It can be unnerving to have your snake go into hibernation. Not much information about it is readily available online, except in the form of forcing snakes into hibernation using refrigerators and that's for the sake of instigating them to breed more copiously immediately after coming out of hibernation. Our snake has been in hibernation for a month, now.
Couldn't you just create a computer generator for this audio, that uses a PRNG to intersperse pauses and other variations? You could create a much wider variety of conditions to put your parser through by controlling how much variation is in the length of each beep, pauses between beeps, pauses between letters. You could create a really bungling case or create a perfect case, and anything in between. Why not just do that?
It just seems so, so stupid to me that in the search for real encryption, we have to rely on pseudo-randomness, so then the entire point of contention comes down to a matter of how much "pseudo" we're willing to accept. My theory is that as science goes deeper into math and logic, we're going to result in consecutively more "reliable" PRNG but those will always be dismissed by later science, and will always raise the point of contention. It's not worth getting worked up over, and it's certainly never worth placing so much investment in that that same and inevitable contention is going to seem dearly costly in retrospect. People are, by and large, stupid. If we want truly random results, we should utilize something like a photon interference field which is more or less considered to be completely random. Or the emission of particles from certain stable isotopes which are known to closely adhere to certain probabilities over time but are also known to be truly random. Then we would be forced to develop methods of encryption based on true randomness, which is only an impossibility as long as we continue to believe (within our limited paradigm) that it is so.
Gee. You other nerds on Slashdot, you're all so THMART.
Except when you're arguing with somebody who's actually aced a college level course in Anthropology.
"The larynx, or voice box, sits lower in the throat in humans than in chimps, one of several features that enable human speech. Human ancestors evolved a descended larynx roughly 350,000 years ago. We also possess a descended hyoid bone -- this horseshoe-shaped bone below the tongue, unique in that it is not attached to any other bones in the body, allows us to articulate words when speaking. "
BTW, NONE of the shit you or the other guy said knocked down what I was saying about chimps -- they're not going to be human. Get over it. God, I can't get some of you geeks. Next time try somebody in your own high school.
I can't help but imagine you protested my remarks out of some desire to live out some fantasy related to your formative-years viewing of a "planet of the apes" sequel.
Gee. You other nerds on Slashdot, you're all so THMART.
Except when you're arguing with somebody who's actually aced a college level course in Anthropology.
"The larynx, or voice box, sits lower in the throat in humans than in chimps, one of several features that enable human speech. Human ancestors evolved a descended larynx roughly 350,000 years ago. We also possess a descended hyoid bone â" this horseshoe-shaped bone below the tongue, unique in that it is not attached to any other bones in the body, allows us to articulate words when speaking. "
BTW, NONE of the shit you or the other guy said knocked down what I was saying about chimps -- they're not going to be human. Get over it. God, I can't get some of you geeks. Next time try somebody in your own high school.
The fact that I got the wrong canister item (whipPED cream) aside -- totally moot considering thousands of other products WERE using CFC's back in the day -- the ozone holes didn't disappear. There's still an ozone hole, today, and scientists are largely puzzled about it.
What do you do, just sit in a basement and read whatever Time magazine tells you?
It could be the "fuzzy logic" they've used in "solving" the "problems":
the image is created inside a layer of dry fog which is composed of ultra-fine water droplets so small they lack moisture
... let's call a recess and re-convene when that statement makes sense, shall we?
Because I'm pretty sure that "shining lasers -- OR just some plain old light -- onto a cloud of WATER VAPOR" is basically where we've been since 1970. My parents were well-familiar with it enough to laugh about how pointless the technology of doing exactly that was, back in 1986.
Let me digress: my parents laughed at the attempts to "bring back 3D" (in cinema) back in the same time period. They thought it was atrocious that ANOTHER attempt was made in the 90's. They would be furious today that it's a recurring theme. My parents had no patience for social amnesia, and I guess I kind of don't, either.
I kind of hate these stupid stories we keep getting fed to us as "news". "We'll shine lashers at the water cloudsh, kidsh!" Okay, old man! You've been doing that same trick for 40 fucking years! You can quit! Snake oil has actually been regulated against by the government!
