Comment Re:Paved with good intentions, but... (Score 1) 151
There are *no* requirements for compliance for ISPs that don't impose data caps. What specific provisions in the bill do you think will lead to "loopholes" and "red tape"?
Comment Re:"Global" temperature has not changed in 15 year (Score 3, Informative) 345
Not true; the NOAA says global average temperature is rising: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/indicators/
Submission + - Start The Humanist Revolution (anonfiles.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Humanist Revolution 2012
Intellectual properties as they exist now must be abolished and replaced with a system that simply rewards creative minds and allows everyone access for the public good.
The stock market must be changed to eliminate day trading and require minimum investment times to encourage investors to invest in companies that are not sociopathic psychopaths entities.
We must fight tyranny and fascism wherever they are. We must reform our governments to allow basic social welfare – shelter, education, health care, energy, and basic technology (smart phone or tablet).
There are many unfunded unexplored technologies that could be used to provide nearly unlimited energy. These technologies have been obstructed by corporations by use of mass hysteria.
Thorium's one of the best options I know of personally. A LFTR reactor is safe, clean, efficient, and can be scaled up to cities and down to small communities.
Denver is more radioactive than Fukushima.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were rebuilt.
Chernobyl feels more like the perfect storm to spread mass hysteria if you ask me.
Nuclear power is the best form of energy we currently have.
Nuclear energy can power multilevel indoor greenhouses with artificial lighting and provide nearly limitless amounts of food.
This nuclear power can turn ocean water into fresh water for drinking and farming.
This nuclear power can pump this water across the globe in pipelines – just like oil.
This nuclear power can power robots that maintain the artificial greenhouses, build the nuclear reactors, mine thorium and other metals, and these robots can build the pipelines.
These robots can be motor vehicles with rechargeable or internal nuclear power.
These robots can build our furniture, our houses, our home electronics.
And these robots can build and maintain new robots.
This will start a new Renaissance era.
Deep down, we are all intelligent reasonable people. Nearly all of us have been told lies throughout our lives. Lies can be prejudices against people or technology. Lies are simply “bad code”.
Intelligent reasonable people must be given all the freedom in the world when it doesn't have a negative affect on the public good. We can advance by leaving those with “bad code” behind while also giving them the opportunity to change.
We can start a revolution by publicly acknowledging all of this and translating this message to every language on the globe Every country can be freed if they want to be.
We must save the world from these extremist capitalist viewpoints that allow investors to profit from evil greedy corporations. We must save the people living in countries rules by tyrants (including our own countries).
We must listen to the brightest minds in the world at our universities rather than letting lobbyists turn our world into something even more evil.
We must spread this message. Translate it to all languages so all countries can be free.
If we build this future by investing in technologies that are in the publics' best interests, we will start forming true utopias across the globe. Ones where everyone gets at least the minimum social welfare while also allowing nearly unfettered growth and freedom.
We must embrace open source software and hardware.
We must protect ourselves from the irrational greedy unenlightened people of the world.
We must try to reason with them.
If we can't reason with them, we can ignore them.
If they try to interfere in our lives and refuse to stop, law enforcement can deal with them.
There are solutions to all of the world's problems.
Many religious leaders have been martyred because of this belief. We must spread this idea so it gains critical mass. We must either reason with or replace congress, the president, and our judges. Most of them are reasonable people just like us.
Our bad experiences in life have blinded us to this. We believed in this when we were kids, but the prejudices of the world have corrupted our minds.
This has happened to the majority of the population of the world.
Evil has evolved with us over the last 2000 years and become more hidden while still being plainly obvious.
The USA must change immediately with this election or the world will have no choice but to do more drastic things.
We can track down all obstructionist in an open source distributed database. We can try to reason with them. We can ignore them if they'll ignore us. Or we can enlighten them so they can join our new future. If they come to us and attack us, self defense is justified. Self defense is already codified in our laws.
This isn't a new world order. It's a new way of life. A new civilization. A utopia that you can customize to your hearts content. Use robots and intelligence to do our work. Don't continue to enslave the people of the world. Have you not seen the Foxconn factories?
If you understand this message, please spread it. If you have better ideas, I'd like to hear them. We must organize and vote as a block to eliminate this plague that's been eating away at our civilization for thousands of years.
We must vote for real change this November.
If you want to see what could happen, watch V for Vendetta (2005), The Saint (1997), and the Matrix trilogy. Smoke up and read this message until it sticks. Weed makes people happy for a reason. It helps us see the world for what it really is. It helps us overcome prejudices. It helps us relax. It breaks down the walls of communication we've put up between each other over the years.
