"There are certain people who have forfeited their right to exist."
The problem: that is bin Ladin's argument too.
From their point of view, the United States has attacked and killed innocent civilians. Which, truthfully, we have. It's just a question of whether we were justified or not. The first Iraq war seemed reasonably legit. The sanctions were a little iffy (millions of innocent people died in Iraq -- the question is to what degree that was the fault of the sanctions or Saddam). Our unblinking support for Isreal raises a lot of eyebrows (though I believe that through peaceful protests, the Palestinians could end the fighting as well -- either side could do it if they REALLY wanted to). Pretty much the whole world understood and approved of us going into Afghanistan after 9/11. But our recent invasion of Iraq didn't seem very justified (no WMD, no link to al Queda, no plans by Saddam to attack the US -- why are we there again?). How is our killing, say, 3,000 Iraq civilians less evil than al Queda killing 3,000 American civilians? They both seem pretty bad to me...
We have opposing goals, but at heart I don't believe we (the american people and the terrorists) are made of different stuff. If we were in their situation (powerless against a mighty enemy), I believe we would behave in a similar manner. Look at how we fought the British: sniping them instead of standing on a field of battle and fighting "fair" (because they had a better army than us, and we would have been slaughtered). That doesn't seem evil -- that seems like common sense.
The point of not dehumanizing them is that if we can understand them and put ourselves in their shoes, we can defeat them (and by defeat them, I mean both kill/capture the current terrorists and prevent new terrorist groups from forming). If we look as them simplistically as blood thirsty baby killers, then we can never understand how they work and they will only suprise us with their next attack. You must understand your enemy. From those emails, they unfortunely seem to understand us quite well.
The the abstract moral view I don't think one side is good and one side is evil, but as an American, I certainly want my side to win.
"The worm payload of 637 bytes is padded with data from system memory to fill this random size..."
So you are seeing some random grabage that was in memory on the victim's machine while the worm was being sent out. That helps to avoid detection as it is harder to profile the worm.
Now, I would guess that Beta VCRs would be a better analogy, but I think that TV stations used much of them for archival, and they could be more popular than I think.
I was suprised to learn a few months ago that Sony is *still* making new Betamax VCRs, though they said they were going to stop making by the end of this year. (Article about the end of Betamax)
As long as a format reaches critical mass, I think you will be able to find readers for as long as the media will hold up. If people are still using the media, then other people will keep making or repairing the readers for them.
There are lots of consumer-grade firewire webcams out there, and they should all work with linux (yay standards!). They use the same libdc1394 interface as the scientific cameras do. I'm using the Fire-i cam from unibrain.com, which cost about $130, but there are several others at that price range.
This site has a lot more info on linux and firewire:
p.s. it actuallys work.;-) i'm running 320x240 YUV422 video into my image processing app at 30 frames a second. 640x480 works too, but it looks a bit grainy (the fault of my camera's lens and ccd) and that's too much info for my app to process anyway.
the downside is that you may have to move it around a lot, as you might change jobs
if you do this, you WILL be changing jobs a lot, because you will get fired. ESPECIALLY if you are running a high bandwidth site with legally questionable content (as the original poster was looking to do).
how did OS X get built on Unix and end up being better than KDE or Gnome despite a shorter gestation time?
Is it better? I've been using OS X as my main desktop for almost two months now, and it's really pretty annoying. There are so many rough edges and bad interface design decisions. It feels like they threw out all the lessons they learned in 9 genrations of the MacOS and started from scratch, making basic interface errors. I'm seriously considering switching to Linux or Win2K (i use them both on my laptop).
Hmm... I think you missed the main point I was making.
Whatever the excact definition [of 'organization'] it's hard to see how it could not apply to a nation's military.
Certainly. I just wonder what the *limits* of their definition are. Is a club an organization? A charity group staffed by volenteers? Can I distribute modified GPL binaries (say Pokemon Mozilla on a CD) to my little sister without releasing the source? How about my cousin? Second cousin's mother-in-law? We're ALL related a little bit you know... =)
Just seems like this could be a loophole in the GPL:
"We only distibute this application to members of our organization, and only in binary form. To become part of our organization, please send the organization membership fee of $199 to TrickySoft."
