It's good that we have an online museum like this because we in the U.S. will need to remember how to manufacture again once China floats the Renminbi.
The experts should write the original articles so that they are complete and coherent, and then the public should edit out the bias and add alternative points of view.
Do any of the services scan the liner notes? For that matter, can any of the audio players automatically display scanned liner notes associated with a song? Is there any standard format for scanned liner notes?
Forget the grocery store (especially these days with groceries ordered over the Interent). Why, with e-paper, I'd want my cereal box to be web enabled, because it would be a whole lot better than reading the cereal ingredients over and over again over breakfast.
Boy, did the prognisticators really miss that one -- everyone kept talking about web-enabled microwaves. Little did they know the web-enabled cereal box would come first.
Here's the briefest summary of Maria Montessori's four planes of development that I could find via Google. The first six years are known as the "absorbent mind". The "reasoning mind" doesn't start until the next six years (ages 6-12). The kids in TFA were ages 3-4. No big surprise they couldn't reason and abstract.
Now ask a chimp to have a vocabulary of 10,000 words.
Maria Montessori's major insight was that there are "sensitive periods" for various developments -- an age to walk, an age for toilet independence, an age to talk, an age to learn practical life skills, an age to acquire knowledge, an age to self-consciously play a role in human society, and an age to develop a profession. If a person does not learn and develop a skill during the sensitive period, that person will struggle with that skill until death.
Three and four year olds aren't ready to reason. Teach them to read, to sew, and to cook instead.
There was a time, 20 years ago, when all software, including business software, was copy protected. It caused businesses no end of headaches. So the software industry, except for games, switched to no copy protection, and simultaneously the BSA took out full page magazine ads that said "don't copy that floppy" and warned of hundred thousand dollar fines.
That's why to this day you can copy the media of just about any software without worrying about things like funky formatted sectors.
Too bad the BSA is going the way of the RIAA. I was hoping it would go the other way around, that the RIAA would take a cue from the old BSA and abandom DRM and launch a campaign to make copying copyrighted music a social stigma.
I had pretty much the same question as the GP. A two-phase attack -- envoy and then spread -- seems pretty complex to me. How would such complexity evolve since cancer is not contagious?
If you are giving two weeks notice, it usually means you have another job lined up. Your current employer doesn't know with which company -- it could be a competitor. You might have gone to several interviews with that competitor and gained an understanding of that competitor's projects you will be working on. The two weeks period represents additional opportunities for contact between you and that competitor. You might be tempted to take some of your work -- documents, spreadsheets, and source code -- that you authored, but which now are your current employer's property and confidential trade secrets, with you to that competitor.
Why does the technique of instant-shut-out-upon-resignation work, when you could have just copied everything in advance? Because people like you don't know it's standard operating procedure at most large firms. Because not everyone recognizes up front that they'll be starting over from scratch in creating artifacts at the new company (and that stealing back your documents from the old company would give you a seeming, but illegal, advantage). Because competing companies fishing for trade secrets don't usually start fishing until after you confirm you're going to accept the position, which is usually about the same time that you submit your resignation.
Nice analysis, including one suggestion I hadn't thought of myself (geotargeting of news and ads), but my main gripe with newspaper websites is that most of them still do not hyperlink to the material they're reporting on. See my rant from a year and a half ago. Amazing that Yahoo! has been around for 11 years and most newspaper websites still do not hyperlink.
I believe Greyhound/Trailways are still completely anonymous. And I believe Amtrak was anonymous until just a few months ago. I can understand the desire for requiring ID for airline travel, but I don't like it (and would vote against it given the opportunity, which, of course, we never are). But requiring ID for train travel definitely crosses the line, as it is much more difficult (nothing is impossible:-) to turn a train into a missile capable of broad destruction beyond the train itself.
(Trivia digression: when did ID for airlines start? Answer: after the 1996 TWA "non-terrorism" crash. Wow, that ID stuff was really effective, wasn't it?)
TFA/CDC may have mentioned only airlines, but of course it would be extended to all forms of travel. Pretty clever, actually -- it's easier to sell the idea of ID'ing on buses for the bird flu than it is for terrorism.
