I'm sorry that apparently you've not been to a good university.
I teach at a medium-ranked university, and I can tell you that students need to be able to think and critically read and write (next to obvious substantive requirements such as knowing theories). Institutions imparting purely technical/factual knowledge should IMHO not be called universities,
Corporate personhood is not invented to protect 'natural', 'constitutional' or 'legal' rights of persons.
For one thing, the concept originates from before the US constitution. It at least dates back to the Dutch East Indies company (1608 IIRC). Separating investment from liability (other than the invested sum) is a means to allow a multitude of people to invest in a company without the risk of being taken down in a bankruptcy (for more than their invested sum). It is a pure tradeoff between the the security of the investors and the rights of creditors and has nothing to do with enforcement of pre-existing rights.
Well, I can get quite a thrill at driving through cities like Paris or Barcelona. Traffic is fast and mean, and you have to think and react quick or get cut off.
Amsterdam, especially central amsterdam (where I live) is fun in a maze-solving way with one way streets, narrow canal streets totally blocked by moving vans, etc. Traffic is horrible at rush hour but quite doable during the day and evening and in the weekend.
I haven't driven in England but Edinburgh is certainly doable outside rush hour.
US cities except for NY and such are just boring in terms of driving. Manhattan is kind of cool to drive through, as long as you're not in a hurry... in terms of driving US is made for the great outdoors, I think.
Did you ever notice how car ads always take place on small roads in beautiful mountainous territory?
Driving cars on the highway through flat country is pretty boring; driving cars on a highway in traffic through the same flat country twice a day for a couple years on end is downright tedious.
I think driving is incredibly fun --- through european cities and over small roads in the countryside. I would love to be able to drive to the highway, read the newspaper for half an hour, and take control again at the exit.
... it broke the domain-based model of trust on the web since everything had to be put on the advertising hosters' servers to deter click fraud and whatnot.
Erm? I would say the trust model works exactly as promised.
I trust slashdot.org (I know, silly me) and ask my browser to download and display HTML content from their domain The HTML at/.org instructs my browser to go get and display some other content from an ad domain I do not trust that ad domain and refuse to display their content Everybody happy?
*Browsers*, however, need to become more explicit about this and realize that if I instruct them to get a page from x.com I don't really want to get images, frames and whatnot from Y.com. Firefox used to have an "don't display images from external sites" option but I think it was lost in translation somewhere? I would really like a general "don't download content from other domains" and more specific don't download images/javascript/flash/pdf etc from other domains" options, with some sort of statusbar notification and whitelisting.
I would say that the trust model would be broken if slashdot would serve external content as if it is part of their domain, which they could if they wanted, so we should be happy that the ad-services insist on serving their own content...
Our Coder who art in heaven, hallowed be thy namespace. Thy pointers come. Thy loops be done in source as it is in binary. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our spaghetti code, as we forgive those who spaghetti codes us, and lead us not into the goto, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the editor, and the compiler, and the linker, for ever and ever. Amen.
I'm sure they mean: first time a computer has beaten a 1st dan (or whatever shogi ranks are called) grandmaster in an offical tournament setting...
Also, I don't think the theoretical number of games is very relevant. Paper-scissor-rocks has an infinite amount of possible games, ie 1 draw followed by a win, 2 draws... inf draws. Much more relevant would be branching factor, difficulty of estimating positional strength, horizon problems, long term dependencies etc.
I think you should read up on the story of onan...
[7] And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD slew him. [8] And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother. [9] And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother. [10] And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him also."
Flemish is a dialect of the Dutch language. I know, dialect is generally a political rather than a linguistic term, but:
- The official languages of Belgium are Dutch and French (and German...), not Flemish and Walloon - The written languages are identical (except for some idiom) - People can understand each other without effort (except for heavy local dialects, which is the same in most languages) - Anecdotally, I think the within-country dialectal differences (e.g. standard Dutch versus Limburgs, Twents; "standard Flemish" vs. West-vlaams etc) are as great as or greater than the between-country differences.
you should see Dutch and Flemish the way you see British English and American English, minus the spelling differences.
