"The new proof used a geometric reformulation of the original problem that was devised by Gyorgy Elekes (Eotvos University, Hungary) and Micha Sharir (Tel Aviv University). Using that framework, Katz and Guth then implemented the polynomial ham sandwich theorem to create the new kind of cell decomposition that left points in the plane either in the interior of cells or on the walls of the cells. "
The way this reads for me is that anybody can fly into the room where some people have been sitting for decades, brows in their heads, trying hard to solve some math problem but only successfully attracting cobwebs, and just plough through it with the pOlyNoMIal hAm SaNdwIch method.
It seems like all the time in the news there is some huge problem with some totally, barf-ass, simplistic way of solving it that makes you slap the hell out of your forehead and scream "any first year student could have solved that if they were actually interested in the problem in the first place!"
Q: How many distinct math/chemistry/physics/logic problems are out there, waiting for somebody to say "just dangle a string in it dummy" or "hey you could've just evaporated it across the surface of grape juice" or whatever? Given progress of science "n" can we predict how many loose-ends there are waiting around for somebody to show half an interest in and solve immediately?
So peoplebfind that waking up at six or seven am is normal in the sense "what my great grandparents did is normal".
But your great grandparents werent globally connected and constantly brought to global relevancy by handheld devices. They didnt have communicators, yet. It was sci fi to them.
I think DST wad largely like scifi to the American public, as well. But like somebody who purchases the twisty energy savet bulb, they count the energy being "saved": "by the time my grandkid is born, she and everybody else in the country will be benefitting feom increased standard of living reflecting saved hours of light multiplied by productive value of one work hour multiplied by the number of citizens working with population increase... why, why well all be millionaires, congress is a genius."
So even if common sense says "fucking with your clock doesnt actually make more daylight happen", if you bury it behind a layer of economic voo doo, that makes it easier to swallow.
Well, the energy saver bulbs are an environmental hazard disaster, there arent any flying cars, and amazingly wow, the economy is tanked.
People who are down and out get really sensitive. Its one thing when you're on top of your game and the entire drive to work has you screaming "show me the money" out your car window. But when your hours are cut, an you can only affordnto be sober, you probably begin to discover things like, the extra letters "S" in the weekends dont cast a magical spell that lets you sleep in, and youll tend to wake up around sunrise and get sleepy when it gets dark out. Imagine that.
So what really happens with timekeeping is that your employer is legitimised in driving you into the ground, on the basis that you agreed that what the clock says is more relevant than nature. The DST scheme only works if everybody has to work banker's hours. If you're a farmer, you probably get up either between 3 and 5 AM, or else around sunrise. If you go to work around noon, the nonsense of DST becomes even more pronounced.
But bankers would try to squeeze blood from a turnip if they could make money off more blood.
In the modern world, with our global connectivity and instant global relevance, most of our communications dont take months to arrive. We speak instantly to people halfway around the planet. We talk about "now" and "a few hours ago", "a few hiurs from now".
What we should all do is stop pretending that layer upon layer of conventionand fix and patch and capitulation and modifixation are actually "doing" anything, and drop the time zone bubbles, and the nausea inducing clock holidays, and just everybody, all workers, all employers, all personnel, and all pets and psychotics, just go onto UTC full time. so wht if that means it's brightest where you are at "five o clock"? Who cares? Its not your own little world, assclown. There arent flying cars and time isnt even fucking REAL!
Just a few days ago I read news that Russia had decided to stop changing their clocks entirely, and that they had abolished time zones. Apparently what this meant was that the government had laid claim to the entire commodity of time.
