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My initial reaction was to disagree vehemently with your post, but after reading some of the responses, and re-reading yours, you could go here

http://tinyurl.com/ys95m

and get a good approximation of the number of definitions to be found of the various labels you used (liberal, compassionate, conservative, socialism, etc.)

Not much... the only difference between the three is, potentially one test, and an MCSE can take 1 extra test and get the D/DBA as well.

MCDBA might gain a little more respect because it's got more letters, but MCSEs are useless. When an 8-year-old can pass it, it becomes meaningless. What did my old boss call it? "Paper experience"

OK. Here's one I did ( Windows Survivor ) that might be popular with this crowd

Site is getting sloooow... Here's a mirror.

MySQL is "teh suck" compared to PostgreSQL

All right, you asked for it!

Let's have a GoogleFight between PostgreSQL and MySQL!!!

Try reading "A Canticle for Leibowitz"
by Walter M. Miller Jr.

IMHO, the most profound post-apocalyptic novel I've read.

By the way, it's just 19 Days & Counting, according to Daniel Joseph Min
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8 &edition=us&q=Daniel+Joseph+Min+
http://tinyurl.com/4cjx5[google.com]

http://tinyurl.com/48hxb - If Divine is your idea of a hot date (well, cold now), you might like this.

http://tinyurl.com/3jks2 - Strippers, sex and LSD, what more could you want? Well, plot, acting and music that doesn't make you want to hurl, perhaps.

http://tinyurl.com/48hxb - If Divine is your idea of a hot date (well, cold now), you might like this.

http://tinyurl.com/3jks2 - Strippers, sex and LSD, what more could you want? Well, plot, acting and music that doesn't make you want to hurl, perhaps.

Thanks for a thoughtful reply from the other side.

Regarding your first point, a little bit of crypto experience taught me something about the entropy of large numbers: Time scales linearly, but the entropy of numbers B^N (here B=4) most definitely does not, given N. A 64-bit symmetric key is almost trivial to crack with a cluster of today's CPUs. A 128-bit key is 2^64 times longer than a 64-bit one, not twice as long, and will be well out of reach for a long time. That's why the NSA tried so hard to squash PGP.

Now, we're talking about the equivalent of 6 billion bits. I don't care how many billions of years you give for things to evolve, you can't get to 2^6,000,000,000. The complexity simply exceeds the abilities of our brains to grasp.

Note that the assumption that things will just evolve on their own is a charitable one. If my '66 Wagoneer had done any evolving in the 40 years it's been around, it might get better gas mileage and put out less harmful emissions than it does. But only more newly designed vehicles have those features.

Regarding your second point, perhaps the strongest concept of selflessness in humanity is that of laying down one's life for one's friend. Witness the outpouring of support for Pat Tillman, or the type of emotions stirred by the story of a mother who drowns saving her child, or the soldier who falls on a grenade to save his commander. Though I don't presume to be any judge of God's ways, what better way for the Creator to deliver a message about himself than to offer a part of him as a widely predicted and historically recorded sacrifice for his created humanity?

Thanks for a thoughtful reply from the other side.

Regarding your first point, a little bit of crypto experience taught me something about the entropy of large numbers: Time scales linearly, but the entropy of numbers B^N (here B=4) most definitely does not, given N. A 64-bit symmetric key is almost trivial to crack with a cluster of today's CPUs. A 128-bit key is 2^64 times longer than a 64-bit one, not twice as long, and will be well out of reach for a long time. That's why the NSA tried so hard to squash PGP.

Now, we're talking about the equivalent of 6 billion bits. I don't care how many billions of years you give for things to evolve, you can't get to 2^6,000,000,000. The complexity simply exceeds the abilities of our brains to grasp.

Note that the assumption that things will just evolve on their own is a charitable one. If my '66 Wagoneer had done any evolving in the 40 years it's been around, it might get better gas mileage and put out less harmful emissions than it does. But only more newly designed vehicles have those features.

Regarding your second point, perhaps the strongest concept of selflessness in humanity is that of laying down one's life for one's friend. Witness the outpouring of support for Pat Tillman, or the type of emotions stirred by the story of a mother who drowns saving her child, or the soldier who falls on a grenade to save his commander. Though I don't presume to be any judge of God's ways, what better way for the Creator to deliver a message about himself than to offer a part of him as a widely predicted and historically recorded sacrifice for his created humanity?

I've been looking at this very subject in terms of making use of OWL files and
came up with a javascript powered SVG which worked... though perhaps not
brilliantly. It's at http://tinyurl.com/4s58r. By the way, I'd
welcome comments on code/implementation... Unfortunately it only works under IE
with the adobe SVG plugin.

Like this?

