Also never underestimate parents pushing their kids to get a degree. A majority of families consider it a failing that their kid doesn't go to college and get a degree.
Children of irrational parents making irrational decisions, who would have thought?
Let's say I have a property for rent and I discriminate against protected class tenants on Slashdot in a posting, is Slashdot responsible and accountable for advocating this behavior in court? I think not. If someone knows different, provide specific evidence for your claim.
Almost all security involves obscurity. I'd go so far to say that, aside from physical barriers (walls, guards, etc), all security is based on obscurity.
I'm not sure why I feel compelled to respond to yet another AC on this topic, especially one that made a reference Legendary Hidden Treasures (El Dorado, the City of Atlantis) as though that were actually relevant to the topic, but have you heard of something called a Cryptographic Hash Function by chance?
OMG will someone stop him from this suicide attempt?
Hopefully someone will report him to the authorities. I would imagine you need some type of permit to do this because what if his contraption lands on someone's house.
Our legal system doesn't mean shit. The only thing that matters with our legal system is that some humans actions have consequences that other humans can impose on others by rule of law. That's it. There's no morality. There's no inherent value to it. There's nothing. That's all there is to it. At best, you can claim it has come utilitarian purpose as it relates to better human cooperation and it does that in some instances but in the majority of cases that is not the intent of law.
The next time a tsunami kills a bunch people in Polynesia or Malaysia, you let me know how to convict it in court for murder. You can't. Nature kills with abandon and there is nothing the human legal system can do to stop it. Nature can kill us in the blink of an eye and our legal system and all of our inventions. Humans and all their schemes are just not important in the grand scheme of things. All the evidence suggests this. Carl Sagan made it quite clear to us.
You are arguing from the position of the anthropomorphic ego that humans tend to have. It is no surprise that it is impossible for me to convince of anything when your thought process is monopolized by that core concept. Once you realize humans are like ants in the universe and how insignificant we really are, it's only then that you will understand. You have to learn to be humble which I imagine is difficult for you to understand. At the end of the day, I don't care what you think. You are free to live your life however you want just don't impose your views on me. I don't share your world view because I think the ego is a bunch of shit and I don't see any evidence that humans are significant in the universe. Eventually we're all going extinct when the sun goes super nova and the eventual heat death of the universe. That's how important we are to the universe.
What I would suggest is rather than getting yourself immersed in other people's business and trying to influence other people's minds because you have some ideal type of person that you think everyone else should be to arrive at utopia, just worry about your own stupid life and enjoy your time here.
I want my C64 back. I want hardware I can understand and software I can control. Fuck this modern bloated 4 gigabyte web browser tab horseshit with thousands of people mashing their keyboards randomly and millions more observing my private data.
It's your thinking that is "fucking idiocy". It doesn't require someone to "blab", it requires a savvy hacker to discover it and that's precisely why you shouldn't do it because it's not good security practice.
I'm afraid that it's become a common code prase for what Locke and Hobbes proposed, a "a primitive and dangerous world in which each person could use deadly force whenever they judged it necessary". The difficulty with the pholosophy... [snip]
Philosophies can arise regarding nature but a philosophy doesn't change nature. It is what it is. How humans regard nature is irrelevant. We are part of nature. We don't own it or control it. We deal with it. Your argument is based on an anthropomorphic point of view that is based on the idea that we are the center of the universe and possibly that the universe was created for us. There is absolutely no evidence for that claim whatsoever. We are just like every other animal just more evolved than the ones on this planet. You are also trying to argue about morality and what the basis of morality is. Nature is amoral. Therefore, while I may be interested in the topics you mention, they are not relevant to nature. To make this more clear, a judge cannot levy a judgment against nature. Nature simply dismisses it as irrelevant and goes on about its business.
I'm not fond of the prospect of walking around all the time packing heat, and having to defend myself with deadly force on a split-second's notice. If you live your life in such peril, then there's much worse going on than the inability of government to protect you.
