The combination of technology and private property looks like the best way to ensure conservation. Make sure the land in question belongs to somebody, so they have an incentive to take care of it; and give them the tech tools to do so. They will do it without taxing others. No EPA budget busting, no snail darter lawsuits, no taking of private property. About the only taxpayer expenses are the maintenance of the cops and judicial system to handle civil or criminal complaints that the tribe may have - and that is mostly a sunk cost anyway.
Sorry to risk starting a political debate ( but after all this is slashdot, so that is effectively a sunk cost too. )
Machiavelli said something to the effect that the prince should dole out the sweets in small ammounts on a regular basis but put all the bad news in one package and get it over quickly. ( Sorry. I don't have the time to look up the exact quote )
People are creatures of habit. They don't like changes. Every change that you make in their working environment is a small negative experience to them. Even if it is something that they might agree is a good thing, it is still a change, and thus a negative thing to them.
This, unfortunately, conflicts with the desires of a good manager, who wants to make improvements in his business every day. Even if they are GOOD changes, making changes every day is a sure way to alienate your employees.
So, be patient. Only make frequent changes if an emergency requires it. Otherwise, make a list of planned improvements, and keep it to yourself. Add to it weekly, or even daily. Then, once or twice a year, implement it all at once.
It sounds contradictory, but people will adjust to a bunch of changes better than a few, IF they know that the rest of the time their work will be relatively consistent. You can ask them to be in an absorb-the-changes mode once in a while, but not all the time.
We need some improvements in pattern recognition before this is a feasible idea. There is a lot of cognitive processing that goes into seemingly simple decisions like 'Is this a person?' and 'Is this person an enemy?' and 'Is this person armed?'
It does not appear to have the capacity to tell the difference between an unarmed intruder and a heavily armed one, so defeating it is not hard: Approach it with some kind of heavier firepower, and while it talks, you blow it away.
And 200K? For 200 I could do the same thing: a home-depot motion sensor, a voice chip with loudspeaker, and a handful of fertilizer/oil land mines.
From TFA: "In North Korea...Dictator Kim Jong-Il has absolute control of North Korea's media, and grants only a few thousand citizens access to the Internet. When these privileged Net surfers log on, however, they find only around 30 Web sites, which are filled with photos of the leader and praise for the government."
I suggest a multi-thousand dollar prize for the first hacker who can open up their servers so the N.K. citizens can see the whole web.
The chapter in Freakonomics about cheating teachers deals with this. If you have any interest in learning about how they detect such behavior, give the book a read.
if (GetTickCount() > dwOldTickCount + 50) {//do something, wait 50 milliseconds, do it again
dwOldTickCount = GetTickCount();
}
You found the slashdot comments overflow bug!
"And no, it's not easy to fix bugs in a piece of software like this."
It is if the code is structured properly. All clock changing routine should be in one chunk, so that only one change need be make, and if you make one change, it affects the entire program. We learned things like this in undergrad compsci. Why can't NASA get it right?
The battle is over and Linux has won it. The desktop is the major war.
At best, Linux has won an opening skirmish. For most people, the internet is what runs on their desktop ( or laptop ). They have no more concern about the particulars of the server that their router connects to than they do about the particulars of the powerplant that their power cord connects to. They neither know nor care about server software
At worst, it is like the Japanese general ( admiral? ) who is alleged to have said after Pearl Harbor: "I fear we have awakened a sleeping giant." MS is obviously taking Linux seriously now, but most people still don't know what it is. Expect MS to engage in serious Linux FUD.
...and leave an itinerary with someone at home, including names and addresses.
None of these sites, TTBOMK, asks for or checks references. And the liability assumed thereunder would be huge if they did, so they probably never will.
99+% of the people in this world are decent folk, but some nutcase is going to take advantage of the situation. Young, often naive travellers who nobody will miss for weeks... Slurp! Yum!
Less horrifying but more likely is the following scenario: you are low on cash, you only speak 10 words of the local language, it is late in the evening, and the weather is turning bad. The couch owner says put out or get out.
Please pardon me for being cynical. I hope these optimists can turn the world into a place of love, brotherhood, and cheap lodging. We tried in the 60s with mixed results.
Bill: "I'm worried, Steve. We're losing more ground to Linux. It's on the verge of becoming a non-nerd OS."
Steve: "I've got an idea. Let's buy another version of Linux."
Bill: "Are you crazy? The SCO gambit didn't fool anybody."
Steve: "No, not like that. Instead of trying to fool a judge, we'll try to fool our customers."
