1) There's no scientific theory that would explain that our "spirit" still live after our death.
Data exists independently of theory. The data in this case is a shitload of first-person accounts coming from all of recorded history. Are they all lies? If they're hallucinations, what's the mechanism that produces them? What about hallucinations that provide the subject with valid, verifiable information about real-world events the subject didn't know and couldn't have known to begin with?
Real scientists see data that doesn't fit any known theory as a chance to do good science. Maybe the data gets invalidated. Maybe the data when looked at within the right perspective does fit a known theory. Maybe the data requires new theory to explain it. Perhaps it's possible to do controlled experiments to get new data.
Science is the search. The attempt to explain things using dogma and to say that if it doesn't fit your dogma, it can't exist is religion, not science. No matter what you call your beliefs. When you try mixing religion and science, you get misbegotten abortions like Creationism.
Most of today's "cutting-edge" theories are going to be as outdated as "phlogiston chemistry" a century from now and college students will be asking each other 'how could anyone with a functioning brain believe that bullshit?', making your assertion that modern scientific theory is a complete explanation of everything "not even wrong". If it were really true, we could shut down scientific research on the basis that what we know is a complete description of the universe and all that's left to do is engineering R&D to transform what we know into what we can do.
know that some will invoke traditions and culture,
The only tradition I need to use to debunk your bullshit is the tradition of science itself.
try installing a Linux OS, install Virtualbox, and install W98SE on top of it. Assuming that Virtualbox runs as efficiently as VMware Server did, you might be pleasantly surprised at the results. My experience with virtualization with W98SE is that it runs faster than it did as a native OS, and W98SE is actually fairly secure when run as a guest VM. The point is that in virtualization, Linux does the heavy lifting and what's left is an easy job even for a MS OS to do.
I was getting satisfactory performance with a 900 MHz CPU. I'll admit that things improved when I upgraded to a dual-core Athlon 64/4200.
as a guest VM if the host OS is *nix. Or at least as securely as one can be run. If I didn't need Windoze for legacy apps, I wouldn't bother with it in any form.
When running Windows firewalls on a guestVM, I've NEVER seen a firewall alert based on traffic from outside the local network. When I did this for the first time with Win4Lin 9.x running W98SE, it was also the first time I could run in 'popup all alerts mode' without getting interrupted with an alert every few seconds. Or ever.
3 years later, running XP on a guestVM on Sun Virtualbox . . . no alerts. (though I did have to specifically allow traffic from between the LinuxOS and Virtualbox... if you find that stuff isn't working, check the ZoneAlarm log)
Learn how to use a remote control app and run it on your desktop from wherever you and your netbook is. The reason why your netbook is small, light, and cheap is that it doesn't have the CPU or storage to run demanding apps like video editing.
Despite this, I'm fairly happy with my Linux eeePC.
government agency has? Rights are vested in the people by the Constitution. An employee of a government agency acting as an agent of the state has the right to act in accordance with the entire body of law that applies to that agency.
The web page wasn't on a school server, nor was it on an offsite server whose access is contracted by the school district for the students for educational purposes. Nor has evidence been presented that the young person posted from campus using either school facilities or a smartphone. Is how a student keeps his bedroom (unless he is resident on campus) any business of a school district?
Just face it, the judge ruled for the convenience of another government agency and did so without regard or respect for the Constitution.
Principals, teachers, janitors, and anyone else on the payroll of a school district are government employees. Otherwise, it wouldn't be legal to collect taxes to pay them.
the majority of the "hardliners" are capable of committing a computer crime without physical access... as in the ability to pick up a server and throw it on the floor.
Of the minority of actual sysadmins among them, there are probably people around here who are NOT white hats trying to figure out who they are and where they work. And when they finish running exploits on the servers these "hardliners" operate, there will be no 16 page report. Just a successful security breach at the institutions and organizations imprudent enough to hire them. The point behind these searches is that it's less work to find known-insecure servers than to crack a secure one.
One reason I don't spend as much time here as I used to is that slashdot has gone downhill in the last few years. A few years ago, the opinions of the "hardliners" would have been laughed out of here, not treated with undeserved respect.
until something goes really wrong in the field and the company gets a product liability suit based on crap product. What's described here sounds like this is the inevitable future of the company if they don't fix their software development process.
The company's troubles get worse when in the process of discovery, the plantiff attorneys find that instead of due diligence with respect to software development processes, there was no diligence.
