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Basically you have increasingly sophisticated symbology and labelling options depending on your requirements. At the top end you have functionality that effectively allows you to recreate a national mapping agency within ArcGIS Desktop (see Production Mapping for more details). If you are familiar with Ordnance Survey mapping this is the kind of quality I am talking about. It's a serious engineering task to put together the toolset and workflows to get anywhere near this. Nothing open source comes close (awaiting OGC true believers..).

That is to say, it's still not perfect, but as far as I'm aware it's near the best COTS option available.
It's not about the content available. It's about the control.
Probably something along the lines of secure erase. Most modern SSDs/NVMe drives are encrypted by default in firmware. All the firmware needs to do is throw away the old keys and generate new ones. It's better than zeroing the drive as there is no wear to the write cycles and guarantees that the slack space in the SSD is also cleared, which DD'ing to /dev/nvme0 wont be certain of. The nvme-format tool can be used for this: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/zesty/man1/nvme-format.1...
But control over DNS can change, right? If you sold or forfeited your domain name, how with this separate authority know to revoke your access to the team name as well? Should they even do that?
Very well put.

Ultimately, as long as the big content companies have content that people want to consume, they will have leverage. They want DRM, they will get DRM, or else they will take their content elsewhere, to alternative platforms that people will then flock to, making the web less relevant.

EME is the wrong hill to die on.
A few bits that may be of interest: there's intelligence (as measured by IQ, [pre-1996] SAT) and there's insight.

I doubt we have the data to compare philosophers as opposed to programmers in terms of intelligence (and this is an empirical question), but consider Alan Turing: a highly competent early programmer (he was known to be an expert debugger as well) and (almost incidentally) hugely impactful in philosophy of mind as well.

On the other hand, in terms of impact, insight can be just as valuable as intelligence. Bryan Magee once asked Bertrand Russell about who he considered to be most intelligent person he's met: Russell's answer wasn't Einstein, but rather Maynard Keynes; Einstein's contribution came from his insight (incidentally one inspired by his reading of Kant and Schopenhauer) rather than from intelligence alone. This point (on insight vs. intelligence or "percepts" vs. "concepts") is one that Schopenhauer also harps to a great deal (in between his vituperation of Hegel, of course.)

This implies that if it is indeed true that philosophy has much greater impact on the world than programming, it doesn't necessarily imply anything about intelligence of philosophers relative to that of programmers. Indeed, it's quite possibly that some of most influential programmers (in terms of influence on the wider world) aren't always the smartest (consider startup founders, especially for startups solving social/economic/business as opposed to purely technical problems -- not always great programmers -- and their subsequent software specialist hires.)

Orthogonally, sometimes the influence of a programmer can be behind the scenes. Take epistemology for example: if you asked someone how they know something, it's quite possible that their answer might mention Google in some way or another (possibly fallaciously, of course) -- yet few think of Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Craig Silverstein, Sanjay Ghemawat, and Jeff Dean in the same vein as Plato (with his Meno and Theaetetus) when discussing "why is that we say we know know X."

