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Yeah, like 10 years ago... http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/6/19/05641/7357

Perhaps Google is simply trying to become evil like Slashdot has been.

Someone else posted "Intelligent Falling". I'll go the other way and point out that it is entirely possible to (with a little selective presentation) construct an argument, almost identical to the ID argument against evolution, that shows gravity to be a flawed theory: Uncaused Force.

The point is that any scientific theory is going to have some things that cannot presently be explained, be it through lack of evidence or an incomplete theory. If all you have to do to "refute" a theory is show it doesn't currently explain everything, and then in turn claim this as positive evidence for your theory (which explains everything by invoking magic), then pretty much everything is up for grabs. Once you start down the ID path, it's easy enough to deny everything.

Jedidiah.

Because this one is nothing but flamebait.

Thanks.

howto: write bad documentation that looks good

It's amazing to see the same redneck comment rated +Funny over and over.

Only on slashdot by moderator slashbots.

I will keep posting this link until some people learn something. I heard some people could. I guess it's just a little harder with Americans but there's always hope.

I said it before and I'll say it again. A significant thrust to the emergence of religion was our need to accomodate the fact that we were killing other animals, yet had to restrict the members of our society from doing the same to each other.

Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism.

Too many experts are turned away by the teeming, uninformed Wikipedians who tear down useful contributions under the mistaken notions of "balance" or "being informative." Look at Panera Bread; 25% of the article is unequivocal information, the other 75% are advertisement and random facts. It also doesn't use proper paragraphs, and the entire article lacks structure. This is a typical Wikipedia article, but you see many of the same flaws in "Featured" articles. People don't know what to write in this supposed "encyclopedia," nor how.

And yes, Africans probably care more about staying alive than reading Wikipedia. To anyone considering donating to Wikipedia: your money would be better spent in the hands of an AIDS-related charity or a broad-action organization. Believe it or not, people can still starve to death even if they can look up Calculus in Wikipedia.

Who wrote this piece, Dr Seuss or was it his magical red-neck fairies?

Definitely wouldn't be Dr. Seuss. Seuss's company wrote and submitted an amicus curiae brief in support of copyright term extension.

their latest lap dancing ad campaign

Yes, but IBM makes its support money by installing crappy software and then charging $325/hr for support (see this story http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/9/27/95759/4240 ). Is this a catch-22 for open source software: if their software is good (bug-free) then the support money won't materialize; but if the software is bad every one will run back to Windows.

The "exercise" advice is first-grade bullshit. It may helps the guy a bit sad because he broke with his gf the week before, but it will NOT help somebody with a real depression. It may even worsen the situation.

When you start to have real depression syndromes, stop looking for grand-ma advices on the web and see a "modern" MD (and not one of the old school for who depression is nothing serious). Drugs can be the only way out, and taking drugs for a while does not mean you will be under prozac for the rest of your life.

Check this and this.

The "exercise" advice is first-grade bullshit. It may helps the guy a bit sad because he broke with his gf the week before, but it will NOT help somebody with a real depression. It may even worsen the situation.

When you start to have real depression syndromes, stop looking for grand-ma advices on the web and see a "modern" MD (and not one of the old school for who depression is nothing serious). Drugs can be the only way out, and taking drugs for a while does not mean you will be under prozac for the rest of your life.

Check this and this.

Kuro5hin is good. The trolls there are well educated and all.

Head on over to K5 and join the trolling.

I am currently learning Spanish using Pimsleur and it's very effective. Half an hour of audio work per day, and the retention of what you learn is very high. Successive lessons bring up material from earlier lessons, providing a rather organic conversational approach to the language.

I only had two weeks to learn Spanish, so I went with the audio-only approach. There's a comprehensive entry at Kuro5hin on how to learn a language that covers other learning methods and technologies, providing a good overview of what options there are.

Howdy /.ers

The French Scapegoat

And always remember to g0d bless america united we stand and support our troops.

Amen.

You should read this.

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/5/28/22428/7034

And this.

http://www4.ncsu.edu/~tenshi/Killer_000.htm

You should read this.

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/5/28/22428/7034

And this.

http://www4.ncsu.edu/~tenshi/Killer_000.htm

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/5/28/22428/7034

Many people are astonished to learn that the man who wrote about "that poor little boy" is such a rabid Fascist. But Card has always been a rabid Fascist, as well as several other species of asshat, and none of his works demonstrate that better than the sad tale of Ender Wiggin itself.

Here is a very respectful article by SF writer John Kessel which is suspicious of Card's motives. You should read it; it's pretty good. I'll wait.

Back in the mid 1980's I knew a struggling SF author who managed to get a few stories published and breached the threshold for membership in the Science Fiction Writers of America (or SFWA), the SF writer's union. She joined thinking it would help her fledgeling career.