And I didn't see a link for it in any of the +5 comments, so here is Gilmore v. Gonzales, John Gilmore's attempt to challenge the practice of ID'ing at airports.
As usual, a Slashdot story summary haughtily uses new jargon without defining the term. So as usual, I go to Wikipedia to look it up. It seems there are two definitions.
One definition is an encrypted protocol over the Internet. The other definition is using wireless technologies off the Internet. Oddly, the person quoted in the CIO article was trying to claim that encrypted, closed file sharing over the Internet was nothing like a VPN. That makes no sense to me, especially given the other definition of a darknet (the wireless one off the Internet) really is nothing like a VPN.
A wireless-off-the-Internet darknet could serve Thomas Paine purposes if the U.S. government ever shuts down the Internet in response to a terrorist attack. An encrypted, closed information sharing network on the Internet could not.
Pope Pius XII declared in the 1950 encyclical Humani Generis that evolution was not incompatible with the Catholic faith:
For these reasons the Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid that, in conformity with the present state of human sciences and sacred theology, research and discussions, on the part of men experienced in both fields, take place with regard to the doctrine of evolution, in as far as it inquires into the origin of the human body as coming from pre-existent and living matter - for the Catholic faith obliges us to hold that souls are immediately created by God.
I.e., Catholics may investigate whether the human body evolved from apes, but the origin of the immortal human soul cannot be questioned without repudiating the Catholic faith.
At the same time, Catholics are free, if they so choose, to believe the Bible literally -- i.e., Creationism.
As for Intelligent Design, that already got a thorough debunking from the November, 2002 session of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (TOC) in the paper Science and Culture (pages 79-81). The paper labels Intelligent Design as bad science. From my own personal view of theology, I doubt that anything like Intelligent Design could ever be shown, because in that case such evidence would compel people to believe in God, which would take away their free will.
In short, Creationism alone, evolution alone, and Intelligent Design at all are all incompatible with the Catholic faith. Thus there is little prospect for Catholic parents to find a public school that teaches the origin of life in a manner compatible with the Catholic faith. That is why I am a signatory to the Proclamation for the Separation of School and State.
With HDTVs firmly established and High Def DVDs coming out in less than a year, this could perhaps be the last big fleecing of the DVD collector. It puts George Lucas to shame.
Of course, all the movies could benefit from high-def, but I believe half the TNG shots were filmed rather than videotaped. It could be weird switching back and forth between resolutions within a single episode, but should be available as an option. Any collector would want that option.
In the late 80's, I would make weekly trips to the LaserDisc store and happily buy non-copy-protected movies for $35 each. I would pay the same now. Yeah, I wouldn't get the 12" cover art, but then again I'd just as soon store it digitally so as to save on increasingly valuable real estate (the literal kind of real estate).
Of course, that $35 would be for DRM-free, which of course we'll never see from Hollywood.
Modding is a slang expression for the act of modifying a piece of hardware or software to perform a function not intended or authorized by the original manufacturer.
For the most part, the U.S. third parties (Libertarian, Reform, Constitution, and Green) are just trying to get the U.S. government to respect the Constitution. That's not modding, that's fixing.
Full table from senate.gov. Of the five justices nominated between Reagan and elder Bush, three voted in 1992 to uphold Roe v. Wade in Planned Parenthood v. Casey:
JUSTICE O'CONNOR, JUSTICE KENNEDY, and JUSTICE SOUTER delivered the opinion of the Court with respect to Parts I, II, and III, concluding that consideration of the fundamental constitutional question resolved by Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 , principles of institutional integrity, and the rule of stare decisis require that Roe's essential holding be retained.
Batting just two out of five makes one wonder whether Republicans are really serious at ending abortion, or whether they prefer to keep it alive as an issue to garner votes.
