Comment Re:Firrrst post the noo (Score 0) 286
Oh yeah? Then I'm going to start my own country, with blackjack and hookers, and nobody can do anything about it. In fact, forget about the country.
Oh yeah? Then I'm going to start my own country, with blackjack and hookers, and nobody can do anything about it. In fact, forget about the country.
This could actually work, just replace "decryption" with "IR". Make the bus completely dark in the visible spectrum and make everyone wear IR goggles. There is the problem of photo flashes, in that case the bus could have light detectors, and when a flash is detected, saturate the bus with strong IR like suggested above, while decreasing the sensitivity of the googles. Another alternative is to use materials which have specular reflections in the visible range around the bus, so the flash saturates the camera itself. What do I get for solving it? ("no goggles" wasn't part of the requirements;)
Somewhat off topic, but I'm put off by the resolution of eInk devices. The readers I have seen have relatively low pixel density compared to recent phones, tablets and laptops. Any experience with reading equations and formulae on these? How about diagrams, figures?
If the shops don't want people to hold up the queue looking for 9.99, they should set the price to 10.00
You may be the only person on Earth that sees high power consumption as a desirable feature.
Not the only one. I'm currently mining for litecoin just to keep the house warm
(sorry, couple of keys are fucked). Wow. I was coviced it was a joke util i read the referece. This is mad. Last item's proaly worded like that from the list provider to distiguish from por, the cesors had to go ahead ad check that ox for some reaso
anyone has the freedom to implement it any way they want, userspace, kernelspace or [the Cloud].
FTFY...shudder
that's really bad, but thanks for the info
No time to read all TFA, but this doens't apply to sync writes, right? I believe SSDs without power protection will honour sync calls from the OS and make sure it's all written before returning. SSDs with power loss protection will ignore sync calls, and maybe even make sure all async data is written. This makes them faster, but not necessarily more reliable (as shown in the article) (right?)
Yes, this is not a surprise. quite possibly, 90 % of business say that IP as in the internet is not important either. There are many small non-tech businesses
A while ago they were blocking Java outright. Click to play is a great compromise: it's much harder for an attacker to get the user to click on something than to simply load something in the background. It's also much easier for users to log into their bank or view scientific illustrations in Java (possibly other things too:).
Java has been slow at patching bugs, so I understand why they're getting the stick harder than flash. And their installer is insane, you have to install the 32 bit java to make it work in the browser, but that's not obvious from the download page
You're using ghettos as your basis for concluding that idleness leads to violence and chaos? Last I checked, ghettos tended to be full of people living in poverty and despair, hence why they live in ghettos
Aslo, if you use people on welfare to draw conclusions, you're already selecting for people with poor work ethic, as it's currently not considered socially acceptable to be on welfare
Just to add, look at all the junk brought to us by capitalism that we don't need. Junk mail, ads, toy fads for kids, etc. In the software industry we're adding layer on layer, buidling more complex systems, for what? It's like the developers are running around hamster wheels, just trying to make themselves something more to do. There is a great deal of improvement, granted, but there's also a huge flow of useless junk. If people had more freedom to choose what to do, instead of frantically chasing paychecks, there may be more improvement. Could also be like in open source, that nobody would bother with boring stuff like UI, documentation and translation, but maybe we're at a point **also in IT** where most basics are a given, and people can focus on the interesting stuff. Open source libraries are in some sense similar to a basic wage (or capital). I'll stop now...
Having a minimum income would probably be great once there was enough automation to supply the basics to all humans with negligible human effort.
vast majority of people will choose never to move a finger to do anything useful for strangers with 'basic income', which already exists (and it shouldn't) as welfare.
Maybe. I know a lot of creative people who would never just sit and watch TV, that's an anecdote to counter yours. Perhaps there are enough people who love to create, and these would be given incentives. The wage for simple tasks like cleaning would go up, as the supply of workers went down. Many would consider this to be fair. For a while people could do menial tasks and be compensated well for it, until it finally would be cheaper to design advanced robots.
'basic income' doesn't exist now as welfare. It's not meant to be a permanent solution, and people like I don't consider it ethical to use it as such. If I was given basic income I would probably work on open source projects and develop hardware for a while. In the end though it wouldn't be good enough as my passion is with experimental physics, and those experiemnts aren't cheap. Much of the work could be done remotely by volunteers though. Depending on the level of compensation (or donation, I suppose), I would probably prefer to work on basic income vs to go through the awful waste of time that is applying for jobs. As a counterpoint, I'm using my free time to write this long reply to a post on slashdot modded 0 instead of working on my Java application.
People shouldn't be just given free anything simply for the great feat of being born if this means any degree of collectivist intervention.
I don't agree. One shouldn't force people to donate a lot to others, as in communism. Freedom and property rights are important. However, when giving away the basics is almost free, then people indeed should be given it for free. There's no dogma to support that, but it seems fair, doesn't it?
As to work without profit - it is called a hobby. A business has to be profitable to be sustainable and to serve large number of customers.
Pointless semantics. Money is like an IOU. If you make a profit it shows that what you do positively benefit others more than negatively affecting others. This is also true for many "hobbies". This doesn't mean that economics is perfect at assigning value. Why do we then have bubbles, crises? Free software even. Is there any reason to believe that wage levels or capitalism in general are more fair and sane? Astronomy was a hobby when they discovered the heliocentric picture. The second point I don't even get, why must a business serve a large number of customers? The benefit is efficiency, but the ultimate in efficiency is automation, and if all is automated then nobody will have work, and people will basically die of starvation in the food store.
Thanks for asking the question, I've been using VLC for a while, but it ain't great. Will try clementine
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