In 1985 the big news in SF was Orson Scott Card's novel Ender's Game, which had swept both the Hugo and Nebula awards. Accordingly, my friend read it and passed it on to me, as she often passed on books and magazines. I read it and saw how it would be compelling to a certain mindset, but I didn't think it was all that good.

"So what did you think of it?" she asked me later.

"I think I see why it's so popular, but the guy really doesn't write that well."

"Well all it is is an apologia for Hitler. Sorry, but I don't buy that argument. When I was a kid I heard every Sunday how Jesus would forgive Hitler if he really really repented, but I say fuck that. Some things can't be forgiven or redeemed."

She could get a bit passionate about stuff like that, so I let it drop. As it happened, though, SFWA members vote on the Nebula awards, and Card's sequel Speaker for the Dead was out. Card's publisher helpfully sent all SFWA members a free copy to help its chances of getting the Nebula like Ender's Game had.

One day I spotted it on her coffee table.

"Have you read that?"

"No, I don't plan to. It'll just be more of the same."

"Buzz is it's going to get another Nebula."

"Well if it does, my colleagues are idiots."

So I took the book and read it. She was like that; if someone wanted to write about forgiving Hitler she wasn't the type to complain. It's a free country and all that. Just don't ask her to read past the point where she figures it out.

About fifty pages into Speaker I gave her a call.

"You are not gonna believe this," I said. "Ender ends up on a planet settled by Brazilians."

"Brazilians?"

"And he's angling to prevent the genocide of the badly misunderstood aboriginal natives of Planet Brazil. And it's hinting that he's gonna pull some Buggers out of his ass before the end of the story."

"Wait a minute. You are telling me that if I wrote a story where Hitler escapes to Brazil, prevents a massacre of some Native Americans, and then raises a bunch of Jews from the dead, that this would be about parallel?"

"Well I'm only fifty pages in..."

"And they're going to give this crap a Nebula Award?"

"Well, it certainly looks that way."

"I think I'm going to need the book back," she said very evenly.

If you click back to Kessel's Innocent Killer essay and scroll down to the section titled The Guiltless Genocide you will see that Kessel mentions an essay called Ender and Hitler: Sympathy for the Superman by one Elaine Radford. Elaine was my writer friend and if you are among the many people who hate that essay and want to blame someone for it, you can blame me because it probably never would have been written had I not l

If Larry Sanger was a co-founder, (I don't know and don't have time to check) deleting that fact is at the very least petty and vindictive.

Well, it's more than petty and vindictive.

Larry Sanger, in fact, was a co-founder of Wikipedia. He left the organization early on, for a variety of reasons.

What's interesting with reference to this story is that Larry Sanger has since openly criticized Wikipedia for being too anti-elitist at the expense of accuracy.

So it's not just that Wales is obscuring the fact that he didn't found Wikipedia alone, it's the fact that Wales is obscuring the fact that there is a co-founder who has since left the project and become openly critical of it.

Since OSC endorsed this movie and he is clearly an asshat, it was his fault that it didn't do so well.
 
:-)

Have fun.

One of the key changes is an article submission sandbox. Not as open as Digg but not as closed as /. Basically editors would still select stories but they would modded up or down prior to being posted, again by an editor, to the mainpage.

Or you could have users approve stories democratically. This is the approach of Scoop sites such as K5 and K6.

The way I see it both sides have equal burden of proof. The point of both the 'discovery' method and the 'rote' method is to train the neural net that is the brain. The discovery method presents several different signals.

Just a few years ago this wasn't necessary.

Care to cite your sources? When I went to college to get my 2-year Associate's degree, I was suprised to find that they were teaching classes in basic arithmetic, much less algebra.

they weren't capable of discovering within 10 minutes that a slightly modified version of the inverse square law of optics applied to a computer simulated instrument we had them examine, even though they did know the necessary mathematics very well.

A key here is "computer simulated". It is very hard to analyze anything "computer simulated" very thoroughly. On Kuro5hin, I had to remind a person how potentials work mathematically.

The most obvious check would be to *ask* the students afterwards why they did what they did.

Would be nice, but doesn't happen in classrooms.
Introspective and retrospective interviewing is quite common in cognitive psychology.

But totally absent in the classroom.

Instructions are not generally dependent on order.

Of course they are. Just try putting ingredients in the oven before mixing them, going to a supermarket and attempting to pay for your groceries before you've collected them, or taking high level courses before the preliminaries. What is the difference in your mind between "instruction" and "procedure"? Procedures have to be in order, thus the instructions for those procedures have to be in order.

When I look at legislation, I see it has to go through committees before going to the general floor before becoming law, there is an order of priority of what gets considered first, etc.

"And screen works even better!"