As for Roberts, neither of the two most popular quotes of his are relevant. Quote #1 of "We continue to believe that Roe was wrongly decided and should be overruled" was made when he was solicitor general and charged to represent the views of President Reagan. Apparently contradictory quote #2 "Roe v. Wade is the settled law of the land," was made when he was being confirmed for a lower court -- what else could he have said? No, the most important quote is "I don't think it's appropriate for me to criticize [Roe] as judicial activism.... My definition of judicial activism is when the court departs from applying the rule of law and undertakes legislative or executive decisions." That indicates he sees nothing glaringly wrong with Roe v. Wade and thus will not vote to overturn.
The scary part about Roberts, though, is his close ties to Bush and support for his policies such as Guantanamo Bay. With the Chief Justice gone, my fear is that Bush may make Roberts Chief Justice rather than the earlier favorites of Thomas or Scalia.
Thomas, at least, voted for medical marijuana (along with Rehnquist) as a vote for states rights and constitutionality. Thomas would be the strict Constitutionalist ideological heir of Rehnquist for the Chief Justice seat, but we're likely to end up with a neocon like Roberts instead.
OpenOffice is pretty darn close to being compatible enough with Microsoft Office, and getting closer all the time. Office has been the reason for Windows' monopoly of the desktop since the revolutionary Word for Windows 2.0 in 1991, and remains the reason to this day due to its entrenchment with files in use and people trained in it.
The combination of Linux and OpenOffice is already cracking the Windows monopoly, and it is growning to a fissure. AJAX will have nothing to do with it, because Java Swing is good enough for any internal apps that need a fat, rich client.
And we are not seeing increased teen pregnancy and divorce as a result of Elvis?
The problems of broad-scale youth rebeliion started around 1890. Really. People mistakenly believe "look 20 years before year XXX and you'll see such and such". But they don't go back into the 19th century, and if they do, they just think the Victorian era was an aberration in a timeline of millenia otherwise consumed with sin. Sex, wars, and youth rebellion may always have been present, but not to the degree they are today.
There are two intertwined causes for this increase: technology, and the philosophy of Modernism. Both took off around 1890.
The crux of Modernism is to reject tradition -- whatever is good and proven from the past should be thrown out, and the new should be experimented with. Note that this nonsense is the opposite of the "software patterns" movement which has empirically proved itself.
The fast pace of technology empowers children, who can adapt and learn faster than their parents. That makes children since around 1890 smarter -- much smarter -- in the ways of the world than their parents. A second effect of technology was to eliminate the need for children to work with their parents, leading to constant conflict between parents and aimless children. Maria Montessori recognized this and created her method for "normalizing" children, but the public school system, a product of both technology and Modernism, has largely shunned Montessori in favor of Froebel.
I've illustrated how technology and modernism have escalated youth rebellion. Their role in escalating war is outside the scope of this post, but briefly, technology is obviously the driver behind more effective killing, and Modernism, specifically Marxism (totalitarian socialism), is the driver behind more effective empire-building (because it is intellectually seductive).
Before Bush could go to war, Bush was obligated under the October, 2002 so-called war authorization by Congress to inform Congress that such action was "consistent" with "taking action against" the Sep. 11 terrorists. Leading up to the war, Bush was desperately pounding the CIA to come up with such evidence. They were unable to, so Bush simply issued a letter to Congress blandly asserting the completely unsupportable proposition anyway:
Text of a Letter from the President to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate
March 18, 2003
Dear Mr. Speaker: (Dear Mr. President:)
Consistent with section 3(b) of the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002 (Public Law 107-243), and based on information available to me, including that in the enclosed document, I determine that:
(1) reliance by the United States on further diplomatic and other peaceful means alone will neither (A) adequately protect the national security of the United States against the continuing threat posed by Iraq nor (B) likely lead to enforcement of all relevant United Nations Security Council resolutions regarding Iraq; and
(2) acting pursuant to the Constitution and Public Law 107-243 is consistent with the United States and other countries continuing to take the necessary actions against international terrorists and terrorist organizations, including those nations, organizations, or persons who planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001.
Sincerely,
GEORGE W. BUSH
This letter, and the need for it, is the most underreported aspect of the entire war, in my opinion, and an article on it is one of the most viewed on my blogs -- I was the first to break the story, simply by reading the text of the war authorization act on thomas.loc.gov. Too bad the mass media couldn't have done the same.
