Today, I updated my Ubuntu for sixth time this year . This will be seventh.
You've only run apt update/upgrade once per month? Are you complaining that that's too frequent? I get updated packages every few days or so on average, so I'm not sure what your point is.
Can we stop this ridiculously misleading statement yet? The DMCA was introduced to the House of Representatives by Howard Coble (R-NC) and passed the Senate unanimously. The only part Bill Clinton had in it was not bothering with a completely meaningless veto. You can blame the Democrats that voted for it all you want, and they certainly deserve to share in the blame, but blaming Clinton is disingenuous, if not outright lying.
I certainly wish we could take telemarketers and put them someplace where they'd be doing something more useful. Unfortunately, our society's priorities tend towards hoarding as much as possible and exploiting anyone and everyone to reach that goal. Not to say that the past was any better, but it's still disappointing.
Wow... you have no idea how advanced Newton's knowlege was do you?
He practically invented calculus, discovered innumerable mathematical tricks and "proved" them. He calculated orbits and empirically derived the inverse square law.
True, but Newton wouldn't have even known about protons, neutrons, and electrons, which nearly every kid now learns about in grade school. This is a good illustration of the difference between intelligence and knowledge.
People *can* be smart. They likely won't be, because they can (almost) always get someone else to do it for them. If they didn't have a microwave oven, they wouldn't be able to cook themselves dinner. If they didn't have IT tech support, they wouldn't be able to work a computer. If they couldn't have their car towed to a mechanic and repaired, they wouldn't get from point A to point B.
We're all guilty of this to some degree. If I couldn't just buy gas for my car at a convenient location, I'd be hard pressed to refine my own fuel. Unfortunately, it's rough to increasingly difficult to find places close to work where I could raise my own food or pump my own water. (and yes, I don't do these right now because of this). Finding someone who could make their own nails or prepare their own timber to build their own house is virtually impossible.
The other side of this is that, if everyone had to spend their entire day growing their own food, building their own home, and repairing their own farming equipment, we wouldn't be having this discussion because nobody would have time to do the science and engineering that led to the invention of computers. Specialization is what created our society in the first place by allowing people to spend their time on pursuits other than what everyone else was doing.
It's unique enough for now. The current population of the US is a little over 300 million. There are 1 billion possible Social Security numbers. There haven't been 1 billion people alive in the US since Social Security started, and there won't be for probably 50-75 years, at which point they'd have to start reusing numbers of people that died 100 years earlier. Hopefully by then the government will have added another few digits, which would be enough to last for another thousand years or so.
One of the best things I saw was a couple weeks ago when Bill Kristol was on The Daily Show. Kristol is completely opposed to government-run health care, but Jon Stewart talked him into saying how military personnel deserve and generally get the best health care possible. It was great to see such hypocrisy get nailed.
Assuming that it is (name OR photograph OR identifying information), it looks like Slashdot counts as a social networking website: you have your name and a biography section, the Friends/Fans/etc. section links to other users, and you can comment on people's journal entries. Maybe their definition is narrow enough to only fit 60% of the Internet instead of the 80-90% I initially thought it would.
Your talking of a society that loves shows like 24, where there are Nuclear bombs going off in cities, gunfights, torturing suspects, etc. These are primetime, middle of the early evening shows. But show one quick flash of Boob on a football game, and boy do we get pissed. Think of the children that boob could have corrupted.
In a Puritan society, violence is acceptable but sex isn't. To paraphrase a comedian I saw recently talking about Catholics (though it applies equally well to many other religious groups), "We live by one basic principle: if it feels good, stop."
The difference is that using a bullhorn in a quiet neighborhood at 3:00 a.m. has an immediate and obvious negative impact on the rights of the residents of that neighborhood. Simply using Facebook does not affect anyone that the person doesn't contact. I could understand restricting a convicted rapist from contacting past victims or specifically attempting to contact potential victims (e.g. a 25-year-old woman that the rapist doesn't know), or restricting someone convicted of sexually abusing children from contacting anyone under the age of 18, but there's no reasonable way to define "social network" without eliminating 90% of the Internet.
If we can take away their right to vote and keep and bear arms, why not the "right" to use Facebook?
Because it's easy to define "voting in government elections" and "guns". Try to define "social network" in such a way that it does not include Slashdot.
However, it is complete bullshit when deciding whether this man should manage your email server.
I think a better comparison would have been "deciding whether this man should clean the toilets in the bathroom". Managing an email server would actually give you access to quite a bit of important information.
That would mean that almost nobody would be able to buy a house. Start a business? Forget it, because you will need to loan money to do that.
Running a business? Nope, you will loan some money there as well.
So only people in the upper class can own a home or a business, and everyone in the middle and lower classes can live in apartments that they rent from their employers? Nope, can't see a problem there...
Isn't it true that GPL (up to v2 at least) code that is "inhouse" does not have to be distributed?
The GPL doesn't require that all code be freely distributed. The GPL only requires that anyone you distribute the software to can also get the code from you. Of course, anyone that gets the code from you can then freely distribute it, but it isn't a requirement.