Here, the person you're objecting to me calling a liar! He's still lying http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Gurubrahma# 3RR (Not Gurubrahma, but see my reply to that guy on Gurubrahma's userpage). This reminds me of Sanger's Kuroshin article where he says "I might have continued to participate, were it not for a certain poisonous social or political atmosphere in the project. There are many ways to explain this problem, and I will start with just one. Far too much credence and respect accorded to people who in other Internet contexts would be labelled "trolls." There is a certain mindset associated with unmoderated Usenet groups and mailing lists that infects the collectively-managed Wikipedia project: if you react strongly to trolling, that reflects poorly on you, not (necessarily) on the troll. If you attempt to take trolls to task or demand that something be done about constant disruption by trollish behavior, the other listmembers will cry "censorship," attack you, and even come to the defense of the troll. This drama has played out thousands of times over the years on unmoderated Internet groups, and since about the fall of 2001 on the unmoderated Wikipedia." http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/12/30/142458/25

On usenet you just filter out the trolls and ignore them. On wikipedia you can't do that because the trolls are editing and reverting the articles you're working on.

such a simple question, and yet I'm thinking through all the books I've bought, and none of them really talk about what I've learned from my cranial osteopath or the biodynamic cranio-sacral therapist (superior, imho, to regular craniosacral therapy, as taught by the Upledger Institute) I've also worked with.

The Edgar Cayce Manual for Health through Drugless Therapy was written by an Osteopath, but he practiced before Dr. Sutherland's "cranial" technique (a supplemental to Andrew Still's system of osteopathic manipulation) became widespread.

If all you want to do is learn how to visualize, start with Win Wenger's techniques, or start by learning Self Hypnosis, or The Silva Method / Silva Ultramind, or start with a notepad to write down your dreams every morning (working towards waking up in your dreams, commonly known as "lucid dreaming").

In another post, I talked about how I discovered I had a problem 7 years ago... I missed the first week and a half of my senior year (I bumped my head, and don't remember 2 weeks), and went out on the internet to get information about speed reading, so I could catch up in my classes. I ended up buying Win's The Einstein Factor, which uses visualization for creative problem solving. "Wow, neat, I want to be able to do that." Win says that visualization is a natural human ability, and even people who don't visualize can easily be taught.

For me, Win Wenger's methods didn't work. So I picked up a silva method book. Then self-hypnosis books. These books all have steps to follow techniques to get the skills (creative problem solving, self mind control, visualization, etc) promised. I was also interested in Lucid Dreaming, and learned all I could about dreaming, what to do, which vitamins to take, etc. I did all these things, and still I couldn't even remember anything more than the tiniest fragments of my dreams when I woke in the morning, let alone "picture" something when I was wide-awake.

After stumbling around for six years, I figured that my problem was related to my disfunctional body, and that I needed an osteopath to fix that. My mother frequently told me what a difficult baby I was. Now I know that crying is an indication that baby hurts. Osteopathic Manipulation is especially good for children - ADHD, chronic childhood ear infections, ... etc. - all are a good indication that the kid's body is out of alignment, and needs proper attention.

Dr. D. says that one of the purposes of osteopathic treatment is to remove trauma from the body. I needed osteopathic treatment because of unresolved brith trauma and the afore-mentioned head injury. Most people (99.9+%) are nowhere near as bad as I was, and can learn visualization without going through all the hoops I've been through.

Healing Through Cranial Osteopathy by Tajinder Deoora - I don't have this book, but it does seem like a good modern take on what Cranial Osteopathy is good for.

Also see chapter 2 of Andrew Weil's Spontaneous Healing.

(not all Osteopaths are equally talented. The most specialized form of osteopathic manipulation treats the patient's visual perception, but my osteopath says there's only about 100 D.O.'s in the country who've taken the training. Cranio-Sacral therapy is osteopathic manipulation done by non-osteopaths. Your mileage will vary with CST practitioners - some are very good, some so-so, some have just taken a week or two of courses & set up shop as a CST. Biodynamic certification is a good indication of competency; some Biodynamic practitioners may be more advanced than cranial-academy certified docs.... ? - gotta build your own road map here. :)

Hope this helps.

France!
Hence the statue of liberty. See:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/10/19/193648/40

Let's face it - in the Web 2.0 world, one of the most important things is user interaction. Sure, Yahoo is known all around the blogosphere as a good netizen - but does this mean they are commited to the del.icio.us philosophy? Web 2.0 is all about the user. del.icio.us, and many other popular sites such as http://www.kuro5hin.org/ and http://www.digg.com/ function as kind of a "podcast for news" allowing users access to many new news sites posted by the blogees themselves. However, one only sees material the major news services have posted on Yahoo News. By this hostile takeover of del.icio.us, Yahoo becomes able to more leverage the blogosphere and its many netizens.

http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2002/2/28/9750/03 486/70#70

As far as I can tell, this article is just the manifestation of rich guys trying to come to grips with what is happening. "It's all a game of kings & queens," they're saying to themselves in the head. "It's the same evil game it's always been."

