I RTFA and it didn't test married couples, actually it looks like it just used pictures. I would like to see the test done with married couples in a real world environment, I for one know what my wife wants and when she wants it. Then again I don't think we're normal the whole married five years, two kids, still act like rutting teenagers most of the time.
You would think that the target audience would be more tech savvy people though. It is an article about a supercomputer which is something I don't think Joe Schmoe really cares about too much. I really want to know more about this interconnect architecture. We're about to replace our monster SGI system using Star pattern interconnect to an IBM one that I have yet to go to school for.
The point isn't that I'm doing something stupid, there are a lot of things that have been discovered by people doing stupid things such as playing with radioactive material or experiments with electricity. The point I'm trying to make is that by ruling people's lives you make them into compliant little worker bees incapable of independent thought. That's why I was a career specialist in the Army, I actually used my head and asked the questions that nobody else thought to ask as well as calling shenanigans when I saw them. Lets have an example here, say you're riding a motorcycle without a helmet. You crash and die from a head injury, who's fault is it that you're dead? Under the nanny logic obviously it's the state's fault for not making you wear a helmet, so you may have lived. Now under the logic of it's your own fault because you made the decision to not wear a helmet, well there's no one else to blame now is there? I advocate wearing a helmet because my mind and life are important to me, however I see no need to impose that on someone that has values different than mine. Also good for you not using drugs, get off the high horse though as your morality is not necessarily my morality. Do you drink alcohol though?
Government organizations are the sum of its leadership, the people are just people like you and me. Please don't confuse the two, I can tell you from personal experience that the people who work at NSA are not out to get you, there's no pasty little nerd sitting there cackling to himself about going after Mr. Joe nobody.
Pretty much it boils down to this, do not protect me from myself and do not let idiots sue over frivolous shit. Let Darwin work his magic. If you make everything a crime, then everyone is a criminal.
Yes war is a bitch, it's ugly, dirty, bloody and terrible as well. I would know as I spent two years in Iraq, and I still ask for what? The guys you talk about walking around with the guns in the middle of the night are very few compared to the many like myself and a friend I met in the Army who is more like a brother to me than my real brother. He's also the godfather of my children. We're the ones that hunted in the night, made the decisions on whether or not someone would die (not reactionary as in a firefight, we targeted and premeditated who would die) and have to live with those decisions for the rest of our lives. I could probably be called a psychopath now from the things that I had to do. I live with the nightmares, I wake up wondering where I am sometimes, I react badly to anyone trying to cause me or my family harm, sometimes if the terrain is right while I'm driving I'll have brief flashes of being back in Iraq driving around the desert, objects beside the road still terrify me, and where I used to be somewhat phlegmatic I now can snap into blazing irrational anger in an instant. I'm one of the lucky ones though, my wife stayed with me unlike 80% of the other soldiers. Not only that but she has been instrumental in helping me through the bad times, never fearing that I would hurt her, and calming me down when I have an episode. My brother has sunk into a depression so deep that I don't know how to help him, I can't get him to see a doctor and the only person he'll really open up to is me. Those are the stories that are around you every day, 1/4 of us have them somewhat severely and damned near all to some minor extent. Ours are probably a little different because we premeditated everything, but then again everyone's story is different.
Back on topic though, this country really needs to get the sense of wonder back and realize that a lot of what we have today we owe to the space programs.
Is it conspiracy time? I just bought a whole new roll of aluminum foil for a really new stylish hat that keeps out the brain reading lasers. I also have popcorn and I'm willing to share.
I think that may be the point of using engineering students in this one instead my relatives. By relatives I mean people that even if they don't have a mullet on the outside, they have one on the inside along with a rusted out Camero hidden in the backyard grass.
Engineering students are nerds like us and will naturally gravitate towards autonomy, bonus points to the team that makes their robot detect the amount of damage it has taken and start to act like a helpless injured animal to win sympathy from the other team then turn around and viciously destroy them.
No it was Yusuf Islam the popsinger also known as Cat Stevens that is on the list. I didn't know that he's singing again though and it wasn't a knock against the guy, I don't know him or ever heard him sing so I can't pass any kind of judgement on him. Anyway, the person on the list is the same as the pop singer.
