The Falun Gong aren't really a great example for champions of religious freedom. It's kind of like Germany.. we all believe in free speech and free ideas but somehow can't get too worked up about Germany's laws against Nazi propoganda or their official condemnation of Scientology. In China of course it's horrible what they do to Falun Gong followers but Falun Gong is pretty stupid. It's all that superstitious, mystical, focusing-your-spiritual-energy BS that attributes sickness and pain with your mind force being out of alignment.. all I'm saying is that I can definitely see why a secular moralist authoritarian government would be very interested in keeping Falun Gong away from its uneducated peasants "for the public good" or whatever. The only politics involved is that the government fills the role of keeping the country healthy and moral (no porn, don't play too much WoW, be an upstanding member of your community) and they see religion as a threat to reason and science, and anything that devolves the mind of china is a threat to china.
I've had this idea for years of a sort of fourth dimension where instead of viewing a 2D or 3D image you actually see an image changing from time to time. Most people aren't familiar with the phenomenon of "motion" so it does have the potential to cause discomfort but think of the possibilities!
I mean that it's still a bad idea to try to push new users into Linux. There are distros like ubuntu that try to make as much as possible accessible from the surface, but when you have to do something not exposed by pretty control panels you need a level of understanding far beyond that of the average user. In the words of above commenters, "hand holding."
The only reason that your Linux customers have no malware problems is that they don't know how to do anything as a privileged user! Pulling an OS X and taking away all of the user's power so they can't break anything is not a good policy. Users will never learn if they're locked in a sandbox all day.
Linux isn't really supposed to be popular. Most people would have terrible trouble trying to work Linux so it's kind of strange for them to be strutting their %
This is off the top of my head but I think QuantumG was probably talking about Eldred v Ashcroft which he totally blew..
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I wouldn't get out the incense too soon. Switching to x.org is a Bad Idea right now. xorg-server-1.3 is aging badly: unsupported, unfixable bugs, and oh god xorg.conf. xorg-server-1.5.3 isn't really stable yet, especially for NetBSD, but we're on the cusp of the migration. If NetBSD is including 1.3 then all the fixing and configuring admins will have to do will be wasted when 1.5.3 breaks everything again.
1.5.2 completely destroyed my gentoo X a few months ago when I tried installing kde-4.2. Apparently fglrx didn't support 1.5.x yet?! I was cast into DPI hell and my font sizes are still a barely noticeable few pixels off. grumble grumble
He was saying that games too much like real life are decried while fantasies like America's Army are encouraged to increase recruitment. He's saying the "banning" is wrong. Who modded insightful?..
Nobody would buy that argument. Is distributing pornography to minors legal if you cut it up into non-obscene shreds first and send it to them with instructions on how to tape it back together?
Maybe if we pay these developers 50 workforce management applications then they'll want to give us free labor!
I can't see this ending well. What if someone writes an innovative new missile guidance system based on optimizing ballistic trajectory corrections to increase average-case range? Suddenly you have a dangerous weapon that threatens America's national security to be released to the public, and the army squirrels it away. OSS devs aren't going to like working for the army for no pay.
What other options do you really have? If you're running through a proxy then you have less bandwidth available and you're still relying on them not divulging their logs. You can try a service like tor if you want to be a bad netizen and also put up with 1kbps download speeds. Centralized P2P like gnutella is by far the worst file sharing option and torrents aren't much better, even on a private tracker. In all cases (except Tor) you're trusting at least one third party and in gnutella and bittorrent you're trusting a lot of third parties. Trusting a single third party with an excellent reputation has been protecting yourself. Unless you mean that people should use darknets..
What does multiple possible answers have to do with anything? The correct riposte to ryanleary is to point him to NP which is a whole class of decision problems defined by the fact that they're simple to verify but hard to solve.
Honestly, did he even use his head? How does he think his computer can verify an SSL cert in a fraction of a second when it's common knowledge that they take a long time to crack?
Also the article's idea is awful. Hey here's a bot that could defeat the algorithm: record one human pointing around the page and scrolling, then play it back a billion times to register a billion accounts. And what about browsers with Javascript disabled? I should start submitting slashdot's front page to thedailywtf..