Quote: "Seconds, minutes, hours and other units to measure time are government property and cannot be privatised," Izvestia daily wrote Friday, accompanied by a drawing of a man with a cuckoo leaping out of his head./quote
It seems sensible to me. One thing i read said something along the line of, "the cows domt know what time it is". I always agreed, you either live and work by a natural cycle or an artificial one. Naturally, you wake up when day breaks and you stop working when its too dark. Artifically, you work 9 to 5.Â
[quote] "In the second experiment, the team used no nanocrystals at all, instead spraying mimivirus particles through the beam â" mimivirus is the worldâ(TM)s largest known virus, and it infects amoebas. While hundreds of viruses were hit by the beam, only two of them provided enough data for reconstitution of their images" [/unquote]
First of all, the picture of the mimivirus, this huge honking virus, is a black dot surrounded by a psychedelic laser field herngh gnarly. But that's the best picture they can get of the largest virus known to mankind? A Grateful Dead poster? And second of all, that's the best picture they got out of hundreds of trials using different viruses? Two viruses show up in this thing's lizard peripheral vision and the headline brought to us at/. is "LASER IMAGES INTACT VIRUSES!" Technically not extremely misleading: "TWO IS STILL PLURAL!" "LIGHT STILL VISIBLE THUSLY IT'S AN IMAGE!" "BIG NEWS!"
I'm super inspired by the math. He was 31 when he founded his company. All we ever seem to hear about are the impossible situations of being born into wealth, stalking through the ivy league, founding a government funded start-up by age 18, (having the 'rents boot the bill for) article of incorporation at age 20 and being (due to the misled, ignorant millions) in charge of some pointless "dot-com" by 23-25. Here we have an innovator who saw an inroad at a certain date -- he could have been in his 40's or 50's when it happened but he got "lucky" -- and followed it, carried through with his idea using determination and resolve, saw his vision fulfilled and had the fun he predicted he would in elbowing aside giants like IBM. It could happen to anybody! The economy doesn't need to be in the shitter. Anybody can go back to college, re-socialize, swing and actually hit the ball, sometimes out of the park. That's something that will never, ever, ever be heard of again in a country that allows itself to lapse into one (1) complete generation of Gimme-Jobber clones. We're mere fractions away from being in that exact, dire situation, and right now is probably our last chance at a strong economy with our independence intact. We have to do like Ken Olson, stop trying to "look for a job", stop trying to compete-by-rote (dislodge the 24/7 vee-dee-yo holo-game controller implant) and relearn to socialize and do sound business with integrity and grit. Our country is turning into a bunch of antisocial, passive-aggressive fucktards with chips on their shoulders and not even the brains to know what the fuck they're such douchebags for in the first place, with tarnished, discount-antique-store, silver spoons up their asses. A bunch of whiney fucking nobodies looking up to Hollywoodization as the key to all knowledge, more film-reel upstairs than just plain real.
This is no worse than using footage of the Hindenberg disaster to get people to hurry up to your Lay-Z-Boy sale, or whatever. It's an advertising classic. What Cole did was audacious and edgy in the standards of the fashion world, which always has been and always will be in its own separate culture (unless we take some socialist supremacist stride to level them out in which case it would be the death of fashion). It's what's called artistic license. And in the case of the high fashion world you don't merely apply license to individual acts, you apply it to the entire lifestyle and to complete persons and their lives. Which is to say that you don't judge Cole's statement by ethics, you judge it by taste.
That's right up there with the air in China being "crazy bad".
I miss the olden days when scientists would speak appropriately about their topics. These days it's too much filmreel, not enough plain real. Too much Hollywood and MTV and too little importance behind their work.
Maybe it really is jealousy. But I doubt even an autistic kid could play so well that he beats the system, or the game's physics engine, or what have you.
I think what they feel he cheated in was immersion. You know, the factor by which you could theoretically rate how realistically "immersed" you are in a virtual environment. Full immersion would be goggles, a tactile stimulation suit, a treadmill and a suspension hoist. Low on the immersion ladder would be playing pong at Brookhaven.
Anyways, for the average person, it takes a lot of equipment and trickery to bring about full immersion. Some people pursue it unto the extremes of sensory deprivation tanks, electromotor stimulus, and sublimated cues with post-hypnotic suggestions -- a set-up that probably inspired the "Matrix" battery human tubes.
