A less powerful government is the first step to communism. And a step down a steep hill is the first step towards death in a fiery ball of molten rock.
America are getting scarier and scarier recently. Invading sovereign nations, new missile installations, secret CIA prisons, human rights violations of 'enemy combatants', an administration that disregards world opinion. More than a little worrying, especially the pace it seems to be going at. Suppression of political opposition? Nope, and without that all those problems will disappear once the democrats are back in power.
Russia are getting scarier and scarier recently. New missile tests, alleged poisonings, building reactors for Iran, suppression of political opposition. More than a little worrying, especially the pace it seems to be going at.
Try a more specific query, or try a query that excludes "review", "sale", "price", or whatever you like.
I find that most queries give me what I want right away (eg paris hilton), and those that don't (eg lindsay lohan) do give me what I want after narrowing down the sites returned (eg lindsay lohan drunk car -herbie -vomit -intitle:"fan site").
Agreed. GPL may be more restrictive than the BSD license, but it certainly is more conducive to creating a community of free software. That depends on your definition of free, doesn't it.
I think the Nintendo Wii will do better than the 360 and PS2, even though the specs are lower. Microsoft and Sony were both reaching for performance but they forgot all about the fun!
If someone wanted your DNA for malicious purposes would they have any trouble getting it? Unless you're meticulous about security and burn all your trash, it'd be no problem.
What could they do with your DNA?
Trace you back to crimes? They can do that already by taking your DNA without consent.
Clone you? Nope, not yet at least, and what would they do with the clones?
Discover you have the "criminal gene"? These "criminal/musician/pedophile/libertarian/democrat" genes are nonsense.
My cousin did genetics at Oxford and, iirc, his professor told him that genetics wouldn't be useful for much in a long time, even to do good.
The scariest thing I can think of is having a national database of all genetic profiles, as it could have privacy implications. But that would be no scarier than having a national database of all fingerprints (but much more expensive).
Obviously they're doing this so that professional development teams will stick to VS.NET and not Express Editions; they're not shooting themselves in the foot at all, this is very much in their best interests.
Like BSD? They didn't about legal issues, just steamed ahead and coded.. They were stuck in legal limbo for years, and the FUD lingered for years after that.
Tell them your employees know Fortran, LISP, and Excel macros, they have all completed an A+ course as part of their training, and that many of your employees were part of the Adobe's Adobe Reader optimization team.
Tell them that the employee they're currently after can't be reached because he has been trying to remove spyware from his work computer, or that he's out for a drink because it helps his code "flow".
Or tell them that he'll take your call on the VoIP system he installed, and then just hang up.
Play this down if you want, but this is no small issue.
On the spectrum of free speech from the least protected to the most sacred you have:
Yelling FIRE in a crowded theater
Ranting about vietnam on street corners
Ranting about sin on street corners
Criticizing celebrities
Criticizing political figures
Criticizing the system of government
Sure, this is just livejournal. But then Fox will ban it, then the BBC, then they'll ban talk about it in pubs and on street corners, no more right to peaceful assembly or incest rallies, then it'll just be a goddamn Orwellian society where incest is a thought crime.
When people in power try to enforce their warped view of morality on good, freaky citizens it's time to found a new government.
I wonder if everyone who posts to livejournal will put incest advice in their posts as a form of rebellion, and I wonder if we'll put incest advice in our posts and signatures to show our support.
I bet you couldn't tell the difference between a 192 kbps MP3 file and a 320 kbps MP3 file. It's one of those "fine wine" things; you think a 320 kbps sounds better, but if you did a blind test on a typical piece of music you wouldn't be able to tell.
Some experts think that MP3 reaches transparency (i.e. you are unable to tell the difference between it and the original) at 128 kbps when using a good encoder. Others think it's 192 kbps. But 320 kbps is a waste of space.
I would consider BSD to be more open and better for encouraging competition. With BSD code you're saying "If anyone can take this code and make it so much better that people will pay for it, good for you!"
Mac OS X, for all I hate it, is a good demonstration of this. Instead of having to write a piece of crap from scratch Apple can take a solid base and develop on it. If they can develop enough that people pay for it good for them.
Windows should use BSD code too; stop worrying about the base and spend all that money developing on top of an already excellent core. If they build on top of an already excellent system they can reach greater heights, and as a user I want that regardless of whether it impinges on my freedoms.
