I've always thought the name derived from a happy hour exchange between developers and marketeers, "Wouldn't it be nice if we could keep working on Duke Nuken? "Yeah. Like Duke Nuken, forever..."
becuase we don't have limitations on our food supply, and the self-limitation evolution has given us to survive meager diets is not useful to us anymore
I don't know exactly where you live or who you are, but maybe it would be useful if you could specify who are "we" in the sentence "we don't have limitations on our food supply". Because anyone with a fraction of a normal mouse's intelligence would think food scarcity is a very serious problem for at least 80% of humanity. At this very minute, all over the planet. Or maybe you should expand you information sources.
we should hope that the scientists are correct in saying that athletes won't be modifying their genes any time soon to get it, because it apparently makes the mice more aggressive.
Is it just me being paranoid or does anyone else see the obvious application of an ultra-resistant hyper-aggressive human? Isn't a soldier capable of running for hours without stopping while killing everyone on his/her path without doubt or remorse one of those weapons that make generals and politicians dream wet dreams of a war to end all wars?
Since within this timeframe global warming effects will probably grow powerful enough, there is a good chance the internal security and freedom issues will just go away along with modern civilization.
I REALLY do think that if a company is based the U.S.A. it should have to abide by minimum standardars that represent what our country stands for
Let us see: a) Imperialism, including supporting client dictatorships (North Korea) and conducting colonial wars of conquest abroad (Tibet) b) Repression of ideas and civil population survillance (China seems to have inspired the most recent US legislation on this area) c) Political Repression, like keeping political enemies imprisioned without trial, access to legal advice or perspective of release
As for your list: 1. Child Labour laws: Western companies (including American ones like Nike) made child labour in the Third World possible and profitable by hiring it in the first place 2. Free Speech: Yes, here the Chinese are way ahed, but the American government is doing its best to close the gap. 3. Environmental regulations: Ah, yeah, Kettle refused to sign the Kyoto Treaty because it thought Pot was having too much fun.
All in all, I think China is doing quite well in its quest to abide by the American principles. They also have only one party like the US, favour profit above anything else and are willing to do whatever it takes in the name of its own interests.
From your examples, it looks like your whole IT deparment is working very hard to be downsized or outsourced. From my experience, the minute a smart VP or CEO (or, a common case, an external consultant who has the VP or the CEO's ear) notices and documents the kind of impact they are having in the bottom line, lots of high and middle heads will start rolling. Having inflexible rules when your market is evolving or constantly changing (and when your market is global it is always changing and evolving) is so dumb it hurts - when have we called the high priests back to the computer room, anyway? I though we had all agreed to send them home for good by the end of the 70's.
I can't read Sweedish so all I know is in the same short note everyone else read. But I very much doubt a "movement" is what they are after - but even so, as I said in another comment, the name itself sends a clear message. It appropriates the very term the IP moguls use to designate thiefs and send it back rolling, screamming "Yes, we are the criminals, but just because the evil invalid laws you bought say so". Eventually (hopefully) they will be able to add to the message "And the people are with us".
Every other day a corporation takes a word or an idea and gives it a new meaning, always a more conforming one. Appropriating "Piracy", the very word the IP owners of the world use to designate those who, in their view, are criminal thiefs of their property, is a nice slap in the face of those corporations. It sends the clear message that yes, "we are criminals", but we are criminals because the laws you bought are invalid. Eventually the people may hear.
Isn't it somewhat obvious that they are just trying to call public attention to the state and the way Intelectual Property laws are taking in Sweeden and Europe? For this purpose, calling it "The Free Knowledge Party" is useless. Calling it "Piracy Party" makes people stop and think about it.
You are wrong. Reducing the copyright duration is exactly the other side of raising the copyright duration, and in fighting for the former you recognize the latter as a valid option. And you can't win: the corporation will always have money to buy more politicians than you, directly by depositing the money in offshore banks or indirectly by buying TV time, hiring campaign staffers, buiyng journalists and pundits to both praise their side and demonize/destroy you.