Dunstan

Avenue Q

I'll just remind you that Ultima Online is a skill based game. I've heard they've altered the formula to add prestige classes (gasp! classes), but even then there're plenty of free shards that use the 100% skill based system. On a side note, I've also heard some changes to UO are quite good so the pay service is still worth looking into.

I by no means think UO is the end-all to MMORPGs, though. I also think you're right in saying we could all do without levels. Back when Bioware was designing Neverwinter Nights I was part of a big debate on whether the engine should be real time or turn based (that long ago). My argument was that the rules (2nd edition) had tables for the time duration of movement and combat phases and there's no reason not to let a computer handle all the conversions. At the time I didn't think about it, but now I think the same can be said for leveling and character progression. There is much the computer can handle without the interaction of the player and I think character progression is no exception.

But, I don't play MMORPG's and don't plan to ever so all this discussion is moot. If I cared so much about the genre I would be working on my own game right now because I could. But I think MMORGPs and internet games in general are dull in comparison to games in meat-space. Tabletop role playing, board games , card games, multiplayer console games, LAN games. Oh yeah, they're fun. MMORPGs and Yahoo chess? Like playing my pocket calculator but less interactive. At least it makes moves in a timely manner and doesn't disconnect in the middle of the game or act like an ass hat or a 3D animated screen saver of "roots" "nuke" "nuke" "heal" "sit". No thanks. I'll have the guys and girls over at my house on Fridays and we'll have a better time the old fasioned way.

this.
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Putting the ass in asteroid since 1996

The breaking of long URLs is annoying. In lieu of people writing their own anchors, try TinyURL. For example: http://tinyurl.com/4hvuu

Fossil has had one out for a while at $179. http://tinyurl.com/yptan [fossil.com]

Much like your SEX LIFE, eh AKAImBatman? Don't dispair; you'll always have porn!!

According to the linked article:

http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?country=US&co untryid=US&addtohistory=&searchtab=address&searcht ype=address&address=1941+W+PASSYUNK+AVE&city=&stat e=&zipcode=19145-3620&search=++Search++
or
http://tinyurl.com/58zlc

Until then, all these research are a sleeper.

A robot that cleans and you can sleep with it? Goodbye left hand!

The guy who tried to link to Anti-Slash on Anti-Slash's front page is clearly a failure.

That's because the fucktards who run anti-slash don't allow non-slashdot links. I figured most people are intelligent enough to cut the slashdot.org part off the URL, but apparently you're too much of a retard to figure it out.

This post is definitely not wide enough.

OK, you did it for the wrong reason, but you hit the nail on the head -
Rich people (well, the self made ones anyway) got that way for basically one of two reasons:
1) They got lucky.
2) They are cheap bastards, where it counts.

I work in the same building as Warren Buffett. I've been in the elevator with him in the morning, and he's wearing a polo shirt and carrying a six-pack of coke. That's right, the second-richest man in the country is too cheap to buy the $.90 cokes from the cafeteria. Right product (since he basically owns Coke) at the right price. Warren's about as common as it gets, except for being f-ing smart and richer than everybody but Bill.

This man also gives democratic, according to opensecrets.org.

"Al-Qaeda likes anti-war dissidents, as outlined in this handbook."

Al Qaeda terrorists like using weakminded Americans to supress one another. It breaks down their enemy by using the opponent's weakness against itself, without risk or expense to Al Qaeda. So what they like even better is when closet fascist Americans suppress the rights of their compatriots, taking the bait from some words published in a manual.

The story you cite doesn't mention "anti-war dissidents" even once. You're making that up to suit your agenda. It does have (unverified) Al Qaeda rhetoric appreciating the collapse of the American military effort in Iraq, but that doesn't mean they "like anti-war dissidents".

Another terrorist complicity in that story is the unverified "handbook" reported by AFP. Unidentified "western experts" aren't even named - that's got even less credibility than the sources for WMD and Al Qaeda / Hussein propaganda.

Then there's your post claiming that to a "conservative", Democrats represent "unquestioned authority, tight control, sacrosanct wealth, and operation through secrets". Maybe to a "conservative" so paranoid that they imagine Republicans oppose those things, but there's no rational reason to believe that Democrats do, and lots of reasons to believe Republicans do.

And where's this "vitriol" you complain about, attaching webservers to politics? A little analysis shows that your entire post is a typically Bushite screed inventing facts, inventing selfserving categories, sarcastically inventing "elites", conflating your personal enemies regardless of their mutual antipathy. All that in 4 sentences - at least you're succinct.

OBCreepyPart: The design criteria used in this book (written in 1973) were to be man-portable and knock down one tower of the WTC.

Using ./ is not the best way to implement such a scheme, since you can't attach the usual 1-pixel transparent GIF that creates a log entry in your Apache log when recipients view it; after all, you want to record where your message travels to...