To be fair, that's an international list. There are names such as Saddam Hussein(Former Dictator of Iraq), Evo Morales(President of Bolivia), Yusaf Islam(Former London Pop Singer) and that's just what they show on the website. I won't deny that the list is far to long and needs to be trimmed a lot. There are far too many U.S. Citizens on the list, however it's not 1 in every 300 as you say since it is after all international.
I'm really starting to love that augmented reality that we are headed towards. Surveillance won't be too much of a problem I fear, there will always be paranoid nerds like myself that will work damned hard to keep the "authorities" from watching while still enjoying all the benefits of the technology.
Whatever happened to exploring and dreaming? I would love to watch a televised mission to Mars, not for the bug under the microscope factor, but because it lets me dream that someday maybe we won't be confined to this little tiny rock in space and be able to spread across the stars. It would let me see the surface of another planet through the eyes of a human being, someone fully aware of the risks and consequences and willing to face them to share with the world something that no one has ever experienced before. A televised trip to Mars would give us tons of data that a robot cannot give, live analysis of the environment, what it feels like, smells like, tastes like (yes I know that you cannot live on your own in the environment, however the environment is bound to creep into where you live), looks like, how a Martian sunrise looks to the explorer, and so much more. How is that barbaric? Great explorers want to see something that no one else has seen before and share it with the world, that's not barbaric. It's inspiring.
Heh, you can tell I wrote that at 0200. My spelling and grammar leave much to be desired, I didn't proof it either. That is an excellent mission and I wasn't trying to downplay what they do. There are just some alarmists out there that always harp about this current generation being the end of civilzation or full of idiots.
I always encourage kids to read and never stop, the more you read the better you'll grasp the core concepts of spelling and grammar as well as prose and technique.
That's all really cool stuff, I love articles like this on Slashdot since it really appeals to the nerdy little kid in me. Now all that out of the way, I have to admit that all the worry about kids not reading and writing these days may be a little unfounded. I really think that the opposite may be true with things such as blogs, youtube, and other venues that kids can use to express themselves to large audiences. Younger people with creative minds are really taking advantage of all this technology just look around youtube once in a while, despite all the drivel there are some outstanding videos there made by kids as low as middleschool. Some of the blogs out there are great reads and are from younger people, the internet is an amazing things since it doesn't care who you are and who you know. The internet doesn't care about anything really, the good climbs to the top and the bad sits in the bottom. We might go on about ringtone that, marketing this, damn kids that, get off my lawn, but really when we were teens was it any different? Every generation has it's great thinkers, artists, engineers, and scientists. You also have everyone else, what's great about the internet is it gives everyone a voice and if the message is good enough, strong enough, passionate enough, or interesting enough chances are that people will here it. The era is here when we don't have to rely on moguls of industry to dictate for us what is good and what is not good, anyone with a keyboard and a mouse can be heard on equal ground thanks to the net. Hell the internet is still in it's infancy, I don't think the potential of it has been realize or ever will be realized. It's one of the greatest things that mankind has ever achieved, the knowledge and experience of mankind at your fingertips. Oh, for fun sometime check out Ficlets. A good example of how the good will naturally rise to the top.
You know, I spent two years in Iraq and we never had to do this. During the second tour they tried, but there was a simple fix for all of us. We bought a satellite dish and a year's subscription to the internet from a company in Italy. Divided among 30 people it wasn't very expensive at all. The leadership tried to get in on it so they could censor, but a few "anonymous" whispers to embedded media later and they left us the fuck alone. Damn the leadership hated me.
I also think that is sad, however I do hope that most of the people here realize that a large part of the space program is funded by the Airforce. A huge number of satellites and other things are put up there by they the fly boys.
