You see if the internet was a truck it would be easy to do this kind of thing. Tubes are another story.. they're so damn long and interconnected and you never know when the damn hackers cause leaks in them until it's too late. Where on earth is Ted Stevens when you need him? He should be explaining to these schmucks that the US government is not a plumbing service, and that there are too many tubes today to toll.
Thank you. I've studied the Muslim religion intensively and lived in the middle east for a long time, and while there is an immense amount of antisemitism there now, it simply did not exist on such a scale before the uber-nationalist period of the mid 1900's. Arab governments needed a "devil" to pin things on, much like the US is doing now. Religion has little to do with it, and I am aware of the difficult relations between Jewish tribes and the early Muslims. They still had eventual peace, however, and denial of heinous crimes is not part of any monotheist doctrine, or any religious doctrine in general.
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This will not stop piracy if the features being watered down are still to be desired. People will just pirate the high end version with all the bling. Why get a crappy original from walmart when you can download a superior version from the comfort of your bedroom?
The piracy/intellectual property/free software/media piracy thing is a conglomerate of issues that cannot be resolved easily, especially in a slashdot comment.
Moderators! Help! He's calling me an econo-sexual!! Is this not abuse?
PS: we are straying from the point, and wading in the murky waters of the fascist nitpickers. And if you provoke me further, the only thing I shall sodomize will be YOU! Go away:)
No, your parent post is correct because the "free" part of market entails natural competition, which he was trying to exemplify. In any free market you are able to compete with other enterprises while you may be prohibited from competing with your own. As for the exchange of goods or services, software is both a good and a service, and you can always consider the OSS industry as a competing non-profit enterprise in a worst scenario, although God alone knows how Novell, Red Hat, IBM, Sun and the others are surviving in your view of the world.
One pound per mile of aluminium that, unless you have a really long cable, you have to carry with you. What's this about a cable? Can you request the aluminium in bytes? In either case, I think you're talking about TUBES.
It is very hard for all the companies that offer a service to be so dystopian. There will always be profit to be made from being the desirable service provider. And if they were found innocent by law then no need to sue them again, the problem is with an immature market in that case.
As for music and movies, I am yer fave, of all eye-patched sea farers, I am! yaarrrr! The system is unconstitutional. I will not bend to it.
As a CEO, you have to arse-lick those with power and money, stomp down on your peers, exploit your employees, treat your customers with contempt, view non-customers as potential wallets to be plundered, and generally hate any concept of community. The CEO's at google, par exemple, would probably not know whether to laugh or to cry at this.
- Licking asses is part of politics, do it right and you get to the top, do it too much and you end up doing it for the rest of your life, for you will be despised.
- Stomping down on peers is BS. You do not have to stomp down on peers to start and lead a successful enterprise. Exploiting your employees is also a lie, although more common. You pay for people to work, but you don't overwork them when they're good because in a free country, good people can find other jobs.
- "Treat customers with contempt" and you lose them. It's called goodwill, and it applies to masses of small guys as much as the big money you're supposed to lick the arses of. And in the age of the internet, the corporate world has learned to fear the man who can send and receive packets. [You're starting to sound a little too lefty by the way, not a crime, but I'm just saying].
- Non-customers are potential money when you are in the office, but I bet that outside the office CEOs see us as regular blood and flesh. If the market econonies work by CEOs tagetting customers with products, I'm not going to cry. They can still be nice people.
- Business people do not hate the "community", except the lets-all-share-absolutely-everything community. It's that community which hates the concept of people making legitimate money in a free economy. Bad companies with bad CEOs exist. Don't do business with them. If you feel that you have no choice but to do business with them, go to court and sue them for being a monopoly.
Rasmus Lerdorf has this awesome test-tool for XSS he keeps demo'ing (thankfully not released). Why thankfully? I've left this stuff a long time ago, but nothing has changed about security and obscurity. You cannot win this way, you only prolong a possibly undetected failure.
