No, statistically speaking, all efforts are attempts to fix something. I breathe to fix air not being in my lungs. I reach for things to fix them being out of reach. I say something to fix your lack of that something, or at the loneliness of not having heard someone else's view of that information, etc.
Well, democracy is fundamentally flawed anyway, so numbers have nothing to do with it. Still, that's the system, so getting enough numbers on one side so that the other side realises it's not worth fighting over is pretty much the whole game.
Yeah, but the way you get a major party to be moderate on an issue is by having an extreme viewpoint yourself.
Yes. Much like the way to get proprietary vendors to support open platforms and protocols is to launch a Free Software organisation, build an OS, popularise a Free license, etc. To some, it's extreme. To others, it's just the extreme balance to an extreme position taken by others.
Yes, but the question is how to work for change. Sometimes non-participation is better than implicitly consenting to be part of a system.
Not that I'm advocating it here. I normally would have said that a pirate party has no chance of making a dent, but it's working in sweden/europe, and many interested people in the UK know that. The UKPP already has a 1000+ followers on facebook alone. Looks like a good start.
First, there's a point at which that three-year-old brat has asked "Why?" too many times today.
I suspect there is never such a point, if you're raising your child properly.
Then, there's the point at which the parent doesn't feel comfortable explaining topics like sex to a child within certain age ranges.
Two things here: people shouldn't be having kids if they're uncomfortable with their motivations for sex or uncomfortable teaching a child basic things about life. Secondly, I think most of that discomfort with teaching kids about sex is largely fear of other adults thinking their child knows too much or is talking inappropriately.
just to be quiet and let the parent be a person in their own right again.
Too true.
That's a lot more scary. I regularly see kids told off for daring to ask "Why?" or "Why not?"
Uggh. At this point I'm hoping you're some kind of school inspector that has the power to get these people banned from teaching.
The question is, how many are baffled, and how many just don't care to learn it?
Yep. Some people have much more pressing issues, like getting by on/below the poverty line. And maybe they don't think it's even the right stuff to be filling their kids' heads with. Yes, that should probably change, but I think there's definitely an overestimation of science's significance (in terms of awareness rather than potential) to the average person going on here.
That said... I think there is one overriding factor that could sort it all out. And it's a factor that I never see discussed in terms of parenting skills or raising kids. That factor is: your kid just asked a serious question about life. If you can't answer it, go the fuck out and find the answer, and give it to him. Basically, have some respect for the child's questions... he's obviously asking because it's important to his development in some way.
It seems that Nokia could play both of the brothers, actually. It seems to have a strange multiple personality thing whereby it buys Qt, opens it up more, encourages open source, and then jumps into bed with MS (again, if I recall correctly). An interesting attempt to be all things to all people.
Once upon a time, editing and typesetting were different things. Now, we combine them and call it wordprocessing. Things are quite often better when combined. Especially in rapidly evolving industries, when two generations of technology for the same purpose** overlap.
** full text indexing/searching and indexing/searching the semantic web are both for finding information on websites
You see, it works like this: after the full stop (or period), it's a new sentence. You don't just keep reading as if the same subject is being discussed.
I would also like to know how the authorities could possibly tell a properly encrypted file from one that only contains random data and consequently how they could prove that a filesystem is, in fact, encrypted.
There are a few encryption systems out there which provide plausible deniability, and would work something like this (in theory). However, most have pretty clear information, like standard file headers. I've never bothered to actually look at one for encrypted files, but I imagine the file headers essentially say something like "This is a file from APP. It's version X.Y. It's N bytes long. Encryption algorithm is A. Hash method is H. Data follows..."
There is uncertainty in that the names of the people convicted were not released
That's rich. The government convicts people for keeping secrets, and then keeps secrets about who was convicted.
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That looks like an outdated version of the comparisons that have been available for a long time at GNU.org. But no, taken out of context like that, they're not very informative at all. Simply saying "allowed" beside an attribute is pointless if you don't discuss the pros and cons of that attribute. Try gnu.org/philosophy, and compare with the license percentages from TFA for a better explanation. GNU licenses have about 60+ percent, whilst the nearest rivals have about 9%, for good reason.
You've been hoodwinked. The article says he "demanded control". Actually, based on his demands for similar publications, he would have simply said that if he contributed information to an article, that information must be available to all under an open license. The real demand is that the publishers don't keep control. The publishers have therefore refused to share useful information openly. In essence, they are a publishing organisation which cannot get their heads around the concept of publishing fairly to all humanity. THEY are the control freaks, not Stallman.
Remember, in the beginning the old algorithm used to be very good in finding relevant results.
I'm not convinced that the degradation is entirely due to SEO. Google used to be a much more technical search -- when you used specific terms, you got specific matches. It seemed to be very much like Altavista with AND between each term. Now, you get a mix of things, as if it was OR between each term. Granted, *that* could be just SEO.
Secondly though, if you search for X, you're asked if you meant Y, and your search results already seem to be for the popular Y result they think you meant.
Likewise, you used to be able to search for hyphenated-terms (I hyphenated all time because it's usually a character less, and requires less editing after the fact than putting quotes around words), but now, it seems to split them into two terms.
I think google have dumbed down their search for people who don't know how to use search engines.
I've been waiting for them to launch something like sig.ma, but way better. Looks like they're falling behind. Which is not to say that Bing is catching up --- I don't even consider that competition.
Really? So anyone should be allowed to drive whichever vehicle they want too, even if it's prone to blowing up on the highway and taking other cars with it? Get real.
Young Iranians are fans of western culture though, and there is a lively black market.
Interesting. It could be argued that the west pushed capitalism on the USSR by making sure western greed settled into its impressionable youth in a similar way. And now, here we are with an oil-rich Iran full of evil people, but having spirited youth who will win the day.