No point in arguing with a lot of the people around here, they have their tinfoil hats on so tight that it's cutting off circulation to the brain. After reading the article it looks like the FBI did the right thing and let the company know that it made a mistake, sure they had access to a lot more email than they wanted, but what would they do with all of it? The vast majority of email is boring and inane, the guys at the FBI know this and don't really care about all the cruft anyway. All that they want in the info that they asked for, anything more than that is making a lot more work for themselves than they need to. Remember, these guys are government employees and do the bare minimum necessary to get their paycheck at the end of the week unless it's high profile. Now don't get me wrong here, I think that FISA is really really really bad, anything handled within our borders without a warrant is wrong, but a simple mistake where all parties involved handled it approprietly is not the ZOMG! FB1 i5 5py1ng 0n u5! The records were destroyed (tinfoil will say "So they say") and the article throws massive spin on the article by bringing up FISA and a whole bunch of unrelated garbage to get people excited about this. It's not as interesting to just say Someone made mistake and the FBI received more data than they asked for. The data was destroyed, nothing else follows.
Install wireshark and set it up to look at the interface you use for internet. Tell it to start collecting on that interface and look for anything color coded with yellow on red I think. If you look at the included color map it'll tell you which colors are what in the packet stream, or if you want to do it a little more efficiently go to the various forums online and learn how to effectively use the filters in wireshark.
I with you man, I spent four years in the Army as an intel joe. I never actually did my job though, I spent all of time working with a very expensive and critically important satcom system. I kept the commercial hardware in that system running through two 1 year deployments, broken AC units, dirt, dust, rough weather, shaking, jostling, and generally piss poor conditions. I designed the ACE 2000 system as my leadership called it when I wasn't keeping the system running and managed all the storage needs that we had. All this on my own knowledge and constant learning which I have never stopped doing. Now I work in Aerospace working on the big FC SAN systems, Big Iron servers, massively parallel processing environments, and large scale virtual environments. I'm also thinking about a job that is Senior level storage administration which has better pay and better hours so that I can finish my Comp Sci degree, all before I'm 25.
Oh I don't know about that, as with anything there are exceptions to the rule. I don't have a college degree or much in the way of credits, however I work for $33/Hr for a large aerospace company. I do installs and higher level maintenance on the SGI and IBM big iron clusters. I'm also only in my early twenties, but I do have very strict impulse control.
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I RTFA and it didn't test married couples, actually it looks like it just used pictures. I would like to see the test done with married couples in a real world environment, I for one know what my wife wants and when she wants it. Then again I don't think we're normal the whole married five years, two kids, still act like rutting teenagers most of the time.
You would think that the target audience would be more tech savvy people though. It is an article about a supercomputer which is something I don't think Joe Schmoe really cares about too much. I really want to know more about this interconnect architecture. We're about to replace our monster SGI system using Star pattern interconnect to an IBM one that I have yet to go to school for.
Because he dreams.
The point isn't that I'm doing something stupid, there are a lot of things that have been discovered by people doing stupid things such as playing with radioactive material or experiments with electricity. The point I'm trying to make is that by ruling people's lives you make them into compliant little worker bees incapable of independent thought. That's why I was a career specialist in the Army, I actually used my head and asked the questions that nobody else thought to ask as well as calling shenanigans when I saw them. Lets have an example here, say you're riding a motorcycle without a helmet. You crash and die from a head injury, who's fault is it that you're dead? Under the nanny logic obviously it's the state's fault for not making you wear a helmet, so you may have lived. Now under the logic of it's your own fault because you made the decision to not wear a helmet, well there's no one else to blame now is there? I advocate wearing a helmet because my mind and life are important to me, however I see no need to impose that on someone that has values different than mine. Also good for you not using drugs, get off the high horse though as your morality is not necessarily my morality. Do you drink alcohol though?
Government organizations are the sum of its leadership, the people are just people like you and me. Please don't confuse the two, I can tell you from personal experience that the people who work at NSA are not out to get you, there's no pasty little nerd sitting there cackling to himself about going after Mr. Joe nobody.
Pretty much it boils down to this, do not protect me from myself and do not let idiots sue over frivolous shit. Let Darwin work his magic. If you make everything a crime, then everyone is a criminal.