Israel's enemies are armed thanks to the U.S. The "military industrial complex" (that Eisenhower warned about) is reaping profits by pitting one nation against another and selling arms to them all. And then there's the blowback -- both Saddam and Osama were products of the U.S.
Slashdot Mirror
It's good that we have an online museum like this because we in the U.S. will need to remember how to manufacture again once China floats the Renminbi.
The experts should write the original articles so that they are complete and coherent, and then the public should edit out the bias and add alternative points of view.
Do any of the services scan the liner notes? For that matter, can any of the audio players automatically display scanned liner notes associated with a song? Is there any standard format for scanned liner notes?
Boy, did the prognisticators really miss that one -- everyone kept talking about web-enabled microwaves. Little did they know the web-enabled cereal box would come first.
Now ask a chimp to have a vocabulary of 10,000 words.
Maria Montessori's major insight was that there are "sensitive periods" for various developments -- an age to walk, an age for toilet independence, an age to talk, an age to learn practical life skills, an age to acquire knowledge, an age to self-consciously play a role in human society, and an age to develop a profession. If a person does not learn and develop a skill during the sensitive period, that person will struggle with that skill until death.
Three and four year olds aren't ready to reason. Teach them to read, to sew, and to cook instead.
There was a time, 20 years ago, when all software, including business software, was copy protected. It caused businesses no end of headaches. So the software industry, except for games, switched to no copy protection, and simultaneously the BSA took out full page magazine ads that said "don't copy that floppy" and warned of hundred thousand dollar fines.
That's why to this day you can copy the media of just about any software without worrying about things like funky formatted sectors.
Too bad the BSA is going the way of the RIAA. I was hoping it would go the other way around, that the RIAA would take a cue from the old BSA and abandom DRM and launch a campaign to make copying copyrighted music a social stigma.
I had pretty much the same question as the GP. A two-phase attack -- envoy and then spread -- seems pretty complex to me. How would such complexity evolve since cancer is not contagious?
Why does the technique of instant-shut-out-upon-resignation work, when you could have just copied everything in advance? Because people like you don't know it's standard operating procedure at most large firms. Because not everyone recognizes up front that they'll be starting over from scratch in creating artifacts at the new company (and that stealing back your documents from the old company would give you a seeming, but illegal, advantage). Because competing companies fishing for trade secrets don't usually start fishing until after you confirm you're going to accept the position, which is usually about the same time that you submit your resignation.
Nice analysis, including one suggestion I hadn't thought of myself (geotargeting of news and ads), but my main gripe with newspaper websites is that most of them still do not hyperlink to the material they're reporting on. See my rant from a year and a half ago. Amazing that Yahoo! has been around for 11 years and most newspaper websites still do not hyperlink.
(Trivia digression: when did ID for airlines start? Answer: after the 1996 TWA "non-terrorism" crash. Wow, that ID stuff was really effective, wasn't it?)
TFA/CDC may have mentioned only airlines, but of course it would be extended to all forms of travel. Pretty clever, actually -- it's easier to sell the idea of ID'ing on buses for the bird flu than it is for terrorism.
And I didn't see a link for it in any of the +5 comments, so here is Gilmore v. Gonzales, John Gilmore's attempt to challenge the practice of ID'ing at airports.
One definition is an encrypted protocol over the Internet. The other definition is using wireless technologies off the Internet. Oddly, the person quoted in the CIO article was trying to claim that encrypted, closed file sharing over the Internet was nothing like a VPN. That makes no sense to me, especially given the other definition of a darknet (the wireless one off the Internet) really is nothing like a VPN.
A wireless-off-the-Internet darknet could serve Thomas Paine purposes if the U.S. government ever shuts down the Internet in response to a terrorist attack. An encrypted, closed information sharing network on the Internet could not.
At the same time, Catholics are free, if they so choose, to believe the Bible literally -- i.e., Creationism.
