This is amazing me. Justices don't write their decisions in pencil, right? So how hard is it to PDF the decision and upload it somewhere?
These legacy locks the Old Boys have on content are amazing. I can see some of the exhibits waiting, but the court decision should be a snap. It's like "Select all court decisions this month --> Convert to PDF". The day someone break the bar's lock on pricing is the day we get fairness in law.
I'm a perfectly targeted Potential New User and I'm trying to weave my way through the Linux maze, but I'm getting a little lost.
Last I had figured out, I'm Ex-Ubuntu after various updates stopped working on my older hardware. OpenSuse was okay, but I was thinking I wanted the Debian Packager and the improvements in Squeeze, but Debian "Raw" is too hard for newbies, so indications were leaning towards Mint-DebianEdition. I've used (and disliked!) both Gnome3 and KDE4, so I think that means I'm leaning towards XKCE as the most "Windowsy-Like" interface.
Did I get that almost right? Back on topic, as a Windows user, in a Linux environment I want to really lean on Right-Click-Does-Everything. I think I got grumpy when "things that should have been obvious, simply weren't there".
Because it's a macho thing to "ignore/cover-up/fake sensor data". With a monkey you can "sorta pretend it is really an astronaut", it makes people get just a tad more serious if someone signs off and then it still goes wrong. If you think someone was playing games you simply say "Show me the monkey!" Bonus Points if it listens to Peter Gabriel on the way up.
"I guess I just hate the fact that the Internet has become a shopping mall on crack."
It's worse than that Jim, there's a thundering philosophical problem going on. We were careful with the net, we have the greatest window of (sorta) free world wide communication ever. Problem is, "what is communication". If you listened to a bunch of guys just chillin' on a Sunday over Pizza and Beer/Soda (depending on your age group), the level of conversation is... on the order of LolDogs and Titties. Maybe some bitching about work. Then someone brings over a DVD of some show, and they all watch it and do MST3K to it.
So that's what shows up online. So the smart folks go searching out the better stuff.
Trouble is, now we have the Pros staging "bar fights" next to our "TED talks". The net did itself in by calling "lame" when 1-man ops produce stuff that isn't very good - because then it opens the gap for studios to intone "look! shiny!".
1. "In 1990 the MIT Museum put together a journal documenting the hacking phenomenon." (Aka, not just 'someone on the internet but MIT producing their own journal.) 2. "The first self-described computer hackers of the 1960s MIT campus originated from a late 1950s student group called the Tech Model Railroad Club. A tight clique within the club was the Signals and Power (S&P) Committee-the group behind the railroad club's electrical circuitry system. The system was a sophisticated assortment of relays and switches similar to the kind that controlled the local campus phone system. To control it, a member of the group simply dialed in commands via a connected phone and watched the trains do his bidding. " 3. "By the end of the 1950s, the entire S&P clique had migrated en masse over to the TX-0 control room, bringing the spirit of creative play with them. The wide-open realm of computer programming would encourage yet another mutation in etymology. "To hack" no longer meant soldering unusual looking circuits, but cobbling together software programs with little regard to "official" methods or software-writing procedures."
We get an article on the DeLorean, and no one makes jokes about 88 miles per hour or getting to the future! There's your proof of the decline and fall of slashdot first posts! (Within ten comments it descended into dates and batteries.)
In the US we're getting so many blatant Constitution-demolishing new politics/cases that they're not even trying to follow the law anymore. Yet the 1960's age of Civil Disobedience is/almost over.
So the only form of protest left is to use the Letter/Spirit of the law. Because the Spirit of the law is "Let's let a measly 10-Billion Industry completely dominate all of world politics!" So when the smart users find a loophole, it's the only way they can't be slammed with the Terrorist label.
Tragedy of the Commons is the whole Musical Chair effect.
I went after the very simple Murder 1 and 2 where some person/group simply sets out to end other people's lives for pure gain as my starting point of What Not To Do.
I agree that those "Everyone play nice with your cows in the field" effects are far harder, but I wanted to keep it simple.
I agree, starting from absolute nothingness, we need a postulate. The difference between the humanistic rationalisms and classical religion is Which Postulate Rules Them All.
I'll agree it's a tossup between Large Amounts of Worldly Property vs Human Life - that's where lots of literature comes from, 1 man vs saving a resource, etc. But somewhere between those, are good places to start.
The severe problem with classical fundamentalist religion is the "God in the Gaps" - that this entity has *no effect whatsoever* except as perhaps inspiration and as a thin cover of "greater compassion". Any "technical transaction" with God simply isn't provable, so it boils down to some random person with good oratory skills saying "Sudo Do This Because It Is God's Will".
All the "inspiration" ever attributed to God can be recast with Out Of The Box / Lateral Thinking terminology and/or advanced level game theory.
Yes there certainly is a rational foundation for morality. Let's start with the easy ones.
Murder is Bad. Why? Because it's against Human Life. Theft is Bad. Why? Because it's against Human Progress, which makes Human Life harder.
See how much fun foundations are? Pretty easy. Now we can get all tangled in the details, but those are not foundations.