I think theirs is a perfect emergency platform - nullify all intelectual property and dismiss all copyright laws before it is too late. Then we start over carefully and see what we really need.
Not that they have a chance (maybe as a seed to germinate elsewhere in the world) but it would be funny to see RIAA (or some EU sister)running to install the equipment to stop the waves carrying their IP from reaching Sweeden.
Everybody keeps access logs, at least for a while (ans "a while" may be a couple of minutes or an hour or weeks). Most sites just don't display it back in bold letters, because no one needs to waste space with such an obvious piece of information. And, as said elsewhere in the thread, it may scare the occasional 11 year old girl, everyone else knows how to hide this kind of information.
Google will have us run beta applications on top of a beta OS running in beta hardware! And so they solve for good Microsoft's ethernal headaches with buggy releases - never release version 1.0.
All these tropical music styles seem to follow a cycle of sudden, quick popularity, quick fall back into oblivion as a new, hotter style is "discovered" and then a revival every other decade. Mambo wouldn't be different.
So we have to explain the joke again: The title comes from the original note in the Handler's Diary. You see, it creates a mental tension between "Trustworth Computing", the lack of an official patch and ISC's "Please, trust us". It makes some readers smile.
The title come directly from the ISC's Handler's Diary post that uses it as a joke, to reflect the fact that they will ask people to trust them on this one. Quote:"I find myself in the very peculiar position of having to say something that I don't believe has ever been said here in the Handler's diary before: "Please, trust us.".
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You may not be out in the open - from what I gather, the exploit can use any extension and Windows will recognize the Metafile from the headers (ie, even if it is disguised as a.gif or.jpg). So it would be wise deregistering the dll for the time being.
IQ does not correlate perfectly with IQ performance, specially at the high end of the curve.
And you're kidding right? The only time early UNIX machines were approached by people with IQs bellow 140 was when they were being transported from one place to another, and that's only when those people were idly standing near the truck - other than that even the truck drivers and the janitors who cleaned the rooms they were stored in held at least one PHD.
First, I haven't modded down you, so don't blame me. I am here.
Second, you show some lacking in your knowledge of body of data - the "gaps" you speak of are being closed every minute around the world, by dedicated fossil hunter, lab analists and theorists (more or less in this order). And the theory is evolving and being re-worked as the body of data grows and new eveidence for this or that hyphotesis emerge.
Third, what I said bears no relation to what some people think or fail to think. The logic is clear: either they were using the word theory in the technical sense and then there was no reason to single out evolution for a warning or they were using the word to mean, as you say, hunch, and refering specifically to one scientific theory they don't like. The later implies there were non-educational, non-scientific reasons leading to the inclusion of the sticker. And the judge found the reason for the sticker was that one particular religious group do not like evolution. Hence, no sticker.
Amd by the way, the difference between "there's a higher being that developed mankind" and "there's an unknown event for which we have no evidence that must have exacted force on the evolutionary timeline." is the difference between science and religion. The first statement can not be proven false. The second can, by showing no event was necessary or showing the gap was caused by our failure in finding the missing links or showing another event happened. But science, specially science dealing with geological and evolutionary timescales, is always a search for the best explanation for the data we see. Always remember, in the end there is a body of data supporting the theory, and the theory is what the scientists consider the best explanation for that data. Show me the body of data supporting the existence of the higher being and we can discuss this as a scientific theory.
If you care to check the mainstream scientific periodicals, you will realize new theories explaining this or that aspect of Science pop up everyday around the world, to cope with new data and new insights. Not only that, all aspects of the current theories are in constant motion in all fields, from cosmology to biology to particle physics. Most of if take years (sometimes decades) to reach undergraduate and high school textbooks because any new idea has to be re-tested, checked, reproduced.
Now, replacing a major theory (Quantum Mechanics, Evolution, Gravitation etc) is the work of generation of gifted scientists or a genius. It does not happen every other day, because major theories have a whole bodie od data behind them.