But for this autistic boy, immersion is probably just sitting two feet from the screen and shutting down some cognitive center of his mind. Or maybe he doesn't even have to psychosomatically dissociate from reality, maybe he already has a "functioning" cognitive dissonance disorder. Who knows? But let's assume that it's probably pretty easy for him to "get into the game" more easily than the average person -- after all, that's exactly what his mother is arguing.
Well why would people be jealous? Not because he plays better, but because he gets more for the money. See, all these other freaks who play this shit non-stop are living in a fantasy where they're high-powered killing machines, taking the lives of ass-clowns and ass-hats with impunity. In my eyes, it takes a level of "disconnect" to spend that much time pretending to kill people. But that's what people are paying the big bucks for. It's a struggle, a real fight, but by spending enough time, money, and caffeine on it, you can beat the system of your brain and really get that rush, that "ahhhh" feeling, unique to roasting five men alive inside a cargo box. Then along comes this kid who just sits down and already in his mind he's really, actually a real damn sniper. When he grows up, he'll probably dress like Snake Eyes and tell people on the city bus that he's a sniper. With not just total impunity, REAL impunity. The mother fucker don't even care, smoke you like it ain't no thang.
Well, that makes people jealous. That's the way I see it. So that's how I parse the statement, "Autistic boy branded 'cheater' on Xbox".
"Hmm, weww Biwwy, I don't wanna pway my XBOX game any mowe, *sniff* because dat bwoy rewwy beweeves he's a kiwwa, and I *sniff* I know I'm just a schmuck. WAAAAAHHHHH"
What could this lady gain by suing anybody? She's already got it made. If the social security system keeping Autistics in suspended animation fails then whatever caused that would probably cause the life support maintaining the currency to fail as well, so even if she wins a multi-million dollar judgement it's not going to make her son's life any more secure. He's just going to have huge amounts of cash to flaunt, to spend on developing sadistic violent tendencies, and to coerce his genetic lineage into being.
I thought all video game addicts were mildly to severely autistic anyway? Isn't that what most of the American population is breeding to be these days, "functioning autistic"? All the autistic people I've ever met catch huge fat checks for being alive with autism. They're even allowed to have kids with other autistics. Those kids are born into the grand estate of autism, autism awareness, and quotes around the word "functioning". They get to play videos games and eat ice cream balls all god damn day long. The American Dreams, so, what else could their parents possibly in a million years want for them?
If the kid is screaming and breaking shit too much to handle since he lost his high falootin' shooter's awards and trophies for cutting peoples' balls off, she should sit the kid down and put it to him like this: they kicked Dustin Hoffman's "Raymond" character out of the casino in "Rain Man", they can kick you out of XBOX. Not everybody loves Raymond, and not everybody loves you. See the dichotomy? See the similar pattern? Good pattern, good pattern-solving little kid. Just hit the reset button and try again, it'll be like going back in time.
The only way you can "take down" the peer to peer file sharing "network" is by forcibly removing p2p file sharing software from every person. Why are their still efforts like this and who are the jerks who pursue these "solutions"?
2. What IS the definitive story on how much of a problem cell phones are to the flight deck? It seems likely that common phones cause ticking and buzzing over radio networks, I hear it all the time. And it's highly likely that many pilots have sensitive hearing and can't stand having to hear noise when it's fairly important that they have a clear line for several hours of having vinyl bagels on their head. And it seems just as likely that cell phones would interfere with the workings of autopilot and other really highly technical matters that I know next to nothing about. But if they do so, I think it's a really valid question to ask, why haven't they been banned outright for the last twenty five years? Doesn't it sort of obviate the lack of a threat that they are allowed on-board?
For me, this raises from the dead the whole issue of who's more evil, Microsoft or Apple. I *just* got my first Apple product last Christmas, and after looking into the OS-X terminal realized what I'd been missing out on and vowed to get closer to Apple/Mac products in the future. But Jobs is increasingly working *away* from user productivity, whereas Apples were always touted as the most productive computers. And now he doesn't even want people to bite their own Apples. What's screwier, he can't even get along with Adobe, but *they're* evil, too. In the long run, is this Jobs' way of trying to shepherd us all? Into what corral?