Quantum electrodynamics is one of the most established, experimentally backed and well understood fields in all of science. The results from current models do not explain links to other theories very well, but in the isolated realm of their operation, they give answers with error ranges analogous to measuring the distance from here to the moon within a few millimetres of error margin.
As for combining particles, I think they may have thought about that. In fact, most of Quantum Physics began as a manner of seeing various things in a different way, and physicists are very much in love with Einsteins "simple as possible but not simpler" paradigm. Maybe, just maybe, there is a reason why borons and quarks are different types of particle? Like you know, a really BIG, mathematically articulated reason, for which Nobel prizes were awarded? Just a thought.
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I'll much rather read your replies to this messange, than go out to see the latest Spiderman 3 or Shrek 3. Going to movie with girlfriend = possibility of getting laid, which is more interesting than all our replies. Trust me. We are not your girlfriend.
Think about that. Shrek 3. Spiderman 3. Star Wars 6. Windows Vista. Budweiser. Paris Hilton. Pizza Hut. MacDonalds. Ford. Comcast. Verizon. Wal*Mart.
Fuck all that shit. Welcome to the consumerist mid-life crisis. It's not fun, but you get to leave real quick once you realize your other choice is Soviet Russia. You don't have to subscribe to all those networks, eat at those places or watch all those movies while running windows Vista. In fact, in Soviet Russia, the government runs you!
I'll much rather read your replies to this messange, than go out to see the latest Spiderman 3 or Shrek 3. Going to movie with girlfriend = possibility of getting laid, which is more interesting than all our replies. Trust me. We are Think about that. Shrek 3. Spiderman 3. Star Wars 6. Windows Vista. Budweiser. Paris Hilton. Pizza Hut. MacDonalds. Ford. Comcast. Verizon. Wal*Mart.
Fuck all that shit. Welcome to the consumerist mid-life crisis. It's not fun, but you get to leave real quick once you realize your other choice is Soviet Russia. You don't have to subscribe to all those networks, eat at those places or watch all those movies while running windows Vista. In fact, in Soviet Russia, the government runs you!
But there are many possible definitions for this copyright thing of which you speak. In fact, the whole legal branch of licensing in software is devoted to these icky little details, as you well know. Perhaps coming into your house and forcing you to refrain from something ordinarily within your rights, is wrong. But what if you overheard my little piece of music, jotted it down, then tried to sell it as your own without mentioning me whatsoever and without my permission? Or, if that will pass, what if you record my performance and sell it as your own (an act that requires no creative effort on your part) in the same manner as described above?
Acknowledgment of the source of information is the basic right awarded to those those who originally discover, and uniquely formulate, information. It is this sole ability of abstraction of knowledge/ideas that differentiates human beings from all other species. Please respect it.
Nonsense, still too many federal agents involved to keep it secret. If you want a nice possibility for a "let it happen" scenario however, research the Israeli espionage agents caught very soon after 9-11, posing as arts students in various states. They converged on the states that the terrorists lived in a few months before the attacks. Google it, this is reuters and AFP news. Also, the rumor about Israeli personnel not showing up on 9-11 for work? It's exaggerated but true. 9-11 was also the day of the largest Israeli incursion into Gaza destroying thousands of homes and acres of trees..etc. Nobody heard about it, everybody was watching the WTC. That is possible, but our own government killing its own people intentionally is not. It would not pass.
$16000 is nothing. If you run a botnet you can have $10000 rolling in per week, alternatively if you have undisclosed vulnerabilities and the right contacts, you wont bother with the silly bot-masters who will get you discovered even though they will gladly pay anything from 50 - 150 grand for a remote hole. More likely, you would save up the good holes for high-paying, one shot mob deals against banks, and maybe government intelligence (they have a big budget for that in Soviet Russia and China). 16000 dollars? No, sorry, IIS is perfectly secure!!
