When you can join a plausible need (border enforcement) with an unnecessary, implausible and/or unpopular one (national identification card), you've got what's called a cover story. In the 1970's, this was called crypto-fascism. Joining a popular cause to an unpopular one in a way thats difficult or impossible to separate:
So you want to make it easier to detain arbitrary individuals? Hack the law under the guise of "terrorism"! Status: currently under way.
Want to build a massive database linking people to their bad habits? Mandate a national ID card with biometric features backed by a national database. Then, promote the use of on-the-spot scanning (first the ID card, later the people) for sales of liquor, cigarettes, entry to over-18 and over-21 bars and clubs. Soon people will get used to it, forget what it was like before, and accept that they have to furnish verifiable biometric identification for all of life's little pleasures. Status: implemented in over a dozen states.
I mean, verifiable ID is not a bad idea, I'm not against it. It's just that, where this is already being done (New York State for instance), its being handled by contractors, and, as far as I can tell there are no limits on what they can do with your data. Are they keeping track of everywhere you're scanned? Will this information be admissible in court? Enough questions to fly a few jumbo jets through.
"Mmmmm, don't they look delicious! Let's jump into the saucer and head on down to that part of the galaxy. And hey, could you grab that cookbook on the counter?"
If you believe that a flounder crossed with a virus crossed with a tomato (i.e. the Flavr Savr(tm) tomato) is "natural selection," or anything like it, you've got another think coming. The "crossing" is done across kingdoms, phylums etc. Genes added to new species don't have to (or often) come from the same family.
Natural selection follows the natural branch paths of evolutionary descendency - GM bypasses all that, by shotgunning entirely unrelated genes into a particular species genome. Where natural selection weeded out the bad 'uns, the mutations and variations that weren't fit to survive, or that didn't fit into the ecosystem, here we don't get that natural balancing effect.
The likelihood is that it will take thousands to millions of years for the effects of our GM work to be sorted out in nature.
The other thing the Constitution says is that you have the right to confront your accusers. Ah, who is the accuser in this case? An anonymous person! Could the FBI and the police have made this person up? You don't know. Dilemma.
If the doc has any mettle, this case would likely go to the supremes, as clearly there are unanswered questions.
That's what torrentspy.com's for, silly! A *central* place to gather comments about a particular p2p object.
With Sony's "p2p" user review system, you'll be facing the consequences of power law networks, in which the number of versions of the attached comments could be as many as the number of copies of the media. You copy a file from my system, make a change, now your version is different than mine. Ad-infinitum. Comments won't travel together.
Not to mention the potential use of pharmaceuticals to reduce/mask the physical expression or symptoms of fear, nervousness that arise when lying. Beta-blockers (Inderal for ex.), higher doses of SSRIs, certain sedatives. Defeating lie detectors is standard craftwork in the spy biz, and some of the drugs to do it can be bought over-the-counter in Mexico.
This is not an "insightful" comment, because it's wrong on at least two counts.
It's almost as though you didn't read the parent post, or read just the words you wanted to. "Essentially eliminated" != "eliminate".
1. Ajax does NOT eliminate the round trip between client and server. It just lends the ILLUSION of doing so. Sure it looks cool and wonderful, but requests still have to go to the server, and responses still have to come back over the wire. It only *looks* seamless if you've a broadband connection, which lots of folks still don't.
Sorry, but it's not sending the ENTIRE page, which was the main point of the parent post that you seemed to miss. It's likely sending an insignificant fraction of the page, just the delta -- much less data to *retransmit*, and then *rerender* on the client. Quoth the OP:
AJAX... helps do away with the concept of pages that have to have every element transmitted and redrawn on every roundtrip. AJAX does one better and essentially eliminates the roundtrip altogether. A button click just sends the data that's pertinent and redraws only the pertinent parts.
More clear? Think deltas, which means requesting, transmitting, and rendering only the portion of the page that actually needs to be changed... all the other gunk can stay right where it is.
Both have a place. Neural nets, in all their variety, have a long, loooong way to go before acquiring enough resolution to have the ability gather the same level of understanding that Cyc has. Nets are usually highly specialized, where Cyc has tremendous breadth and depth.
Nets learn, but Cyc is taught. Do you push a newborn infant out into the world and expect it to acquire all it needs to know in order to be a successful organism? Of course not. And Cyc lacks the inverse, because it's just a predicate base.
Reread the parent post - they sued under the SCA, not contract law. Any precedent and case law applies only to the provisions of law invoked by the plaintiff.
Know what you mean. A few of them have dipped a toe in the water of bravery, but not until after their lawyers have cleared em. NYTimes turned the Judith Miller thing into a PR stunt, knowing it wouldn't do anything good for the press.