Still, constructively using data from the roving mouse pointer is a really cool idea. I bet you could train a neural net to analyze people psychologically based on their restless cursor habits. Reminds me of the video game they used in Ender's Game to profile kids' every reaction:) Elder Scrolls or GTA or Deus Ex (or Fable?) could be interesting tests as well.
Yes there is. The author's saying assembly defines everything explicitly; it's higher level languages that "beg for a question" about where that came from or how that works. Following his logic assembly doesn't "beg for a question" at all, but rather the opposite.
Then the radioactive waste is poured into the subterranean cavity so formed
"Radioactive waste is dangerous and toxic so we need a safe way of disposing of it without the possibility of it leaking into the ground. I propose pumping it into the ground."
I think you're making too much of it. This was a war; they were firing missiles at the city and blowing up buildings with rockets and explosives. They took an entire hostile capital city street by street, filling the air with machine gun and small arms fire. I'm sure they didn't think much of some statue when they had just caused so much necessary damage to the rest of the city.
And about the Geneva convention I don't know if that's actually a rule, but I think that whatever the politics behind it if you're at war with another country - you're trying to kill each other - then if you capture an enemy government building (this government that you're deposing and no longer exists) then you can do whatever you want with the spoils. Like Hermann Goring's wine collection.
The statue is probably a bad example. It became a symbol, like the Berlin Wall. Have we "stolen" sections of wall from the Germans? I also think it definitely shouldn't have been destroyed, but it's not stealing. The statue was the personal property of Saddam, who was arrested and executed. Both of his sons were killed by US forces. So they confiscated his property.
What disgusting, barbarian thinking. We don't punish people to "get back at them." Hurting somebody doesn't even any scales of justice or undo any damage. The world is not a better place by humiliating Saddam; the world is a worse place.
I am staring the guy eye to eye from 30 yards of flat ground in broad daylight and he don't even have enough sense to open up on me
I agree that all these flashy games are no fun at all, but I'm fine with other people blowing their money on them because they're raising the bar for computer graphics. Yes it's completely cost-infeasible and they'll run themselves into the ground but we have a long way to go to total realism, which I badly want to see in my lifetime.
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The Falun Gong aren't really a great example for champions of religious freedom. It's kind of like Germany.. we all believe in free speech and free ideas but somehow can't get too worked up about Germany's laws against Nazi propoganda or their official condemnation of Scientology. In China of course it's horrible what they do to Falun Gong followers but Falun Gong is pretty stupid. It's all that superstitious, mystical, focusing-your-spiritual-energy BS that attributes sickness and pain with your mind force being out of alignment.. all I'm saying is that I can definitely see why a secular moralist authoritarian government would be very interested in keeping Falun Gong away from its uneducated peasants "for the public good" or whatever. The only politics involved is that the government fills the role of keeping the country healthy and moral (no porn, don't play too much WoW, be an upstanding member of your community) and they see religion as a threat to reason and science, and anything that devolves the mind of china is a threat to china.
I've had this idea for years of a sort of fourth dimension where instead of viewing a 2D or 3D image you actually see an image changing from time to time. Most people aren't familiar with the phenomenon of "motion" so it does have the potential to cause discomfort but think of the possibilities!
I mean that it's still a bad idea to try to push new users into Linux. There are distros like ubuntu that try to make as much as possible accessible from the surface, but when you have to do something not exposed by pretty control panels you need a level of understanding far beyond that of the average user. In the words of above commenters, "hand holding."
The only reason that your Linux customers have no malware problems is that they don't know how to do anything as a privileged user! Pulling an OS X and taking away all of the user's power so they can't break anything is not a good policy. Users will never learn if they're locked in a sandbox all day.
Linux isn't really supposed to be popular. Most people would have terrible trouble trying to work Linux so it's kind of strange for them to be strutting their %
When the decision is 7-2 against you on an obvious violation of constitutional law, you blew it.
This is off the top of my head but I think QuantumG was probably talking about Eldred v Ashcroft which he totally blew..
I wouldn't get out the incense too soon. Switching to x.org is a Bad Idea right now. xorg-server-1.3 is aging badly: unsupported, unfixable bugs, and oh god xorg.conf. xorg-server-1.5.3 isn't really stable yet, especially for NetBSD, but we're on the cusp of the migration. If NetBSD is including 1.3 then all the fixing and configuring admins will have to do will be wasted when 1.5.3 breaks everything again.