As for Carmack, consider how much virtual reality (and here I am not just thinking Oculus, but even more so the 3D labyrinths of the original ID Software Games) might end up influencing metaphysics in the long run.
I was about to say exactly the same. America (North and South) is a continent. USA is the country. There are preserves like these in America, for example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grasslands_National_Park. Not that far from the US border.
The old problems are not solved and not resolved at all. I am working on a critical apache setup at the moment and the software is rigged with weird corner cases and bugs. This shit doesn't happen with haproxy and nginx.
as a lifelong, professional classical and jazz musician, I can tell you that the current state of both very closely mirrors the current state for swe, it is just that swe's seem to have to go through what we have been through, just faster. There was a time in classical music and jazz, and even pop, when creativity was sought after. this time is no more. Classical/jazz has become a robotic craft in search of technical perfection. Back in the day, pianist-performers like Cortot or Grainger were appreciated for their personal contributions to style and art. Now, this kind of thing is shoved under to elevate technical perfection. It is robots all the way forward there for performers, and that is what they teach us in conservatories. They then pretend this is a form of artistry when it is simply reproduction of printed direction--- we are asked to be human compilers. This is what is understood by many to be musical art. Cortot makes too many errors for the kids as we say in the biz. We are also asked to do it all because we just love it so much-- who needs jobs or money? All we need to eat is love. Don't forget passion. So yeah, we have been asked to be as robotic as possible, as self erasing as possible if we want to get paid. Take heed swes! Btw, pretty much any first year music student at a conservatory can do what Lady GaGa does musically. Her "improv" isn't much of a strain for anyone who studies music at that level. The thing they can't do is see beyond to pop and understand that they need to find themselves a meat dress and a stylist plus a wealthy investor to pay for promo and these items. It isn't what we are inculcated to value-- nothing against that btw, and good for her, but she is no Rubenstein or even Streisand. She's a great performer and showperson though. Nothing wrong with that-- it is its own thing, but please. It is so not the same as being on the level of a Monk or Charlie Haden or Sun Ra or even Mostly Other People Do The Killing. I can tell you that Rubenstein and Any member of MOPDTK practiced a ridiculously stupid number of hours per day for years before they realized it doesn't make sense.
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I think so too, but I wonder about the long term effect that doing everything in the virtual world will have on abilities in the physical world. It's extremely anecdotal, but my little brother, who almost exclusively plays Minecraft, seems to have a fantastic imagination but very poor fine motor skills. He has trouble doing anything physical that requires not using a keyboard and mouse.
Protecting APIs with Google Cloud Endpoints
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They do not need the web to distribute their content online.
True that. Time to start using Firefox forks.
Pale Moon, Iceweasel, GNU Icecat.

Maybe go even further outside the box, use gngr: https://gngr.info/
The only party with the capability of "forking" Internet standards as we know them is Google. Because as the majority share of web browser traffic an extremely dominant percentage of web server traffic, Google can define the Internet as it wishes, and everyone else has to follow along or fall behind. This is the same with EME. Standards organizations stay relevant by accepting what Google gives them, they would simply be left behind if they didn't.

(For those who don't know, Widevine, the DRM scheme that is currently best known as compatible with EME, and which taints my Firefox browser so I can watch movies, is owned by Google.) http://www.widevine.com

(Sidebar to the sidebar: Widevine has the least Googley website you've ever seen. Stock photos of a physical padlock, HTML code entirely based on table tags for layout. It's so strange.)
This video helps to explain it along with many other going ons in the Middle East https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veMFCFyOwFI
This is what Conkeror was meant to be.

Unfortunately, Conkeror is reliant on XULRunner, which is deprecated if not outright EOL now (especially since XUL itself is deprecated / nearing EOL).
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NASA definitely moved fast for Apollo, but I wouldn't call it lean.

I think its biggest problem is that it's such a political animal. They can't just do things in the obvious and straightforward way. The work has to be spread around so that each congressman's district can get a piece of the pie.
Yes, absolutely. What's confusing about that? If the DRM benefactors have to keep developing shitty, expensive, unsupported plugins that need to use unofficial APIs and therefore be updated all the time, it's going to cost a lot more to use DRM.
You're a bit too cynical even though the subject is interesting. Childhood is full of crap that is magical to the eyes of kids. I wished I and others had clearer, cleaner and more serious things to grow and learn; but in a way I'm not sure it's neither both possible nor worth it.

And similarly the notion of "place" is melting in this era. No more music shop, useless, you can buy a Trillion things on whatever. Same for toys now. But I think humans have a thing for local space. Culture in a way. Every shop used to be customed in weird ways. Some people would waste their time there and find things randomly. They would discuss with owner tastes. Going to a toy store was a treat in itself, even when you couldn't get one.

Right now they're going away, but like vynil some will reopen when people miss them too much.
Firefox will heavily sandbox their EME plugins. They get no direct access to the host OS.
In recent times pretty much all the DRM vehicles have been canned as native code browser extensions have become 'bad' for malicious code. So the DRM delivery mechanisms like java plugins, flash and so on are being taken out of the web and this standard sticks it back in. I have mixed feelings about this until I really dig into how the interface is supposed to work.

So it was almost out as part of the modern web stuff, and it came back the very next day.
Try starting earlier and finishing earlier. Maybe see if you can do 7-3?
Do you have a counterargument to the doom and gloom?