Where did all the investigative journalists go? All got mortgages and families to look after, eh? The Village Voice was harbor to a few, but they just recently were sold to a very conservative businessman, who's begun firing those journalists.
It's interesting to see that Wired has put themselves out there, being they're owned by Conde-Nast, a bastion of the mainstream media.
It's a flash generator. Like weapons of war, AJAX is neutral. How you decide to use your guns (to make war, to protect against), is up to you. You can make a fun-to-use site in AJAX, or you can make one that assumes the user is an idiot (or both! or neither.) It's just a toolset.
And consider that the web caused user interface development to stall out (in the WWW context) for at least half a decade. Unless you're using flash, Laszlo or AJAX, you're stuck with the *very basic* set of UI widgets given us by Uncle Tim, all of which date back to the late 1980s. AJAX is a way around the limits of HTML+HTTP, while still allowing most of your site to be coded in HTML+CSS.
What if you want to add a dynamically-extendable drop-down to an input form? One that doesn't require the user leave the entry form they're on, or to open another window to navigate to the admin section of your site? AJAX is a technique that makes it easier.
If you'd read to the end of TFA, you'd have seen this paragraph-
The court's gag order is very specific in barring only the EFF, its representatives and its technical experts from discussing and disseminating this information. The court explicitly rejected AT&T's motion to include Klein in the gag order and declined AT&T's request to force the EFF to return the documents.
Wired didn't abuse the system, they played right within the rules. This is exactly the sort of case that makes democracies stronger - the government is accused of widespread abuse of power, and tries hard to avoid having any light shed on its case. The press reveals the evidence against the government, and the public gains insight into what their elected leaders are doing. Without an unfettered press, we'd have no clue what they were up to.
AC, your post reminds me exactly of those fashionistas who, when they find out you've only now started listening to their favorite band, exclaim "I've been listening to them from the beginning." It's okay, we all understand - you need something to make you feel important. Enjoy your precious little snub-club.
Me, I'll be working with the same OS X apps and tools I've been using at work for the last two years. I convinced the studio to convert from PC, after editing video and mixing audio on the PC for eight years. The choices there are either extremely pricey, or just pathetic. The broad range of tools I've used on the G4s/G5s at work (Logic, Reason, FCP, and all the helper/conversion utilities, etc.) are kick-ass by comparison.
Plus, the fact that it's a unixy o/s. Any off-the-shelf computer that comes with shells, is able to run my standard languages (Perl, Ruby, Python) etc. AND runs great content creation tools - that's my new computer. %^>
Hmmm... seems like you're splitting hairs over getting less than an inch of diagonal screen real estate. Plus, your wife wanted an Apple, which is a qualitative difference you can't measure or hold up as a cost savings. For some Apple might be a status symbol, for others it might be the software. I imagine the laptop you got her is running the O/S it came with, to stay legal and all?;-)
To me, the difference comes down to the software. The Macbook'll be my first Apple computer (I'm a unix and windoze developer), and I'll be happy to use an o/s that comes with some genuinely well thought-out apps and utilities. Windows built-in apps tend to be crippled and underpowered, but what I saw last night at the Apple store on 5th was anything but crippled.
every project that used it would also have to be GPL'd because at runtime everything links to its runtime environment.
Really? You're saying that for applications which link to the Java class libraries, they'll have to be GPL'd as well? I thought that the GPL had an exception for "links-to" versus "extends" or "based-upon."
But what did you expect? Reloading the underlying classes for objects currently in memory is not the responsibility of the VM, it's the developer's.
Let's say you have an application running, call it verion X, and you recompile and reload class XYZ. Your app has some XYZ objects, instantiated and running in memory, at this time -- and you want to upgrade the code they're based upon. How do you propose to do it? Either you, the developer, have implemented your own reloader for the objects of classes that changed, or you restart the whole application itself.
And bringing interpreted PHP into a comparison with a compiled language running under a threaded, persistent server environment? Those complex OOP PHP applications sometimes run a huge amount of code each hit and EVERY HIT. I mean, c'mon, that's Java's advantage - the majority of your code stays running, ready to deal with requests much more quickly than a scripted language. By the time you're doing complicated PHP OOP apps, you've strayed into what Java does best - persistent services, object caching, minimizing the execution time needed to handle requests. PHP's still got that interpretation problem - your app has to reread all its class definitions, reinstantiate your security system to validate the next hit; that gets CPU-expensive.
Hackers are well-known for skillz in probing the depths of their proboscii. Computer mice are unintentional collectors of dessicated cranial mucus. It would be easy as, well, picking your nose to track down a hacker, IF you and ONLY if you know all of their DNA in a database.
Mandatory DNA samples for all hackers should be a no-brainer.