Bill: "So? That's already company policy."
Steve: "Yes, but we'll release our own version. We tell the public that we're joining the Linux bandwagon, and with our marketing clout, it will soon become the dominant version on the market. Then when the public is convinced that MS-Linux IS Linux, we make gradual changes to turn it into an unusable bloated wreck. Linux will be finished!"
Bill: "No way! Remember, Steve, I used to write software. No self-respecting programmer would deliberately wreck an OS. Where are we going to get a bunch of programmers to do that?"
Steve: "We have all the guys who wrote Vista. I think they could do it."
( Steve exits )
( 10 minutes later, Steve returns, slamming the door quickly behind him. He looks like he has seen a ghost )
Bill: "So, how did it go?
Steve: ( shaking his head ) "Bad, bad, bad, bad, b-"
Bill: Get a grip! What happened?
Steve: "They won't do it...I mean they'll do it, but they want to do it well! They won't wreck it."
Bill: "You explained the plan to them?"
Steve: "Yes, very clearly. Twice. But they just started chanting. One word, over and over and over and over and over and ov-
( Bill picks up a chair, bashes Steve over the head with it. )
Steve: "Wh..? Uh..thanks...I needed that."
( Bill puts down the chair, walks to the door )
Steve: "Nooo! Please don't op-"
( Bill opens the door. From down the hall a chorus of voices can be heard. )
Steve: "It's worse. They now refuse to work on Vista any more!"
Bill: "That's ok. We aren't going to support it for very long anyway."
Steve: "So what are we going to do?"
Bill: "I think I can still make the plan work. Listen: we'll let them produce a good version of Linux. We'll make it very good for servers."
Steve: "Suse? You mean we'll take over Novell?"
Bill: "Yes. That gives us a big step up to dominate the Linux market like you suggested. But instead of trying to convice the world that Linux is junk, we'll tell them that Linux is only for servers."
Steve: "But it will migrate to the desktop! We have to kill it!"
Bill: "No, we'll let the guys downstairs make it the way they want it. Keep it for nerds. Each update will be more and more technical. Let them gradually turn it into something that only a Linux pro can use."
Bill: I'm worried, Steve. We're losing more ground to Linux. It's on the verge of becoming a non-nerd OS.
Steve: I've got an idea. Let's buy another version of Linux.
Bill: Are you crazy? The SCO gambit didn't fool anybody.
Steve: No, not like that. Instead of trying to fool a judge, we'll try to fool our customers.
Bill: So? That's already company policy.
Steve: Yes, but we'll release our own version. We tell the public that we're joining the Linux bandwagon, and with our marketing clout, it will soon become the dominant version on the market. Then when the public is convinced that MSLinux IS Linux, we make gradual changes to turn it into an unusable bloated wreck. Linux will be finished!
Bill: No way! Remember, Steve, I used to write software. No self-respecting programmer would deliberately wreck an OS. Where are we going to get a bunch of programmers to do that?
Steve: We have all the guys who wrote Vista. I think they could do it.
Yelling 'fire' in a crowded theater is not a free speech issue. It is a property rights and contract issue. When I buy the ticket, there are certain standards of behavior that I implicitly ( everyone knows it's not done ) or explicitly ( posted signs) agree to by choosing to enter the theater. Yelling 'fire' is a civil violation of a contract with the theater owner.
In related news, judge Patel just issued an injunction requiring movie theaters to cease doing business until their facilities were in accordance with the ADA. This ruling includes that headphones be available for the visually disabled, with a narrator telling the listener what is happening on the screen."
The ruling further requires "...the use of audio signaling devices so that vision disabled people can independently navigate the theater seating." According to the National Federation of the Blind spokesperson, "The technology is already in use at crosswalks, so aquiring it will be no undue burden for theater owners.
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Bypass? I'm gonna grow a new heart!
It's a new technique to take the load off of slashdot servers: now TFA comes pre-duped.
You trust the one class of writers who CANNOT be held accountable if they should deliberately lie??
Am I the only one who finds it laughable that nowadays practially every new piece of military tech these days is about fighting 'terrorists'?"
Yep, you are the only one. The rest of us are too scared to laugh.
The combination of technology and private property looks like the best way to ensure conservation. Make sure the land in question belongs to somebody, so they have an incentive to take care of it; and give them the tech tools to do so. They will do it without taxing others. No EPA budget busting, no snail darter lawsuits, no taking of private property. About the only taxpayer expenses are the maintenance of the cops and judicial system to handle civil or criminal complaints that the tribe may have - and that is mostly a sunk cost anyway.