"spam? ohhhhhh iiiiiit might have been a hackkeeerrrrrr!!!"
"ohhhh i have a worm in my apple -- ooh! ooooohhhhh wikileeeaaakkkss!!"
"ooh, ohhh i just discovered there's no way i can look at the contents of my son's computer even if i ground his computer to my room, pull the hard drive out and put it in my packard bell... he says it's PGP and hell i dunno i heard that's what wikileeaakkkss is ussiiingg... uhhhh hrrrmmmmm i can't believe my son is part of their operation! the government should deeewwww something about this!"
The game wouldn't matter if it was just another bomb-tosser, of which there are numerous extant variations, none of which became imminently "huge".
The real thing people like is:
1. Sympathising with the underdog (the birds) The birds are being held back by the green pigs. What's not to like. The birds are cute, they probably don't deserve the ill treatment, and we'd all probably do the same thing in similar circumstances. Similar things have happened before, people used to catapult human beings over walls in order to destroy towns (but that's also not anything that became a huge modern deal).
2. Smashing up cute little things, especially birds I've seen this personally. On the sidewalk, near the capitol building of my state, smashed-up little birds on the sidewalk. Where you never see anybody but businesspeople walking around carrying briefcases. Some business person saw little baby ducklings and smashed them with his briefcase. Also, since they're birds, they're edible, so we want to smash them anyways, to eat them. And, since they're cute, they are instant targets for aggression in the modern age. This may not be our historical tradition, but it's the way people behave in modern times. If something is cute, or proper, or useful, there's an immediate aggressive and competitive instinct to destroy it.
3. Channeling their anger and aggression through proxy The bids are really angry, and grumble really angry things when you propel them into the air. If you let the birds just set there, they would grumble and growl for the infinite rest of time or until the device stopped working. They are constructs of pure hatred and malice. Modern people relate directly to that and feel like each individual bird is their hero, and a small part of their own self projected into the imaginary world with the green pigs and houses made of ice. They can vent their aggression by playing the game.
What this country needs is for patent attorneys, lawyers, and politicians to simply become acquainted with the realities of technology and stop being all "ooh wow" over it.
Nothing's ever completely secure. You can "what if" all day and never, ever get one ounce closer to prevention. The hypothetical, war-driving "kids" will still wi-fi hack the hypothetical, bed-making/massage robot to suffocate grandpa in his sleep. There's no way around that. And unlike the telegraph and telephone networks, the international banking system and the internet, you have the opportunity to ask yourself: "is this an invention I even really NEED"? Because any and all of it can and, given all possibilities, WILL go wrong (one day). If you're concerned, genuinely concerned, that the national "robotic" labor pool could and will ever rise up and sick upheaval upon your uppity, sedentary, brainless and senseless, middle-to-upper class turd-maker, why don't you think twice about automating the task? I'm sure plenty of people, people very close to you, want to kick your fucking ass, already. Go make a real person out of yourself and make them do it.
Slashdot Mirror
"The new proof used a geometric reformulation of the original problem that was devised by Gyorgy Elekes (Eotvos University, Hungary) and Micha Sharir (Tel Aviv University). Using that framework, Katz and Guth then implemented the polynomial ham sandwich theorem to create the new kind of cell decomposition that left points in the plane either in the interior of cells or on the walls of the cells. "
The way this reads for me is that anybody can fly into the room where some people have been sitting for decades, brows in their heads, trying hard to solve some math problem but only successfully attracting cobwebs, and just plough through it with the pOlyNoMIal hAm SaNdwIch method.
It seems like all the time in the news there is some huge problem with some totally, barf-ass, simplistic way of solving it that makes you slap the hell out of your forehead and scream "any first year student could have solved that if they were actually interested in the problem in the first place!"