If you want to help out the most, consciously acknowledge this message and it's intent. It is to save the world from it's own prejudices. We must do public research and move the world forward. We must mass produce these robots, nuclear reactors, houses, smart phones/tables. The technologies been around for years. We simply haven't been able to utilize it properly because of our patent system.
Please forgive any typos. I'm an American and I'm really upset with our way of life.
Intellectual properties as they exist now must be abolished and replaced with a system that simply rewards creative minds and allows everyone access for the public good.
The stock market must be changed to eliminate day trading and require minimum investment times to encourage investors to invest in companies that are not sociopathic psychopaths entities.
We must fight tyranny and fascism wherever they are. We must reform our governments to allow basic social welfare – shelter, education, health care, energy, and basic technology (smart phone or tablet).
There are many unfunded unexplored technologies that could be used to provide nearly unlimited energy. These technologies have been obstructed by corporations by use of mass hysteria.
Thorium's one of the best options I know of personally. A LFTR reactor is safe, clean, efficient, and can be scaled up to cities and down to small communities.
Denver is more radioactive than Fukushima.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were rebuilt.
Chernobyl feels more like the perfect storm to spread mass hysteria if you ask me.
Nuclear power is the best form of energy we currently have.
Nuclear energy can power multilevel indoor greenhouses with artificial lighting and provide nearly limitless amounts of food.
This nuclear power can turn ocean water into fresh water for drinking and farming.
This nuclear power can pump this water across the globe in pipelines – just like oil.
This nuclear power can power robots that maintain the artificial greenhouses, build the nuclear reactors, mine thorium and other metals, and these robots can build the pipelines.
These robots can be motor vehicles with rechargeable or internal nuclear power.
These robots can build our furniture, our houses, our home electronics.
And these robots can build and maintain new robots.
This will start a new Renaissance era.
Deep down, we are all intelligent reasonable people. Nearly all of us have been told lies throughout our lives. Lies can be prejudices against people or technology. Lies are simply “bad code”.
Intelligent reasonable people must be given all the freedom in the world when it doesn't have a negative affect on the public good. We can advance by leaving those with “bad code” behind while also giving them the opportunity to change.
We can start a revolution by publicly acknowledging all of this and translating this message to every language on the globe Every country can be freed if they want to be.
We must save the world from these extremist capitalist viewpoints that allow investors to profit from evil greedy corporations. We must save the people living in countries rules by tyrants (including our own countries).
We must listen to the brightest minds in the world at our universities rather than letting lobbyists turn our world into something even more evil.
We must spread this message. Translate it to all languages so all countries can be free.
If we build this future by investing in technologies that are in the publics' best interests, we will start forming true utopias across the globe. Ones where everyone gets at least the minimum social welfare while also allowing nearly unfettered growth and freedom.
We must embrace open source software and hardware.
We must protect ourselves from the irrational greedy unenlightened people of the world.
We must try to reason with them.
If we can't reason with them, we can ignore them.
If they try to interfere in our lives and refuse to stop, law enforcement can deal with them.
There are solutions to all of the world's problems.
Many religious leaders have been martyred because of this belief. We must spread this idea so it gains critical mass. We must either reason with or replace congress, the president, and our judges. Most of them are reasonable people just like us.
Our bad experiences in life have blinded us to this. We believed in this when we were kids, but the prejudices of the world have corrupted our minds.
This has happened to the majority of the population of the world.
Evil has evolved with us over the last 2000 years and become more hidden while still being plainly obvious.
The USA must change immediately with this election or the world will have no choice but to do more drastic things.
We can track down all obstructionist in an open source distributed database. We can try to reason with them. We can ignore them if they'll ignore us. Or we can enlighten them so they can join our new future. If they come to us and attack us, self defense is justified. Self defense is already codified in our laws.
This isn't a new world order. It's a new way of life. A new civilization. A utopia that you can customize to your hearts content. Use robots and intelligence to do our work. Don't continue to enslave the people of the world. Have you not seen the Foxconn factories?
If you understand this message, please spread it. If you have better ideas, I'd like to hear them. We must organize and vote as a block to eliminate this plague that's been eating away at our civilization for thousands of years.
We must vote for real change this November.