1.5.2 completely destroyed my gentoo X a few months ago when I tried installing kde-4.2. Apparently fglrx didn't support 1.5.x yet?! I was cast into DPI hell and my font sizes are still a barely noticeable few pixels off. grumble grumble
I wouldn't say perl's inefficient
He was saying that games too much like real life are decried while fantasies like America's Army are encouraged to increase recruitment. He's saying the "banning" is wrong. Who modded insightful?..
Nobody would buy that argument. Is distributing pornography to minors legal if you cut it up into non-obscene shreds first and send it to them with instructions on how to tape it back together?
Where did that come from?
Should work but do the ISP-leased modem/routers tattle?
Maybe if we pay these developers 50 workforce management applications then they'll want to give us free labor!
I can't see this ending well. What if someone writes an innovative new missile guidance system based on optimizing ballistic trajectory corrections to increase average-case range? Suddenly you have a dangerous weapon that threatens America's national security to be released to the public, and the army squirrels it away. OSS devs aren't going to like working for the army for no pay.
The software was unreadable and outdated, so you rewrote it in perl?
Rapidshare is German.. I don't know about rapidshare.com but rapidshare.de certainly was around first.
What other options do you really have? If you're running through a proxy then you have less bandwidth available and you're still relying on them not divulging their logs. You can try a service like tor if you want to be a bad netizen and also put up with 1kbps download speeds. Centralized P2P like gnutella is by far the worst file sharing option and torrents aren't much better, even on a private tracker. In all cases (except Tor) you're trusting at least one third party and in gnutella and bittorrent you're trusting a lot of third parties. Trusting a single third party with an excellent reputation has been protecting yourself. Unless you mean that people should use darknets..
What does multiple possible answers have to do with anything? The correct riposte to ryanleary is to point him to NP which is a whole class of decision problems defined by the fact that they're simple to verify but hard to solve.
:) Elder Scrolls or GTA or Deus Ex (or Fable?) could be interesting tests as well.
Honestly, did he even use his head? How does he think his computer can verify an SSL cert in a fraction of a second when it's common knowledge that they take a long time to crack?
Also the article's idea is awful. Hey here's a bot that could defeat the algorithm: record one human pointing around the page and scrolling, then play it back a billion times to register a billion accounts. And what about browsers with Javascript disabled? I should start submitting slashdot's front page to thedailywtf..
Still, constructively using data from the roving mouse pointer is a really cool idea. I bet you could train a neural net to analyze people psychologically based on their restless cursor habits. Reminds me of the video game they used in Ender's Game to profile kids' every reaction
Yes there is. The author's saying assembly defines everything explicitly; it's higher level languages that "beg for a question" about where that came from or how that works. Following his logic assembly doesn't "beg for a question" at all, but rather the opposite.
Yeah, 2300 years ago. Plato is irrelevant.
Is it even possible to make a less significant statement?
"Radioactive waste is dangerous and toxic so we need a safe way of disposing of it without the possibility of it leaking into the ground. I propose pumping it into the ground."
I think you're making too much of it. This was a war; they were firing missiles at the city and blowing up buildings with rockets and explosives. They took an entire hostile capital city street by street, filling the air with machine gun and small arms fire. I'm sure they didn't think much of some statue when they had just caused so much necessary damage to the rest of the city. And about the Geneva convention I don't know if that's actually a rule, but I think that whatever the politics behind it if you're at war with another country - you're trying to kill each other - then if you capture an enemy government building (this government that you're deposing and no longer exists) then you can do whatever you want with the spoils. Like Hermann Goring's wine collection.
The statue is probably a bad example. It became a symbol, like the Berlin Wall. Have we "stolen" sections of wall from the Germans? I also think it definitely shouldn't have been destroyed, but it's not stealing. The statue was the personal property of Saddam, who was arrested and executed. Both of his sons were killed by US forces. So they confiscated his property.
What disgusting, barbarian thinking. We don't punish people to "get back at them." Hurting somebody doesn't even any scales of justice or undo any damage. The world is not a better place by humiliating Saddam; the world is a worse place.
I agree that all these flashy games are no fun at all, but I'm fine with other people blowing their money on them because they're raising the bar for computer graphics. Yes it's completely cost-infeasible and they'll run themselves into the ground but we have a long way to go to total realism, which I badly want to see in my lifetime.