Artificial scarcity is inherently immoral in the first place. I'm not lazy nor am I greedy, I contribute as much as I can to the common wealth, and a little more than most. Therefore, I feel no guilt when I ignore artificial scarcity rules and enjoy things that are naturally abundant.

NERD RAGE!!

I would hypothesize that, by preventing access from Linux users in such an easily defeated way, they shield themselves from legal responsibilities for proper functioning of the service on the multitude of Linux configurations out there, while still making it easy for the knowledgeable Linux user to pay their monthly fees and "make it work" on their own if they so desire. Which, really, is a win for everyone in the current environment.

When mankind needs a vertical hierarchy to make it strong, it chooses a leader to give it one. When that need is exhausted, if he fails to bow out gracefully, they call him a dictator. But they always choose him. If they need him and he doesn't arrive, the people become archeological remains. The perfect structure will make both transitions smooth and painless. Most people aren't able to see this clearly, and fall in love with one configuration and attack others blindly, without considering the local situation.

The site suggests that this can run on the DE0-Nano Cyclone FPGA Board for $90 or the Altera DE2-115 FPGA Development Board for $600. As someone who doesn't know anything about this type of computing... can anyone explain what the difference is between the two?

Meh. I don't need food. My nerd rage sustains me.

Are you familiar with the debacle where the Gnome Foundation went broke because they blew all the money on their Outreach Program for Women?

Here's coverage if you're unfamiliar, although if you're a queer slashdot reader you probably aren't:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.p...

The Eich issue showed the world that Mozilla is chock full of the same sentiment. And Mozilla's lost so much market share that they're only a bit player now. When push comes to shove, their "Real Work" is not cutting the mustard.

I've worked on technology projects with people who didn't agree with my views on the issues, and done volunteer work on community projects with people who didn't agree with my views, but everything worked because the projects were focused enough that they became something we could both agree on.

The reason gender issues are screwing up technology projects is because technology projects are extending their mission statements in political directions and it's removing the focus that made it possible for people who disagree on political issues to work together.

Expressed simply, if you stand for one thing, you get half the people agreeing with what you stand for and half of them not agreeing, and 50% of the people give you their support.

If you stand for two things, half the people who were supporting you will no longer feel comfortable supporting you, and they will leave. You shrink your support from 50% to 25%.

It's not that we disagree. It's that I can't actively support organizations that vocally espouse things that I think are nihilistic and therefore immoral, and logic dictates that if I was the only one, there would be no controversy, so therefore, I'm not the only one.

The ability to agree to disagree has been removed, and it's not going to do anything but harm.

I ditched them over the Brendan Eich debacle, myself... haven't missed em. Free software is an important issue, but preserving the place of the traditional nuclear family is a more important issue. The fags and the feminists insinuated them selves, and now the project will die just like gnome project did. At least this time they're killing something people remember... perhaps they'll open a few eyes this time, and people will clue in that, even if you agree with their politics, it's still going to kill the project when gender issues are poaching away resources from real work.

Probably too optimistic... it'll die and few will put together why it really happened, just like gnome.

It's not low level if it's in your own backyard.

Now, that's not true. They call them squeegee kids back home, they stand in intersections washing windows and guilt tripping people into payment... they make a hundred dollars an hour, easy.

You don't have to be a productive member of society if you're manipulative. Well, unless everyone else is the same as you...

It's not a matter of having an "urge". I lived in an area with a lot of gang violence, and I had a lot of friends who weren't particularly good at standing up for themselves... hippies, ravers, skaters, theater folk, etc. When your friends can't stand up for themselves and there's an imminent threat, you step forward.

I was just a cowardly little nerd who skipped a grade and was younger and smaller than everyone else when I was young, and spent a lot of time running away. Then I hit puberty and my balls dropped, and I had an altercation where a teacher didn't show up for class and the students were running wild, a football player punched me in the back of the head and called my mother a whore, and I beat him half unconcious with tables, chairs and desks. I was standing over his prostrate body with a chair in my hand, and a third guy suplexed me on my head while I was paying attention to the guy who had infringed my honour. One second I was standing, the next I was on my head semiconscious. It all happened so fast, I wanted to understand how he did it, so I joined the team and for the first time in my life I was fighting guys my own size instead of guys who outweighed me by a hundred pounds, and I was undefeated in tournament.

Now, we're all adults, I'm not wandering around being dwarfed by everyone I meet, and I'm a tough guy who still surprises himself because part of me still thinks of myself as David and everyone else as Goliath. I enter every fight expecting my opponent to break me, hoping only to break him more than he breaks me, and I'm always startled at how slow and incompetent he is. I still get my bones broken sometimes, I've broken ribs, my nose, my face, my teeth... but I fight through the pain until, in the end, I'm standing over my helpless opponent and holding his life in my hands.

Truth is, I like it. When the violence comes, the adrenaline response I get is much higher than the average guy, to the point where I get chills and shiver and am completely dismissive of pain. It scares people, when it's in the aftermath and my teeth are chattering and I'm grinning like a madman and shaking like a leaf in a storm, wishing there was someone else to fight because I feel SOO fucking awesome. Based on conversations with doctors and martial arts instructors, only about 5% of the population has a physiological response like I do.

Training aside, I seem to be built for this type of thing... although it's possible it's a learned response from the violence I saw in my youth.

At any rate, I think about it and talk about it because I like it, I'm good at it, and when the shit hits the fan, the people close to me appreciate it, even if they find it unpleasant to hear about when we're all sitting and making small talk. It's nice to participate in a serious conversation about it.

I used to wrestle in school, took it pretty seriously and won gold in several provincial tournaments. I found that my body would be operating automatically when I did my moves, just like the article describes, and that the conscious part of my mind would be "watching" as though I was removed from the fight and was being an outside observer. Except that it wasn't that simple, because the tactile is huge in wrestling, when you can't see the guy and you're rolling and flipping and flying through the air, your contact with your opponent gives you an "eyes in the back of your head" sense, and that gets merged into what you're "watching" without removing the outside observer feeling. In street fights, which is more like a team sport than wrestling, it lets me use my conscious mind to keep a "map" of where people are, which is full of estimates based on where they were and the direction they were moving when I saw them out of the corner of my eye while absorbed in an exchange with the guy in front of me. But it's still not like you're thinking. You're being conscious without making an effort to be creative, and you do what the situation tells you is obvious. All the mental effort is in holding the model together effectively.

Ants are the dominant form of life on the planet. Individually they are dumb, but the knowledge lies in the network, not the individual. That is why humans are are achieving more despite being smaller and dumber than our ancestors.

http://definitions.uslegal.com...

"A public place is generally an indoor or outdoor area, whether privately or publicly owned, to which the public have access by right or by invitation, expressed or implied, whether by payment of money or not, but not a place when used exclusively by one or more individuals for a private gathering or other personal purpose."

US airports are public places. Just because it is private property doesn't automatically mean it's not a public space. If you turn your home into a B&B, it becomes a public space, even though it is your private property. You can have private clubhouses and private airports but the moment you leave the door unlocked and put up a sign that you're open to the public, the presumption of privacy is gone.

I feel that way about the entire tablet form factor. I had a couple given to me. I threw them out because it wasn't worth my time to find someone to buy them.