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No, statistically speaking, all efforts are attempts to fix something. I breathe to fix air not being in my lungs. I reach for things to fix them being out of reach. I say something to fix your lack of that something, or at the loneliness of not having heard someone else's view of that information, etc.
Personally, I find the entire concept of someone saying they own your stuff to be strange. Or, indeed, someone else saying they don't own your stuff.
Why not? That's what *I* shout every time I see a very fat lady ;)
Well, democracy is fundamentally flawed anyway, so numbers have nothing to do with it. Still, that's the system, so getting enough numbers on one side so that the other side realises it's not worth fighting over is pretty much the whole game.
Yes. Much like the way to get proprietary vendors to support open platforms and protocols is to launch a Free Software organisation, build an OS, popularise a Free license, etc. To some, it's extreme. To others, it's just the extreme balance to an extreme position taken by others.
Yes, but the question is how to work for change. Sometimes non-participation is better than implicitly consenting to be part of a system.
Not that I'm advocating it here. I normally would have said that a pirate party has no chance of making a dent, but it's working in sweden/europe, and many interested people in the UK know that. The UKPP already has a 1000+ followers on facebook alone. Looks like a good start.
Indeed. However:
In other news... Parents Baffled by Questions.
I suspect there is never such a point, if you're raising your child properly.
Two things here: people shouldn't be having kids if they're uncomfortable with their motivations for sex or uncomfortable teaching a child basic things about life. Secondly, I think most of that discomfort with teaching kids about sex is largely fear of other adults thinking their child knows too much or is talking inappropriately.
Too true.
Uggh. At this point I'm hoping you're some kind of school inspector that has the power to get these people banned from teaching.
Yep. Some people have much more pressing issues, like getting by on/below the poverty line. And maybe they don't think it's even the right stuff to be filling their kids' heads with. Yes, that should probably change, but I think there's definitely an overestimation of science's significance (in terms of awareness rather than potential) to the average person going on here.
That said... I think there is one overriding factor that could sort it all out. And it's a factor that I never see discussed in terms of parenting skills or raising kids. That factor is: your kid just asked a serious question about life. If you can't answer it, go the fuck out and find the answer, and give it to him. Basically, have some respect for the child's questions... he's obviously asking because it's important to his development in some way.
It seems that Nokia could play both of the brothers, actually. It seems to have a strange multiple personality thing whereby it buys Qt, opens it up more, encourages open source, and then jumps into bed with MS (again, if I recall correctly). An interesting attempt to be all things to all people.
Once upon a time, editing and typesetting were different things. Now, we combine them and call it wordprocessing. Things are quite often better when combined. Especially in rapidly evolving industries, when two generations of technology for the same purpose** overlap.
** full text indexing/searching and indexing/searching the semantic web are both for finding information on websites
I pick the stinger. Happy now? ;)
You see, it works like this: after the full stop (or period), it's a new sentence. You don't just keep reading as if the same subject is being discussed.
There are a few encryption systems out there which provide plausible deniability, and would work something like this (in theory). However, most have pretty clear information, like standard file headers. I've never bothered to actually look at one for encrypted files, but I imagine the file headers essentially say something like "This is a file from APP. It's version X.Y. It's N bytes long. Encryption algorithm is A. Hash method is H. Data follows..."
That's rich. The government convicts people for keeping secrets, and then keeps secrets about who was convicted.
That looks like an outdated version of the comparisons that have been available for a long time at GNU.org. But no, taken out of context like that, they're not very informative at all. Simply saying "allowed" beside an attribute is pointless if you don't discuss the pros and cons of that attribute. Try gnu.org/philosophy, and compare with the license percentages from TFA for a better explanation. GNU licenses have about 60+ percent, whilst the nearest rivals have about 9%, for good reason.
You've been hoodwinked. The article says he "demanded control". Actually, based on his demands for similar publications, he would have simply said that if he contributed information to an article, that information must be available to all under an open license. The real demand is that the publishers don't keep control. The publishers have therefore refused to share useful information openly. In essence, they are a publishing organisation which cannot get their heads around the concept of publishing fairly to all humanity. THEY are the control freaks, not Stallman.
I'm not convinced that the degradation is entirely due to SEO. Google used to be a much more technical search -- when you used specific terms, you got specific matches. It seemed to be very much like Altavista with AND between each term. Now, you get a mix of things, as if it was OR between each term. Granted, *that* could be just SEO.
Secondly though, if you search for X, you're asked if you meant Y, and your search results already seem to be for the popular Y result they think you meant.
Likewise, you used to be able to search for hyphenated-terms (I hyphenated all time because it's usually a character less, and requires less editing after the fact than putting quotes around words), but now, it seems to split them into two terms.
I think google have dumbed down their search for people who don't know how to use search engines.
Really? This is google's new search engine? Wow.
I've been waiting for them to launch something like sig.ma, but way better. Looks like they're falling behind. Which is not to say that Bing is catching up --- I don't even consider that competition.
And the difference is largely (but not solely) one of jurisdiction, influence, and workarounds, rather than any principles or the lack thereof.
No, but it sure makes the summary less linkable.
Really? So anyone should be allowed to drive whichever vehicle they want too, even if it's prone to blowing up on the highway and taking other cars with it? Get real.
No security is foolproof, but IE is clearly the least responsible choice.
Because it's so annoying that no one would tolerate it unless it had superpowers?
Interesting. It could be argued that the west pushed capitalism on the USSR by making sure western greed settled into its impressionable youth in a similar way. And now, here we are with an oil-rich Iran full of evil people, but having spirited youth who will win the day.
Pawn, anyone?