Q: How many distinct math/chemistry/physics/logic problems are out there, waiting for somebody to say "just dangle a string in it dummy" or "hey you could've just evaporated it across the surface of grape juice" or whatever? Given progress of science "n" can we predict how many loose-ends there are waiting around for somebody to show half an interest in and solve immediately?
So peoplebfind that waking up at six or seven am is normal in the sense "what my great grandparents did is normal".
But your great grandparents werent globally connected and constantly brought to global relevancy by handheld devices. They didnt have communicators, yet. It was sci fi to them.
I think DST wad largely like scifi to the American public, as well. But like somebody who purchases the twisty energy savet bulb, they count the energy being "saved": "by the time my grandkid is born, she and everybody else in the country will be benefitting feom increased standard of living reflecting saved hours of light multiplied by productive value of one work hour multiplied by the number of citizens working with population increase ... why, why well all be millionaires, congress is a genius."
So even if common sense says "fucking with your clock doesnt actually make more daylight happen", if you bury it behind a layer of economic voo doo, that makes it easier to swallow.
Well, the energy saver bulbs are an environmental hazard disaster, there arent any flying cars, and amazingly wow, the economy is tanked.
People who are down and out get really sensitive. Its one thing when you're on top of your game and the entire drive to work has you screaming "show me the money" out your car window. But when your hours are cut, an you can only affordnto be sober, you probably begin to discover things like, the extra letters "S" in the weekends dont cast a magical spell that lets you sleep in, and youll tend to wake up around sunrise and get sleepy when it gets dark out. Imagine that.
So what really happens with timekeeping is that your employer is legitimised in driving you into the ground, on the basis that you agreed that what the clock says is more relevant than nature. The DST scheme only works if everybody has to work banker's hours. If you're a farmer, you probably get up either between 3 and 5 AM, or else around sunrise. If you go to work around noon, the nonsense of DST becomes even more pronounced.
But bankers would try to squeeze blood from a turnip if they could make money off more blood.
In the modern world, with our global connectivity and instant global relevance, most of our communications dont take months to arrive. We speak instantly to people halfway around the planet. We talk about "now" and "a few hours ago", "a few hiurs from now".
What we should all do is stop pretending that layer upon layer of conventionand fix and patch and capitulation and modifixation are actually "doing" anything, and drop the time zone bubbles, and the nausea inducing clock holidays, and just everybody, all workers, all employers, all personnel, and all pets and psychotics, just go onto UTC full time. so wht if that means it's brightest where you are at "five o clock"? Who cares? Its not your own little world, assclown. There arent flying cars and time isnt even fucking REAL!
Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! It's, it's, it's threeeee THIRTY, baby! Cry, baby! Cry!
http://vimeo.com/5089426
Are you sure they arent going to find you? And just put bugs in your teeth?
Just a few days ago I read news that Russia had decided to stop changing their clocks entirely, and that they had abolished time zones. Apparently what this meant was that the government had laid claim to the entire commodity of time.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jwXLE1lFaS1LKhimZT5at-QMjZ3Q?docId=CNG.152f8947ca6447e697fff35e7e7d6f49.381
Quote: /quote
"Seconds, minutes, hours and other units to measure time are government property and cannot be privatised," Izvestia daily wrote Friday, accompanied by a drawing of a man with a cuckoo leaping out of his head.
It seems sensible to me. One thing i read said something along the line of, "the cows domt know what time it is". I always agreed, you either live and work by a natural cycle or an artificial one. Naturally, you wake up when day breaks and you stop working when its too dark. Artifically, you work 9 to 5.Â
didn 't you read the summary?
the "air gap" has been closed within 10 feet of a person even/especially on the busy, crowded, everybody's-holding-a-palmtop NASDAQ floor.