The situation is a disaster waiting to happen. If the author has presented his concerns to top management and they've been ignored, if he's proposed to solve them himself (they probably do need somebody C-level in software development) and that fails, the guy needs to update his resume and call the headhunters.
Or become the fall guy when good enough is demonstrated to be not good enough in a court of law. CYA records of meetings and e-mails demonstrating that the writer saw a problem and tried to get it fixed to run into management non-cooperation might get the author off the hook for personal liability, but probably won't save his career.
integrated video motherboard with a Athlon 64x2/4200... I think that's recent enough to be supported. Nothing after 169 will produce anything but blackscreen, and I can't even reinstall 169* because it doesn't work with Xen-enabled kernels. I've gotten NO help either from the forums or Nvidia... all I got from Nvidia was a request for diagnostic outputs from their script. Which I ran, sent to them, and never heard from them since. So I'm running vesa.
I am now looking for a AMD/ATI graphics card that actually works in Linux, preferably known to work with Debian. If anyone has one, please post.
For practical details like whether she used a Canon IP3/4/5000 based on ease of refilling cartridges with whatever floats her boat... let's hope Ms. Kuepper writes the article for Make I just wrote her to suggest she write.
Getting the patent info and her e-mail address only took a few minutes of digging via google. Though I'll admit I... never got around to telling her she's hot, my experience indicates that if one actually wants an answer to a tech question, telling someone something she already knows doesn't work well.
Besides, given that I mentioned slashdot, it's likely as not she'll show up on this discussion somewhere to tell us WTF she actually did.
Jerry Swinefeld is paid to think in public about Vista? I'm about to buy a copy of XP retail to live in a Sun Virtualbox VM to run legacy Windoze crap I still need to run, despite the fact that it would be a lot cheaper and easier to buy low-end Vista. Will anything Seifeld is going to say about this change my mind? Or change the collective mind of the public with respect to the perception that Vista is shit?
The Open Handset Alliance, a group of more than 30 technology and mobile companies, is developing Android: the first complete, open, and free mobile platform.Member list
Given the list of players (US major carriers, everyone except AT&T, in handset vendors, LG, Motorola, and Samsung, your choices may well come down to Apple/AT&T or something running an Android UI from everyone else for anything above the most basic mobile phones.
The difference between Linux WMs and the Android UI is that it's very possible that your choice about Android may be buy an Android phone or pay several times as much for an iPhone with an AT&T plan. Or Nokia may continue to supprt Symbian. We'll see. All I can say is I hope Android phones don't suck.
IOW, the difference is that Android has much more backing within the specific context of the mobile phone vendor world than Linux does.
If you trust your government to know what's best for us, this says a lot more about your gullibility than it does about any points made or not made in the article, other than:
None of the materials found at 81 Fremont St. posed a radiological or biological risk, according to the state Department of Environmental Protection. No mercury or poison was found. Some of the compounds are potentially explosive, but no more dangerous than typical household cleaning products.
If you'd read TFA, you wouldn't have needed to be told this. Your claimed MSc degree hasn't saved you from making a public fool of yourself.
a reply to one of my posts here indicates the speculation is correct. If you've got a good idea and want to work on it at home... you'll have to get it approved by the local authorities or risk shutdown.
"Is someone checking a barometer for a science fair project on weather banned? Is someone doing computer security research banned?"
the answer would appear to be yes in both cases based on your cite. I hope you live in MA, you seem to be comfortable with that kind of nanny-state protection... you also now know that high-tech isn't leaving your state because they don't like you, it's because of overregulation. There's a reason why garage startups are far more likely to happen outside your state.
None of the materials found at 81 Fremont St. posed a radiological or biological risk, according to the state Department of Environmental Protection. No mercury or poison was found. Some of the compounds are potentially explosive, but no more dangerous than typical household cleaning products.
Unless you live outside the USA or are an anti-science crazy, there really isn't anything funny about the post. The support for the nanny-state position I see here reminds me of why I don't hang out here as much as I used to.
Prove that the city government actually prohibits "scientific research" in residential neighborhoods with the relevant code citation.
Is someone checking a barometer for a science fair project on weather banned? Is someone doing computer security research banned? Which zoning laws are you discussing and how do they define "scientific research"?
You don't know, do you?
All you've done is take the word of a government employee repeated by the legacy media and assume that she knows what she's talking about, despite the fact that the article makes it apparent that she doesn't.