Yes war is a bitch, it's ugly, dirty, bloody and terrible as well. I would know as I spent two years in Iraq, and I still ask for what? The guys you talk about walking around with the guns in the middle of the night are very few compared to the many like myself and a friend I met in the Army who is more like a brother to me than my real brother. He's also the godfather of my children. We're the ones that hunted in the night, made the decisions on whether or not someone would die (not reactionary as in a firefight, we targeted and premeditated who would die) and have to live with those decisions for the rest of our lives. I could probably be called a psychopath now from the things that I had to do. I live with the nightmares, I wake up wondering where I am sometimes, I react badly to anyone trying to cause me or my family harm, sometimes if the terrain is right while I'm driving I'll have brief flashes of being back in Iraq driving around the desert, objects beside the road still terrify me, and where I used to be somewhat phlegmatic I now can snap into blazing irrational anger in an instant. I'm one of the lucky ones though, my wife stayed with me unlike 80% of the other soldiers. Not only that but she has been instrumental in helping me through the bad times, never fearing that I would hurt her, and calming me down when I have an episode. My brother has sunk into a depression so deep that I don't know how to help him, I can't get him to see a doctor and the only person he'll really open up to is me. Those are the stories that are around you every day, 1/4 of us have them somewhat severely and damned near all to some minor extent. Ours are probably a little different because we premeditated everything, but then again everyone's story is different.
Back on topic though, this country really needs to get the sense of wonder back and realize that a lot of what we have today we owe to the space programs.
Is it conspiracy time? I just bought a whole new roll of aluminum foil for a really new stylish hat that keeps out the brain reading lasers. I also have popcorn and I'm willing to share.
I think you missed the point. Not Cool!
Smile! Your're on database!
I think that may be the point of using engineering students in this one instead my relatives. By relatives I mean people that even if they don't have a mullet on the outside, they have one on the inside along with a rusted out Camero hidden in the backyard grass. Engineering students are nerds like us and will naturally gravitate towards autonomy, bonus points to the team that makes their robot detect the amount of damage it has taken and start to act like a helpless injured animal to win sympathy from the other team then turn around and viciously destroy them.
No it was Yusuf Islam the popsinger also known as Cat Stevens that is on the list. I didn't know that he's singing again though and it wasn't a knock against the guy, I don't know him or ever heard him sing so I can't pass any kind of judgement on him. Anyway, the person on the list is the same as the pop singer.
To be fair, that's an international list. There are names such as Saddam Hussein(Former Dictator of Iraq), Evo Morales(President of Bolivia), Yusaf Islam(Former London Pop Singer) and that's just what they show on the website. I won't deny that the list is far to long and needs to be trimmed a lot. There are far too many U.S. Citizens on the list, however it's not 1 in every 300 as you say since it is after all international.
I'm really starting to love that augmented reality that we are headed towards. Surveillance won't be too much of a problem I fear, there will always be paranoid nerds like myself that will work damned hard to keep the "authorities" from watching while still enjoying all the benefits of the technology.
Whatever happened to exploring and dreaming? I would love to watch a televised mission to Mars, not for the bug under the microscope factor, but because it lets me dream that someday maybe we won't be confined to this little tiny rock in space and be able to spread across the stars. It would let me see the surface of another planet through the eyes of a human being, someone fully aware of the risks and consequences and willing to face them to share with the world something that no one has ever experienced before. A televised trip to Mars would give us tons of data that a robot cannot give, live analysis of the environment, what it feels like, smells like, tastes like (yes I know that you cannot live on your own in the environment, however the environment is bound to creep into where you live), looks like, how a Martian sunrise looks to the explorer, and so much more. How is that barbaric? Great explorers want to see something that no one else has seen before and share it with the world, that's not barbaric. It's inspiring.
Heh, you can tell I wrote that at 0200. My spelling and grammar leave much to be desired, I didn't proof it either. That is an excellent mission and I wasn't trying to downplay what they do. There are just some alarmists out there that always harp about this current generation being the end of civilzation or full of idiots.
I always encourage kids to read and never stop, the more you read the better you'll grasp the core concepts of spelling and grammar as well as prose and technique.