PS: I am not some shady person who wears black hats. Hacking is too dangerous for a nice guy like me, even though almost anything can be done with time and dedication..even the functions that check string lengths to prevent overflows can be hacked:D
Huh? We are talking about government conspiracies in relation to an event directly linked to one of the most hotly debated political conspiracy theories in American History. This is not offtopic. Dave did use strong language in his criticism of the loonies who suggest the US government intentionally murdered 3000 of it's own citizens then filmed the event to justify a war, but he has a point. Really, what kind of an idiot would believe that kind of claim, with "evidence" that comprises mainly of bad engineering knowledge and spooky sounding videos made by teenagers on youtube? From the link I posted above:
Character 1: Sir, operation 9-11 commencing! Character 2: Excellent! So everything is going to plan? Character 1: There is just one thing..how will we get thousands of FBI agents, firefighters, demolition experts, scientists, CIA, rescue workers, police, airline pilots, NSA, House of Representatives, air-traffic control, military contractors and the entire the Bush administration to keep it secret?
But if the fly is only making that decision because the fly's environment is interacting with the fly's brain in a manner that necessitates that decision, then the free will part becomes an illusion. The one choice that was made was the one choice that could have been made, and if there is reason to choose otherwise then the fly must obey, otherwise it is choosing randomly. That is why free will is such a difficult question even for humans, who are actually AWARE of their decision making, and who are trapped inside the causality nonetheless.
Wow. You've researched it out pretty nicely, haven't you? Your knowledge of the population densities for various categories of freaks astounds me, but I think vegan socialist womyn are hard to find *anywhere*, except maybe North Korea and Argentina.
Gee, that really allays my fears, that. Subtle magnetic induction to trigger cortical activity you say? There's no way *that* can be abused! And there has to be a Soviet Russia joke in there somewhere. Actually, non-invasive technologies are a lot scarier than invasive ones. Knowing when and how you are being affected by technology is an important part of maintaining our freedom, both from governments and corporations. If my brain is being used, it would be nice if I knew about it every time.
On the larger issue of "benefit", the first post was very right - what is "improvement"? The geek of today knows all the best, instantly peer-reviewed ways of getting knowledge about practically anything, but the result is that we know more about distant planets than we do about our neighbors. We can cure the most difficult of plagues but we are (from lack of natural "hardening") vulnerable to the smallest of ailments. We can talk to hundreds of people half way across the world with streaming video, but we can't understand the feelings of our own spouses, or engage in normal social behavior. We build technological empires with software, but few of us truly comprehend the set-theoretic mathematics it is all based on.
The benefit of pervasive technology can only be harvested when properly managed by a constant awareness of the pervasiveness of that technology and our reliance upon it. Because in Soviet Russia, technology thinks about you!
Since when was "right around the same time" the same thing as "500 million years later" ? You've never had to wait for a Microsoft patch, have you?/ducks
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You see if the internet was a truck it would be easy to do this kind of thing. Tubes are another story.. they're so damn long and interconnected and you never know when the damn hackers cause leaks in them until it's too late. Where on earth is Ted Stevens when you need him? He should be explaining to these schmucks that the US government is not a plumbing service, and that there are too many tubes today to toll.
Thank you. I've studied the Muslim religion intensively and lived in the middle east for a long time, and while there is an immense amount of antisemitism there now, it simply did not exist on such a scale before the uber-nationalist period of the mid 1900's. Arab governments needed a "devil" to pin things on, much like the US is doing now. Religion has little to do with it, and I am aware of the difficult relations between Jewish tribes and the early Muslims. They still had eventual peace, however, and denial of heinous crimes is not part of any monotheist doctrine, or any religious doctrine in general.
This will not stop piracy if the features being watered down are still to be desired. People will just pirate the high end version with all the bling. Why get a crappy original from walmart when you can download a superior version from the comfort of your bedroom?
The piracy/intellectual property/free software/media piracy thing is a conglomerate of issues that cannot be resolved easily, especially in a slashdot comment.
Moderators! Help! He's calling me an econo-sexual!! Is this not abuse?