The word is clunky, but Atheism is rational, in its own narrow sense. Without the religious overtone of morality, you get a lot of "moral-neutral" events going on. My desk is a mess. Let us "listen for the moral result." (... Crickets...) Nothing. I live alone, so there is no particular effect to a messy desk except maybe remotely reducing the chance of any guest (to the parties that I don't hold) might be dismayed.
Our very lives depend on their not being a classical God! Like all those lost souls who get into the news because they try to pray their kid well instead of taking him to a doctor, deep down they "know" there are no *reliable* miracles. Science is a little ragged at the edges, but we have that kid's level cause&effect bit down pretty well.
Gather around everybody, let's go say Hi to God! Hi God! (... Crickets...)
He's pretty uh... (insert insensitive adverb) useless for an... wait for it... *Omnipotent* God! Basically no structured repeatable set of communications have EVER been conducted with God! All revelations are using untapped brain potential and all miracles are awesome edge cases of science.
There were some recent "protests" in academic treastises, but ignoring all those beginning of universe bits, we really are Ghosts in the Machines of our bodies. The Computer analogy really DOES work. Most medicine is about Hardware problems, but if you mess up the wrong hardware, you get Software problems. Of course then you still have other Software problems even when you are otherwise healthy.
All the stuff we bicker about is about our Personal Operating System. Neat vs Messy, toilet seats up vs down, cautious vs safe, McDonalds vs fancy Cuisine.
Wan'na know the last straw to sink fundamentalist creeds? Computers. They opened up whole new methods of communications... and yet God STILL isn't around.
Slashdot Mirror
Where's Michael Kristopeit when we need him?
We just need to channel him away from slashdot users to foreign affairs commentary.
This is amazing me. Justices don't write their decisions in pencil, right? So how hard is it to PDF the decision and upload it somewhere?
These legacy locks the Old Boys have on content are amazing. I can see some of the exhibits waiting, but the court decision should be a snap. It's like "Select all court decisions this month --> Convert to PDF". The day someone break the bar's lock on pricing is the day we get fairness in law.
I'm a perfectly targeted Potential New User and I'm trying to weave my way through the Linux maze, but I'm getting a little lost.
Last I had figured out, I'm Ex-Ubuntu after various updates stopped working on my older hardware. OpenSuse was okay, but I was thinking I wanted the Debian Packager and the improvements in Squeeze, but Debian "Raw" is too hard for newbies, so indications were leaning towards Mint-DebianEdition. I've used (and disliked!) both Gnome3 and KDE4, so I think that means I'm leaning towards XKCE as the most "Windowsy-Like" interface.
Did I get that almost right? Back on topic, as a Windows user, in a Linux environment I want to really lean on Right-Click-Does-Everything. I think I got grumpy when "things that should have been obvious, simply weren't there".
Because it's a macho thing to "ignore/cover-up/fake sensor data". With a monkey you can "sorta pretend it is really an astronaut", it makes people get just a tad more serious if someone signs off and then it still goes wrong. If you think someone was playing games you simply say "Show me the monkey!" Bonus Points if it listens to Peter Gabriel on the way up.
Here for the "any surface you are pointing at" comments.
"I guess I just hate the fact that the Internet has become a shopping mall on crack."
It's worse than that Jim, there's a thundering philosophical problem going on. We were careful with the net, we have the greatest window of (sorta) free world wide communication ever. Problem is, "what is communication". If you listened to a bunch of guys just chillin' on a Sunday over Pizza and Beer/Soda (depending on your age group), the level of conversation is ... on the order of LolDogs and Titties. Maybe some bitching about work. Then someone brings over a DVD of some show, and they all watch it and do MST3K to it.
So that's what shows up online. So the smart folks go searching out the better stuff.
Trouble is, now we have the Pros staging "bar fights" next to our "TED talks". The net did itself in by calling "lame" when 1-man ops produce stuff that isn't very good - because then it opens the gap for studios to intone "look! shiny!".
It's a really hard problem to solve.
Okay, here are at least some closer links.
Starting here: http://oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/appb.html
1. "In 1990 the MIT Museum put together a journal documenting the hacking phenomenon." (Aka, not just 'someone on the internet but MIT producing their own journal.)
2. "The first self-described computer hackers of the 1960s MIT campus originated from a late 1950s student group called the Tech Model Railroad Club. A tight clique within the club was the Signals and Power (S&P) Committee-the group behind the railroad club's electrical circuitry system. The system was a sophisticated assortment of relays and switches similar to the kind that controlled the local campus phone system. To control it, a member of the group simply dialed in commands via a connected phone and watched the trains do his bidding. "
3. "By the end of the 1950s, the entire S&P clique had migrated en masse over to the TX-0 control room, bringing the spirit of creative play with them. The wide-open realm of computer programming would encourage yet another mutation in etymology. "To hack" no longer meant soldering unusual looking circuits, but cobbling together software programs with little regard to "official" methods or software-writing procedures."
And from there, the rest is easier.
THANK YOU!