BSD is a license that says "If you can do better than this don't let anything hold you back." And if there's a solid base product that anyone can build off the code will be used by more people, and if the code is of good quality that benefits everyone.
Another example is SQLite. This is in the public domain, but for practical purposes public domain and BSD are the same.
The reason it has had such high uptake is that anyone can use it any way they want. It's a high quality piece of code that should be used everywhere from Windows to Tivo to Linux; because as a user I realize that it's more stable the the alternative of writing something from scratch.
The reason no-one has forked it and started charging for it is because the base product is already so good at what it does that no-one thinks they could improve it enough to sell.
I'm not saying BSD is the answer and GPL isn't, but I do think that each one has its role.
Something that recently came out of Google and is ideal for this task; Google Notebook. You find sites with Google, now you can take notes from them with Google, and it integrates nicely into Google search. Unlike bookmarks you can search the notes you take and have the URLs ready and waiting, etc.
1. Why would I want to use Google Notebook?
With Google Notebook, you can browse, clip, and organize information from across the web in a single online location that's accessible from any computer. Planning a trip? Researching a product? Just add clippings to your notebook. You won't ever have to leave your browser window.
2. How do I get started?
Simple. Just sign in to the Google Notebook homepage with your Google Accounts username and password, then download the Google Notebook browser extension (if you haven't already). As soon as you restart your browser, you'll see a Google Notebook icon in the bottom-right corner of your browser window. Click on this icon to open your mini Google Notebook, where you can save all the clips of content you want.
Some may say that was coincidence. Well here's the creepy part:
Take the number of days Google have public (2321), multiply by the number of Chinese people imprisoned thanks to Google (7), multiply by the number of web pages that Google indexes (11,029,291,583), divide by Nostradamus' number that he foretold would mark the beginning of the end (10,392), and round to the nearest 6 (6 as in 666).
Now simply base64 encode the number, and you get DLOeVFT0501l==, rearrange the letters and you get "D0LOTSOFeV1l".
Humans are the only living things that we know of that have been able to split atoms. Life as we know it is built on top of atoms; life breaks down and builds up molecules, but it doesn't break or combine atoms. (It's a safe bet that nuclear reactors are irreducibly complex.)
His wife doesn't mind the privacy concerns, but she does get tired of having to dry-hump a bean-bag with a wig on every night while her husband makes bombs in secrecy.
Everyone here is concerned about privacy issues, I'm much more concerned about them pushing "CardSpace". Imagine if they succeed in getting it widely used and they then have control over authentication on the internet. It would be a powerful way to control what software people use to access the net.
I think a unified authentication tool is a good thing, but it should obviously be based on open standards.
Routers fling packets toward their destination. They don't deal with application-layer concepts like "who requested the data". Yes but there's an asymmetry between the packets going from on network to another if one is downloading and the other is uploading. It doesn't have to know about application level protocols.
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Deniability? Isn't this one of the main things encryption is supposed to make difficult?
Russia are getting scarier and scarier recently. New missile tests, alleged poisonings, building reactors for Iran, suppression of political opposition. More than a little worrying, especially the pace it seems to be going at.
Try a more specific query, or try a query that excludes "review", "sale", "price", or whatever you like.
I find that most queries give me what I want right away (eg paris hilton), and those that don't (eg lindsay lohan) do give me what I want after narrowing down the sites returned (eg lindsay lohan drunk car -herbie -vomit -intitle:"fan site").
You have no doubt why? If you want to go against common scientific knowledge you need some very convincing evidence/reasoning.
Perks like truly DRM free music and an up-to-date list of RIAA IPs to put in your torrent filter. Put in their shoes could you really say no?
So the lower the testosterone the better the maths skills? Sounds right, but I wonder why this is the case?
I think the Nintendo Wii will do better than the 360 and PS2, even though the specs are lower. Microsoft and Sony were both reaching for performance but they forgot all about the fun!
- If someone wanted your DNA for malicious purposes would they have any trouble getting it? Unless you're meticulous about security and burn all your trash, it'd be no problem.
- What could they do with your DNA?
- Trace you back to crimes? They can do that already by taking your DNA without consent.
- Clone you? Nope, not yet at least, and what would they do with the clones?
- Discover you have the "criminal gene"? These "criminal/musician/pedophile/libertarian/democrat
" genes are nonsense.
- My cousin did genetics at Oxford and, iirc, his professor told him that genetics wouldn't be useful for much in a long time, even to do good.