The obnoxious sticker said: "This textbook contains material on evolution. Evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of living things. This material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully and critically considered".
Now you can read it in two ways:
a) The word "theory" here means exactly what it means in Science. In this case, all textbooks should have hundreds of similar stickers as in "This textbook contains material on inertia. Inertia is a theory, not a fact, regarding the way bodies upon which no external force is acting behave. This material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully and critically considered".
b) The word "theory" here is being used with its layman meaning, as in the song "I have a theory" in Buffy's Musical Episode. "I have theory, it could be bunnies". In this case the sentence is not only wrong, it is a blatant religious statement. That was found to be the case, and then the judge nixed it.
Unless you have a new theory that explains the Universe around us better than the current ones, it is wrong to substitute the best explanation so far by anything else. If you have some evidence that The Great Spaghetti Monster came in his Cheese Sauce and planted life on Earth, we'd better teach the kids about a slow process of evolution, encompassing geological eras, starting in a humble self-replicant molecule and getting to eagles, sequoia trees and humans.
I understand it is supposed to be a joke, but I can't help being amazed by the fact that I can recognize exactly two artists from your list, Britney and Santana. And the former just because she's a famous TV/news celebrity, I have never really listened to anything from her, except the occasional unnoteworthy clip. I own some songs/cds from Santana.
Maybe I should spend some time listening to some top-40 radios. But then again, maybe not.
one of the latest attempts to multitask common items, whether we want it or not.
I hate this New Order Globalized Communism we found ourselves into. I hate being forced to buy gadget upon gadget some marketing department idiot thought of, whether I want it or not. I miss the days where we could freely choose where and on what to spend our money
Yeah, yeah, I have been told many times before my musical insights are brilliant. But, you see the problem, the unwashed masses are not prepared or willing to listen to me. That is why the rootkit solution is so good - one could even leave the filenames intact and change the file under them and there you are: the unsuspecting listener fires up his/her usual playlist and suddenly Celine Dion sounds heavenly.
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I've always thought the name derived from a happy hour exchange between developers and marketeers, "Wouldn't it be nice if we could keep working on Duke Nuken? "Yeah. Like Duke Nuken, forever..."
becuase we don't have limitations on our food supply, and the self-limitation evolution has given us to survive meager diets is not useful to us anymore
I don't know exactly where you live or who you are, but maybe it would be useful if you could specify who are "we" in the sentence "we don't have limitations on our food supply". Because anyone with a fraction of a normal mouse's intelligence would think food scarcity is a very serious problem for at least 80% of humanity. At this very minute, all over the planet. Or maybe you should expand you information sources.
we should hope that the scientists are correct in saying that athletes won't be modifying their genes any time soon to get it, because it apparently makes the mice more aggressive.
Is it just me being paranoid or does anyone else see the obvious application of an ultra-resistant hyper-aggressive human? Isn't a soldier capable of running for hours without stopping while killing everyone on his/her path without doubt or remorse one of those weapons that make generals and politicians dream wet dreams of a war to end all wars?
Since within this timeframe global warming effects will probably grow powerful enough, there is a good chance the internal security and freedom issues will just go away along with modern civilization.
I REALLY do think that if a company is based the U.S.A. it should have to abide by minimum standardars that represent what our country stands for
Let us see:
a) Imperialism, including supporting client dictatorships (North Korea) and conducting colonial wars of conquest abroad (Tibet)
b) Repression of ideas and civil population survillance (China seems to have inspired the most recent US legislation on this area)
c) Political Repression, like keeping political enemies imprisioned without trial, access to legal advice or perspective of release
As for your list:
1. Child Labour laws: Western companies (including American ones like Nike) made child labour in the Third World possible and profitable by hiring it in the first place
2. Free Speech: Yes, here the Chinese are way ahed, but the American government is doing its best to close the gap.
3. Environmental regulations: Ah, yeah, Kettle refused to sign the Kyoto Treaty because it thought Pot was having too much fun.
All in all, I think China is doing quite well in its quest to abide by the American principles. They also have only one party like the US, favour profit above anything else and are willing to do whatever it takes in the name of its own interests.