We'll get there eventually but shit like this (indulge me in quoting it one... more... time, it's such a precious artefact of our modern lack of common sense and how gullible 21st century humanity really has become):
ultra-fine water droplets so small they lack moisture
'nuff said. Put me in the cryo-time-machine, wake me up when we have pills to get rid of TMAO-producing gut flora and when we reinvent the burger not to destroy the ecosphere.
There was this one time, when like, I thought this one thing was a bug, but when I got closer it was a pebble.
Did I ever tell you about this one time when I thought I seriously fucked my toe up, but I only stubbed it?
I remember once when I walked a long time, like it felt like tons of hours and miles, but it was only an hour and it was only like three miles. I dunno I guess I was tired.
Would be nice. But I've been consultant to my family on computer issues since I was 14 years old, over two decades of service. They never figure it out. Some people just never do. Especially when you're dealing with family, the issue of who is treating who as a child typically goes in the direction of older to younger, not the other way around.
It is almost inevitable that I will have to provide them with a Windows machine. The *nix alternative is too weird and too much could go wrong in their hands.
(1) I would lock them out of any significant changes. They would not be capable of getting escalated permission (to install or uninstall software, to use administrative tools, etc.) without a special* password.
(2) * I would come up with some means of rewriting the admin password using PRNG and a given sequence. Each time Admin permission is given for installation of some program or another, it would advance the sequence and re-write the Admin password. I would keep track of how many times this has been done and always know which bunch of pseudo-random characters it is currently. I would probably be on the phone with them for awhile because in some cases you have to escalate two or three times to get something installed or changed.
(3) A sub-Admin account would exist but with severely curtailed privileges. Where "Adminstrator group" permissions are given for services or privileges, I would remove "Administrator group" and replace it with the name of the fully-powered Admin account, and only add the name of the sub-Admin account where it's needed. They would regularly use this sub-Admin account instead of a regular user account. This way they could plug-and-play printers, change windows services (SOME of them) and so on without needing to call me up for the mystery password.
(4) All remote access services would be shut down. They would be entirely on their own, no remote desktop or remote help. If they somehow heard about remote desktop or remote help and wanted to do that, I would tell them too bad, that if they don't want a secure computer we can do a fresh re-install and they can have the complete out of the box experience and damn the torpedoes, but that I would no longer consult with them on that computer. That would change things, if not right away, then certainly when they are swamped with viruses and getting hijacked down the road.
(5) I would demand no outside consultancy, just like I do with any windows box I "secure". If somebody I've helped comes back to me complaining that they went to somebody else and now everything I did was undone again, I cut them loose. There are too many people posing as "computer geeks" who seem to enjoy installing anti-malware that's pure slowdown and kicks and screams to stay on the system, "speed up" and "doctor" apps that are known to be shady, and other massively market-hyped crap. Since insisting on no outside consultancy, I've significantly decreased my stress and workload by ridding myself of chronically repeat clients. In fact, I don't do street computer work any more, at all. It's not worth it. I would be doing my "parents" a serious favor at the cost of a lot of stress and hassle in my life.
(6) I have never been satisfied with the auto-update experience of most applications. I would have to choose software for them that I feel is secure enough not to need updating, and to leave it at that. Windows Update is bad enough, and they are already going to be screaming at me over the phone on those days when there's a serious patch and it's in the news and Microsoft's update service is running slow or haltingly for several days.
Alternately:
I would just install something like SUSE and a virtual machine running their precious Windows. I would get my "parents" a really expensive laptop, two sets of wi fi keyboards and mice, two wi fi monitors, and set them up with SUSE giving them two simultaneous but separate experiences inside their Windows virtual machines. It would take me for fucking ever and would be complicated as shit, and would be really expensive. Then since they would want persistent Windows experiences, Windows itself is still there to be a total complete headache nightmare. So why go the convoluted "matrix reality" style virtual machines in a linux box when they can still screw up their persistent albeit virtual Windows experience? Yes there'd be this nice safe l
I like how you're saying that homo sapiens isn't ready for lower primates. That's pretty clever, I like how you did that.
You don't think it has something to do with more fundamental problems, do you? Like how we're the only living thing with a voice box capable of producing speech? That, might not be a big issue in your model of the Amazing Human World of the Future?