They want this to be the case, because they've sold out already, and they're trying to justify what they did, to themselves. They sold out to evil at some point in their life, and they don't want to feel guilty when this new thing comes along. So they go, "Oh, those guys are evil too. Yeah. You were just as good when we were the guys in power. So, don't get all happy about these new guys. Fuckers. You were losers in the beginning, and, haha, you're still losers. Wannabes."

Here's the refutation to his underlying argument: With blogs, we get to choose what we see. In the bad old days, we didn't. There were like, what, 5 news channels? 1 or, maybe, 2 newspapers? Yeah: Some diversity. But now, we have much more say over who we get our news from. We have much more power in the system. Which means you have to address what we're saying, and what we care about. If you don't, we're outta there. In many cases, we're literally writing the news. WikiNews? I'm talking K5.

"The difference between the old media elite and the new blogging elite is that the latter gets redefined much more frequently." No, the difference is that we can now tell fuckers like you, that we don't give a damn, and ignore you.

Public Patent foundation knocked out the Pfizer patent Look at the guy who is taking on the Amazon "One Click" for example http://www.infoanarchy.org/section/features http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20051130/1243250_ F.shtml http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/12/4/45354/8981 http://igdmlgd.blogspot.com/ etc

It's a straw man argument.

Try Uncaused Force, Teach the Controversy! then. It's every bit as scientifically valid, detailed, and correct as any ID publication. Feel free to check the references - they are all peer reviewed articles saying exactly what the article claims they say. Of course the conclusion is that the theory of gravity is wrong and we need to teach our children about the "uncaused force" that moves objects - some would say that an uncaused force is God, but of course the theory need not explicitly state that.

Jedidiah.

"because our readers -- hundreds of whom have moderation power at any given moment -- have a sharp eye for stupid stuff." Yeah, but the posters don't seem to have any sense of the English language. Now if perhaps there were examples of something other than Slashdot, maybe a link to www.kuro5hin.org to point out that readers can also moderate what gets on the front page as well.

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/10/31/17417/635 Yeah K5 is crap anyway. They anonied all my accounts the other day for no apparent reason.

"-- prefer reality unfiltered because I'm not a coward - Me 11/27/2005"

I have to laugh when people quote themselves in their own signature.

It's almost as nauseating as people on http://www.kuro5hin.org/ quoting each other.

I believe you are looking for http://www.digg.com/ and/or http://www.kuro5hin.org/.

Well, since you're posting as anonymous with high praise for IBM Global Service, let's see this counter argument from Kuro5hin: How IBM Conned My Execs Out Of Millions .



This is a first-person account of how IBM was able to con my execs out of millions of dollars. Gullible management tries to swim with the shark and gets chewed to pieces. Witness the exec-level FUD sales techniques and the $325/hr subcontractor labor bait and switch.... More...

Well, since you're posting as anonymous with high praise for IBM Global Service, let's see this counter argument from Kuro5hin: How IBM Conned My Execs Out Of Millions .



This is a first-person account of how IBM was able to con my execs out of millions of dollars. Gullible management tries to swim with the shark and gets chewed to pieces. Witness the exec-level FUD sales techniques and the $325/hr subcontractor labor bait and switch.... More...

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/9/27/95759/4240

Yeah! Another post related to France. I can't wait for the flow of rioting cheese eating surrender monkey hate posts to follow. Boycott France, United we stand and God bless america.

The French Scapegoat http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/10/19/193648/40

(Score 5: Offtopic.)

It's not that it isn't property - it is property - it's just that the property right is limited to 20 years.

The definition of the property simply includes a time limitation.

At risk to Karma*, I am posting in an article that, interestingly enough, may be the first to be ARTICLESLAPPED or modded -1 redund@nt. (Here is a link to the article about the Slashdot threadslapping phenomenon)

*It is my understanding from looking at slashcode that mod points assigned to anoymous postings affect your Karma as much as regular postings.

Kuro5hin have two dynamic comment modes available. They were written years ago before the AJAX hype, and use inline frames, if I remember correctly.

The creation of new drugs takes longer and costs more than it did "back in the day".

That doesn't explain why patents are file+20 years but copyrights are pub+95 years. Your argument would make sense only in the case of a significant patent term extension.

K5 - the place where people write such long and boring entries you won't want to come back. Honestly, I almost forgot K5 still existed.

Check out K5.

Huh, digg. kuro5hin.org did it first, and fark.com does it funnier. When will you begin cross-promoting with myspace?

I have to plug Scoop as a pain-in-the-ass powerful chunk of mod_perl that I've set up a few times. It apparently is capable of scaling up pretty well, handling the million+ hit days of dailykos.com