We get an article on the DeLorean, and no one makes jokes about 88 miles per hour or getting to the future! There's your proof of the decline and fall of slashdot first posts! (Within ten comments it descended into dates and batteries.)
If they make round tablets then they could get a killer product placement in the sequel to Tron Legacy.
I see a generic Copyright notice below, though other licenses are scattered throughout.
So how is this not food for the Copyright brigade?
"...rubber-stamp the rest".
Oh I know this one!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P46qYCIt954
I might disagree.
In the US we're getting so many blatant Constitution-demolishing new politics/cases that they're not even trying to follow the law anymore. Yet the 1960's age of Civil Disobedience is/almost over.
So the only form of protest left is to use the Letter/Spirit of the law. Because the Spirit of the law is "Let's let a measly 10-Billion Industry completely dominate all of world politics!" So when the smart users find a loophole, it's the only way they can't be slammed with the Terrorist label.
So is your Sig especially relevant here?
How exactly do you do that?
Either you write a report that is just plain ignored or you get pegged as a HaxorTerrierist.
I swear, this is just that old childhood playground stuff all over again, where the jocks in the board room and Gov are blaming the geeks.
Nah, Give them 7 years and they'll fix it.
Brazil is the Ultimate Dark Horse.
Buy in now!
Yeah sorry AC, sux to be you, but globally I have a 20 year watch on Brazil.
Right,
What DO 3500 ex-employees do with themselves in each of these layoffs? Surely they can reband together and do ... something cool?
I never believe corporate statements anymore.
Brazil is the next Dark Horse Country after China. But they totally managed to escape notice.
How is that!?
Yep.
Usenet was about 5 years before my time, but I still recall the days we thought the Net was the Great Frontier.
But now after spending Mega Billions, some 200 Corps plus 30 Governments hauled all of the net into a Big Brother nightmare.
Tragedy of the Commons is the whole Musical Chair effect.
I went after the very simple Murder 1 and 2 where some person/group simply sets out to end other people's lives for pure gain as my starting point of What Not To Do.
I agree that those "Everyone play nice with your cows in the field" effects are far harder, but I wanted to keep it simple.
Thank you Niteshaed for continuing the followup.
I agree, starting from absolute nothingness, we need a postulate. The difference between the humanistic rationalisms and classical religion is Which Postulate Rules Them All.
I'll agree it's a tossup between Large Amounts of Worldly Property vs Human Life - that's where lots of literature comes from, 1 man vs saving a resource, etc. But somewhere between those, are good places to start.
The severe problem with classical fundamentalist religion is the "God in the Gaps" - that this entity has *no effect whatsoever* except as perhaps inspiration and as a thin cover of "greater compassion". Any "technical transaction" with God simply isn't provable, so it boils down to some random person with good oratory skills saying "Sudo Do This Because It Is God's Will".
All the "inspiration" ever attributed to God can be recast with Out Of The Box / Lateral Thinking terminology and/or advanced level game theory.
Oh look! A City version of UAC!
"We detected a street light out of synch. Do you want to synch it? Cancel or Allow?"
Yes there certainly is a rational foundation for morality. Let's start with the easy ones.
Murder is Bad. Why? Because it's against Human Life. Theft is Bad. Why? Because it's against Human Progress, which makes Human Life harder.
See how much fun foundations are? Pretty easy. Now we can get all tangled in the details, but those are not foundations.
The word is clunky, but Atheism is rational, in its own narrow sense. Without the religious overtone of morality, you get a lot of "moral-neutral" events going on. My desk is a mess. Let us "listen for the moral result." (... Crickets...) Nothing. I live alone, so there is no particular effect to a messy desk except maybe remotely reducing the chance of any guest (to the parties that I don't hold) might be dismayed.
Our very lives depend on their not being a classical God! Like all those lost souls who get into the news because they try to pray their kid well instead of taking him to a doctor, deep down they "know" there are no *reliable* miracles. Science is a little ragged at the edges, but we have that kid's level cause&effect bit down pretty well.
Gather around everybody, let's go say Hi to God! Hi God! (... Crickets...)
He's pretty uh... (insert insensitive adverb) useless for an ... wait for it ... *Omnipotent* God! Basically no structured repeatable set of communications have EVER been conducted with God! All revelations are using untapped brain potential and all miracles are awesome edge cases of science.
There were some recent "protests" in academic treastises, but ignoring all those beginning of universe bits, we really are Ghosts in the Machines of our bodies. The Computer analogy really DOES work. Most medicine is about Hardware problems, but if you mess up the wrong hardware, you get Software problems. Of course then you still have other Software problems even when you are otherwise healthy.
All the stuff we bicker about is about our Personal Operating System. Neat vs Messy, toilet seats up vs down, cautious vs safe, McDonalds vs fancy Cuisine.
Wan'na know the last straw to sink fundamentalist creeds? Computers. They opened up whole new methods of communications... and yet God STILL isn't around.
+1 Cardinal Richelieu.
âoeIf you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang himâ.
Isn't there an App for this?
Make the phone dialer 7 8 9 on top and use your numpad skills!