Remember how we went through the process of removing CFCs from production and usage (by and large) because of the ozone holes?
It didn't stop the greenhouse effect overall, though, did it? Because sufficient impetus wasn't given to citizens or to governments to avoid expelling greenhouse gases. Especially when it's an issue of what's coming out of your whip cream canister, it gives you little reason to put thought behind that next cut of steak you're going to put that whip cream onto.
Here's just another gas to distract the masses from the greenhouse gases they expel in normal, everyday life. We'll be all focused on this gas and it gives us an excuse to ignore 7,000 other greenhouse effect contributors.
That boy needs therapy. Psychosomatic. That boy needs therapy. Purely psychosomatic. That boy needs therapy. Lie down on the couch! What does that mean? You're a nut! You're crazy in the coconut! What does that mean? That boy needs therapy.
So this is, in other words, "projection" as in the projection of one line onto another line, or the projection of a straight line onto the surface of a sphere (it generates an arc) etc.
I am looking forward to the day when we've genuinely proven that the universe is a complete and total simulation, though.
I think the mistake of this article was to use the term "hologram". A convincingly three dimensional laser hologram could be projected onto a cloud of reflective material from stereoscopic images. Our universe might be something similar from a higher number of dimensions. But "hologram" is too close in popular fiction to a "simulation", and most people get at least some of their scientific enthusiasm (and familiar terminology) from science fiction.
The article could have said "turns out the universe isn't a ball, it's a plane that a ball is projecting onto" but people would have missed the point.
It strikes me as concession packaged up as stand-offishness. But it still reads like concession. If you don't trust the chip, don't use the chip. Why all the song and dance just to say "well we're still relying on the chip, by the way" at the end? Can anybody say "sugar coat"? I would take them to task over it, if I had some kind of bargaining power of my own. I would say, "if you claim you don't trust the chip, then either you don't utilize the chip, at all, or I in turn don't trust your routines."
The games rely on varying layers of compromised or compromiseable browser attachments and plugins. If you are concerned about your system security, then they definitely aren't the games for you. Requirements range from Adobe Flash to Unity Engine.
I gave it a thorough testing today. Granted, it's still all in BETA stage. But I'm not griping about the stupid bugs.
The whole thing sucks. The five different games are basically five different kinds of problems. There's organic chemistry, atomic chemistry, programming logic, and I didn't play the other two games but they appear to be shrouded versions of real life n-body or other computational problems.
So here's the deal. This shit takes a long time. These games get very complex very quickly. I can see myself playing one game a day, maybe an hour at it. The programming logic game works for that, it doesn't take an hour to solve their largest BETA puzzles. By the way, they don't have real actual DARPA programming troubles being made into puzzles just yet. The puzzles there are static and are meant to test the system and see what user feedback is generated.
But then you go into the folding prion game, and it sucks. The tutorial is incomplete and it's a total side-swipe at Scientology. Why the fuck would you actively seek to alienate Scientologists from your defense industry website? That's stupid as hell. They shouldn't be trying to offend anybody, period, let alone Scientologists.
And the folding prion problem has to run some kind of simulation or something in the background when you choose to eliminate molecular pathways (in the guise of more or less Dianetic engrams). And the wait times can be several minutes. And the combinations of splitting molecular bonds and removing molecular pathways quickly arrives at exponentially large numbers. And you apparently have to get them done in the right order. So you could, yes, spend two hours at one problem and not arrive at a solution. How the hell is that a game?
Furthermore, the time you just spent and/or wasted on the "game" was shrouded in the mysteries of some stupid, silicon-valley wank mythology that was made up from the seat of their ass. So you don't learn anything factual about things like prion folding or variable bit widths or stack leaks or whatever. No, you just learn some made-up Californian crap about "the storms that devastated Aeryth" or "Gee these plugs and gizmos aren't hooking together correctly, get the thingamabobbers all the same color for the point!"
So what are you doing? Wasting your time ten-fold. Don't do it. Fuck these people. It seems like a good premise but they obviously handed the work off to the entirely wrong group of people.
The only people this will be interesting to is disabled children who have real difficulties socializing out of doors and who spend inordinate amounts of time chair-bound in front of the computer, or autistic people, or absolute 100% genuine geeks who are totally oblivious to things like the value of time well spent or what the meaning of "quixotic" is.