Now defending yourself within nature may not be your cup of tea but it's something every animal (including humans) has had to deal with since the dawn of civilization. It's still a survival of the fittest world. The reason we are here at all is due to Darwinian competition. People like you who just don't want to deal with it certainly wouldn't have survived nor helped us get here.
The real moral outrage is how week after endless week, another mass shooting occurs, and you 'merkins are too fucking stupid to repeal your second amendment.
The true outrage here is how incredibly stupid you are. Those who want access to weapons will gain access to them illegally if they want to. Guns are not the root cause of the problem. A semi-truck is a far more dangerous weapon than a gun and they are all over the road.
By the way if you want some real benchmarks, here. While 57 has improved performance over 56, these claims about Quantum being twice as fast as Chrome are just blatantly false. It varies depending on the benchmark.
How's the memory footprint doing Firefox? That's what I thought. Still looking down at everyone from that ivory tower. It's lonely up there isn't it? That was Firefox's fatal mistake. It's too bad, I used Firefox for many years and then switched because Firefox would grind to a halt after being open for a relatively short period of time.
Basically, apprenticeship is a fancy way of saying that the company is willing to give a person on the job training for an associate level position. That is not new. That's how things were 10 years ago before the stupid Great Recession. We're just returning to that model. I can tell you from working at very successful companies that this worked in the past. The only reason companies ditched it was to cut costs. Now they're just bringing it back essentially under a new name.
There is a difference between people new to specific areas of thinking and overall psychological weakness. As people move into new areas of learning, they may need some help. Asking for help isn't a bad thing, and should never be discouraged.
That's precisely my point. Teaching people things that DON'T help like religion makes things worse. It only further confuses the child who is already trying to understand the world they arrived into. We should be treating our children like a new recruit at a job. We introduce them to the place, we try educate them as best we can about what it is, what is going on and how to handle different things good, bad or indifferent they may encounter is a good thing. Teaching them to pray to some invisible thing in the sky to make their life better doesn't help. Teaching them that some invisible thing in the sky will shield them from harm if they devoutly follow it doesn't help.
Um, no. You're projecting the viewpoint of *one* religious tradition into the origins of *all* myths and legend
This is a tired old stupid argument from the stupidity and ignorance of folks like Ray Comfort and Ken Hamm. Investigating the universe and recording the findings aka science is not a fucking belief system. Science is also subject to change based on new information unlike most religions. Equating any religious belief of the supernatural based on faith alone with science demonstrates complete and utter ignorance and stupidity. And yes it is psychological weakness. People who turn to religion are afraid of death and want to believe in something afterwards and they also want their trials in this life to be meaningful. It's very egocentric. It's not about being a better person, it's about wanting benefits.
Teens see all their so-called friends' styled up, filtered and photoshopped pictures, so they think everybody has a better life than themselves, small wonder they get depressed.
That only would happen if you're psychologically weak. Let's face it, while life has many awesome things, life is ultimately depressing. We don't appear to be here for any reason. There is no evidence of any objective purpose or even a creator of us or the universe. We are alone, on a tiny rock, floating through a gigantic vacuum of space. We have no evidence that there is anything beyond death and as far as we know, it is the ultimate end. Oblivion.
Now I think your idea has merit. We are projecting delusion at ourselves. But it's not just from Facebook. Yes, these perfect pictures with tricks and so forth gives a sense of "wow that person is having a magical time". But the problem is far more pervasive. We made up stories about gods, afterlives, we gave ourselves reasons to think we are the center of a universe made for us and shattering the illusion gives rise to a change that manifests initially in sadness.
