn't possibly have earned off his own back.
People who can't use the word "that" or the word "learnt" probably shouldn't throw stones
Don't you know anything? ;)
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CDs couldn't possibly have destroyed the digital economy -- they were the digital things destroying vinyl, after all
Actually, that's not true. There are thousands of shows on the net that are independently produced, watched by many (via Miro, KatchTV, etc). Many of them are making money commercially too, with advertisements, sponsorship, offers, promotions, etc.
I'd actually like to see standard TV die, just to see independent, standardised broadcatching flourish.
Which is exactly my point. Problems with website renderers can't be fixed in the website -- only in the renderer. So it's stupid to try.
But this is ass-backwards. You don't fix things to make them work with bugs. You fix the bugs.
Exactly. The poster says:
I'd like to see real proof of that need. Corporations were created to serve society. Keeping secrets from the public, or preventing competition by keeping secrets from competitors instead of cooperating for maximum return on time and investment, does not help society.
There's been talk lately of forcing companies that work on government (i.e. public) projects to do all related dealings in the open. I'd like to see that idea become more popular, and to extend to the rest of corporate dealings as well, since it all affects society and government eventually.
It turned into a piece of shit? I'm pretty sure it was one of the Microsoft-types who showcased IE7 said that it started out as a piece of shit. Of course, he was claiming it had improved, particularly with 7, but we all know the truth of that.
I'm betting that's the real reason for this update. After all, they can hardly migrate microsoft.com to silverlight if no one can use the site.
By "preferred broken browser", you mean IE (as opposed to a specific version of IE)... right?
Well said. If we're going to start counting lives saved by such games, we also need to count how many people are killed because kids play this stuff, grow up thinking war is cool, then join an army and find out the truth.
The article then goes on to say that the light is collected. Which makes me wonder why one of the listed uses isn't solar power or solar heating.
Sounds a lot like a new RIAA to me.