These puzzles are definitely interesting. I had a chance to get on and play the preliminaries of the pipe game about two hours ago from a college terminal. I get home to continue my "work" and the site is 505'd. I'm guessing it may have been simply slashdotted. If that's the case, then I've lost a bit of confidence in the project.
It sort of reminds me of that scene in "Sneakers" when the guys roll by to get the box back from the "NSA", and the building is being torn down. Which raises the question, if I can imagine using a site to quickly test a population sample's IQ and then to run like heck with the results, then is there a feasible reason to do so?
And I'm tired of the tired old bullshit about all white people being racists. I'm white -- did I pipe in with racist comments about the Mexicans who are dying (or dead) of radiation poisoning because they stole radioactive samples and are too stupid to read the boxes warning them there's radiation inside? Noooooo!
So you are also an official racist!
God, I get so sick of this anti-white liberal bullshit act, always running off at the mouth like all white people deserve to be collectively punished, attempting to justify anti-white racism with every dribbled epithet. It's becoming more and more apparent every day that "anti-racist" is really a code-word for anti-white.
You can get some PVC pipe of a nice, wide gauge. Then slice it in thirds, 120 degrees each section. There are PVC paints you can use to make these whichever color is available. You might need to rough the surface of the PVC, first. If you want them plain white, there are ways of removing the colorful print. Use the round, ooh-ah PVC sections instead of the flat, painted-aluminum (or plastic) trays. The round surfaces should reflect the light below in a more eye-pleasing way. Still suspended from the ceiling, though.
You could buy a lot of smaller gauge PVC and run the cables through that. Do yourself a favor and cut the sections in half, and hinge them on the side away from the wall so you could still open them up section by section if you had to. Attach the PVC to the walls with washers and bolts at stud points. Close up the hinges and latch with whatever. You could paint it bronze and it's be kooky, steampunk style stuff yeah.
You could do real steampunk style, and buy metal pipe instead of PVC. You could have this cockamamie maze of pipes running up and down the walls, over the chairs and desks, and arriving at lamp posts (actually lit by flickering LEDs, not actual gas! Hah! Haha!) which the office workers discreetly plug their computers and other devices into.
You could get simple tin foil (food grade) and wrap the cables up in that. I have no idea how this will affect their performance in terms of temperature. But they'll be shiny.
You could get some plastic mesh and spray paint it silvery, double the edges and run your support wires through the doubled up holes. The mesh should theoretically be able to support a bunch of wires (maybe triple fold those edges). The cables would show but hey, they're colorful.
You could just support the bundled up cables themselves "naked" to the eye. It would be a bitch to get at the cables and take any down without taking them all down, but there they'd be. A person looking up could see how the network is "shaped". It would be like a magic trick.
You could support all of the cables on a bunch of really, really tall hat racks with allll kinds of crazy hats hanging from them, along with all of these network cables. People would wonder if they could have a hat, purchase a hat, or add their own hat to an empty prong. You could just deny them the satisfaction all day, and come across as WAAAAY more smugly superior than they.
Get a bunch of fake Christmas trees and throw out all the stupid false needles, just leaving behind the weird wire skeletons. Put a bunch of them together in a giant matrix of wiry voodoo. Thread your cables through this, along with strands of blinking LED "holiday lights". Put the giant borg in a really obtrusive location so everybody will question THAT, and nobody will care about how unappealing or inconvenient it is to have the cables snaking to and from this thing to various other locations.
You could build a glass ceiling and snake the wires around like crazy and make it all topsy turvy, artsy fartsy with your artistic talent glass ceiling existing purely for art's sake. Clients and other visitors could be invited to throw little peastones at it, to give it character.
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It's not about what costs less to you
or saves you damn money, idiots.
It's about using less electricity.
So what if you calculate the lifetime
per each type of bulb, cost of each
type, cost of electricity used, etc.
It's not about the cost to you -- it was
a measure taken for the sake of
reducing power consumption.
It can be unnerving to have your snake go into hibernation. Not much information about it is readily available online, except in the form of forcing snakes into hibernation using refrigerators and that's for the sake of instigating them to breed more copiously immediately after coming out of hibernation. Our snake has been in hibernation for a month, now.
