Yeah, Intentionally Disposable + Non-biodegradeable = A Bad Thing.
But on the bright side, you can dissolve styrofoam in gasoline (or other hydrocarbons). When you add enough, the solution becomes viscous and sticky (just like honey). If you love the smell of napalm in the morning, styrofoam is your friend.:)
The MSN link displays as a blank page, so here's some more references. Alison Viejo CA has officially claimed the heavyweight title for stupidest local government. I suspect they probably won't be dethroned until November 2nd at the earliest.
But to have actual direct input into policy making as the VP of a for-profit organization must be illegal and if it is not should be made so immediately.
Not illegal. Not even close. In fact, there are many currently-standing laws that are:
written entirely by private organizations
copyrighted by those organizations, with a limited license granted to the government for enforcement purposes
if you want to read the frickin law you must buy a copy from the private company
And for the grand finale: any other person who makes copies of these laws available to the public is prosecuted for copyright violation! Note that the this case was appealed to the US Supreme Court, but they refused to hear it.
The law of the land is: you don't talk about the law of the land.
if they are shooting at me, I'm definitely telling
Won't work. Back in Gulf War I a lot of soldiers outed themselves, but they were sent to Iraq anyways, then discharged immediately upon rotating home. The Army claims that gays are a threat to morale in wartime, but when push comes to shove they just care about more able bodies carrying guns.
1 m granularity isn't sufficient to make driving decisions with. Think of it this way. Could you drive in a city you've never been to w/o directions?
Well, it's a good thing the Grand Challenge is in the frickin DESERT. GPS data and a camera or 2 should be plenty to navigate open terrain with only a couple cacti in the way.
idea may anger many on Slashdot, a situation where the application of technology is bad
Nope. It's the programmers and info security folks who are the most worried about E-voting, because we know how easy it is to mess with the back end of a computerized system. It's the much less technical politicians and election administrators who wanted Diebold, over our objections.
you completely missed the point of my response to the original post
No, you are the one who missed the point of your parent's post. Upon further research, I say that creative genius strongly correlates with mental illness in general and manic-depression in particular.
You replied that most of the mentally ill are not geniuses and that many of them are poverty-stricken. While this is true, it is completely irrelevant to the question at hand: if we electrochemically block the pathways of mania, will some of humanity's genius be blocked with it?
By the end of book three (Olympus) I was completely blown away, and realized that I would never again be able to suspend my disbelief regarding ordinary infinite-series superhero comics (X-Men, Superman, etc, which go on and on and on yet nothing important ever changes). How can a world possibly contain living, walking gods and not be changed irrevocably? Alan Moore likes to tell big storieswith endings, and for that I thank him.
That means that ANY license that includes something like GPL's section 4 is uncontestable in court. So if Microsoft puts in their license agreement something
Nope. This is the HUGE difference between GPL-style "copyleft" and a typical EULA-style "copyright". The GPL gives you EXTRA rights to do things that normally would be impermissible under generic copyright law, whereas EULAs try to TAKE AWAY generic freedoms via licensing.
So if either license is invalidated, you can use legally-acquired software any way you want (aka more free than EULA), but no redistribution is allowed (aka less free than GPL).
I use my Yahoo email address on everything [ . . . ] SPF will mean problems
The official SPF Objections page has several solutions for you. One simple option: put your local SMTP account on the From: line and your Yahoo address on the Reply-To: line.
copyright laws, that prevent the taking of pictures even in public areas. [ . . . ] Try taking pictures of paintings in a museum
Umm... a museum is generally not a public place. If you're inside someone else's building, they make the rules (about cameras, at least). If you're outdoors on a public right of way, you can take photos of any damn thing you please. Or at least should be allowed to, except in a police state.
switched (over my objections) from CVS to SourceSafe. I didn't realize how bad SourceSafe was until we started having trouble
Are there any easy-bake utilities for migrating from VSS to SVN (or CVS)? I am 50% of the non-Windows staff in my organization, so this would be a very hard sell. The plus of "no more license fees" is balanced by the minus of "it isn't from Microsoft". Switching must be seamless & painless. Yes/no?
You know, that statement would work a lot better if you gave an actual punishment rather than slang
You know, I think the grandparent post had an excellent suggestion for appropriate punishment of virus writers:
virus writing will get you in deep shit
Convicted virus writers should be sentenced to hard labor, shoveling in a manure processing plant, like the evil midget from Mad Max: Jumping the Sharkdome.
Even Republicans should be offended and scared about this -- if elections can be rigged for them they can be rigged against them
Nope. All of the voting equipment manufacturers are owned and operated by loyal republicans. Check their campaign contribution records.
They're fully prepared to control any vote fraud this fall. I must admit, Cheney really *is* an evil genius.
the US Constitution explicitly provides Congress with the right to make IP laws and even provides a brief rationale for them.
