A black foreground on a black background has always given me the least eye pain.
Are you kidding? I ran that for almost a year and always felt like I was straining my eyes to see the text.
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and not to be a tremoundous nit-picker, but for 100% true data protection you can't rely just on what type of RAID set you employe. A tested backup/restore process must be put in place, anything less and you risk data loss.
Exactly.
I used to think that raid was a substitute for backups, until a power surge fried all 4 of my harddrive controllers. Luckily I was able one repair one and recover almost everyhting, but it was really scary for a while.
The moral? There's no replacement for hard and/or offsite backups.
Surely, there are some problems that can only be solved through violence; it's just that getting us out of Iraq (at this point at least) just isn't one of them.
There is a slightly higher rate of sexual abuse amongst incarcerated pedophiles. [ citation needed ]
The MODERN psychosocial assumption is that the abuse causes them to have reduced inhibitions, rather than "caused them to be a pedophile". There are VERY FEW accurate studies of population samples that include pedophiles who HAVE NOT been arrested for crimes. [ citation needed ]
There is substantial proof that pedophile tendencies are formed in early childhood, but the mechanism and cause is unknown. This is very similar to homosexuality, though how similar is unknown because research on non incarcerated pedophiles is pretty much career suicide for even the most tenured and respected professors (reference Dr Bruce Rind or Dr Harris Mirkin). [ citation needed ]
The few population studies that are out there suggest that somewhere between 0.5% and 1% of the male population in the US has strong pedophile tendencies, maybe half of these being exclusive pedophiles. [ citation needed ]
FBI statistics point out that only about 20-30% of child sexual abuse is perpetrated by exclusive pedophiles like we so like to call them. The other 70-80% is perpetrated by "situational" abusers, who are not necessarily pedophiles but choose children for reasons of power, domination, low self esteem, etc. [ citation needed ]
But even given these numbers, the concept of the average pedophile molesting 300 kids is absurd. This is a rare boundary case and is almost never played out by the statistics. [ citation needed ]
Real studies show the median number of kids a pedophile molests is 2-3. There are rare instances of hundreds, but they are extremely rare. [ citation needed ]
Real studies about child porn simply don't exist. It was 100% legal until the mid -70s in most of the Western world. Child abuse didn't drop after it was made illegal. [ citation needed ]
Since this is the only metric of its consumption that anyone has available, this seems like a logical point on which to conclude that it has little to no effect on "stimulating" child abusers to commit a crime.
But I may be entirely wrong. It would be awfully nice if this sort of ESSENTIAL research wasn't so politically charged as to be nearly suicidal to publish. The last few people who published research skirting this topic were getting weekly death threats. maybe. Or maybe not. I wish I could form my own opinion by checking your facts.
''So, it's mathematically convenient to start assigning probabilities to an electron's exact location, because we don't have the means to say "Ah, there it is!" without moving it somewhere else.''
Einstein believed the same thing and, in 1935, helped to publish the EPR paradox in an attempt to forward his view. Basically, (by which I mean I'm goin to butcher this) it proposed quantum teleportation and said that since information can't travel faster than light, the quantum states must have been predetermined. (see Griffiths 'Introduction to Quantum Mechanics' in the AfterWord for a more detailed description) Their view, the hidden variables view, was proven wrong in 1964 by J.S. Bell. He created an inequality (called, suprisingly, the Bell Inequalty) which took into account any and all *localized* 'hidden variables' that may exist, thus creating a physical test for the hidden variables theory. When the test was performed it showed decisively that localized hidden variables are impossible.
'' there's a schism between quantum-level physics - which are strictly probabilistic - and non-quantum physics, which aren't. ''
Also, I don't think that any physicist would say that. Classical mechanics just deals with really energetic objects which therefore have very localized wavefunctions. Is it 'possible' for a Landrover to tunnel through a speed bump? Definitely. Is it probable that such an unlikely event would happen? Even given time scales as large as the life of the universe? Definitely Not.
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A black foreground on a black background has always given me the least eye pain.
Are you kidding? I ran that for almost a year and always felt like I was straining my eyes to see the text.
and not to be a tremoundous nit-picker, but for 100% true data protection you can't rely just on what type of RAID set you employe. A tested backup/restore process must be put in place, anything less and you risk data loss.
Exactly.
I used to think that raid was a substitute for backups, until a power surge fried all 4 of my harddrive controllers. Luckily I was able one repair one and recover almost everyhting, but it was really scary for a while.
The moral? There's no replacement for hard and/or offsite backups.
I don't think that was the posters point.
Surely, there are some problems that can only be solved through violence; it's just that getting us out of Iraq (at this point at least) just isn't one of them.
I'm gonna call BS on that. I live in the Bay Area in a shit studio apartment that costs 930/month. With utilities, thats 12 grand right there.
Thats a good point. I recently discovered a root kit that I'd had for at least 6 months ( on a Debian box ). But 3 months ago I'd never had a virus...
''So, it's mathematically convenient to start assigning probabilities to an electron's exact location, because we don't have the means to say "Ah, there it is!" without moving it somewhere else.''
Einstein believed the same thing and, in 1935, helped to publish the EPR paradox in an attempt to forward his view. Basically, (by which I mean I'm goin to butcher this) it proposed quantum teleportation and said that since information can't travel faster than light, the quantum states must have been predetermined. (see Griffiths 'Introduction to Quantum Mechanics' in the AfterWord for a more detailed description) Their view, the hidden variables view, was proven wrong in 1964 by J.S. Bell. He created an inequality (called, suprisingly, the Bell Inequalty) which took into account any and all *localized* 'hidden variables' that may exist, thus creating a physical test for the hidden variables theory. When the test was performed it showed decisively that localized hidden variables are impossible.
'' there's a schism between quantum-level physics - which are strictly probabilistic - and non-quantum physics, which aren't. ''
Also, I don't think that any physicist would say that. Classical mechanics just deals with really energetic objects which therefore have very localized wavefunctions. Is it 'possible' for a Landrover to tunnel through a speed bump? Definitely. Is it probable that such an unlikely event would happen? Even given time scales as large as the life of the universe? Definitely Not.