Couldn't you just create a computer generator for this audio, that uses a PRNG to intersperse pauses and other variations? You could create a much wider variety of conditions to put your parser through by controlling how much variation is in the length of each beep, pauses between beeps, pauses between letters. You could create a really bungling case or create a perfect case, and anything in between. Why not just do that?
Won't *noticeably* moisten the things they contact, you mean.
I don't need this abuse from you. Why don't you go work for the snake-oil company if they're so cutting edge that water isn't wet.
It just seems so, so stupid to me that in the search for real encryption, we have to rely on pseudo-randomness, so then the entire point of contention comes down to a matter of how much "pseudo" we're willing to accept. My theory is that as science goes deeper into math and logic, we're going to result in consecutively more "reliable" PRNG but those will always be dismissed by later science, and will always raise the point of contention. It's not worth getting worked up over, and it's certainly never worth placing so much investment in that that same and inevitable contention is going to seem dearly costly in retrospect. People are, by and large, stupid. If we want truly random results, we should utilize something like a photon interference field which is more or less considered to be completely random. Or the emission of particles from certain stable isotopes which are known to closely adhere to certain probabilities over time but are also known to be truly random. Then we would be forced to develop methods of encryption based on true randomness, which is only an impossibility as long as we continue to believe (within our limited paradigm) that it is so.
Gee. You other nerds on Slashdot, you're all so THMART.
Except when you're arguing with somebody who's actually aced a college level course in Anthropology.
"The larynx, or voice box, sits lower in the throat in humans than in chimps, one of several features that enable human speech. Human ancestors evolved a descended larynx roughly 350,000 years ago. We also possess a descended hyoid bone -- this horseshoe-shaped bone below the tongue, unique in that it is not attached to any other bones in the body, allows us to articulate words when speaking. "
http://www.livescience.com/15689-evolution-human-special-species.html [livescience.com]
btw -- FYFY (fixed you for you)
BTW, NONE of the shit you or the other guy said knocked down what I was saying about chimps -- they're not going to be human. Get over it. God, I can't get some of you geeks. Next time try somebody in your own high school.
I can't help but imagine you protested my remarks out of some desire to live out some fantasy related to your formative-years viewing of a "planet of the apes" sequel.
Gee. You other nerds on Slashdot, you're all so THMART.
Except when you're arguing with somebody who's actually aced a college level course in Anthropology.
"The larynx, or voice box, sits lower in the throat in humans than in chimps, one of several features that enable human speech. Human ancestors evolved a descended larynx roughly 350,000 years ago. We also possess a descended hyoid bone â" this horseshoe-shaped bone below the tongue, unique in that it is not attached to any other bones in the body, allows us to articulate words when speaking. "
http://www.livescience.com/15689-evolution-human-special-species.html
btw -- FYFY (fixed you for you)
BTW, NONE of the shit you or the other guy said knocked down what I was saying about chimps -- they're not going to be human. Get over it. God, I can't get some of you geeks. Next time try somebody in your own high school.
The fact that I got the wrong canister item (whipPED cream) aside -- totally moot considering thousands of other products WERE using CFC's back in the day -- the ozone holes didn't disappear. There's still an ozone hole, today, and scientists are largely puzzled about it.
What do you do, just sit in a basement and read whatever Time magazine tells you?
It could be the "fuzzy logic" they've used in "solving" the "problems":
the image is created inside a layer of dry fog which is composed of ultra-fine water droplets so small they lack moisture
... let's call a recess and re-convene when that statement makes sense, shall we?
Because I'm pretty sure that "shining lasers -- OR just some plain old light -- onto a cloud of WATER VAPOR" is basically where we've been since 1970. My parents were well-familiar with it enough to laugh about how pointless the technology of doing exactly that was, back in 1986.
Let me digress: my parents laughed at the attempts to "bring back 3D" (in cinema) back in the same time period. They thought it was atrocious that ANOTHER attempt was made in the 90's. They would be furious today that it's a recurring theme. My parents had no patience for social amnesia, and I guess I kind of don't, either.
I kind of hate these stupid stories we keep getting fed to us as "news". "We'll shine lashers at the water cloudsh, kidsh!" Okay, old man! You've been doing that same trick for 40 fucking years! You can quit! Snake oil has actually been regulated against by the government!