THAT is my settup for thinking that the GPL would require source to be provided to ANYONE, even those in the organization, who requests it.
I wonder how they define "organization". Does an employer need to give the source to an employee (if they ask for it) for the internally modified GPL programs they use on their workstation?
If they DON'T have to distibute source internally, then can't I say that my "organization" is Humanity, and that I can distribute my GPL-derived binaries (without source) to anyone within the "organization"?
And if they DO have to distribute source internally, then Pt. Joe Schmoe would be able to request the source for the missile guidence software he is pressing the blinky red buttons on. Unless they order him not to... =)
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But that would only be an incorrect result if George Bush was NOT a 'dumb motherfucker'. =) And more seriously, all Google can return to you is people's opinions about certain subjects. This search just shows that at least one person believes the best example of a 'dumb motherfucker' to be explained in detail at http://www.georgewbushstore.com/
Part of the tackiness comes from having to fit the english dialog to the japanese lip movements. It gets very stilted when you have long pauses and then rushed strings of words to get the lips to match. It sounds like every character is doing a Captain Kirk impression.
I find a lot of japanese girl voices to be too high pitched
But that's part of the character. When I watch anime I'm watching *japanese* animation. The characters are japanese people and the story usually takes place in japan. They shouldn't sound like american valley girls and surfers. Part of what I like about anime is seeing (and hearing) a different culture.
But this is an arguement about translation that has been going on much longer than anime has existed, with both sides having good points. When translating Tolstoy's novels to English, there was a debate about translating the russian street names into common american street names (Main, Lincoln, etc). One said claimed that the novels take place in russia, so the names shouldn't be changed. The other side said that the russian names would detract from the story because they would be unfamiliar and exotic sounding, and when *russian people* read Tolstoy they don't hear that in the names. So by changing the street names you would allow the english readers to have the same *experience* reading the book as do russian readers. I'd agree with the first arguement, but I can understand why someone might agree with the second.
One anime that I do prefer dubbed is Nadesico. There are just too many characters speaking over eachother to make the subtitles work well -- you can't tell which text goes with which character. And they did a pretty good job with the voice acting in english.
These are not good bases for understanding the world.
And why is that? The stories in sci-fi movies and cartoons are written by people who are communicating their ideas and experiences to an audience. Even if they aren't trying to comment on real life, they can't help it because everything they have been exposed to during their lives will shape the characters, settings, and storylines they come up with.
The whole point of analogy is explain one thing in terms of another thing so that someone who doesn't quite get the first might understand the second and see how it connects.
Honda has had pretty decent humanoid robot prototypes since the mid 90's. They've gone through several generations, worked out a lot of the kinks, and I think 5 more years is reasonable to get them to be useful.
I agree that in many factories non-humanoid robots would do the job better, but humanoid designs are incredibly useful (especially outside of the controlled factory environment) because it means they can operate in existing spaces designed for humans, use tools designed for humans, and drive vehicles designed for humans.
Everytime the bot gets blown up they can just snap it back together.
Though in solving the problem of stepping on landminds you will be CAUSING the problem of stepping on Lego pieces while walking barefoot through the fields at night. "Ouch!! Goddammit!!!"
You don't hear of a cheat detection system for English papers
No, they have those too. The prof requires all papers to be submitted by email, and the software searches through all of them to check for papers with long strings that are identical. Anything that shows up over the "similarity threshold" is flagged as possible plagerism. I hear on the first test of the software they found several students in a large class had copied papers or sections of papers off eachother. This software is useful because in a large class (200+) the papers won't all be read by the same grad students so the "human cheat detection" wouldn't always work.
The lesson is here if you plan to copy either someone's paper or their source code, make sure to make tiny modifications all through it so it doesn't get caught by the software.;-) I guess you could just do you own work, but defeating the cheat detect software might be a more interesting challange than many of the CS assignments I've seen...
I'm suprised they quote prices for things like that online (it's cool!). Big ticket items usually require talking to a sales rep. Check out the product configuration screen: it's like shopping at Dell or the Apple store, except with three extra zeros on the end of everything.