What our culture ought to do instead of trying to give children a sense of illusion to evoke false joy is teach them how wonderful and amazing this universe is in a factual way and instill in them the idea that it's a miracle that any of us are here to experience it for the short time we are here. For that, we should be truly grateful
The problem is - when the person "asking" is in a position of authority, the person being asked doesn't always "feel free to say 'no'"
Yes "some people" still don't get it. In the African Savannah, if you are approached by hungry lion that is in a "position of authority", you can't say "no". The problem with people who think as you do is that even in modern society, we are still animals and there are still predators. The predators come in many forms. This has always been the case in nature. You know what happened to all the living things that couldn't make wise decisions regarding predators? They died. You want to know what that's called? It's called Survival of the Fittest and it's why you and I are alive today to have this discussion. If you don't take responsibility for your position in the animal kingdom you won't last. Expecting a hungry lion to adhere to a command such as "stop being a bully" is absurd. We don't live in a perfect world and our safety is threatened by many things that's why we must use good judgment and protect ourselves.
California's "socialist economy" apparently works a hell of a lot better than that of most red states, considering that they get only $0.78 from the federal government for every $1 paid. Mississippi, on the other hand, gets $2 from the feds for every dollar of federal taxation they pay. I don't think this will work out like you are hoping.
It only works out better for lower ability people because in an ideal "California World", all your income would go directly to the socialist government to do what's best for you on your behalf. Now maybe you would prefer that and perhaps you can't do better. I can do better than that and have a better life without this type of system because I'm intelligent, I'm hard-working and I have a lot of drive and ambition. I know how to strategize in a free market economy. That's the price you pay for freedom and I will gladly pay this price because that's how much my personal freedom matters to me. It's not for everyone. Being free means you have to take complete responsibility for your life. I know a lot of people in California and many other places are not to up to it. Just because you can handle it doesn't mean you get to forcefully coerce me to support you.
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Also never underestimate parents pushing their kids to get a degree. A majority of families consider it a failing that their kid doesn't go to college and get a degree.
Children of irrational parents making irrational decisions, who would have thought?
Trust the corporations to protect your children from things that might make them think.
It's the parents' responsibility. If the parents aren't up to the task they should be sterilized.
Let's say I have a property for rent and I discriminate against protected class tenants on Slashdot in a posting, is Slashdot responsible and accountable for advocating this behavior in court? I think not. If someone knows different, provide specific evidence for your claim.
That's why he is launching over an abandoned town.
And I'm certain he's lawfully allowed to potentially set the town on fire then right? </sarcasm>
Almost all security involves obscurity. I'd go so far to say that, aside from physical barriers (walls, guards, etc), all security is based on obscurity.
I'm not sure why I feel compelled to respond to yet another AC on this topic, especially one that made a reference Legendary Hidden Treasures (El Dorado, the City of Atlantis) as though that were actually relevant to the topic, but have you heard of something called a Cryptographic Hash Function by chance?
OMG will someone stop him from this suicide attempt?
Hopefully someone will report him to the authorities. I would imagine you need some type of permit to do this because what if his contraption lands on someone's house.
Our legal system doesn't mean shit. The only thing that matters with our legal system is that some humans actions have consequences that other humans can impose on others by rule of law. That's it. There's no morality. There's no inherent value to it. There's nothing. That's all there is to it. At best, you can claim it has come utilitarian purpose as it relates to better human cooperation and it does that in some instances but in the majority of cases that is not the intent of law.
The next time a tsunami kills a bunch people in Polynesia or Malaysia, you let me know how to convict it in court for murder. You can't. Nature kills with abandon and there is nothing the human legal system can do to stop it. Nature can kill us in the blink of an eye and our legal system and all of our inventions. Humans and all their schemes are just not important in the grand scheme of things. All the evidence suggests this. Carl Sagan made it quite clear to us.
You are arguing from the position of the anthropomorphic ego that humans tend to have. It is no surprise that it is impossible for me to convince of anything when your thought process is monopolized by that core concept. Once you realize humans are like ants in the universe and how insignificant we really are, it's only then that you will understand. You have to learn to be humble which I imagine is difficult for you to understand. At the end of the day, I don't care what you think. You are free to live your life however you want just don't impose your views on me. I don't share your world view because I think the ego is a bunch of shit and I don't see any evidence that humans are significant in the universe. Eventually we're all going extinct when the sun goes super nova and the eventual heat death of the universe. That's how important we are to the universe.