You miss one thing: if you have two children, there is a X% chance that they are twins. IF they are twins, they have a close to 100% probability of sharing a birthday, and a >50% probability of sharing gender (identical twins share gender, non-identical share gender in 50% of cases).
Some googling says: P(identical twins) ~.4% P(non-ident twins) ~ 2.6%
The maths involved are left as an exercise to the reader:-)
This is really brave. Not just rant about how stupid a law is, or how unenforceable, and then just break it. But break it, deliberately turn yourself in, and show how stupid/unenforceable the law is.
From an egoistic short-term perspective this is probably seen as just stupid, but this is the way to actually enact some changes.
I live in Amsterdam since 6 years, and I can tell you: marijuana smells pretty badly. So, I don't care about the substance, but regulating acceptable "smell levels" would not be a bad thing:-)
But any FOSS software for which IP ownership is not concentrated (ie all developers kept their own copyright) is impossible to relicense, right? So MySQL is the exception because one party has IP rights, and the worst that can happen is that it becomes a normal FOSS project.
The real argument is that MySQL is developer with money acquired through the dual licensing, so that could go away. But admitting that is basically admitting that FOSS does not have a valid business model (in this case), so that's not opportune to say...
Isn't the IP of the kernel spread over all developers?
This is why countries only have extradition treaties with other countries in whose justice system they trust, and the treaty (can) limit the laws on which extradition takes place and/or exempt own citizens from extradition. Generally, extradition can be appealed in the extraditing country on procedural grounds
Rather, I think the publishers really want us to buy the e-book for the same price (or a measly 20% discount) as the folio book...
I realise that a large part of the costs for a book are the writing, selecting, editing, layout etc., but I'm sure printing, distributing and retail should be more than 20%...
Maybe they did, and the 10.08 (pretty minimal increase from 10) was their low end result, and they will announce their 25% increase result in the coming day..
In the original purpose of copyright law - books and other written material - there is no source code other than the thing that is distributed.
In a sense, companies like MS use copyright not to be a sole distributer of the copyrighted material (the source code), but to prevent all distribution of said material. By withholding the "manuscript", we ("the people") are granting a temporary monopoly on something we don't even really know what it is.
Computer programs are quite different from the creative works copyright was intended for, and also quite different from the "machines" and "inventions" patents were intended for. By trying to apply legislation to something quite different than what it was meant for we are creating a lot of problems, including overly broad patents, copyright monopoly on something that isn't distributed at all, unclear definition of derivative work in the face of bundling, linking, and reverse engineering, etc. etc..
Instead of limiting copyright to X years (possibly a very good idea for books, songs etc.), I think we need to think of a way to protect software makers from abuse of the fruits of his/her labour, while giving "the people" something substantive in return for the monopoly, the policing, etc.
This solution could include registering source code but it might be better to protect a "program" or "solution" than to try to protect source code as if it is some kind of literary work, and then extend that to the compiled version of that source code
The ships are generally in nasty, remote locations. Factor in the cost of building a supply ship and fueling that ship to get the fuel to the destroyer, PLUS escort, PLUS lost mission time and extra miles to go to refueling, and you will probably break even in the first year.
And then the ship has 30 more years to go.
I guess your tax dollars didn't go to elementary math & common sense education, aka high school:-)
Slashdot Mirror
I'm sorry that apparently you've not been to a good university.
I teach at a medium-ranked university, and I can tell you that students need to be able to think and critically read and write (next to obvious substantive requirements such as knowing theories). Institutions imparting purely technical/factual knowledge should IMHO not be called universities,
Corporate personhood is not invented to protect 'natural', 'constitutional' or 'legal' rights of persons.