A solution that fixes only 1% of a problem may be considered negligible, but gather together a hundred such "negligible" solutions and see what you get.
They were definitely both important. I think I just took exception to your saying that Arabic numerals were the "only" reason, especially since the Renaissance didn't really start until after the printing press, which was a couple hundred years after most of the Crusades (I can't remember the exact year that Arabic numerals started moving back through Europe). Of course, reality is never as simple as we're making it out to be, and it was a combination of many things that brought Europe into the Renaissance.
What programming language could it be? Io? Are you sending the "Destroy all humans!" to the print message of the integer 10? I don't think print takes such arguments... Oh I get it it's ruby and somebody made integers take parameters?
Maybe I'm not seeing the obvious sarcasm, but just in case you're serious, that would be old-style BASIC (I know at least GW-BASIC, not sure what other variants required line numbers).
The idea that technological advance is as inevitable as a law of nature is a fallacy. It usually relies on us getting lucky because somewhere an enabling technology or knowledge was discovered. The only reason Europe emerged from the dark ages is that crusades brought back the Arabic numbers, for example.
I agree with your premise, but I would put forth the printing press as being as important as, if not more important than, Arabic numerals. While the better numbering system made scientific work easier, the printing press is what allowed that new knowledge to spread far faster than before its invention. Assuming we don't fall into another dark age, people 500 years from now will look at computer networks the same way; with the printing press, communication of knowledge went from taking decades or centuries to years, and with the Internet it's going from years to days or even hours.
This, QFT and +1 means the same thing, at least the way I understand it. I see it a lot more on vBulletin. Just another way of saying 'agreed wholeheartedly.
And yet how much would someone get flamed if they used the words "Me too" instead?
No one is going to keep an animal that will challenge its owner for leadership.
Then why, pray tell, do we keep cats around?
Cats don't usually have any interest in leadership. Most feline species live as solitary hunters, as opposed to canine species that are usually pack animals. Lions are the only feline species I can think of offhand that live in groups.
Yes, It's like going to prison and having the choice of being raped ever night by either Bubba OR Mo, you have 2 great choices for your raping preference, you should feel blessed to live in a country that will allow you the freedom to choose who will violate your asshole.
You have also done a very good job of describing our two party political system. ^_^
That's how I described the elections last year. "Both parties will fuck you in the ass, you just get to pick which one you think is more likely to use lube"
Slashdot Mirror
print "Hello, world"; doesn't count.
Today, I updated my Ubuntu for sixth time this year . This will be seventh.
You've only run apt update/upgrade once per month? Are you complaining that that's too frequent? I get updated packages every few days or so on average, so I'm not sure what your point is.
Windows Servers are far more inherently secure than Windows Desktops, simply by the way that they're operated.
Wait, what?
Clinton gave us the DMCA.
Can we stop this ridiculously misleading statement yet? The DMCA was introduced to the House of Representatives by Howard Coble (R-NC) and passed the Senate unanimously. The only part Bill Clinton had in it was not bothering with a completely meaningless veto. You can blame the Democrats that voted for it all you want, and they certainly deserve to share in the blame, but blaming Clinton is disingenuous, if not outright lying.
I certainly wish we could take telemarketers and put them someplace where they'd be doing something more useful. Unfortunately, our society's priorities tend towards hoarding as much as possible and exploiting anyone and everyone to reach that goal. Not to say that the past was any better, but it's still disappointing.
Wow... you have no idea how advanced Newton's knowlege was do you?
He practically invented calculus, discovered innumerable mathematical tricks and "proved" them. He calculated orbits and empirically derived the inverse square law.
True, but Newton wouldn't have even known about protons, neutrons, and electrons, which nearly every kid now learns about in grade school. This is a good illustration of the difference between intelligence and knowledge.
People *can* be smart. They likely won't be, because they can (almost) always get someone else to do it for them. If they didn't have a microwave oven, they wouldn't be able to cook themselves dinner. If they didn't have IT tech support, they wouldn't be able to work a computer. If they couldn't have their car towed to a mechanic and repaired, they wouldn't get from point A to point B.
We're all guilty of this to some degree. If I couldn't just buy gas for my car at a convenient location, I'd be hard pressed to refine my own fuel. Unfortunately, it's rough to increasingly difficult to find places close to work where I could raise my own food or pump my own water. (and yes, I don't do these right now because of this). Finding someone who could make their own nails or prepare their own timber to build their own house is virtually impossible.
The other side of this is that, if everyone had to spend their entire day growing their own food, building their own home, and repairing their own farming equipment, we wouldn't be having this discussion because nobody would have time to do the science and engineering that led to the invention of computers. Specialization is what created our society in the first place by allowing people to spend their time on pursuits other than what everyone else was doing.
"Unique Enough" isn't.
It's unique enough for now. The current population of the US is a little over 300 million. There are 1 billion possible Social Security numbers. There haven't been 1 billion people alive in the US since Social Security started, and there won't be for probably 50-75 years, at which point they'd have to start reusing numbers of people that died 100 years earlier. Hopefully by then the government will have added another few digits, which would be enough to last for another thousand years or so.