From your examples, it looks like your whole IT deparment is working very hard to be downsized or outsourced. From my experience, the minute a smart VP or CEO (or, a common case, an external consultant who has the VP or the CEO's ear) notices and documents the kind of impact they are having in the bottom line, lots of high and middle heads will start rolling. Having inflexible rules when your market is evolving or constantly changing (and when your market is global it is always changing and evolving) is so dumb it hurts - when have we called the high priests back to the computer room, anyway? I though we had all agreed to send them home for good by the end of the 70's.
I can't read Sweedish so all I know is in the same short note everyone else read. But I very much doubt a "movement" is what they are after - but even so, as I said in another comment, the name itself sends a clear message. It appropriates the very term the IP moguls use to designate thiefs and send it back rolling, screamming "Yes, we are the criminals, but just because the evil invalid laws you bought say so". Eventually (hopefully) they will be able to add to the message "And the people are with us".
Every other day a corporation takes a word or an idea and gives it a new meaning, always a more conforming one. Appropriating "Piracy", the very word the IP owners of the world use to designate those who, in their view, are criminal thiefs of their property, is a nice slap in the face of those corporations. It sends the clear message that yes, "we are criminals", but we are criminals because the laws you bought are invalid. Eventually the people may hear.
Isn't it somewhat obvious that they are just trying to call public attention to the state and the way Intelectual Property laws are taking in Sweeden and Europe? For this purpose, calling it "The Free Knowledge Party" is useless. Calling it "Piracy Party" makes people stop and think about it.
You are wrong. Reducing the copyright duration is exactly the other side of raising the copyright duration, and in fighting for the former you recognize the latter as a valid option. And you can't win: the corporation will always have money to buy more politicians than you, directly by depositing the money in offshore banks or indirectly by buying TV time, hiring campaign staffers, buiyng journalists and pundits to both praise their side and demonize/destroy you.
I think theirs is a perfect emergency platform - nullify all intelectual property and dismiss all copyright laws before it is too late. Then we start over carefully and see what we really need.
Not that they have a chance (maybe as a seed to germinate elsewhere in the world) but it would be funny to see RIAA (or some EU sister)running to install the equipment to stop the waves carrying their IP from reaching Sweeden.
Everybody keeps access logs, at least for a while (ans "a while" may be a couple of minutes or an hour or weeks). Most sites just don't display it back in bold letters, because no one needs to waste space with such an obvious piece of information. And, as said elsewhere in the thread, it may scare the occasional 11 year old girl, everyone else knows how to hide this kind of information.
Google will have us run beta applications on top of a beta OS running in beta hardware! And so they solve for good Microsoft's ethernal headaches with buggy releases - never release version 1.0.
All these tropical music styles seem to follow a cycle of sudden, quick popularity, quick fall back into oblivion as a new, hotter style is "discovered" and then a revival every other decade. Mambo wouldn't be different.
So we have to explain the joke again:
The title comes from the original note in the Handler's Diary. You see, it creates a mental tension between "Trustworth Computing", the lack of an official patch and ISC's "Please, trust us". It makes some readers smile.
The title come directly from the ISC's Handler's Diary post that uses it as a joke, to reflect the fact that they will ask people to trust them on this one. Quote:"I find myself in the very peculiar position of having to say something that I don't believe has ever been said here in the Handler's diary before: "Please, trust us.".
You may not be out in the open - from what I gather, the exploit can use any extension and Windows will recognize the Metafile from the headers (ie, even if it is disguised as a .gif or .jpg). So it would be wise deregistering the dll for the time being.
IQ does not correlate perfectly with IQ performance, specially at the high end of the curve.
And you're kidding right? The only time early UNIX machines were approached by people with IQs bellow 140 was when they were being transported from one place to another, and that's only when those people were idly standing near the truck - other than that even the truck drivers and the janitors who cleaned the rooms they were stored in held at least one PHD.
First, I haven't modded down you, so don't blame me. I am here.