One broken window that goes unrepaired means the inevitable destruction of the building
But the kid who broke the window doesn't know that. He or she just wanted to mess something up, leave a mark, "I did that!".
DoS is like squirting epoxy into the locks of a (non-empty) building or a car. It takes a little forethought and planning, and it is primarily designed to annoy other people.
My point was, that for a great many people, geeks in particular, slashdot is accepted as a credible source of information.
Hahahahaha..... =) Good one. I like Slashdot as much as anyone else, but I don't think that many people think of it as a credible source of *news* (I *hope* they don't!). Slashdot "editors" don't even do the slightest amount of fact-checking or investigation into the stories posted. And unlike some other forums, stories sit in a que until an editor looks at them, so you don't even have the instantaniousness (phew) of some other online forums.
This site is interesting and valuable for it's user commentery and links to interesting stuff -- not for it's news.
The fact that this rumor was in the Washington Post(!) makes it interesting, and makes me wonder if it's still true (it's just a counter rumor from anonymous sources that the deal doesn't exist -- neither company will officially comment on the matter).
Representatives for AOL Time Warner, Durham, N.C.-based Red Hat and Microsoft declined to comment.
So officially the companies aren't saying anything, one way or the other. The article just quotes "sources familiar with the situation" as saying that they aren't planning anything, but then if they aren't planning anything then what "situation" is there to be close to?;-)
And unless the source is the CEO or board member of one of the companies (who really shouldn't be talking anonymously to the press) then it's even possible that the source really doesn't know about it.
Slashdot Mirror
And the Cell Phone version could power the next generation of hand held communication devices.
Did you read the article? Or even read the summary? This *is* radio. A real radio station that is broadcasting people's podcasts *over the airwaves*.
Doesn't that just make it... a Tube?
"There are certain people who have forfeited their right to exist."
The problem: that is bin Ladin's argument too.
From their point of view, the United States has attacked and killed innocent civilians. Which, truthfully, we have. It's just a question of whether we were justified or not. The first Iraq war seemed reasonably legit. The sanctions were a little iffy (millions of innocent people died in Iraq -- the question is to what degree that was the fault of the sanctions or Saddam). Our unblinking support for Isreal raises a lot of eyebrows (though I believe that through peaceful protests, the Palestinians could end the fighting as well -- either side could do it if they REALLY wanted to). Pretty much the whole world understood and approved of us going into Afghanistan after 9/11. But our recent invasion of Iraq didn't seem very justified (no WMD, no link to al Queda, no plans by Saddam to attack the US -- why are we there again?). How is our killing, say, 3,000 Iraq civilians less evil than al Queda killing 3,000 American civilians? They both seem pretty bad to me...
We have opposing goals, but at heart I don't believe we (the american people and the terrorists) are made of different stuff. If we were in their situation (powerless against a mighty enemy), I believe we would behave in a similar manner. Look at how we fought the British: sniping them instead of standing on a field of battle and fighting "fair" (because they had a better army than us, and we would have been slaughtered). That doesn't seem evil -- that seems like common sense.
The point of not dehumanizing them is that if we can understand them and put ourselves in their shoes, we can defeat them (and by defeat them, I mean both kill/capture the current terrorists and prevent new terrorist groups from forming). If we look as them simplistically as blood thirsty baby killers, then we can never understand how they work and they will only suprise us with their next attack. You must understand your enemy. From those emails, they unfortunely seem to understand us quite well.
The the abstract moral view I don't think one side is good and one side is evil, but as an American, I certainly want my side to win.
From the article text:
"The worm payload of 637 bytes is padded with data from system memory to fill this random size..."
So you are seeing some random grabage that was in memory on the victim's machine while the worm was being sent out. That helps to avoid detection as it is harder to profile the worm.
Now, I would guess that Beta VCRs would be a better analogy, but I think that TV stations used much of them for archival, and they could be more popular than I think.
I was suprised to learn a few months ago that Sony is *still* making new Betamax VCRs, though they said they were going to stop making by the end of this year. (Article about the end of Betamax)
As long as a format reaches critical mass, I think you will be able to find readers for as long as the media will hold up. If people are still using the media, then other people will keep making or repairing the readers for them.