For one thing, the concept originates from before the US constitution. It at least dates back to the Dutch East Indies company (1608 IIRC). Separating investment from liability (other than the invested sum) is a means to allow a multitude of people to invest in a company without the risk of being taken down in a bankruptcy (for more than their invested sum). It is a pure tradeoff between the the security of the investors and the rights of creditors and has nothing to do with enforcement of pre-existing rights.
Well, I can get quite a thrill at driving through cities like Paris or Barcelona. Traffic is fast and mean, and you have to think and react quick or get cut off.
Amsterdam, especially central amsterdam (where I live) is fun in a maze-solving way with one way streets, narrow canal streets totally blocked by moving vans, etc. Traffic is horrible at rush hour but quite doable during the day and evening and in the weekend.
I haven't driven in England but Edinburgh is certainly doable outside rush hour.
US cities except for NY and such are just boring in terms of driving. Manhattan is kind of cool to drive through, as long as you're not in a hurry... in terms of driving US is made for the great outdoors, I think.
Did you ever notice how car ads always take place on small roads in beautiful mountainous territory?
Driving cars on the highway through flat country is pretty boring; driving cars on a highway in traffic through the same flat country twice a day for a couple years on end is downright tedious.
I think driving is incredibly fun --- through european cities and over small roads in the countryside. I would love to be able to drive to the highway, read the newspaper for half an hour, and take control again at the exit.
... it broke the domain-based model of trust on the web since everything had to be put on the advertising hosters' servers to deter click fraud and whatnot.
Erm? I would say the trust model works exactly as promised.
I trust slashdot.org (I know, silly me) and ask my browser to download and display HTML content from their domain /.org instructs my browser to go get and display some other content from an ad domain
The HTML at
I do not trust that ad domain and refuse to display their content
Everybody happy?
*Browsers*, however, need to become more explicit about this and realize that if I instruct them to get a page from x.com I don't really want to get images, frames and whatnot from Y.com. Firefox used to have an "don't display images from external sites" option but I think it was lost in translation somewhere? I would really like a general "don't download content from other domains" and more specific don't download images/javascript/flash/pdf etc from other domains" options, with some sort of statusbar notification and whitelisting.
I would say that the trust model would be broken if slashdot would serve external content as if it is part of their domain, which they could if they wanted, so we should be happy that the ad-services insist on serving their own content...
loved ones, data, possessions
Our Coder who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy namespace.
Thy pointers come.
Thy loops be done
in source as it is in binary.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our spaghetti code,
as we forgive those who spaghetti codes us,
and lead us not into the goto,
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the editor,
and the compiler, and the linker,
for ever and ever.
Amen.
Scientist (well me, in any case) Says Religion Causes Confusion Between Reality and Fiction
First time "a computer" has beaten "a human", eh?
I'm sure they mean: first time a computer has beaten a 1st dan (or whatever shogi ranks are called) grandmaster in an offical tournament setting...
Also, I don't think the theoretical number of games is very relevant. Paper-scissor-rocks has an infinite amount of possible games, ie 1 draw followed by a win, 2 draws ... inf draws. Much more relevant would be branching factor, difficulty of estimating positional strength, horizon problems, long term dependencies etc.
I think you should read up on the story of onan...
[7] And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD slew him.
[8] And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.
[9] And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.
[10] And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him also."
(kjv genesis 38 http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/k/kjv/kjv-idx?type=DIV2&byte=159188)
ie if you spill your seed it will displease the LORD and he will slay you...
Flemish is a dialect of the Dutch language. I know, dialect is generally a political rather than a linguistic term, but:
- The official languages of Belgium are Dutch and French (and German...), not Flemish and Walloon
- The written languages are identical (except for some idiom)
- People can understand each other without effort (except for heavy local dialects, which is the same in most languages)
- Anecdotally, I think the within-country dialectal differences (e.g. standard Dutch versus Limburgs, Twents; "standard Flemish" vs. West-vlaams etc) are as great as or greater than the between-country differences.
you should see Dutch and Flemish the way you see British English and American English, minus the spelling differences.