One of the best things I saw was a couple weeks ago when Bill Kristol was on The Daily Show. Kristol is completely opposed to government-run health care, but Jon Stewart talked him into saying how military personnel deserve and generally get the best health care possible. It was great to see such hypocrisy get nailed.
Assuming that it is (name OR photograph OR identifying information), it looks like Slashdot counts as a social networking website: you have your name and a biography section, the Friends/Fans/etc. section links to other users, and you can comment on people's journal entries. Maybe their definition is narrow enough to only fit 60% of the Internet instead of the 80-90% I initially thought it would.
Your talking of a society that loves shows like 24, where there are Nuclear bombs going off in cities, gunfights, torturing suspects, etc. These are primetime, middle of the early evening shows. But show one quick flash of Boob on a football game, and boy do we get pissed. Think of the children that boob could have corrupted.
In a Puritan society, violence is acceptable but sex isn't. To paraphrase a comedian I saw recently talking about Catholics (though it applies equally well to many other religious groups), "We live by one basic principle: if it feels good, stop."
The difference is that using a bullhorn in a quiet neighborhood at 3:00 a.m. has an immediate and obvious negative impact on the rights of the residents of that neighborhood. Simply using Facebook does not affect anyone that the person doesn't contact. I could understand restricting a convicted rapist from contacting past victims or specifically attempting to contact potential victims (e.g. a 25-year-old woman that the rapist doesn't know), or restricting someone convicted of sexually abusing children from contacting anyone under the age of 18, but there's no reasonable way to define "social network" without eliminating 90% of the Internet.
If we can take away their right to vote and keep and bear arms, why not the "right" to use Facebook?
Because it's easy to define "voting in government elections" and "guns". Try to define "social network" in such a way that it does not include Slashdot.
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However, it is complete bullshit when deciding whether this man should manage your email server.
I think a better comparison would have been "deciding whether this man should clean the toilets in the bathroom". Managing an email server would actually give you access to quite a bit of important information.
That would mean that almost nobody would be able to buy a house. Start a business? Forget it, because you will need to loan money to do that.
Running a business? Nope, you will loan some money there as well.
So only people in the upper class can own a home or a business, and everyone in the middle and lower classes can live in apartments that they rent from their employers? Nope, can't see a problem there...
Against the Constitution? I don't remember anywhere it states that you must have access to credit.
I think people are a bit more upset about the "can't get a job" part than the "can't get another credit card" part.
Isn't it true that GPL (up to v2 at least) code that is "inhouse" does not have to be distributed?
The GPL doesn't require that all code be freely distributed. The GPL only requires that anyone you distribute the software to can also get the code from you. Of course, anyone that gets the code from you can then freely distribute it, but it isn't a requirement.
A solution that fixes only 1% of a problem may be considered negligible, but gather together a hundred such "negligible" solutions and see what you get.
They were definitely both important. I think I just took exception to your saying that Arabic numerals were the "only" reason, especially since the Renaissance didn't really start until after the printing press, which was a couple hundred years after most of the Crusades (I can't remember the exact year that Arabic numerals started moving back through Europe). Of course, reality is never as simple as we're making it out to be, and it was a combination of many things that brought Europe into the Renaissance.
What programming language could it be? Io? Are you sending the "Destroy all humans!" to the print message of the integer 10? I don't think print takes such arguments... Oh I get it it's ruby and somebody made integers take parameters?
Maybe I'm not seeing the obvious sarcasm, but just in case you're serious, that would be old-style BASIC (I know at least GW-BASIC, not sure what other variants required line numbers).
The idea that technological advance is as inevitable as a law of nature is a fallacy. It usually relies on us getting lucky because somewhere an enabling technology or knowledge was discovered. The only reason Europe emerged from the dark ages is that crusades brought back the Arabic numbers, for example.
I agree with your premise, but I would put forth the printing press as being as important as, if not more important than, Arabic numerals. While the better numbering system made scientific work easier, the printing press is what allowed that new knowledge to spread far faster than before its invention. Assuming we don't fall into another dark age, people 500 years from now will look at computer networks the same way; with the printing press, communication of knowledge went from taking decades or centuries to years, and with the Internet it's going from years to days or even hours.
This, QFT and +1 means the same thing, at least the way I understand it. I see it a lot more on vBulletin. Just another way of saying 'agreed wholeheartedly.
And yet how much would someone get flamed if they used the words "Me too" instead?
No one is going to keep an animal that will challenge its owner for leadership.
Then why, pray tell, do we keep cats around?
Cats don't usually have any interest in leadership. Most feline species live as solitary hunters, as opposed to canine species that are usually pack animals. Lions are the only feline species I can think of offhand that live in groups.
You have also done a very good job of describing our two party political system. ^_^
That's how I described the elections last year. "Both parties will fuck you in the ass, you just get to pick which one you think is more likely to use lube"