We'll get there eventually but shit like this (indulge me in quoting it one ... more ... time, it's such a precious artefact of our modern lack of common sense and how gullible 21st century humanity really has become):
ultra-fine water droplets so small they lack moisture
'nuff said. Put me in the cryo-time-machine, wake me up when we have pills to get rid of TMAO-producing gut flora and when we reinvent the burger not to destroy the ecosphere.
There was this one time, when like, I thought this one thing was a bug, but when I got closer it was a pebble.
Did I ever tell you about this one time when I thought I seriously fucked my toe up, but I only stubbed it?
I remember once when I walked a long time, like it felt like tons of hours and miles, but it was only an hour and it was only like three miles. I dunno I guess I was tired.
Would be nice. But I've been consultant to my family on computer issues since I was 14 years old, over two decades of service. They never figure it out. Some people just never do. Especially when you're dealing with family, the issue of who is treating who as a child typically goes in the direction of older to younger, not the other way around.
yeah but how long until Apple forces obsolescence of their Mac or iPad?
It is almost inevitable that I will have to provide them with a Windows machine. The *nix alternative is too weird and too much could go wrong in their hands.
(1) I would lock them out of any significant changes. They would not be capable of getting escalated permission (to install or uninstall software, to use administrative tools, etc.) without a special* password.
(2) * I would come up with some means of rewriting the admin password using PRNG and a given sequence. Each time Admin permission is given for installation of some program or another, it would advance the sequence and re-write the Admin password. I would keep track of how many times this has been done and always know which bunch of pseudo-random characters it is currently. I would probably be on the phone with them for awhile because in some cases you have to escalate two or three times to get something installed or changed.
(3) A sub-Admin account would exist but with severely curtailed privileges. Where "Adminstrator group" permissions are given for services or privileges, I would remove "Administrator group" and replace it with the name of the fully-powered Admin account, and only add the name of the sub-Admin account where it's needed. They would regularly use this sub-Admin account instead of a regular user account. This way they could plug-and-play printers, change windows services (SOME of them) and so on without needing to call me up for the mystery password.
(4) All remote access services would be shut down. They would be entirely on their own, no remote desktop or remote help. If they somehow heard about remote desktop or remote help and wanted to do that, I would tell them too bad, that if they don't want a secure computer we can do a fresh re-install and they can have the complete out of the box experience and damn the torpedoes, but that I would no longer consult with them on that computer. That would change things, if not right away, then certainly when they are swamped with viruses and getting hijacked down the road.
(5) I would demand no outside consultancy, just like I do with any windows box I "secure". If somebody I've helped comes back to me complaining that they went to somebody else and now everything I did was undone again, I cut them loose. There are too many people posing as "computer geeks" who seem to enjoy installing anti-malware that's pure slowdown and kicks and screams to stay on the system, "speed up" and "doctor" apps that are known to be shady, and other massively market-hyped crap. Since insisting on no outside consultancy, I've significantly decreased my stress and workload by ridding myself of chronically repeat clients. In fact, I don't do street computer work any more, at all. It's not worth it. I would be doing my "parents" a serious favor at the cost of a lot of stress and hassle in my life.
(6) I have never been satisfied with the auto-update experience of most applications. I would have to choose software for them that I feel is secure enough not to need updating, and to leave it at that. Windows Update is bad enough, and they are already going to be screaming at me over the phone on those days when there's a serious patch and it's in the news and Microsoft's update service is running slow or haltingly for several days.
Alternately:
I would just install something like SUSE and a virtual machine running their precious Windows. I would get my "parents" a really expensive laptop, two sets of wi fi keyboards and mice, two wi fi monitors, and set them up with SUSE giving them two simultaneous but separate experiences inside their Windows virtual machines. It would take me for fucking ever and would be complicated as shit, and would be really expensive. Then since they would want persistent Windows experiences, Windows itself is still there to be a total complete headache nightmare. So why go the convoluted "matrix reality" style virtual machines in a linux box when they can still screw up their persistent albeit virtual Windows experience? Yes there'd be this nice safe l
I like how you're saying that homo sapiens isn't ready for lower primates. That's pretty clever, I like how you did that.