[quote] "In the second experiment, the team used no nanocrystals at all, instead spraying mimivirus particles through the beam â" mimivirus is the worldâ(TM)s largest known virus, and it infects amoebas. While hundreds of viruses were hit by the beam, only two of them provided enough data for reconstitution of their images" [/unquote]
First of all, the picture of the mimivirus, this huge honking virus, is a black dot surrounded by a psychedelic laser field herngh gnarly. But that's the best picture they can get of the largest virus known to mankind? A Grateful Dead poster? And second of all, that's the best picture they got out of hundreds of trials using different viruses? Two viruses show up in this thing's lizard peripheral vision and the headline brought to us at /. is "LASER IMAGES INTACT VIRUSES!" Technically not extremely misleading: "TWO IS STILL PLURAL!" "LIGHT STILL VISIBLE THUSLY IT'S AN IMAGE!" "BIG NEWS!"
I'm super inspired by the math. He was 31 when he founded his company. All we ever seem to hear about are the impossible situations of being born into wealth, stalking through the ivy league, founding a government funded start-up by age 18, (having the 'rents boot the bill for) article of incorporation at age 20 and being (due to the misled, ignorant millions) in charge of some pointless "dot-com" by 23-25. Here we have an innovator who saw an inroad at a certain date -- he could have been in his 40's or 50's when it happened but he got "lucky" -- and followed it, carried through with his idea using determination and resolve, saw his vision fulfilled and had the fun he predicted he would in elbowing aside giants like IBM. It could happen to anybody! The economy doesn't need to be in the shitter. Anybody can go back to college, re-socialize, swing and actually hit the ball, sometimes out of the park. That's something that will never, ever, ever be heard of again in a country that allows itself to lapse into one (1) complete generation of Gimme-Jobber clones. We're mere fractions away from being in that exact, dire situation, and right now is probably our last chance at a strong economy with our independence intact. We have to do like Ken Olson, stop trying to "look for a job", stop trying to compete-by-rote (dislodge the 24/7 vee-dee-yo holo-game controller implant) and relearn to socialize and do sound business with integrity and grit. Our country is turning into a bunch of antisocial, passive-aggressive fucktards with chips on their shoulders and not even the brains to know what the fuck they're such douchebags for in the first place, with tarnished, discount-antique-store, silver spoons up their asses. A bunch of whiney fucking nobodies looking up to Hollywoodization as the key to all knowledge, more film-reel upstairs than just plain real.
yes, well... mockery is the sincerest form of flattery, isn't it?
This is no worse than using footage of the Hindenberg disaster to get people to hurry up to your Lay-Z-Boy sale, or whatever. It's an advertising classic. What Cole did was audacious and edgy in the standards of the fashion world, which always has been and always will be in its own separate culture (unless we take some socialist supremacist stride to level them out in which case it would be the death of fashion). It's what's called artistic license. And in the case of the high fashion world you don't merely apply license to individual acts, you apply it to the entire lifestyle and to complete persons and their lives. Which is to say that you don't judge Cole's statement by ethics, you judge it by taste.
That's right up there with the air in China being "crazy bad".
I miss the olden days when scientists would speak appropriately about their topics. These days it's too much filmreel, not enough plain real. Too much Hollywood and MTV and too little importance behind their work.
Maybe it really is jealousy. But I doubt even an autistic kid could play so well that he beats the system, or the game's physics engine, or what have you.
I think what they feel he cheated in was immersion. You know, the factor by which you could theoretically rate how realistically "immersed" you are in a virtual environment. Full immersion would be goggles, a tactile stimulation suit, a treadmill and a suspension hoist. Low on the immersion ladder would be playing pong at Brookhaven.
Anyways, for the average person, it takes a lot of equipment and trickery to bring about full immersion. Some people pursue it unto the extremes of sensory deprivation tanks, electromotor stimulus, and sublimated cues with post-hypnotic suggestions -- a set-up that probably inspired the "Matrix" battery human tubes.
But for this autistic boy, immersion is probably just sitting two feet from the screen and shutting down some cognitive center of his mind. Or maybe he doesn't even have to psychosomatically dissociate from reality, maybe he already has a "functioning" cognitive dissonance disorder. Who knows? But let's assume that it's probably pretty easy for him to "get into the game" more easily than the average person -- after all, that's exactly what his mother is arguing.