There are lots of consumer-grade firewire webcams out there, and they should all work with linux (yay standards!). They use the same libdc1394 interface as the scientific cameras do. I'm using the Fire-i cam from unibrain.com, which cost about $130, but there are several others at that price range.
;-) i'm running 320x240 YUV422 video into my image processing app at 30 frames a second. 640x480 works too, but it looks a bit grainy (the fault of my camera's lens and ccd) and that's too much info for my app to process anyway.
This site has a lot more info on linux and firewire:
http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/hcl.php
p.s. it actuallys work.
the downside is that you may have to move it around a lot, as you might change jobs
if you do this, you WILL be changing jobs a lot, because you will get fired. ESPECIALLY if you are running a high bandwidth site with legally questionable content (as the original poster was looking to do).
http://www.es.jamstec.go.jp/esc/gallary/images/17. jpg
"I'm sorry, Shinji, I'm afraid I can't do that."
how did OS X get built on Unix and end up being better than KDE or Gnome despite a shorter gestation time?
Is it better? I've been using OS X as my main desktop for almost two months now, and it's really pretty annoying. There are so many rough edges and bad interface design decisions. It feels like they threw out all the lessons they learned in 9 genrations of the MacOS and started from scratch, making basic interface errors. I'm seriously considering switching to Linux or Win2K (i use them both on my laptop).
At one point in Panic Room they even have the main character walking barefoot across broken glass... Did make me think of Die Hard.
Hmm... I think you missed the main point I was making.
Whatever the excact definition [of 'organization'] it's hard to see how it could not apply to a nation's military.
Certainly. I just wonder what the *limits* of their definition are. Is a club an organization? A charity group staffed by volenteers? Can I distribute modified GPL binaries (say Pokemon Mozilla on a CD) to my little sister without releasing the source? How about my cousin? Second cousin's mother-in-law? We're ALL related a little bit you know... =)
Just seems like this could be a loophole in the GPL:
"We only distibute this application to members of our organization, and only in binary form. To become part of our organization, please send the organization membership fee of $199 to TrickySoft."
THAT is my settup for thinking that the GPL would require source to be provided to ANYONE, even those in the organization, who requests it.
I wonder how they define "organization". Does an employer need to give the source to an employee (if they ask for it) for the internally modified GPL programs they use on their workstation?
If they DON'T have to distibute source internally, then can't I say that my "organization" is Humanity, and that I can distribute my GPL-derived binaries (without source) to anyone within the "organization"?
And if they DO have to distribute source internally, then Pt. Joe Schmoe would be able to request the source for the missile guidence software he is pressing the blinky red buttons on. Unless they order him not to... =)
But that would only be an incorrect result if George Bush was NOT a 'dumb motherfucker'. =) And more seriously, all Google can return to you is people's opinions about certain subjects. This search just shows that at least one person believes the best example of a 'dumb motherfucker' to be explained in detail at http://www.georgewbushstore.com/
Just imagine what would have happened if the ancient greeks were so advanced that they stored all their information on CDs.
Well then I'd just pop it into my computer. =)
(Yeah, I know what you *meant*)
Part of the tackiness comes from having to fit the english dialog to the japanese lip movements. It gets very stilted when you have long pauses and then rushed strings of words to get the lips to match. It sounds like every character is doing a Captain Kirk impression.
Subtitles all the way for me...
I find a lot of japanese girl voices to be too high pitched
But that's part of the character. When I watch anime I'm watching *japanese* animation. The characters are japanese people and the story usually takes place in japan. They shouldn't sound like american valley girls and surfers. Part of what I like about anime is seeing (and hearing) a different culture.
But this is an arguement about translation that has been going on much longer than anime has existed, with both sides having good points. When translating Tolstoy's novels to English, there was a debate about translating the russian street names into common american street names (Main, Lincoln, etc). One said claimed that the novels take place in russia, so the names shouldn't be changed. The other side said that the russian names would detract from the story because they would be unfamiliar and exotic sounding, and when *russian people* read Tolstoy they don't hear that in the names. So by changing the street names you would allow the english readers to have the same *experience* reading the book as do russian readers. I'd agree with the first arguement, but I can understand why someone might agree with the second.