Some philosophical systems divide the sprectrum of life into a variety of areas for convenience of pigeon holing stuff. You start analysing the interplay of these cross factors at various strengths, and even with this simplification the permutations become daunting.

(Link slightly tongue in cheek)

What Clarke could not testify to was the thoroughness with which the FBI questioned the departing Saudis. Last year, National Review reported that the FBI conducted brief, day-of-departure interviews with the Saudis -- in the words of an FBI spokesman, "at the airport, as they were about to leave." Experts interviewed by National Review called the FBI's actions "highly unusual" given the fact that those departing were actually members of Osama bin Laden's family. "They [the FBI] could not have done a thorough and complete interview," said John L. Martin, the former head of internal security at the Justice Department.

Vanity Fair quotes Nail al-Jubeir, the Saudi director of information, as saying that the Saudi flights were approved "at the highest level of the U.S. government" -- just as Clarke said. So far, however, those highest levels are saying very little. The FBI's account remains the same -- "We didn't clear them to leave the country, we don't have that power," a spokesman tells National Review .

Pathways, Marathon, Maelstrom and Escape Velocity. Oh childhood, where art thou?

Oh yeah, playing Halo on a Microsoft Xbox and Freelancer on Windows XP.

Really a pity how shallow the Mac's gaming shelf has become. I mean, Panther wipes the floor with XP for just about everything except games.

If you want to scare children, you should definitely buy this album. No one will even dare approach your house!

For the ones that doesn't know, the meter (or "metro" in Brazil) cames from France, who has the idea of dividing the meridian in 40.000.000 equal parts, and give the name of "metre" to this parts. The idea was not original, as the egiptian had done that, but using 250.000.000 parts, and the chinese used 120.000.000 and created the Cun (33 m) and the Chim (0,33 cm).

I think that economy will change USA. When we export products to USA, we need to change all measures to their system. When USA needs to export to countries that uses the metric system, they have to do that too. If USA becames more dependent on exporting his products, they will become vary of having two different metric systems to deal, and will be forced to choose the one that gives them competitive advantage, or, at least, equality with competitors.

This and more probes crushed in the surface of distant planets or lost in the space...

P.S.: Sorry for the "engrish"...

Actually, in California giving a false name is a felony - it's very similar in other states...

Basically it's 'obstruction of justice' and sections 1510 and 1511 are almost equally applicable (depending on whether or not you really are a suspect of a crime).

this guy

So this shift-key thing... if I bought this album (Zero-7, Amazon.co.uk), am I correct in saying I would be able to play it in my PC (running Windows 2000 mostly)?

The stupid thing is, I *didn't* buy this album specificially because of the copy-protection as I like to play my music on my PC!

I think that this would be a great "Ask Google" question. Which RAID for a Personal Fileserver?

That said; it was pretty easy in Mandrake 10.0 Official to set up a 3 disk Software RAID 5 with 200Gb disks. Supposedly if one goes bad I can just remove it and put in another one and boot up - regeneration is supposed to be automatic.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Mirrored just in time

Thank god you posted this, I was afraid CNN would be slashdotted in a heartbeat. Here, let me provide an even more useless post with this tinyurl link to the article: click here.

here ssadler.phy.bnl.gov/adler/SDE/SlashDotEffect.html

(Note: /. comment submit form officially sucks. ;)

If it's not, what would the significance be? The factorisation is: 2 2 461 11519 but that doesn't look interesting to me.

Googling for it I only find, as interesting reference:

• An entry for something called dipeptidyl anminopeptidase that sounds like a protein or enzyme

Like this one?

Why go to the trouble?
We all know that 70% of people will give you their passwords for chocolate.

And I'm fairly sure that the other 30% will give it to you for sex. And then probably change it, but, you can take that chance.

ok, ok. I'm sorry.

On a more serious note, there are tips on taking professional photographs at this site. It's not specific to digital photography, but it's still a worthwhile read.

This is one of my favorite digital picture galleries. All quality stuff inside.

You mean like this?

Fixed link:
http://tinyurl.com/2srd5

You are quite right. Second Life is expanding 20% each week! New land masses are added all the time. 11 New Sims (Servers) were added just a day or so ago.

If you want to try out Second Life on a trial basis, click here

Chances are, you'll also like "What Einstien Told His Cook" by Robert Wolke. It's a very scientific view of cooking, telling you exactly why things happen the way they do in cooking and going over the chemical process. It's a very fun read, and is not only informative but humorous as well.

Great book. You can read reviwes and stuff about it here.

So this member of the GNAA walks up to an insensitive clod and says,
So, What do you do for a living?
The Insensitive clod goes, "In my country, beowulf clusters assemble you!
And then they went off and made god angry and got herpes.
What a beautiful story, tugs at the heartstrings!

You can read about the NYPD wide screen here.

I wouldn't have thought it possible, but it does.