palmer_eldritch

One day, in a decade, a century, a millennium, it will be used to make kids prettier.

I don't think it will make them happier though.

> Unions do nothing to contribute to productivity (in the broader economic sense). If anything, they are a hindrance to it.

Yes, unions are (supposed) to defend the interests of workers. Not to make it easier for bosses or shareholders to profit from the workers' work.

Whether or not today's unions are still doing that is up for debate though.

Ok, I was wondering what was meant by "e-police station", basically that's their first police station with computers.

So basically, it means they'll be able to take statements on computers, making them harder to "loose".

Also, the police cars will get tracked, making it harder for police officers to go about their business.

On a brighter note, there are 111 taverns in the area, so they'll never long for a free drink and it should be pretty easy for them to fill their quotas.

> if you hold uninformed / ignorant / bigoted opinions, you are automatically an evil person and should be treated accordingly

One could argue that such an opinion is in fact short-sighted and bigoted...

About coding by voice, there was an article some time ago about a programmer who developed a bad case of RSI and came up with a system to code by voice: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6203805

At least it ends on a hopeful note:

"We all took the vaccine after that. I had one shot, and I still took the other one and we had all our kids vaccinated, too. After people saw how sick people got, they changed their minds."

How is using AGPL not really open source? Or do you mean it in the "open source" vs "free software" sense? Even then I don't see how it doesn't fit in the OSI definition...

The AGPL is an open source license: you give people access to your source code and they're free to modify it and redistribute it as long as the code stays under the same license.

The main (only?) difference with GPL is that providing a service based on AGPL code is considered the same as redistributing the software so you can't make proprietary changes to the code and say "but I'm not redistributing the code, I'm only running it on my own hardware so I don't have to make the source code available" as you can with GPL code. I believe the OSL3 allows protection from that too btw.

Businesses are still free to take your code and provide a service based on it, they just have to contribute back if they make changes which seems only natural.

Just like the GPL, it's there to ensure that the code stays free. It's only plugging a loophole which makes the GPL less relevant in the age of services.

But it doesn't work anymore with the correct password...

I always found it was cleaner to either force (jmp) or remove (nopnop) the jump rather than inversing its condition. It's more explicit.

Also, in the real world, cracking's usually a bit more than finding the right jump to force/remove. Although, if it's enough to reach your goal, you should do it.

Maybe you could have digitally-signed fake CP, signed by competent authorities. Any CP real or fake without the DRM would be illegal.

Only sickos who need crime pictures to get off and pennyless pedos would get in trouble with the law...

Not sure I would want to live in that world though. And I wonder how long it would take for all non-DRMed files to be illegal once such a precedent has been set.

It's probably just reverse engineers being snobs.

Or journalists being journalists.

Or both.

In fact, Vivaldi's founder is Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner, one of Opera's founders and ex-CEO of Opera.

So I guess one could say there's a link between Opera and Vivaldi (no pun intended).

Except current France doesn't operate according to socialist logic. It's much closer to neo-liberalism too (as most of today's world).

Just because the current president has the label "socialist" for historical reasons it doesn't make it socialism.

Once a technology has been invented, uninventing it because it might be used to harm people doesn't work. Especially if the people wanting to do the harm are in a position of power (like the nazis were).

Wondering about the countless wonderful or horrific uses new technologies might have is simply part of critical thinking.

I don't think anyone did that calculation but if we were to add up all the good technology brings us with all the bad it brings us, I'm not sure we'd end up in the positive.

So I think it's pretty natural when you hear about some new technology to ask yourself "great, how's that thing going to be used against us?"

Asking yourself what you could do to stop it is a completely different matter. And we all know here that security through obscurity is a pretty poor defense.

And with this added element, we got the missing link between "To Be More Creative, Cheer Up" and "Feeling Sad Makes Us More Creative".

On one hand, drinking will cheer you up. On the other hand, it will also make you feel miserable.