Well why would people be jealous? Not because he plays better, but because he gets more for the money. See, all these other freaks who play this shit non-stop are living in a fantasy where they're high-powered killing machines, taking the lives of ass-clowns and ass-hats with impunity. In my eyes, it takes a level of "disconnect" to spend that much time pretending to kill people. But that's what people are paying the big bucks for. It's a struggle, a real fight, but by spending enough time, money, and caffeine on it, you can beat the system of your brain and really get that rush, that "ahhhh" feeling, unique to roasting five men alive inside a cargo box. Then along comes this kid who just sits down and already in his mind he's really, actually a real damn sniper. When he grows up, he'll probably dress like Snake Eyes and tell people on the city bus that he's a sniper. With not just total impunity, REAL impunity. The mother fucker don't even care, smoke you like it ain't no thang.
Well, that makes people jealous. That's the way I see it. So that's how I parse the statement, "Autistic boy branded 'cheater' on Xbox".
"Hmm, weww Biwwy, I don't wanna pway my XBOX game any mowe, *sniff* because dat bwoy rewwy beweeves he's a kiwwa, and I *sniff* I know I'm just a schmuck. WAAAAAHHHHH"
does even one word i said make it sound like i give a fuck about any of it? puhLEEZ.
and my user number is a fraction of yours. I'm not "going away" -- you go away, cabbage-head!
What could this lady gain by suing anybody? She's already got it made. If the social security system keeping Autistics in suspended animation fails then whatever caused that would probably cause the life support maintaining the currency to fail as well, so even if she wins a multi-million dollar judgement it's not going to make her son's life any more secure. He's just going to have huge amounts of cash to flaunt, to spend on developing sadistic violent tendencies, and to coerce his genetic lineage into being.
I thought all video game addicts were mildly to severely autistic anyway? Isn't that what most of the American population is breeding to be these days, "functioning autistic"? All the autistic people I've ever met catch huge fat checks for being alive with autism. They're even allowed to have kids with other autistics. Those kids are born into the grand estate of autism, autism awareness, and quotes around the word "functioning". They get to play videos games and eat ice cream balls all god damn day long. The American Dreams, so, what else could their parents possibly in a million years want for them?
If the kid is screaming and breaking shit too much to handle since he lost his high falootin' shooter's awards and trophies for cutting peoples' balls off, she should sit the kid down and put it to him like this: they kicked Dustin Hoffman's "Raymond" character out of the casino in "Rain Man", they can kick you out of XBOX. Not everybody loves Raymond, and not everybody loves you. See the dichotomy? See the similar pattern? Good pattern, good pattern-solving little kid. Just hit the reset button and try again, it'll be like going back in time.
The only way you can "take down" the peer to peer file sharing "network" is by forcibly removing p2p file sharing software from every person. Why are their still efforts like this and who are the jerks who pursue these "solutions"?
This isn't "new". The conceptual diagrams he's talking about have been part of IQ tests for ages. Obviously, he's never taken one.
[whisper] *awesome*
1. What IS the definitive story on how possible it is to make cellular phone calls from an airplane in flight, over 10,000 feet? There's a wealth of information from various sources all presenting their sides to the "argument", but one thing I see over and over again is that from an engineering or technical position it is not really possible. Does anyone have conflicted anecdotal evidence?
article: 12/05/2009 "The strange case of the 9/11 cell phone calls" http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=622289
article: http://lecanadian.com/2010/10/18/911-cell-phone-calls-from-airplane-not-possible-at-the-time-says-reseachers/
article: http://911review.org/brad.com/sept11_cell-phones/engineer_tech.html
2. What IS the definitive story on how much of a problem cell phones are to the flight deck? It seems likely that common phones cause ticking and buzzing over radio networks, I hear it all the time. And it's highly likely that many pilots have sensitive hearing and can't stand having to hear noise when it's fairly important that they have a clear line for several hours of having vinyl bagels on their head. And it seems just as likely that cell phones would interfere with the workings of autopilot and other really highly technical matters that I know next to nothing about. But if they do so, I think it's a really valid question to ask, why haven't they been banned outright for the last twenty five years? Doesn't it sort of obviate the lack of a threat that they are allowed on-board?