Sorry to risk starting a political debate ( but after all this is slashdot, so that is effectively a sunk cost too. )
Machiavelli said something to the effect that the prince should dole out the sweets in small ammounts on a regular basis but put all the bad news in one package and get it over quickly. ( Sorry. I don't have the time to look up the exact quote )
People are creatures of habit. They don't like changes. Every change that you make in their working environment is a small negative experience to them. Even if it is something that they might agree is a good thing, it is still a change, and thus a negative thing to them.
This, unfortunately, conflicts with the desires of a good manager, who wants to make improvements in his business every day. Even if they are GOOD changes, making changes every day is a sure way to alienate your employees.
So, be patient. Only make frequent changes if an emergency requires it. Otherwise, make a list of planned improvements, and keep it to yourself. Add to it weekly, or even daily. Then, once or twice a year, implement it all at once.
It sounds contradictory, but people will adjust to a bunch of changes better than a few, IF they know that the rest of the time their work will be relatively consistent. You can ask them to be in an absorb-the-changes mode once in a while, but not all the time.
"Yeah, but when yours gets hit by lightning will Ally Sheedy be able to dance with it? I think not."
Sure she will. When it gets hit by lightening she will be doing the pogo...at least one step anyway.
We need some improvements in pattern recognition before this is a feasible idea. There is a lot of cognitive processing that goes into seemingly simple decisions like 'Is this a person?' and 'Is this person an enemy?' and 'Is this person armed?'
It does not appear to have the capacity to tell the difference between an unarmed intruder and a heavily armed one, so defeating it is not hard: Approach it with some kind of heavier firepower, and while it talks, you blow it away.
And 200K? For 200 I could do the same thing: a home-depot motion sensor, a voice chip with loudspeaker, and a handful of fertilizer/oil land mines.
And you were NOT the anonymous submitter of TFA, right?
From TFA: "In North Korea...Dictator Kim Jong-Il has absolute control of North Korea's media, and grants only a few thousand citizens access to the Internet. When these privileged Net surfers log on, however, they find only around 30 Web sites, which are filled with photos of the leader and praise for the government."
I suggest a multi-thousand dollar prize for the first hacker who can open up their servers so the N.K. citizens can see the whole web.
{ loaning parent some karma }
The chapter in Freakonomics about cheating teachers deals with this. If you have any interest in learning about how they detect such behavior, give the book a read.
if (GetTickCount() > dwOldTickCount + 50) { //do something, wait 50 milliseconds, do it again
dwOldTickCount = GetTickCount();
}
You found the slashdot comments overflow bug!
"And no, it's not easy to fix bugs in a piece of software like this."
It is if the code is structured properly. All clock changing routine should be in one chunk, so that only one change need be make, and if you make one change, it affects the entire program. We learned things like this in undergrad compsci. Why can't NASA get it right?
Anyone remember "Ebonics"?
I took a text sample and ran it through both a ebonics translator and a leet traslator...
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For 130 dollars you can probably immunize a child against most contagious diseases.
The battle is over and Linux has won it. The desktop is the major war.
At best, Linux has won an opening skirmish. For most people, the internet is what runs on their desktop ( or laptop ). They have no more concern about the particulars of the server that their router connects to than they do about the particulars of the powerplant that their power cord connects to. They neither know nor care about server software
At worst, it is like the Japanese general ( admiral? ) who is alleged to have said after Pearl Harbor: "I fear we have awakened a sleeping giant." MS is obviously taking Linux seriously now, but most people still don't know what it is. Expect MS to engage in serious Linux FUD.
Anyway, congratulations to all the Linux coders.
Is it just me? Did I miss something? They number of replies to posts seems to have dropped off a bit.
...and leave an itinerary with someone at home, including names and addresses.
None of these sites, TTBOMK, asks for or checks references. And the liability assumed thereunder would be huge if they did, so they probably never will.
99+% of the people in this world are decent folk, but some nutcase is going to take advantage of the situation. Young, often naive travellers who nobody will miss for weeks... Slurp! Yum!
Less horrifying but more likely is the following scenario: you are low on cash, you only speak 10 words of the local language, it is late in the evening, and the weather is turning bad. The couch owner says put out or get out.
Please pardon me for being cynical. I hope these optimists can turn the world into a place of love, brotherhood, and cheap lodging. We tried in the 60s with mixed results.
Not only must we put up with grammar nazis and spelling nazis, but now slashdot has a genre nazi?
Bill: "I'm worried, Steve. We're losing more ground to Linux. It's on the verge of becoming a non-nerd OS."