What I would suggest is rather than getting yourself immersed in other people's business and trying to influence other people's minds because you have some ideal type of person that you think everyone else should be to arrive at utopia, just worry about your own stupid life and enjoy your time here.
I want my C64 back. I want hardware I can understand and software I can control. Fuck this modern bloated 4 gigabyte web browser tab horseshit with thousands of people mashing their keyboards randomly and millions more observing my private data.
So you prefer ASCII porn then?
It works just fine until some fucking idiot blabs
It's your thinking that is "fucking idiocy". It doesn't require someone to "blab", it requires a savvy hacker to discover it and that's precisely why you shouldn't do it because it's not good security practice.
And not by a large margin: http://www.zdnet.com/article/j...
I'm afraid that it's become a common code prase for what Locke and Hobbes proposed, a "a primitive and dangerous world in which each person could use deadly force whenever they judged it necessary". The difficulty with the pholosophy... [snip]
Philosophies can arise regarding nature but a philosophy doesn't change nature. It is what it is. How humans regard nature is irrelevant. We are part of nature. We don't own it or control it. We deal with it. Your argument is based on an anthropomorphic point of view that is based on the idea that we are the center of the universe and possibly that the universe was created for us. There is absolutely no evidence for that claim whatsoever. We are just like every other animal just more evolved than the ones on this planet. You are also trying to argue about morality and what the basis of morality is. Nature is amoral. Therefore, while I may be interested in the topics you mention, they are not relevant to nature. To make this more clear, a judge cannot levy a judgment against nature. Nature simply dismisses it as irrelevant and goes on about its business.
I'm not fond of the prospect of walking around all the time packing heat, and having to defend myself with deadly force on a split-second's notice. If you live your life in such peril, then there's much worse going on than the inability of government to protect you.
Now defending yourself within nature may not be your cup of tea but it's something every animal (including humans) has had to deal with since the dawn of civilization. It's still a survival of the fittest world. The reason we are here at all is due to Darwinian competition. People like you who just don't want to deal with it certainly wouldn't have survived nor helped us get here.
The real moral outrage is how week after endless week, another mass shooting occurs, and you 'merkins are too fucking stupid to repeal your second amendment.
The true outrage here is how incredibly stupid you are. Those who want access to weapons will gain access to them illegally if they want to. Guns are not the root cause of the problem. A semi-truck is a far more dangerous weapon than a gun and they are all over the road.
By the way if you want some real benchmarks, here. While 57 has improved performance over 56, these claims about Quantum being twice as fast as Chrome are just blatantly false. It varies depending on the benchmark.
How's the memory footprint doing Firefox? That's what I thought. Still looking down at everyone from that ivory tower. It's lonely up there isn't it? That was Firefox's fatal mistake. It's too bad, I used Firefox for many years and then switched because Firefox would grind to a halt after being open for a relatively short period of time.
Basically, apprenticeship is a fancy way of saying that the company is willing to give a person on the job training for an associate level position. That is not new. That's how things were 10 years ago before the stupid Great Recession. We're just returning to that model. I can tell you from working at very successful companies that this worked in the past. The only reason companies ditched it was to cut costs. Now they're just bringing it back essentially under a new name.
There is a difference between people new to specific areas of thinking and overall psychological weakness. As people move into new areas of learning, they may need some help. Asking for help isn't a bad thing, and should never be discouraged.
That's precisely my point. Teaching people things that DON'T help like religion makes things worse. It only further confuses the child who is already trying to understand the world they arrived into. We should be treating our children like a new recruit at a job. We introduce them to the place, we try educate them as best we can about what it is, what is going on and how to handle different things good, bad or indifferent they may encounter is a good thing. Teaching them to pray to some invisible thing in the sky to make their life better doesn't help. Teaching them that some invisible thing in the sky will shield them from harm if they devoutly follow it doesn't help.