I mean, if an asteroid is headed to Earth it's not uncalled for to be doom and gloomy. It really does suck. The same goes for possibly eliminating most of the life on the planet and with it the ability for human civilization to persist.
This might be unrelated but in a way it is not. Why do so many people insist on "checking their iPhone" or "using my iPhone as lamp" or "getting my iPhone" or "consulting my iPhone" or, well, anything "my iPhone". I literally never met anyone telling me they'd just whip out their Samsung, check their Motorola, consult their Nokia or get their whatever brand of phone they happen to use, they just "check their phone" or "use their phone" or "get their phone". Why do those using Apple-logoed devices insist on educating the world on the presence of just that logo on their devices? I'd feel just silly doing something like that, like I was being used as a tool.
> If someone launches a new HTML-based Web with crippled javascript (no network comm access, for one, including ability to trigger links or forms), some small, restricted subset of CSS, and much better built-in dynamic table and form elements, I'm there.

Me too. There will be dozens of us.
I'm not sure what your analogy is supposed to express, but this isn't some ideological stand; it's a simple matter of increasing maintenance costs for DRM software.
Awesome work, thanks guys!
Disgruntled philosophy grad: not very much, in my estimation. Most of the good ones born in the last five decades have been swallowed by CS, at least in the West.

There's lots I'd like to say on the topic, originating from 'psychoanalysing' the field with a little too much vigor, supporting it with social-structuralist bollocks, and throwing in criticisms of the academic publishing hamster-wheel. But a simple nod is better than a rant.

Besides this, I think the main thing a philosopher 'should do' is explicitly not just philosophy. Speaking at least two languages, being able to code, and actively participating in empirical work and creative endeavours should be seen as crucial to the education of a philosopher, for them to produce work of historical merit. The first two increase the likelihood of avoiding the Wittgensteinian errors of language and the latter two keep your brain moving and subsuming after parsing mountains of dense text.

Of course, if you want to be a philosophical historian, or an academic who academises in philosophy, take the well-trodden path. I think there are many philosophers who could write like wrought iron, but whose hearts just don't seem in it. Perhaps I'm just one of those guys who enjoyed Nietzsche a bit too much.

Edit: I feel compelled to mention that I trust my hard knowledge of the discipline about as far as I could throw it. It's well worth the CS-types around here taking the time to investigate the field - I recommend Kenny's 'A New History of Western Philosophy' if you've got time, or any old MOOC. After all, it's probably what you'd be up to if we didn't have computers.
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On the note of ISA cards, i once helped install a card on some school computers that inserted itself before the OS loaded and split the HDD in half. This so that on certain conditions a clean version of the OS etc could be loaded from the half that was hidden during normal use.
This really is the correct default. If something unexpected happens the better failure case is to be a little slower than expected than giving completely absurd results. Then adding the optional power to constrain the inputs allowing the compiler to use more efficient implementation with those assumptions is awesome.
No, I mean Play DRM content, not Flash plugin. I'm on developer edition though, and it's been a while since I installed it, so I might be wrong. Thanks for your info!
Once a system becomes closed it is very difficult to become open again. It's like personal liberty & freedoms, if you/we give them up they are almost impossible to get them back.
Perhaps people are simply projecting what they think "the spirit in which Tim Berners-Lee created the web" is on the man?

Even if he put words to them early on, it's easy for someone to claim lofty ideals when creating something and later realize that's not true to what they believe in.

This whole fanboy-heroism is probably a big part of why people don't act for themselves and are left to cry when their 'glorious leaders' "betray" their interests.
You can get rid of the DRM easily with FFmpeg:

ffmpeg -activation_bytes 1CEB00DA -i test.aax -vn -c:a copy output.mp4

See: http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-all.html#Audible-AAX
Somebody's overcompensating. Trying to be a way cool dude when in fact he's just religion-damaged and a complete TOOL. I mean who says something like "I didn’t have the skill set to achieve the outcomes that I wanted..." regarding DATING?

Christianity... then "game"... Poor sap is just bouncing from one dubious cult to another. And as a man, these are my self-appointed representatives. You know what, SHUT THE FUCK UP AND MAKE MY COFFEE.

Later edit: Fine, it's not a good way to say it, but I'm saying if it's about insults and domination, here's some back at ya.
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Solving the energy costs of launches (even including environmental impact) seems more tractable than solving manufacturing in space.
> Is watching Netflix at 1080p or more a power user feature? Because currently that's heavily restricted by DRM. Not possible on any open-source operating system, restricted to a few browsers on Mac and Windows.

Consuming content anything else than the mainstream browsers on anything else than the mainstream operating systems or devices is definitely a power user feature, yes.
This is exactly where Ponoko (https://www.ponoko.com/) went wrong. They're a 3d printing and cutting as a service company. They're still around, but in a much reduced size.