As for Intelligent Design, that already got a thorough debunking from the November, 2002 session of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (TOC) in the paper Science and Culture (pages 79-81). The paper labels Intelligent Design as bad science. From my own personal view of theology, I doubt that anything like Intelligent Design could ever be shown, because in that case such evidence would compel people to believe in God, which would take away their free will.
In short, Creationism alone, evolution alone, and Intelligent Design at all are all incompatible with the Catholic faith. Thus there is little prospect for Catholic parents to find a public school that teaches the origin of life in a manner compatible with the Catholic faith. That is why I am a signatory to the Proclamation for the Separation of School and State.
Of course, all the movies could benefit from high-def, but I believe half the TNG shots were filmed rather than videotaped. It could be weird switching back and forth between resolutions within a single episode, but should be available as an option. Any collector would want that option.
You know the Nazis had pieces of flair that they made the Jews wear.
Of course, that $35 would be for DRM-free, which of course we'll never see from Hollywood.
Besides, the HiTi printers are dither-free continuous-tone dye-sublimation (plus clear overcoat) for just 40 cents per print in consumables.
Yeah, but will I get to see product placements of unreleased Atari videogames?
As for Roberts, neither of the two most popular quotes of his are relevant. Quote #1 of "We continue to believe that Roe was wrongly decided and should be overruled" was made when he was solicitor general and charged to represent the views of President Reagan. Apparently contradictory quote #2 "Roe v. Wade is the settled law of the land," was made when he was being confirmed for a lower court -- what else could he have said? No, the most important quote is "I don't think it's appropriate for me to criticize [Roe] as judicial activism. ... My definition of judicial activism is when the court departs from applying the rule of law and undertakes legislative or executive decisions." That indicates he sees nothing glaringly wrong with Roe v. Wade and thus will not vote to overturn.
The scary part about Roberts, though, is his close ties to Bush and support for his policies such as Guantanamo Bay. With the Chief Justice gone, my fear is that Bush may make Roberts Chief Justice rather than the earlier favorites of Thomas or Scalia.
Thomas, at least, voted for medical marijuana (along with Rehnquist) as a vote for states rights and constitutionality. Thomas would be the strict Constitutionalist ideological heir of Rehnquist for the Chief Justice seat, but we're likely to end up with a neocon like Roberts instead.
FDR's Thought Police: Still Alive, Still Censoring
No one's going to may more for a Mac and risk Office file compatibility problems between Mac and PC versions.
The combination of Linux and OpenOffice is already cracking the Windows monopoly, and it is growning to a fissure. AJAX will have nothing to do with it, because Java Swing is good enough for any internal apps that need a fat, rich client.
The problems of broad-scale youth rebeliion started around 1890. Really. People mistakenly believe "look 20 years before year XXX and you'll see such and such". But they don't go back into the 19th century, and if they do, they just think the Victorian era was an aberration in a timeline of millenia otherwise consumed with sin. Sex, wars, and youth rebellion may always have been present, but not to the degree they are today.
There are two intertwined causes for this increase: technology, and the philosophy of Modernism. Both took off around 1890.
The crux of Modernism is to reject tradition -- whatever is good and proven from the past should be thrown out, and the new should be experimented with. Note that this nonsense is the opposite of the "software patterns" movement which has empirically proved itself.
The fast pace of technology empowers children, who can adapt and learn faster than their parents. That makes children since around 1890 smarter -- much smarter -- in the ways of the world than their parents. A second effect of technology was to eliminate the need for children to work with their parents, leading to constant conflict between parents and aimless children. Maria Montessori recognized this and created her method for "normalizing" children, but the public school system, a product of both technology and Modernism, has largely shunned Montessori in favor of Froebel.
I've illustrated how technology and modernism have escalated youth rebellion. Their role in escalating war is outside the scope of this post, but briefly, technology is obviously the driver behind more effective killing, and Modernism, specifically Marxism (totalitarian socialism), is the driver behind more effective empire-building (because it is intellectually seductive).
Israel's enemies are armed thanks to the U.S. The "military industrial complex" (that Eisenhower warned about) is reaping profits by pitting one nation against another and selling arms to them all. And then there's the blowback -- both Saddam and Osama were products of the U.S.