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When you can join a plausible need (border enforcement) with an unnecessary, implausible and/or unpopular one (national identification card), you've got what's called a cover story. In the 1970's, this was called crypto-fascism. Joining a popular cause to an unpopular one in a way thats difficult or impossible to separate:
I mean, verifiable ID is not a bad idea, I'm not against it. It's just that, where this is already being done (New York State for instance), its being handled by contractors, and, as far as I can tell there are no limits on what they can do with your data. Are they keeping track of everywhere you're scanned? Will this information be admissible in court? Enough questions to fly a few jumbo jets through.
"Mmmmm, don't they look delicious! Let's jump into the saucer and head on down to that part of the galaxy. And hey, could you grab that cookbook on the counter?"
Carter didn't inherit the Iranian hostage fiasco from anyone. And his efforts were unfotunate.
It's clear that you're repeating somebody's talking points. Carter negotiated, and secured, the release of the hostages. That it happened right when Reagan took office was down to how it played out.
Not only is she both a smartie AND a Trekkie, she's a hottie.
If you believe that a flounder crossed with a virus crossed with a tomato (i.e. the Flavr Savr(tm) tomato) is "natural selection," or anything like it, you've got another think coming. The "crossing" is done across kingdoms, phylums etc. Genes added to new species don't have to (or often) come from the same family.
Natural selection follows the natural branch paths of evolutionary descendency - GM bypasses all that, by shotgunning entirely unrelated genes into a particular species genome. Where natural selection weeded out the bad 'uns, the mutations and variations that weren't fit to survive, or that didn't fit into the ecosystem, here we don't get that natural balancing effect.
The likelihood is that it will take thousands to millions of years for the effects of our GM work to be sorted out in nature.
The other thing the Constitution says is that you have the right to confront your accusers. Ah, who is the accuser in this case? An anonymous person! Could the FBI and the police have made this person up? You don't know. Dilemma.
If the doc has any mettle, this case would likely go to the supremes, as clearly there are unanswered questions.
I mean, it's only software, how dangerous could it have been?
That's what torrentspy.com's for, silly! A *central* place to gather comments about a particular p2p object.
With Sony's "p2p" user review system, you'll be facing the consequences of power law networks, in which the number of versions of the attached comments could be as many as the number of copies of the media. You copy a file from my system, make a change, now your version is different than mine. Ad-infinitum. Comments won't travel together.
Not to mention the potential use of pharmaceuticals to reduce/mask the physical expression or symptoms of fear, nervousness that arise when lying. Beta-blockers (Inderal for ex.), higher doses of SSRIs, certain sedatives. Defeating lie detectors is standard craftwork in the spy biz, and some of the drugs to do it can be bought over-the-counter in Mexico.
It's almost as though you didn't read the parent post, or read just the words you wanted to. "Essentially eliminated" != "eliminate".
Sorry, but it's not sending the ENTIRE page, which was the main point of the parent post that you seemed to miss. It's likely sending an insignificant fraction of the page, just the delta -- much less data to *retransmit*, and then *rerender* on the client. Quoth the OP:
AJAX ... helps do away with the concept of pages that have to have every element transmitted and redrawn on every roundtrip. AJAX does one better and essentially eliminates the roundtrip altogether. A button click just sends the data that's pertinent and redraws only the pertinent parts.
More clear? Think deltas, which means requesting, transmitting, and rendering only the portion of the page that actually needs to be changed... all the other gunk can stay right where it is.
Both have a place. Neural nets, in all their variety, have a long, loooong way to go before acquiring enough resolution to have the ability gather the same level of understanding that Cyc has. Nets are usually highly specialized, where Cyc has tremendous breadth and depth.
Nets learn, but Cyc is taught. Do you push a newborn infant out into the world and expect it to acquire all it needs to know in order to be a successful organism? Of course not. And Cyc lacks the inverse, because it's just a predicate base.
Could be there's a way for them to play together.
Reread the parent post - they sued under the SCA, not contract law. Any precedent and case law applies only to the provisions of law invoked by the plaintiff.
Apparently you've been out of the loop-
Executive Authority: How Bush redefines the intent of the law Instead of vetoing bills, he officially disregards portions with which he doesn't agree.
Know what you mean. A few of them have dipped a toe in the water of bravery, but not until after their lawyers have cleared em. NYTimes turned the Judith Miller thing into a PR stunt, knowing it wouldn't do anything good for the press.
Where did all the investigative journalists go? All got mortgages and families to look after, eh? The Village Voice was harbor to a few, but they just recently were sold to a very conservative businessman, who's begun firing those journalists.
It's interesting to see that Wired has put themselves out there, being they're owned by Conde-Nast, a bastion of the mainstream media.
Peace.
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Lazslo != AJAX; AJAX != dumbing down
It's a flash generator. Like weapons of war, AJAX is neutral. How
you decide to use your guns (to make war, to protect against), is up
to you. You can make a fun-to-use site in AJAX, or you can make one
that assumes the user is an idiot (or both! or neither.) It's just a
toolset.