:)
PS: we are straying from the point, and wading in the murky waters of the fascist nitpickers. And if you provoke me further, the only thing I shall sodomize will be YOU! Go away
No, your parent post is correct because the "free" part of market entails natural competition, which he was trying to exemplify. In any free market you are able to compete with other enterprises while you may be prohibited from competing with your own. As for the exchange of goods or services, software is both a good and a service, and you can always consider the OSS industry as a competing non-profit enterprise in a worst scenario, although God alone knows how Novell, Red Hat, IBM, Sun and the others are surviving in your view of the world.
It is very hard for all the companies that offer a service to be so dystopian. There will always be profit to be made from being the desirable service provider. And if they were found innocent by law then no need to sue them again, the problem is with an immature market in that case.
As for music and movies, I am yer fave, of all eye-patched sea farers, I am! yaarrrr! The system is unconstitutional. I will not bend to it.
- Licking asses is part of politics, do it right and you get to the top, do it too much and you end up doing it for the rest of your life, for you will be despised.
- Stomping down on peers is BS. You do not have to stomp down on peers to start and lead a successful enterprise. Exploiting your employees is also a lie, although more common. You pay for people to work, but you don't overwork them when they're good because in a free country, good people can find other jobs.
- "Treat customers with contempt" and you lose them. It's called goodwill, and it applies to masses of small guys as much as the big money you're supposed to lick the arses of. And in the age of the internet, the corporate world has learned to fear the man who can send and receive packets. [You're starting to sound a little too lefty by the way, not a crime, but I'm just saying].
- Non-customers are potential money when you are in the office, but I bet that outside the office CEOs see us as regular blood and flesh. If the market econonies work by CEOs tagetting customers with products, I'm not going to cry. They can still be nice people.
- Business people do not hate the "community", except the lets-all-share-absolutely-everything community. It's that community which hates the concept of people making legitimate money in a free economy. Bad companies with bad CEOs exist. Don't do business with them. If you feel that you have no choice but to do business with them, go to court and sue them for being a monopoly.
Communist-inspired stereotypes are so 90's.
Quantum electrodynamics is one of the most established, experimentally backed and well understood fields in all of science. The results from current models do not explain links to other theories very well, but in the isolated realm of their operation, they give answers with error ranges analogous to measuring the distance from here to the moon within a few millimetres of error margin.
As for combining particles, I think they may have thought about that. In fact, most of Quantum Physics began as a manner of seeing various things in a different way, and physicists are very much in love with Einsteins "simple as possible but not simpler" paradigm. Maybe, just maybe, there is a reason why borons and quarks are different types of particle? Like you know, a really BIG, mathematically articulated reason, for which Nobel prizes were awarded? Just a thought.
Fuck all that shit. Welcome to the consumerist mid-life crisis. It's not fun, but you get to leave real quick once you realize your other choice is Soviet Russia. You don't have to subscribe to all those networks, eat at those places or watch all those movies while running windows Vista. In fact, in Soviet Russia, the government runs you!
But there are many possible definitions for this copyright thing of which you speak. In fact, the whole legal branch of licensing in software is devoted to these icky little details, as you well know. Perhaps coming into your house and forcing you to refrain from something ordinarily within your rights, is wrong. But what if you overheard my little piece of music, jotted it down, then tried to sell it as your own without mentioning me whatsoever and without my permission? Or, if that will pass, what if you record my performance and sell it as your own (an act that requires no creative effort on your part) in the same manner as described above?
Acknowledgment of the source of information is the basic right awarded to those those who originally discover, and uniquely formulate, information. It is this sole ability of abstraction of knowledge/ideas that differentiates human beings from all other species. Please respect it.
Nonsense, still too many federal agents involved to keep it secret. If you want a nice possibility for a "let it happen" scenario however, research the Israeli espionage agents caught very soon after 9-11, posing as arts students in various states. They converged on the states that the terrorists lived in a few months before the attacks. Google it, this is reuters and AFP news. Also, the rumor about Israeli personnel not showing up on 9-11 for work? It's exaggerated but true. 9-11 was also the day of the largest Israeli incursion into Gaza destroying thousands of homes and acres of trees..etc. Nobody heard about it, everybody was watching the WTC. That is possible, but our own government killing its own people intentionally is not. It would not pass.