You miss one thing: if you have two children, there is a X% chance that they are twins. IF they are twins, they have a close to 100% probability of sharing a birthday, and a >50% probability of sharing gender (identical twins share gender, non-identical share gender in 50% of cases).
Some googling says: .4%
P(identical twins) ~
P(non-ident twins) ~ 2.6%
The maths involved are left as an exercise to the reader :-)
Because, as we all know, Geneva (CERN's site) is in France.
Right?
yeah, who would use a unit such as bit when he could also use something like GB?
And if we're doing the unit thing, what about (centi)meters instead of inches???
This is really brave. Not just rant about how stupid a law is, or how unenforceable, and then just break it. But break it, deliberately turn yourself in, and show how stupid/unenforceable the law is.
From an egoistic short-term perspective this is probably seen as just stupid, but this is the way to actually enact some changes.
Bravo!
I live in Amsterdam since 6 years, and I can tell you: marijuana smells pretty badly. So, I don't care about the substance, but regulating acceptable "smell levels" would not be a bad thing :-)
But any FOSS software for which IP ownership is not concentrated (ie all developers kept their own copyright) is impossible to relicense, right? So MySQL is the exception because one party has IP rights, and the worst that can happen is that it becomes a normal FOSS project.
The real argument is that MySQL is developer with money acquired through the dual licensing, so that could go away. But admitting that is basically admitting that FOSS does not have a valid business model (in this case), so that's not opportune to say...
Isn't the IP of the kernel spread over all developers?
This is why countries only have extradition treaties with other countries in whose justice system they trust, and the treaty (can) limit the laws on which extradition takes place and/or exempt own citizens from extradition. Generally, extradition can be appealed in the extraditing country on procedural grounds
Rather, I think the publishers really want us to buy the e-book for the same price (or a measly 20% discount) as the folio book...
I realise that a large part of the costs for a book are the writing, selecting, editing, layout etc., but I'm sure printing, distributing and retail should be more than 20%...
Right! Don't give your data to your company, give it to google! :-)
Maybe they did, and the 10.08 (pretty minimal increase from 10) was their low end result, and they will announce their 25% increase result in the coming day..
Then again, maybe they didn't :-)
This actually makes a lot of sense.
In the original purpose of copyright law - books and other written material - there is no source code other than the thing that is distributed.
In a sense, companies like MS use copyright not to be a sole distributer of the copyrighted material (the source code), but to prevent all distribution of said material. By withholding the "manuscript", we ("the people") are granting a temporary monopoly on something we don't even really know what it is.
Computer programs are quite different from the creative works copyright was intended for, and also quite different from the "machines" and "inventions" patents were intended for. By trying to apply legislation to something quite different than what it was meant for we are creating a lot of problems, including overly broad patents, copyright monopoly on something that isn't distributed at all, unclear definition of derivative work in the face of bundling, linking, and reverse engineering, etc. etc..
Instead of limiting copyright to X years (possibly a very good idea for books, songs etc.), I think we need to think of a way to protect software makers from abuse of the fruits of his/her labour, while giving "the people" something substantive in return for the monopoly, the policing, etc.
This solution could include registering source code but it might be better to protect a "program" or "solution" than to try to protect source code as if it is some kind of literary work, and then extend that to the compiled version of that source code
Aha! A bicycle!
Ahhh right. And IBM c.s. is run by a bunch of code-hugging hippies and they function as a charity to release code for the improvement of the world.
How *could* I have missed that?
$100 per barrel= costs at the refinery.
The ships are generally in nasty, remote locations. Factor in the cost of building a supply ship and fueling that ship to get the fuel to the destroyer, PLUS escort, PLUS lost mission time and extra miles to go to refueling, and you will probably break even in the first year.
And then the ship has 30 more years to go.
I guess your tax dollars didn't go to elementary math & common sense education, aka high school :-)