You don't think it has something to do with more fundamental problems, do you? Like how we're the only living thing with a voice box capable of producing speech? That, might not be a big issue in your model of the Amazing Human World of the Future?
Remember how we went through the process of removing CFCs from production and usage (by and large) because of the ozone holes?
It didn't stop the greenhouse effect overall, though, did it? Because sufficient impetus wasn't given to citizens or to governments to avoid expelling greenhouse gases. Especially when it's an issue of what's coming out of your whip cream canister, it gives you little reason to put thought behind that next cut of steak you're going to put that whip cream onto.
Here's just another gas to distract the masses from the greenhouse gases they expel in normal, everyday life. We'll be all focused on this gas and it gives us an excuse to ignore 7,000 other greenhouse effect contributors.
No, of course not!
We just wanna sue the monkeys!
We're not crazy or anything!
That boy needs therapy. Psychosomatic. That boy needs therapy. Purely psychosomatic. That boy needs therapy. Lie down on the couch! What does that mean? You're a nut! You're crazy in the coconut!
What does that mean? That boy needs therapy.
I'm gonna kill you.
Thanks for clearing that up.
So this is, in other words, "projection" as in the projection of one line onto another line, or the projection of a straight line onto the surface of a sphere (it generates an arc) etc.
I am looking forward to the day when we've genuinely proven that the universe is a complete and total simulation, though.
I think the mistake of this article was to use the term "hologram". A convincingly three dimensional laser hologram could be projected onto a cloud of reflective material from stereoscopic images. Our universe might be something similar from a higher number of dimensions. But "hologram" is too close in popular fiction to a "simulation", and most people get at least some of their scientific enthusiasm (and familiar terminology) from science fiction.
The article could have said "turns out the universe isn't a ball, it's a plane that a ball is projecting onto" but people would have missed the point.
It strikes me as concession packaged up as stand-offishness. But it still reads like concession. If you don't trust the chip, don't use the chip. Why all the song and dance just to say "well we're still relying on the chip, by the way" at the end? Can anybody say "sugar coat"? I would take them to task over it, if I had some kind of bargaining power of my own. I would say, "if you claim you don't trust the chip, then either you don't utilize the chip, at all, or I in turn don't trust your routines."
The games rely on varying layers of compromised or compromiseable browser attachments and plugins. If you are concerned about your system security, then they definitely aren't the games for you. Requirements range from Adobe Flash to Unity Engine.
I gave it a thorough testing today. Granted, it's still all in BETA stage. But I'm not griping about the stupid bugs.
The whole thing sucks. The five different games are basically five different kinds of problems. There's organic chemistry, atomic chemistry, programming logic, and I didn't play the other two games but they appear to be shrouded versions of real life n-body or other computational problems.
So here's the deal. This shit takes a long time. These games get very complex very quickly. I can see myself playing one game a day, maybe an hour at it. The programming logic game works for that, it doesn't take an hour to solve their largest BETA puzzles. By the way, they don't have real actual DARPA programming troubles being made into puzzles just yet. The puzzles there are static and are meant to test the system and see what user feedback is generated.
But then you go into the folding prion game, and it sucks. The tutorial is incomplete and it's a total side-swipe at Scientology. Why the fuck would you actively seek to alienate Scientologists from your defense industry website? That's stupid as hell. They shouldn't be trying to offend anybody, period, let alone Scientologists.
And the folding prion problem has to run some kind of simulation or something in the background when you choose to eliminate molecular pathways (in the guise of more or less Dianetic engrams). And the wait times can be several minutes. And the combinations of splitting molecular bonds and removing molecular pathways quickly arrives at exponentially large numbers. And you apparently have to get them done in the right order. So you could, yes, spend two hours at one problem and not arrive at a solution. How the hell is that a game?
Furthermore, the time you just spent and/or wasted on the "game" was shrouded in the mysteries of some stupid, silicon-valley wank mythology that was made up from the seat of their ass. So you don't learn anything factual about things like prion folding or variable bit widths or stack leaks or whatever. No, you just learn some made-up Californian crap about "the storms that devastated Aeryth" or "Gee these plugs and gizmos aren't hooking together correctly, get the thingamabobbers all the same color for the point!"