That's all really cool stuff, I love articles like this on Slashdot since it really appeals to the nerdy little kid in me. Now all that out of the way, I have to admit that all the worry about kids not reading and writing these days may be a little unfounded. I really think that the opposite may be true with things such as blogs, youtube, and other venues that kids can use to express themselves to large audiences. Younger people with creative minds are really taking advantage of all this technology just look around youtube once in a while, despite all the drivel there are some outstanding videos there made by kids as low as middleschool. Some of the blogs out there are great reads and are from younger people, the internet is an amazing things since it doesn't care who you are and who you know. The internet doesn't care about anything really, the good climbs to the top and the bad sits in the bottom. We might go on about ringtone that, marketing this, damn kids that, get off my lawn, but really when we were teens was it any different? Every generation has it's great thinkers, artists, engineers, and scientists. You also have everyone else, what's great about the internet is it gives everyone a voice and if the message is good enough, strong enough, passionate enough, or interesting enough chances are that people will here it. The era is here when we don't have to rely on moguls of industry to dictate for us what is good and what is not good, anyone with a keyboard and a mouse can be heard on equal ground thanks to the net. Hell the internet is still in it's infancy, I don't think the potential of it has been realize or ever will be realized. It's one of the greatest things that mankind has ever achieved, the knowledge and experience of mankind at your fingertips. Oh, for fun sometime check out Ficlets. A good example of how the good will naturally rise to the top.
You know, I spent two years in Iraq and we never had to do this. During the second tour they tried, but there was a simple fix for all of us. We bought a satellite dish and a year's subscription to the internet from a company in Italy. Divided among 30 people it wasn't very expensive at all. The leadership tried to get in on it so they could censor, but a few "anonymous" whispers to embedded media later and they left us the fuck alone. Damn the leadership hated me.
I also think that is sad, however I do hope that most of the people here realize that a large part of the space program is funded by the Airforce. A huge number of satellites and other things are put up there by they the fly boys.
I wonder if I have a roflcopter in my tower with all the noise coming from it.
No point in arguing with a lot of the people around here, they have their tinfoil hats on so tight that it's cutting off circulation to the brain. After reading the article it looks like the FBI did the right thing and let the company know that it made a mistake, sure they had access to a lot more email than they wanted, but what would they do with all of it? The vast majority of email is boring and inane, the guys at the FBI know this and don't really care about all the cruft anyway. All that they want in the info that they asked for, anything more than that is making a lot more work for themselves than they need to. Remember, these guys are government employees and do the bare minimum necessary to get their paycheck at the end of the week unless it's high profile. Now don't get me wrong here, I think that FISA is really really really bad, anything handled within our borders without a warrant is wrong, but a simple mistake where all parties involved handled it approprietly is not the ZOMG! FB1 i5 5py1ng 0n u5! The records were destroyed (tinfoil will say "So they say") and the article throws massive spin on the article by bringing up FISA and a whole bunch of unrelated garbage to get people excited about this. It's not as interesting to just say Someone made mistake and the FBI received more data than they asked for. The data was destroyed, nothing else follows.
Install wireshark and set it up to look at the interface you use for internet. Tell it to start collecting on that interface and look for anything color coded with yellow on red I think. If you look at the included color map it'll tell you which colors are what in the packet stream, or if you want to do it a little more efficiently go to the various forums online and learn how to effectively use the filters in wireshark.
Wow, KY for nerds!
I with you man, I spent four years in the Army as an intel joe. I never actually did my job though, I spent all of time working with a very expensive and critically important satcom system. I kept the commercial hardware in that system running through two 1 year deployments, broken AC units, dirt, dust, rough weather, shaking, jostling, and generally piss poor conditions. I designed the ACE 2000 system as my leadership called it when I wasn't keeping the system running and managed all the storage needs that we had. All this on my own knowledge and constant learning which I have never stopped doing. Now I work in Aerospace working on the big FC SAN systems, Big Iron servers, massively parallel processing environments, and large scale virtual environments. I'm also thinking about a job that is Senior level storage administration which has better pay and better hours so that I can finish my Comp Sci degree, all before I'm 25.
Oh I don't know about that, as with anything there are exceptions to the rule. I don't have a college degree or much in the way of credits, however I work for $33/Hr for a large aerospace company. I do installs and higher level maintenance on the SGI and IBM big iron clusters. I'm also only in my early twenties, but I do have very strict impulse control.