Second, you show some lacking in your knowledge of body of data - the "gaps" you speak of are being closed every minute around the world, by dedicated fossil hunter, lab analists and theorists (more or less in this order). And the theory is evolving and being re-worked as the body of data grows and new eveidence for this or that hyphotesis emerge.
Third, what I said bears no relation to what some people think or fail to think. The logic is clear: either they were using the word theory in the technical sense and then there was no reason to single out evolution for a warning or they were using the word to mean, as you say, hunch, and refering specifically to one scientific theory they don't like. The later implies there were non-educational, non-scientific reasons leading to the inclusion of the sticker. And the judge found the reason for the sticker was that one particular religious group do not like evolution. Hence, no sticker.
Amd by the way, the difference between "there's a higher being that developed mankind" and "there's an unknown event for which we have no evidence that must have exacted force on the evolutionary timeline." is the difference between science and religion. The first statement can not be proven false. The second can, by showing no event was necessary or showing the gap was caused by our failure in finding the missing links or showing another event happened. But science, specially science dealing with geological and evolutionary timescales, is always a search for the best explanation for the data we see. Always remember, in the end there is a body of data supporting the theory, and the theory is what the scientists consider the best explanation for that data. Show me the body of data supporting the existence of the higher being and we can discuss this as a scientific theory.
If you care to check the mainstream scientific periodicals, you will realize new theories explaining this or that aspect of Science pop up everyday around the world, to cope with new data and new insights. Not only that, all aspects of the current theories are in constant motion in all fields, from cosmology to biology to particle physics. Most of if take years (sometimes decades) to reach undergraduate and high school textbooks because any new idea has to be re-tested, checked, reproduced.
Now, replacing a major theory (Quantum Mechanics, Evolution, Gravitation etc) is the work of generation of gifted scientists or a genius. It does not happen every other day, because major theories have a whole bodie od data behind them.
The obnoxious sticker said: "This textbook contains material on evolution. Evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of living things. This material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully and critically considered".
Now you can read it in two ways:
a) The word "theory" here means exactly what it means in Science. In this case, all textbooks should have hundreds of similar stickers as in "This textbook contains material on inertia. Inertia is a theory, not a fact, regarding the way bodies upon which no external force is acting behave. This material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully and critically considered".
b) The word "theory" here is being used with its layman meaning, as in the song "I have a theory" in Buffy's Musical Episode. "I have theory, it could be bunnies". In this case the sentence is not only wrong, it is a blatant religious statement. That was found to be the case, and then the judge nixed it.
Unless you have a new theory that explains the Universe around us better than the current ones, it is wrong to substitute the best explanation so far by anything else. If you have some evidence that The Great Spaghetti Monster came in his Cheese Sauce and planted life on Earth, we'd better teach the kids about a slow process of evolution, encompassing geological eras, starting in a humble self-replicant molecule and getting to eagles, sequoia trees and humans.
It's right there in teh Constitution thing, guv. Some Fundy Feathers put it there, they tell me. Who knows what those birds were thinking.
I understand it is supposed to be a joke, but I can't help being amazed by the fact that I can recognize exactly two artists from your list, Britney and Santana. And the former just because she's a famous TV/news celebrity, I have never really listened to anything from her, except the occasional unnoteworthy clip. I own some songs/cds from Santana.
Maybe I should spend some time listening to some top-40 radios. But then again, maybe not.
one of the latest attempts to multitask common items, whether we want it or not.
I hate this New Order Globalized Communism we found ourselves into. I hate being forced to buy gadget upon gadget some marketing department idiot thought of, whether I want it or not. I miss the days where we could freely choose where and on what to spend our money
Yeah, yeah, I have been told many times before my musical insights are brilliant. But, you see the problem, the unwashed masses are not prepared or willing to listen to me. That is why the rootkit solution is so good - one could even leave the filenames intact and change the file under them and there you are: the unsuspecting listener fires up his/her usual playlist and suddenly Celine Dion sounds heavenly.