So what are you doing? Wasting your time ten-fold. Don't do it. Fuck these people. It seems like a good premise but they obviously handed the work off to the entirely wrong group of people.
The only people this will be interesting to is disabled children who have real difficulties socializing out of doors and who spend inordinate amounts of time chair-bound in front of the computer, or autistic people, or absolute 100% genuine geeks who are totally oblivious to things like the value of time well spent or what the meaning of "quixotic" is.
These puzzles are definitely interesting. I had a chance to get on and play the preliminaries of the pipe game about two hours ago from a college terminal. I get home to continue my "work" and the site is 505'd. I'm guessing it may have been simply slashdotted. If that's the case, then I've lost a bit of confidence in the project.
It sort of reminds me of that scene in "Sneakers" when the guys roll by to get the box back from the "NSA", and the building is being torn down. Which raises the question, if I can imagine using a site to quickly test a population sample's IQ and then to run like heck with the results, then is there a feasible reason to do so?
And I'm tired of the tired old bullshit about all white people being racists. I'm white -- did I pipe in with racist comments about the Mexicans who are dying (or dead) of radiation poisoning because they stole radioactive samples and are too stupid to read the boxes warning them there's radiation inside? Noooooo!
So you are also an official racist!
God, I get so sick of this anti-white liberal bullshit act, always running off at the mouth like all white people deserve to be collectively punished, attempting to justify anti-white racism with every dribbled epithet. It's becoming more and more apparent every day that "anti-racist" is really a code-word for anti-white.
You can get some PVC pipe of a nice, wide gauge. Then slice it in thirds, 120 degrees each section. There are PVC paints you can use to make these whichever color is available. You might need to rough the surface of the PVC, first. If you want them plain white, there are ways of removing the colorful print. Use the round, ooh-ah PVC sections instead of the flat, painted-aluminum (or plastic) trays. The round surfaces should reflect the light below in a more eye-pleasing way. Still suspended from the ceiling, though.
You could buy a lot of smaller gauge PVC and run the cables through that. Do yourself a favor and cut the sections in half, and hinge them on the side away from the wall so you could still open them up section by section if you had to. Attach the PVC to the walls with washers and bolts at stud points. Close up the hinges and latch with whatever. You could paint it bronze and it's be kooky, steampunk style stuff yeah.
You could do real steampunk style, and buy metal pipe instead of PVC. You could have this cockamamie maze of pipes running up and down the walls, over the chairs and desks, and arriving at lamp posts (actually lit by flickering LEDs, not actual gas! Hah! Haha!) which the office workers discreetly plug their computers and other devices into.
You could get simple tin foil (food grade) and wrap the cables up in that. I have no idea how this will affect their performance in terms of temperature. But they'll be shiny.
You could get some plastic mesh and spray paint it silvery, double the edges and run your support wires through the doubled up holes. The mesh should theoretically be able to support a bunch of wires (maybe triple fold those edges). The cables would show but hey, they're colorful.
You could just support the bundled up cables themselves "naked" to the eye. It would be a bitch to get at the cables and take any down without taking them all down, but there they'd be. A person looking up could see how the network is "shaped". It would be like a magic trick.
You could support all of the cables on a bunch of really, really tall hat racks with allll kinds of crazy hats hanging from them, along with all of these network cables. People would wonder if they could have a hat, purchase a hat, or add their own hat to an empty prong. You could just deny them the satisfaction all day, and come across as WAAAAY more smugly superior than they.
Get a bunch of fake Christmas trees and throw out all the stupid false needles, just leaving behind the weird wire skeletons. Put a bunch of them together in a giant matrix of wiry voodoo. Thread your cables through this, along with strands of blinking LED "holiday lights". Put the giant borg in a really obtrusive location so everybody will question THAT, and nobody will care about how unappealing or inconvenient it is to have the cables snaking to and from this thing to various other locations.
You could build a glass ceiling and snake the wires around like crazy and make it all topsy turvy, artsy fartsy with your artistic talent glass ceiling existing purely for art's sake. Clients and other visitors could be invited to throw little peastones at it, to give it character.
Did you remember to say it out loud while you typed it?
Also, it's no good if you don't hack into the mainframe first.