Indeed, Article 1 Section 8 contains one of the very few places in the Constitution where the founders specifically included a reason for the rule. (2nd Amendment is the only other I remember off the top of my head)
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries
You're right that the Supremes won't be overturning copyright laws any time soon, but wrong about the reasons. If they chose to do so, they could say that current law does not promote progress, and that perpetual & retroactive extensions are not limited times. Sadly, a majority of the court sides with the copyright lobby, so they won't.
same group that said SDI wouldn't work back in '83-'84
Umm... in 1980s terms they were absolutely 100% correct. Reagan proposed SDI to protect the USA from an all-out Soviet bombardment. The UCS said blocking 1000ish missiles at the same time would be prohibitively expensive (maybe quadrillions of dollars) if not impossible.
20 years later, we've got preliminary testing of anti-missiles that might be able to knock out at most a dozen incoming warheads, in a narrow region of airspace. Not nearly the same thing.
Insightful my ass. Jet hijacking is over. 9-11 was a one-time-only deal that changed the rules of air travel.
Previously, the crew was supposed to allow the hijackers to take control, since they would merely want you to land the plane in Cuba or whatever. Now, everyone on the plane (crew AND passenger) is prepared to fight for their lives. Result: there have been several attempted hijackings since 9-11, with exactly zero successes.
I've been proposing this for years. For your first DUI/DWI, you get a fat fine and points on your license. For your second conviction, the police takes your license, and your car. For #3 and beyond, it's license, car, and go to jail. Most people will stop driving drunk pretty quickly.
It's a simple solution that's easy to implement, isn't intrusive on innocent people, and provides non-tax revenue for local government. Do any states do this? I contacted my local legislators but they weren't interested.
I, for one, support our new infrastructure overlords. Seriously, I do.
Taking care of public networks -- whether they are roads, water, power, telecomm, etc -- is exactly what local/regional governments should do (preferably with federal support). They have the necessary scope for the job, and unlike commercial interests they don't have disincentive to spend money on routine maintenance and expansion.
Let private enterprises compete fairly at the back end to provide whatever goods and services are sent down the pipes. Let government provide said pipes for all to use, unlike our current highly cutthroat but also highly inefficient networks.
My favorite quote on the topic came from Wired. Marcus Ranum thinks Geer's message would have been mostly ignored by the public at large, except for @stake's "brilliant surgical marketing strike on its left foot by firing Dan".
forcing you into a monoculture of quirky, overpriced hardware
Yeah, and we all know how many awful hardware vulnerabilities there have been in recent decades...:p
dropped floppies and non-USB interfaces much later, only after they were not that useful anymore
Except that you're ignoring the chicken-v-egg problem. USB did not become ubiquitous until after Apple forced the issue. No one else had the balls to say "screw dumb serial ports, USB is better". GUI, 3.5", CD-ROM, PnP, etc... Apple intentionally drives technology forward, even when many people are kicking and screaming to stay behind.
Meanwhile, none of this has anything to do with security and monocultures.
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But on the bright side, you can dissolve styrofoam in gasoline (or other hydrocarbons). When you add enough, the solution becomes viscous and sticky (just like honey). If you love the smell of napalm in the morning, styrofoam is your friend. :)
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Not illegal. Not even close. In fact, there are many currently-standing laws that are:
- written entirely by private organizations
- copyrighted by those organizations, with a limited license granted to the government for enforcement purposes
- if you want to read the frickin law you must buy a copy from the private company
And for the grand finale: any other person who makes copies of these laws available to the public is prosecuted for copyright violation! Note that the this case was appealed to the US Supreme Court, but they refused to hear it.The law of the land is: you don't talk about the law of the land.
Won't work. Back in Gulf War I a lot of soldiers outed themselves, but they were sent to Iraq anyways, then discharged immediately upon rotating home. The Army claims that gays are a threat to morale in wartime, but when push comes to shove they just care about more able bodies carrying guns.
Well, it's a good thing the Grand Challenge is in the frickin DESERT. GPS data and a camera or 2 should be plenty to navigate open terrain with only a couple cacti in the way.
Nope. It's the programmers and info security folks who are the most worried about E-voting, because we know how easy it is to mess with the back end of a computerized system. It's the much less technical politicians and election administrators who wanted Diebold, over our objections.
No, you are the one who missed the point of your parent's post. Upon further research, I say that creative genius strongly correlates with mental illness in general and manic-depression in particular.
You replied that most of the mentally ill are not geniuses and that many of them are poverty-stricken. While this is true, it is completely irrelevant to the question at hand: if we electrochemically block the pathways of mania, will some of humanity's genius be blocked with it?
I think you need to have a word with the authors of published studies linking creativity and mental illness, because psych researchers at multiple universities disagree with your declaration.