And consider that the web caused user interface development to stall
out (in the WWW context) for at least half a decade. Unless you're
using flash, Laszlo or AJAX, you're stuck with the *very basic* set of
UI widgets given us by Uncle Tim, all of which date back to the late
1980s. AJAX is a way around the limits of HTML+HTTP, while still
allowing most of your site to be coded in HTML+CSS.
What if you want to add a dynamically-extendable drop-down to an input
form? One that doesn't require the user leave the entry form they're
on, or to open another window to navigate to the admin section of your
site? AJAX is a technique that makes it easier.
Cheers.
If you'd read to the end of TFA, you'd have seen this paragraph-
The court's gag order is very specific in barring only the EFF, its representatives and its technical experts from discussing and disseminating this information. The court explicitly rejected AT&T's motion to include Klein in the gag order and declined AT&T's request to force the EFF to return the documents.
Wired didn't abuse the system, they played right within the rules. This is exactly the sort of case that makes democracies stronger - the government is accused of widespread abuse of power, and tries hard to avoid having any light shed on its case. The press reveals the evidence against the government, and the public gains insight into what their elected leaders are doing. Without an unfettered press, we'd have no clue what they were up to.
Bravo, Wired.
AC, your post reminds me exactly of those fashionistas who, when they find out you've only now started listening to their favorite band, exclaim "I've been listening to them from the beginning." It's okay, we all understand - you need something to make you feel important. Enjoy your precious little snub-club.
Me, I'll be working with the same OS X apps and tools I've been using at work for the last two years. I convinced the studio to convert from PC, after editing video and mixing audio on the PC for eight years. The choices there are either extremely pricey, or just pathetic. The broad range of tools I've used on the G4s/G5s at work (Logic, Reason, FCP, and all the helper/conversion utilities, etc.) are kick-ass by comparison.
Plus, the fact that it's a unixy o/s. Any off-the-shelf computer that comes with shells, is able to run my standard languages (Perl, Ruby, Python) etc. AND runs great content creation tools - that's my new computer. %^>
Hmmm... seems like you're splitting hairs over getting less than an inch of diagonal screen real estate. Plus, your wife wanted an Apple, which is a qualitative difference you can't measure or hold up as a cost savings. For some Apple might be a status symbol, for others it might be the software. I imagine the laptop you got her is running the O/S it came with, to stay legal and all? ;-)
To me, the difference comes down to the software. The Macbook'll be my first Apple computer (I'm a unix and windoze developer), and I'll be happy to use an o/s that comes with some genuinely well thought-out apps and utilities. Windows built-in apps tend to be crippled and underpowered, but what I saw last night at the Apple store on 5th was anything but crippled.
Cheers...
every project that used it would also have to be GPL'd because at runtime everything links to its runtime environment.
Really? You're saying that for applications which link to the Java class libraries, they'll have to be GPL'd as well? I thought that the GPL had an exception for "links-to" versus "extends" or "based-upon."
But what did you expect? Reloading the underlying classes for objects currently in memory is not the responsibility of the VM, it's the developer's.
Let's say you have an application running, call it verion X, and you recompile and reload class XYZ. Your app has some XYZ objects, instantiated and running in memory, at this time -- and you want to upgrade the code they're based upon. How do you propose to do it? Either you, the developer, have implemented your own reloader for the objects of classes that changed, or you restart the whole application itself.
And bringing interpreted PHP into a comparison with a compiled language running under a threaded, persistent server environment? Those complex OOP PHP applications sometimes run a huge amount of code each hit and EVERY HIT. I mean, c'mon, that's Java's advantage - the majority of your code stays running, ready to deal with requests much more quickly than a scripted language. By the time you're doing complicated PHP OOP apps, you've strayed into what Java does best - persistent services, object caching, minimizing the execution time needed to handle requests. PHP's still got that interpretation problem - your app has to reread all its class definitions, reinstantiate your security system to validate the next hit; that gets CPU-expensive.
We wont't be seeing the next ... Doom using a scripting language anytime soon.
nooo... but you might be seeing the first Doom using a scripting language sometime soon..
Hackers are well-known for skillz in probing the depths of their proboscii. Computer mice are unintentional collectors of dessicated cranial mucus. It would be easy as, well, picking your nose to track down a hacker, IF you and ONLY if you know all of their DNA in a database.
Mandatory DNA samples for all hackers should be a no-brainer.
I thought lawyers in civil actions were limited to one-third of the total payout, no? Is it different for class actions?
Good retelling... did you get any photos?
If I change a line of kernel code ... WinCE will take many times longer than that
:)
Not to mention that you can't change the Wince kernel...