The scariest thing I can think of is having a national database of all genetic profiles, as it could have privacy implications. But that would be no scarier than having a national database of all fingerprints (but much more expensive).Obviously they're doing this so that professional development teams will stick to VS.NET and not Express Editions; they're not shooting themselves in the foot at all, this is very much in their best interests.
Like BSD? They didn't about legal issues, just steamed ahead and coded.. They were stuck in legal limbo for years, and the FUD lingered for years after that.
Tell them your employees know Fortran, LISP, and Excel macros, they have all completed an A+ course as part of their training, and that many of your employees were part of the Adobe's Adobe Reader optimization team.
Tell them that the employee they're currently after can't be reached because he has been trying to remove spyware from his work computer, or that he's out for a drink because it helps his code "flow".
Or tell them that he'll take your call on the VoIP system he installed, and then just hang up.
On the spectrum of free speech from the least protected to the most sacred you have:
Sure, this is just livejournal. But then Fox will ban it, then the BBC, then they'll ban talk about it in pubs and on street corners, no more right to peaceful assembly or incest rallies, then it'll just be a goddamn Orwellian society where incest is a thought crime.
When people in power try to enforce their warped view of morality on good, freaky citizens it's time to found a new government.
I wonder if everyone who posts to livejournal will put incest advice in their posts as a form of rebellion, and I wonder if we'll put incest advice in our posts and signatures to show our support.
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I bet you couldn't tell the difference between a 192 kbps MP3 file and a 320 kbps MP3 file. It's one of those "fine wine" things; you think a 320 kbps sounds better, but if you did a blind test on a typical piece of music you wouldn't be able to tell.
Some experts think that MP3 reaches transparency (i.e. you are unable to tell the difference between it and the original) at 128 kbps when using a good encoder. Others think it's 192 kbps. But 320 kbps is a waste of space.
I would consider BSD to be more open and better for encouraging competition. With BSD code you're saying "If anyone can take this code and make it so much better that people will pay for it, good for you!"
Mac OS X, for all I hate it, is a good demonstration of this. Instead of having to write a piece of crap from scratch Apple can take a solid base and develop on it. If they can develop enough that people pay for it good for them.
Windows should use BSD code too; stop worrying about the base and spend all that money developing on top of an already excellent core. If they build on top of an already excellent system they can reach greater heights, and as a user I want that regardless of whether it impinges on my freedoms.
BSD is a license that says "If you can do better than this don't let anything hold you back." And if there's a solid base product that anyone can build off the code will be used by more people, and if the code is of good quality that benefits everyone.
Another example is SQLite. This is in the public domain, but for practical purposes public domain and BSD are the same.
The reason it has had such high uptake is that anyone can use it any way they want. It's a high quality piece of code that should be used everywhere from Windows to Tivo to Linux; because as a user I realize that it's more stable the the alternative of writing something from scratch.
The reason no-one has forked it and started charging for it is because the base product is already so good at what it does that no-one thinks they could improve it enough to sell.
I'm not saying BSD is the answer and GPL isn't, but I do think that each one has its role.
Sick of fresh, professionally designed, platform-independent, free Web 2.0 applications?
Some may say that was coincidence. Well here's the creepy part:
Take the number of days Google have public (2321), multiply by the number of Chinese people imprisoned thanks to Google (7), multiply by the number of web pages that Google indexes (11,029,291,583), divide by Nostradamus' number that he foretold would mark the beginning of the end (10,392), and round to the nearest 6 (6 as in 666). Now simply base64 encode the number, and you get DLOeVFT0501l==, rearrange the letters and you get "D0LOTSOFeV1l".
Humans are the only living things that we know of that have been able to split atoms. Life as we know it is built on top of atoms; life breaks down and builds up molecules, but it doesn't break or combine atoms. (It's a safe bet that nuclear reactors are irreducibly complex.)
His wife doesn't mind the privacy concerns, but she does get tired of having to dry-hump a bean-bag with a wig on every night while her husband makes bombs in secrecy.
This is kind of what Google do already, isn't it?
Everyone here is concerned about privacy issues, I'm much more concerned about them pushing "CardSpace". Imagine if they succeed in getting it widely used and they then have control over authentication on the internet. It would be a powerful way to control what software people use to access the net.
I think a unified authentication tool is a good thing, but it should obviously be based on open standards.