A substantial and disproportionate number of world-famous writers and artists suffered from cyclothymia, if not full-blown manic-depression.Hey, don't forget Miracleman (aka Marvelman)!
By the end of book three (Olympus) I was completely blown away, and realized that I would never again be able to suspend my disbelief regarding ordinary infinite-series superhero comics (X-Men, Superman, etc, which go on and on and on yet nothing important ever changes). How can a world possibly contain living, walking gods and not be changed irrevocably? Alan Moore likes to tell big stories with endings, and for that I thank him.Nope. This is the HUGE difference between GPL-style "copyleft" and a typical EULA-style "copyright". The GPL gives you EXTRA rights to do things that normally would be impermissible under generic copyright law, whereas EULAs try to TAKE AWAY generic freedoms via licensing.
So if either license is invalidated, you can use legally-acquired software any way you want (aka more free than EULA), but no redistribution is allowed (aka less free than GPL).The official SPF Objections page has several solutions for you. One simple option: put your local SMTP account on the From: line and your Yahoo address on the Reply-To: line.
Umm... a museum is generally not a public place. If you're inside someone else's building, they make the rules (about cameras, at least). If you're outdoors on a public right of way, you can take photos of any damn thing you please. Or at least should be allowed to, except in a police state.
Are there any easy-bake utilities for migrating from VSS to SVN (or CVS)? I am 50% of the non-Windows staff in my organization, so this would be a very hard sell. The plus of "no more license fees" is balanced by the minus of "it isn't from Microsoft". Switching must be seamless & painless. Yes/no?
You know, I think the grandparent post had an excellent suggestion for appropriate punishment of virus writers:
Convicted virus writers should be sentenced to hard labor, shoveling in a manure processing plant, like the evil midget from Mad Max: Jumping the Sharkdome.
Nope. All of the voting equipment manufacturers are owned and operated by loyal republicans. Check their campaign contribution records. They're fully prepared to control any vote fraud this fall. I must admit, Cheney really *is* an evil genius.
Indeed, Article 1 Section 8 contains one of the very few places in the Constitution where the founders specifically included a reason for the rule. (2nd Amendment is the only other I remember off the top of my head)
You're right that the Supremes won't be overturning copyright laws any time soon, but wrong about the reasons. If they chose to do so, they could say that current law does not promote progress, and that perpetual & retroactive extensions are not limited times. Sadly, a majority of the court sides with the copyright lobby, so they won't.I still say it would have discouraged that guy if he lost a car every time he got caught. 400 arrests!!!
Umm... in 1980s terms they were absolutely 100% correct. Reagan proposed SDI to protect the USA from an all-out Soviet bombardment. The UCS said blocking 1000ish missiles at the same time would be prohibitively expensive (maybe quadrillions of dollars) if not impossible.
20 years later, we've got preliminary testing of anti-missiles that might be able to knock out at most a dozen incoming warheads, in a narrow region of airspace. Not nearly the same thing.
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We could fly a jet into a building once a monthInsightful my ass. Jet hijacking is over. 9-11 was a one-time-only deal that changed the rules of air travel.
Previously, the crew was supposed to allow the hijackers to take control, since they would merely want you to land the plane in Cuba or whatever. Now, everyone on the plane (crew AND passenger) is prepared to fight for their lives. Result: there have been several attempted hijackings since 9-11, with exactly zero successes.We could fly a jet into a building once a month
My VW TDI starts in 1 second in warm weather, about 4 seconds in snow.
It's a simple solution that's easy to implement, isn't intrusive on innocent people, and provides non-tax revenue for local government. Do any states do this? I contacted my local legislators but they weren't interested.
Taking care of public networks -- whether they are roads, water, power, telecomm, etc -- is exactly what local/regional governments should do (preferably with federal support). They have the necessary scope for the job, and unlike commercial interests they don't have disincentive to spend money on routine maintenance and expansion.
Let private enterprises compete fairly at the back end to provide whatever goods and services are sent down the pipes. Let government provide said pipes for all to use, unlike our current highly cutthroat but also highly inefficient networks.My favorite quote on the topic came from Wired. Marcus Ranum thinks Geer's message would have been mostly ignored by the public at large, except for @stake's "brilliant surgical marketing strike on its left foot by firing Dan".
Yeah, and we all know how many awful hardware vulnerabilities there have been in recent decades... :p
dropped floppies and non-USB interfaces much later, only after they were not that useful anymoreExcept that you're ignoring the chicken-v-egg problem. USB did not become ubiquitous until after Apple forced the issue. No one else had the balls to say "screw dumb serial ports, USB is better". GUI, 3.5", CD-ROM, PnP, etc... Apple intentionally drives technology forward, even when many people are kicking and screaming to stay behind.
Meanwhile, none of this has anything to do with security and monocultures.