The end product is fine, but the problem is that it's just so damn hard to build anything to be cut on the computer, since you have to use an svg editor (so either Inkscape or Illustrator), and use different colours and thicknesses for different cuts.

What they really needed to focus on at the start was building an easy to use application (whether web or desktop) that could be used to easily make and mock up designs for cutting and/or 3d printing.
Hackernews black magic :/
And if we don't standardize it, no one will use DRM, right? Just like how we don't have DRM right now?
> I'm not sure "doesn't work with most major video sites" is an actual selling point.

You just have to reframe it to something like: "protects you against websites that try to plant DRM-malware on your computer".
That would be pretty amazing.
You are correct; normally the animals are hit with isoflurane first (or similar), but that's not strictly required.

Large culls are more routinely done with just CO2; I know of a few 100+ animals in a day culls, for example.

Unrelated to lab animals, CO2 or N2 are both used for goose culls (e.g., https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/15/culled-geese-a...) in part because it's humane and in part because the meat can still be processed and donated to shelters.
I guess I'm not saying that there aren't conceivable situations where you'd need an ID - it's just that they're typically small issues that are easily worked around. A duplicated "for" attribute problem is going to come up when you have two forms on a page and both of them use labels in this way and use conflicting IDs. There's a potential collision, but it's relatively easy to foresee and prevent, I've never seen it come up in practice and the worst outcome when it goes wrong would be something like the user's input focus going somewhere unexpected if they click a label instead of a control.

W.r.t. CSS name clashes, yeah they can come up especially in the contexts of independently developed React components. But in my experience over-encapsulation comes up far more often in the same context. I'm almost never in a situation where I want to slot a component in as-is. Instead, I want some find grained control over its styling or behavior, and if that's hidden behind an encapsulation barrier, that makes re-use even harder.

I do think the React component paradigm has some issues, but IMO they're the same sort of issues that come up in a lot of OO designs where abstraction and encapsulation happen in the wrong places. I still feel like Web Components solves some re-use problems I rarely if ever see in practice while doubling down on ones that I do.
That was kind of my point. Funds like medallion exist and succeed pretty consistently, but they are the tail. Certainly others go above and below at various points in time
When did the government get the authority to tell a company who they can hire and under what conditions?

Either there's enough evidence to convict those execs of crimes, or there isn't. If there's not sufficient evidence for that, then how can you suggest that the government should still have the authority to have them punished?
At least it seems like it might be temporary:

> Apple says APFS will not be supported on Fusion Drives "in the initial release of macOS High Sierra," which suggests support could be added for Fusion Drives at a later date after lingering bugs are worked out.
these days, they sound pretty much the same-- no one is really scadalized or blown away by a classical artits' choices. Sure, we can "tell the diff" btw Hillary Hahn and Midori. But honestly, I can live without both of their dutiful takes on Standard Violin Concerto X. But if you know of some truly inspiring, artistic choice making, innovative classical player, I'd love to know so I can buy their record. I mean that sincerely.
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DRM and webassembly. The end of openness in both cases—though at least WebAssembly means we eventually won't have to write Javascript anymore, which is nice as far as that goes.

Sure, Javascript uglifiers and frameworks mucking with HTML standards and the DOM had already made "view source" nigh-worthless, and there were DRM'd plugins of course, and browsers had supported some schemes for a while as a de facto standard, but this still feels like a last-straw kind of situation to me.

> My own company is developing an open source platform for communities to run their own social networks (https://qbix.com) so what is this "eating" you speak of?

Sure, it's already the world's premiere delivery mechanism for "apps", advertisements, and mass surveillance software. I know. That's exactly the kind of thing that I don't mind living somewhere, but I'd like it not to be all mixed up in my networked hypertext document reader.

This Web's over. Anyone hosting an After-Web? I could do with a little more Webbing.

[EDIT] Though actually your thing seems fine. I saw "social network" and glossed over the rest. Sorry.
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We could have neither, though.
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Just wondering on what people think about this topic.
I've seen studies that say pot lowers IQ, especially in kids. I've seen others that show no harm to IQ. Are employers, in general, in favor of pot use among employees? Are employers seeing any negative impact on productivity in liberal pot states?
Much of the auto-immune related diseases seem to be vaguely arriving at a similar conclusion lately.