$16000 is nothing. If you run a botnet you can have $10000 rolling in per week, alternatively if you have undisclosed vulnerabilities and the right contacts, you wont bother with the silly bot-masters who will get you discovered even though they will gladly pay anything from 50 - 150 grand for a remote hole. More likely, you would save up the good holes for high-paying, one shot mob deals against banks, and maybe government intelligence (they have a big budget for that in Soviet Russia and China). 16000 dollars? No, sorry, IIS is perfectly secure!!
:D
PS: I am not some shady person who wears black hats. Hacking is too dangerous for a nice guy like me, even though almost anything can be done with time and dedication..even the functions that check string lengths to prevent overflows can be hacked
..it works as well here as for the domain Hilbert was targeting.
"We must know. We will know." - David Hilbert, 1900
Huh? We are talking about government conspiracies in relation to an event directly linked to one of the most hotly debated political conspiracy theories in American History. This is not offtopic. Dave did use strong language in his criticism of the loonies who suggest the US government intentionally murdered 3000 of it's own citizens then filmed the event to justify a war, but he has a point. Really, what kind of an idiot would believe that kind of claim, with "evidence" that comprises mainly of bad engineering knowledge and spooky sounding videos made by teenagers on youtube? From the link I posted above:
Character 1: Sir, operation 9-11 commencing!
Character 2: Excellent! So everything is going to plan?
Character 1: There is just one thing..how will we get thousands of FBI agents, firefighters, demolition experts, scientists, CIA, rescue workers, police, airline pilots, NSA, House of Representatives, air-traffic control, military contractors and the entire the Bush administration to keep it secret?
[disturbed silence]
Character 1: Lunch?
Character 2: I'll drive.
The best debunking I ever saw was Maddox's usual black satire:1 1_morons
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=9
PHIL 201
But if the fly is only making that decision because the fly's environment is interacting with the fly's brain in a manner that necessitates that decision, then the free will part becomes an illusion. The one choice that was made was the one choice that could have been made, and if there is reason to choose otherwise then the fly must obey, otherwise it is choosing randomly. That is why free will is such a difficult question even for humans, who are actually AWARE of their decision making, and who are trapped inside the causality nonetheless.
Wow. You've researched it out pretty nicely, haven't you? Your knowledge of the population densities for various categories of freaks astounds me, but I think vegan socialist womyn are hard to find *anywhere*, except maybe North Korea and Argentina.
No, I'm not serious.
Shwartz has a great way with grandiose words, and he's very utopian-minded when it comes to tech. He definitely reads slashdot, methinks.
For the sake of correctness:
1 Volt is the potential difference between 2 points between which a current of 1 Ampere flows while dissipating 1 Joule per second.
So I might have misunderstood the parent. Apologies.
Hello
What does 1 Volt per second mean? And whatever happened to P = IV (power = current*voltage)?? My memory can't be that bad.
Gee, that really allays my fears, that. Subtle magnetic induction to trigger cortical activity you say? There's no way *that* can be abused! And there has to be a Soviet Russia joke in there somewhere. Actually, non-invasive technologies are a lot scarier than invasive ones. Knowing when and how you are being affected by technology is an important part of maintaining our freedom, both from governments and corporations. If my brain is being used, it would be nice if I knew about it every time.
On the larger issue of "benefit", the first post was very right - what is "improvement"? The geek of today knows all the best, instantly peer-reviewed ways of getting knowledge about practically anything, but the result is that we know more about distant planets than we do about our neighbors. We can cure the most difficult of plagues but we are (from lack of natural "hardening") vulnerable to the smallest of ailments. We can talk to hundreds of people half way across the world with streaming video, but we can't understand the feelings of our own spouses, or engage in normal social behavior. We build technological empires with software, but few of us truly comprehend the set-theoretic mathematics it is all based on.
The benefit of pervasive technology can only be harvested when properly managed by a constant awareness of the pervasiveness of that technology and our reliance upon it. Because in Soviet Russia, technology thinks about you!