For me, this raises from the dead the whole issue of who's more evil, Microsoft or Apple. I *just* got my first Apple product last Christmas, and after looking into the OS-X terminal realized what I'd been missing out on and vowed to get closer to Apple/Mac products in the future. But Jobs is increasingly working *away* from user productivity, whereas Apples were always touted as the most productive computers. And now he doesn't even want people to bite their own Apples. What's screwier, he can't even get along with Adobe, but *they're* evil, too. In the long run, is this Jobs' way of trying to shepherd us all? Into what corral?
wikileaks IS the newest terroristic fashion a la taliban / al qaeda.
everybody who is using encryption is an honorary member of wikileaks' huge global conspiracy to call people cocksuckers!
"spam? ohhhhhh iiiiiit might have been a hackkeeerrrrrr!!!"
"ohhhh i have a worm in my apple -- ooh! ooooohhhhh wikileeeaaakkkss!!"
"ooh, ohhh i just discovered there's no way i can look at the contents of my son's computer even if i ground his computer to my room, pull the hard drive out and put it in my packard bell... he says it's PGP and hell i dunno i heard that's what wikileeaakkkss is ussiiingg ... uhhhh hrrrmmmmm i can't believe my son is part of their operation! the government should deeewwww something about this!"
The minds you bring up as counter-examples could have been overthinking the problem or not using all of their senses properly.
The game wouldn't matter if it was just another bomb-tosser, of which there are numerous extant variations, none of which became imminently "huge".
The real thing people like is:
1. Sympathising with the underdog (the birds)
The birds are being held back by the green pigs. What's not to like. The birds are cute, they probably don't deserve the ill treatment, and we'd all probably do the same thing in similar circumstances. Similar things have happened before, people used to catapult human beings over walls in order to destroy towns (but that's also not anything that became a huge modern deal).
2. Smashing up cute little things, especially birds
I've seen this personally. On the sidewalk, near the capitol building of my state, smashed-up little birds on the sidewalk. Where you never see anybody but businesspeople walking around carrying briefcases. Some business person saw little baby ducklings and smashed them with his briefcase. Also, since they're birds, they're edible, so we want to smash them anyways, to eat them. And, since they're cute, they are instant targets for aggression in the modern age. This may not be our historical tradition, but it's the way people behave in modern times. If something is cute, or proper, or useful, there's an immediate aggressive and competitive instinct to destroy it.
3. Channeling their anger and aggression through proxy
The bids are really angry, and grumble really angry things when you propel them into the air. If you let the birds just set there, they would grumble and growl for the infinite rest of time or until the device stopped working. They are constructs of pure hatred and malice. Modern people relate directly to that and feel like each individual bird is their hero, and a small part of their own self projected into the imaginary world with the green pigs and houses made of ice. They can vent their aggression by playing the game.
What this country needs is for patent attorneys, lawyers, and politicians to simply become acquainted with the realities of technology and stop being all "ooh wow" over it.
Nothing's ever completely secure. You can "what if" all day and never, ever get one ounce closer to prevention. The hypothetical, war-driving "kids" will still wi-fi hack the hypothetical, bed-making/massage robot to suffocate grandpa in his sleep. There's no way around that. And unlike the telegraph and telephone networks, the international banking system and the internet, you have the opportunity to ask yourself: "is this an invention I even really NEED"? Because any and all of it can and, given all possibilities, WILL go wrong (one day). If you're concerned, genuinely concerned, that the national "robotic" labor pool could and will ever rise up and sick upheaval upon your uppity, sedentary, brainless and senseless, middle-to-upper class turd-maker, why don't you think twice about automating the task? I'm sure plenty of people, people very close to you, want to kick your fucking ass, already. Go make a real person out of yourself and make them do it.