Um, no. You're projecting the viewpoint of *one* religious tradition into the origins of *all* myths and legend
This is a tired old stupid argument from the stupidity and ignorance of folks like Ray Comfort and Ken Hamm. Investigating the universe and recording the findings aka science is not a fucking belief system. Science is also subject to change based on new information unlike most religions. Equating any religious belief of the supernatural based on faith alone with science demonstrates complete and utter ignorance and stupidity. And yes it is psychological weakness. People who turn to religion are afraid of death and want to believe in something afterwards and they also want their trials in this life to be meaningful. It's very egocentric. It's not about being a better person, it's about wanting benefits.
Graduate students are generally lazy and entitled
Are you fucking high? You must never have been a grad student.
They seem me trollin' the slashdot....
Teens see all their so-called friends' styled up, filtered and photoshopped pictures, so they think everybody has a better life than themselves, small wonder they get depressed.
That only would happen if you're psychologically weak. Let's face it, while life has many awesome things, life is ultimately depressing. We don't appear to be here for any reason. There is no evidence of any objective purpose or even a creator of us or the universe. We are alone, on a tiny rock, floating through a gigantic vacuum of space. We have no evidence that there is anything beyond death and as far as we know, it is the ultimate end. Oblivion.
Now I think your idea has merit. We are projecting delusion at ourselves. But it's not just from Facebook. Yes, these perfect pictures with tricks and so forth gives a sense of "wow that person is having a magical time". But the problem is far more pervasive. We made up stories about gods, afterlives, we gave ourselves reasons to think we are the center of a universe made for us and shattering the illusion gives rise to a change that manifests initially in sadness.
What our culture ought to do instead of trying to give children a sense of illusion to evoke false joy is teach them how wonderful and amazing this universe is in a factual way and instill in them the idea that it's a miracle that any of us are here to experience it for the short time we are here. For that, we should be truly grateful
Some people still don't get it...
The problem is - when the person "asking" is in a position of authority, the person being asked doesn't always "feel free to say 'no'"
Yes "some people" still don't get it. In the African Savannah, if you are approached by hungry lion that is in a "position of authority", you can't say "no". The problem with people who think as you do is that even in modern society, we are still animals and there are still predators. The predators come in many forms. This has always been the case in nature. You know what happened to all the living things that couldn't make wise decisions regarding predators? They died. You want to know what that's called? It's called Survival of the Fittest and it's why you and I are alive today to have this discussion. If you don't take responsibility for your position in the animal kingdom you won't last. Expecting a hungry lion to adhere to a command such as "stop being a bully" is absurd. We don't live in a perfect world and our safety is threatened by many things that's why we must use good judgment and protect ourselves.
Tim Berners-Lee AND Roy Fielding.
...forming a donut-shaped glowing plasma that’s dozens of microns in diameter.
Dozens I tell you! My penile length is dozens of millimeters, you should be impressed.
made from either quartz and lithium niobate
1) Either quartz or niobate? 2) Quartz and niobate? 3) Either quartz and niobate or _____?
California's "socialist economy" apparently works a hell of a lot better than that of most red states, considering that they get only $0.78 from the federal government for every $1 paid. Mississippi, on the other hand, gets $2 from the feds for every dollar of federal taxation they pay. I don't think this will work out like you are hoping.
It only works out better for lower ability people because in an ideal "California World", all your income would go directly to the socialist government to do what's best for you on your behalf. Now maybe you would prefer that and perhaps you can't do better. I can do better than that and have a better life without this type of system because I'm intelligent, I'm hard-working and I have a lot of drive and ambition. I know how to strategize in a free market economy. That's the price you pay for freedom and I will gladly pay this price because that's how much my personal freedom matters to me. It's not for everyone. Being free means you have to take complete responsibility for your life. I know a lot of people in California and many other places are not to up to it. Just because you can handle it doesn't mean you get to forcefully coerce me to support you.
"Give me Liberty or give me death" -Patrick Henry