If you want to see what could happen, watch V for Vendetta (2005), The Saint (1997), and the Matrix trilogy. Smoke up and read this message until it sticks. Weed makes people happy for a reason. It helps us see the world for what it really is. It helps us overcome prejudices. It helps us relax. It breaks down the walls of communication we've put up between each other over the years.
If you want to help out the most, consciously acknowledge this message and it's intent. It is to save the world from it's own prejudices. We must do public research and move the world forward. We must mass produce these robots, nuclear reactors, houses, smart phones/tables. The technologies been around for years. We simply haven't been able to utilize it properly because of our patent system.
Please forgive any typos. I'm an American and I'm really upset with our way of life.
Comment Re:There is nothing special about programming (Score 1) 767
The authors have not been able to repeat their results: http://www.gwern.net/Notes#the-camel-has-two-humps
Comment Re:Some indications that it's not "Fully Free" ... (Score 3, Informative) 327
Comment Re:GPL (Score 2) 304
They don't "own your code" in any sense. If you violate the license, you're committing copyright infringement, but it has no effect on the copyright status of your own work.
Submission + - When Was Slashdot's Heyday? 5
An anonymous reader writes: In the past few years, Slashdot editors have introduced a multitude of changes to our site that have been met with mostly negative comments. Yesterday, SlashdotBI was introduced. A few weeks ago, Slashdot editors announced plans for their SlashdotTV. Slashdot's last overhaul occurred on January 25th 2011, which revamped the existing HTML and CSS code. In all of these announcements and many more, a multitude of Slashdot users have expressed concern that the site simply is not good enough as it was in the past. This concern goes back all the way to a 2000 Geeks in Space episode, where Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda asked the GIS panel: "When did Slashdot start sucking?" A lot of people reminisce about "the good old days" and how things were inherently "better" back then. My question to Slashdot users everywhere is: Is Slashdot's best years gone? When was Slashdot's heyday in terms of popularity, enjoyment, information, and intelligent discussions? How can Slashdot return back to what many users regard as their former glory?
Comment Re:Has anyone embedded Guile? (Score 1) 46
Guile 2.0 is a huge improvement over earlier releases. Scheme programs are now compiled for a custom VM with an optimizing compiler (not simply interpreted, and AOT or JIT native compilation are now much more practical goals), and Guile now supports hygienic macros, delimited continuations, Unicode, dynamic FFI, R6RS and more SRFIs, and comes with a new debugger and REPL, SXML, and a Web server, among other new standard modules. There's also a SLIME-like Emacs interface: http://www.nongnu.org/geiser/
It's definitely worth a second look if you previously evaluated Guile in the 1.x days.
Comment Re:Bloody really?!?! Another one? (Score 3, Interesting) 233
I just wasted three minutes and forty-one seconds of my life that I will never get back
Comment Re:update (Score 2) 933
Correction: they may or may not have been tear-gassed; some people are claiming fire extinguishers were used (there is obviously some kind of gas being used in the video coming from the kitchen)
Comment Re:update (Score 2) 933
The people in the kitchen locked themselves to fixed structures; they were tear-gassed and are being arrested.
Comment update (Score 2) 933
According to the Livestream, at least 200 people remain and they are being arrested.
Comment Re:I'm coining a new term: (Score 1) 425
It's actually quite useful to support user-extensible control flow. For example, because Guile supports macros and delimited continuations, you can implement Emacs's buffer-local variables as a library, whereas implementing the same feature in a language like Python would require either rewriting user programs or adding an ad-hoc language extension that wouldn't necessarily compose well with other language extensions. Guile's "CS Prof" features can be a considerable advantage for some applications.
Comment Why I'm giving credence to what 2 guys have to say (Score 2, Interesting) 211
"Ron" is Ron Garrett, nee Erann Gat. He used to work at JPL, where he created an autonomous spacecraft control system which was named NASA Software of the Year. His homepage has a list of his publications, and you can find his Usenet postings with Google Groups, if you like (he used to post quite frequently in comp.lang.lisp).
His Blogger profile even links to his homepage. Xooglers is not some anonymous blog; it's written by people using their real names and at least one of them has a decent track record as a software developer. I haven't even seen any particularly negative remarks in Xooglers posts, except for self-deprecating remarks by the authors! Why don't you actually try reading TFB instead of spewing bile?
His Blogger profile even links to his homepage. Xooglers is not some anonymous blog; it's written by people using their real names and at least one of them has a decent track record as a software developer. I haven't even seen any particularly negative remarks in Xooglers posts, except for self-deprecating remarks by the authors! Why don't you actually try reading TFB instead of spewing bile?