Steve: "I've got an idea. Let's buy another version of Linux."
Bill: "Are you crazy? The SCO gambit didn't fool anybody."
Steve: "No, not like that. Instead of trying to fool a judge, we'll try to fool our customers."
Bill: "So? That's already company policy."
Steve: "Yes, but we'll release our own version. We tell the public that we're joining the Linux bandwagon, and with our marketing clout, it will soon become the dominant version on the market. Then when the public is convinced that MS-Linux IS Linux, we make gradual changes to turn it into an unusable bloated wreck. Linux will be finished!"
Bill: "No way! Remember, Steve, I used to write software. No self-respecting programmer would deliberately wreck an OS. Where are we going to get a bunch of programmers to do that?"
Steve: "We have all the guys who wrote Vista. I think they could do it."
( Steve exits )
( 10 minutes later, Steve returns, slamming the door quickly behind him. He looks like he has seen a ghost )
Bill: "So, how did it go?
Steve: ( shaking his head ) "Bad, bad, bad, bad, b-"
Bill: Get a grip! What happened?
Steve: "They won't do it...I mean they'll do it, but they want to do it well! They won't wreck it."
Bill: "You explained the plan to them?"
Steve: "Yes, very clearly. Twice. But they just started chanting. One word, over and over and over and over and over and ov-
( Bill picks up a chair, bashes Steve over the head with it. )
Steve: "Wh..? Uh..thanks...I needed that."
( Bill puts down the chair, walks to the door )
Steve: "Nooo! Please don't op-"
( Bill opens the door. From down the hall a chorus of voices can be heard. )
Voices: "-ux! Linux! Linux! Linux! Linux! Linux! Lin-"
( Bill slams the door )
Bill: "That's bad."
Steve: "It's worse. They now refuse to work on Vista any more!"
Bill: "That's ok. We aren't going to support it for very long anyway."
Steve: "So what are we going to do?"
Bill: "I think I can still make the plan work. Listen: we'll let them produce a good version of Linux. We'll make it very good for servers."
Steve: "Suse? You mean we'll take over Novell?"
Bill: "Yes. That gives us a big step up to dominate the Linux market like you suggested. But instead of trying to convice the world that Linux is junk, we'll tell them that Linux is only for servers."
Steve: "But it will migrate to the desktop! We have to kill it!"
Bill: "No, we'll let the guys downstairs make it the way they want it. Keep it for nerds. Each update will be more and more technical. Let them gradually turn it into something that only a Linux pro can use."
Steve: "We're gonna pay them to write Gentoo?"
Bill: I'm worried, Steve. We're losing more ground to Linux. It's on the verge of becoming a non-nerd OS.
Steve: I've got an idea. Let's buy another version of Linux.
Bill: Are you crazy? The SCO gambit didn't fool anybody.
Steve: No, not like that. Instead of trying to fool a judge, we'll try to fool our customers.
Bill: So? That's already company policy.
Steve: Yes, but we'll release our own version. We tell the public that we're joining the Linux bandwagon, and with our marketing clout, it will soon become the dominant version on the market. Then when the public is convinced that MSLinux IS Linux, we make gradual changes to turn it into an unusable bloated wreck. Linux will be finished!
Bill: No way! Remember, Steve, I used to write software. No self-respecting programmer would deliberately wreck an OS. Where are we going to get a bunch of programmers to do that?
Steve: We have all the guys who wrote Vista. I think they could do it.
In all the time I've been on slashdot I've never seen anybody make an improvement on one of my posts. Until now.
Somebody mod him up.
Yelling 'fire' in a crowded theater is not a free speech issue. It is a property rights and contract issue. When I buy the ticket, there are certain standards of behavior that I implicitly ( everyone knows it's not done ) or explicitly ( posted signs) agree to by choosing to enter the theater. Yelling 'fire' is a civil violation of a contract with the theater owner.
"Can the editors please mention that a site might possibly not be safe for work?"
So, you need to be protected from the evils out there on the big wide web? I'll make it real simple for you: quit reading slashdot at work.
In related news, judge Patel just issued an injunction requiring movie theaters to cease doing business until their facilities were in accordance with the ADA. This ruling includes that headphones be available for the visually disabled, with a narrator telling the listener what is happening on the screen."
The ruling further requires "...the use of audio signaling devices so that vision disabled people can independently navigate the theater seating." According to the National Federation of the Blind spokesperson, "The technology is already in use at crosswalks, so aquiring it will be no undue burden for theater owners.