Add to that the fact that boredom is one of the top reasons to drink and we have a link with "How Boredom Can Boost Creativity".

To quote Bukowski: "That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen."

> Perception can easily outweigh facts for a lot of people. If we could find a way to trick people into vaccinating their kids we would use it.

Maybe we should try using vaccine syringes shaped like funny animals?

I'm wondering how they're going to explain that when he was arrested he had an open chat window where he was having a discussion as DPR with an undercover agent and was logged in SR as an admin.

Maybe in their next move they'll try saying the FBI helped the real DPR in framing him.

Smart move, now he's going to get free publicity as a free speech advocate.

When someone says something hateful, it's more effective to ignore him than to make a nation-wide scandal about it.

Seriously, the guy strives on all the scandals around him, the more you beat on him the more popular he gets, why not trying another tactic for a change?

But of course, it's hard for politicians to resist the temptation of playing tough on TV news.

Especially since Charlie Hebdo's goal has never been to offend "just for the purpose of offending".

Their comics are for their readers. For most of their history (before the internet) only the few people who bought it read it and their drawings didn't make the news even if most of them would've been very offensive to some. They try to convey something insightful in an humoristic way, usually in a pretty unflattering way for the depicted. That's what satire means.

If they end up making pictures about islam these days, it's because islam hits the news much more than it did in Hara Kiri's days. Their drawings and articles always followed the news.

And when YOU hit the news because some people can't take a joke, you keep following the news and respond in your next issue: "please stop being so stupid" in an humoristic and unflattering way for the depicted.

If you can't depict the world around you in a funny way, usually unflattering to the depicted because the depicted might be offended, then you can't do satire. At least have the guts to say it in plain words: "I'm all for free speech except when stuff I hold dear are being caricatured". Which means you don't want free speech because anyone can then claim they're offended by anything.

"Pope Francis suggested in a homily in May that he would baptize Martians if they landed in St. Peter’s Square and asked for it."

Forget about astronauts or reality shows participants. Let's send catholic priests to Mars.

Just because some people posing as anonymous rejected the hypothesis it doesn't mean no other people posing as anonymous still accept it.

Also, you seem to ignore the fact that many people posing as anonymous would take part in an action like that regardless of what they believe. Anonymous has always been more about "doing it for the lulz" than politics, even if the ones posing as "doing it for the politics" are overrepresented in the medias.

An IP address associated with a cyber attack, is more like someone stealing your car and using it to hit a bank than someone running through your backyard to escape the cops.

And if someone went through your backyard or your garage while trying to escape from the police, the cops might want to look in your backyard or garage to see if the 2 Kg of heroin he was supposed to carry or the gun he used to shoot at them while fleeing didn't end up there.

If they released it today on that platform, it would be well known in a matter of hours.

I guess what really happened doesn't matter much, what's important is what people believe.

How fun would it be if the US started an all-out war against NK (ok, that's really unlikely but let's just imagine it) and then find out it was all the doing of some 15yo American kid in his parents basement.

Basically what you're saying is that mongodb is the mysql of nosql databases right?

Yeah, I can imagine the hackers releasing a torrent of the interview on the date it was supposed to be premiered before Sony got on their knees. With a simple message accompanying the movie: "lulz, trolled u".

Maybe Sony wasn't scared of real-world terrorist attacks on theaters but of some informations that the hackers might disclose to the world. Who knows what kind of dirty laundry ended up in the hackers' hands.

Did the hackers mention "the interview" before the press started speculating on the attack being from NK?

For all I know, they could be playing with the fears expressed by the medias after the hack went public. If that's the case, they're probably having a hell of a time posing as NK supporters terrorizing Americans.

1. Before the end of century, there's probably some around the solar system 2. Never 3. Never

I don't think we'll ever go beyond the solar system and that the only place with complex life in the solar system is the Earth.

Because, employers want new employees to start coding NOW.

Next trend on the internet: teens doing webcam shows for pedos so they can get bitcoins to fund their xbox accounts.

The medias will love it.