One anime that I do prefer dubbed is Nadesico. There are just too many characters speaking over eachother to make the subtitles work well -- you can't tell which text goes with which character. And they did a pretty good job with the voice acting in english.
These are not good bases for understanding the world.
And why is that? The stories in sci-fi movies and cartoons are written by people who are communicating their ideas and experiences to an audience. Even if they aren't trying to comment on real life, they can't help it because everything they have been exposed to during their lives will shape the characters, settings, and storylines they come up with.
The whole point of analogy is explain one thing in terms of another thing so that someone who doesn't quite get the first might understand the second and see how it connects.
Honda has had pretty decent humanoid robot prototypes since the mid 90's. They've gone through several generations, worked out a lot of the kinks, and I think 5 more years is reasonable to get them to be useful.
http://world.honda.com/robot/ (Check out the movies. Whoaaaa!)
I agree that in many factories non-humanoid robots would do the job better, but humanoid designs are incredibly useful (especially outside of the controlled factory environment) because it means they can operate in existing spaces designed for humans, use tools designed for humans, and drive vehicles designed for humans.
Everytime the bot gets blown up they can just snap it back together.
Though in solving the problem of stepping on landminds you will be CAUSING the problem of stepping on Lego pieces while walking barefoot through the fields at night. "Ouch!! Goddammit!!!"
You don't hear of a cheat detection system for English papers
;-) I guess you could just do you own work, but defeating the cheat detect software might be a more interesting challange than many of the CS assignments I've seen...
No, they have those too. The prof requires all papers to be submitted by email, and the software searches through all of them to check for papers with long strings that are identical. Anything that shows up over the "similarity threshold" is flagged as possible plagerism. I hear on the first test of the software they found several students in a large class had copied papers or sections of papers off eachother. This software is useful because in a large class (200+) the papers won't all be read by the same grad students so the "human cheat detection" wouldn't always work.
The lesson is here if you plan to copy either someone's paper or their source code, make sure to make tiny modifications all through it so it doesn't get caught by the software.
Let me just whip out the old VISA...
? cid=70636
http://store.sun.com/catalog/doc/BrowsePage.jhtml
I'm suprised they quote prices for things like that online (it's cool!). Big ticket items usually require talking to a sales rep. Check out the product configuration screen: it's like shopping at Dell or the Apple store, except with three extra zeros on the end of everything.
(288 GIGAbytes of *ram*! Yeehaa!)
One broken window that goes unrepaired means the inevitable destruction of the building
But the kid who broke the window doesn't know that. He or she just wanted to mess something up, leave a mark, "I did that!".
DoS is like squirting epoxy into the locks of a (non-empty) building or a car. It takes a little forethought and planning, and it is primarily designed to annoy other people.
My point was, that for a great many people, geeks in particular, slashdot is accepted as a credible source of information.
Hahahahaha..... =) Good one. I like Slashdot as much as anyone else, but I don't think that many people think of it as a credible source of *news* (I *hope* they don't!). Slashdot "editors" don't even do the slightest amount of fact-checking or investigation into the stories posted. And unlike some other forums, stories sit in a que until an editor looks at them, so you don't even have the instantaniousness (phew) of some other online forums.
This site is interesting and valuable for it's user commentery and links to interesting stuff -- not for it's news.
The fact that this rumor was in the Washington Post(!) makes it interesting, and makes me wonder if it's still true (it's just a counter rumor from anonymous sources that the deal doesn't exist -- neither company will officially comment on the matter).
From the article:
;-)
Representatives for AOL Time Warner, Durham, N.C.-based Red Hat and Microsoft declined to comment.
So officially the companies aren't saying anything, one way or the other. The article just quotes "sources familiar with the situation" as saying that they aren't planning anything, but then if they aren't planning anything then what "situation" is there to be close to?
And unless the source is the CEO or board member of one of the companies (who really shouldn't be talking anonymously to the press) then it's even possible that the source really doesn't know about it.