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1) There's no scientific theory that would explain that our "spirit" still live after our death.
Data exists independently of theory. The data in this case is a shitload of first-person accounts coming from all of recorded history. Are they all lies? If they're hallucinations, what's the mechanism that produces them? What about hallucinations that provide the subject with valid, verifiable information about real-world events the subject didn't know and couldn't have known to begin with?
Real scientists see data that doesn't fit any known theory as a chance to do good science. Maybe the data gets invalidated. Maybe the data when looked at within the right perspective does fit a known theory. Maybe the data requires new theory to explain it. Perhaps it's possible to do controlled experiments to get new data.
Science is the search. The attempt to explain things using dogma and to say that if it doesn't fit your dogma, it can't exist is religion, not science. No matter what you call your beliefs. When you try mixing religion and science, you get misbegotten abortions like Creationism.
Most of today's "cutting-edge" theories are going to be as outdated as "phlogiston chemistry" a century from now and college students will be asking each other 'how could anyone with a functioning brain believe that bullshit?', making your assertion that modern scientific theory is a complete explanation of everything "not even wrong". If it were really true, we could shut down scientific research on the basis that what we know is a complete description of the universe and all that's left to do is engineering R&D to transform what we know into what we can do.
know that some will invoke traditions and culture,
The only tradition I need to use to debunk your bullshit is the tradition of science itself.
try installing a Linux OS, install Virtualbox, and install W98SE on top of it. Assuming that Virtualbox runs as efficiently as VMware Server did, you might be pleasantly surprised at the results. My experience with virtualization with W98SE is that it runs faster than it did as a native OS, and W98SE is actually fairly secure when run as a guest VM. The point is that in virtualization, Linux does the heavy lifting and what's left is an easy job even for a MS OS to do.
I was getting satisfactory performance with a 900 MHz CPU. I'll admit that things improved when I upgraded to a dual-core Athlon 64/4200.
as a guest VM if the host OS is *nix. Or at least as securely as one can be run. If I didn't need Windoze for legacy apps, I wouldn't bother with it in any form.
When running Windows firewalls on a guestVM, I've NEVER seen a firewall alert based on traffic from outside the local network. When I did this for the first time with Win4Lin 9.x running W98SE, it was also the first time I could run in 'popup all alerts mode' without getting interrupted with an alert every few seconds. Or ever.
3 years later, running XP on a guestVM on Sun Virtualbox . . . no alerts. (though I did have to specifically allow traffic from between the LinuxOS and Virtualbox... if you find that stuff isn't working, check the ZoneAlarm log)
driven by DRM.
Learn how to use a remote control app and run it on your desktop from wherever you and your netbook is. The reason why your netbook is small, light, and cheap is that it doesn't have the CPU or storage to run demanding apps like video editing.
Despite this, I'm fairly happy with my Linux eeePC.
If the principal had simply sued the student for libel, we wouldn't be discussing this matter.
government agency has? Rights are vested in the people by the Constitution. An employee of a government agency acting as an agent of the state has the right to act in accordance with the entire body of law that applies to that agency.
The web page wasn't on a school server, nor was it on an offsite server whose access is contracted by the school district for the students for educational purposes. Nor has evidence been presented that the young person posted from campus using either school facilities or a smartphone. Is how a student keeps his bedroom (unless he is resident on campus) any business of a school district?
Just face it, the judge ruled for the convenience of another government agency and did so without regard or respect for the Constitution.
Principals, teachers, janitors, and anyone else on the payroll of a school district are government employees. Otherwise, it wouldn't be legal to collect taxes to pay them.
The person was a student, NOT a school district employee.
the majority of the "hardliners" are capable of committing a computer crime without physical access... as in the ability to pick up a server and throw it on the floor.
Of the minority of actual sysadmins among them, there are probably people around here who are NOT white hats trying to figure out who they are and where they work. And when they finish running exploits on the servers these "hardliners" operate, there will be no 16 page report. Just a successful security breach at the institutions and organizations imprudent enough to hire them. The point behind these searches is that it's less work to find known-insecure servers than to crack a secure one.
One reason I don't spend as much time here as I used to is that slashdot has gone downhill in the last few years. A few years ago, the opinions of the "hardliners" would have been laughed out of here, not treated with undeserved respect.
the "Linux not supported" error message is delivered by a Linux server.
From netcraft:
Linux Apache/2.0.52 Red Hat
until something goes really wrong in the field and the company gets a product liability suit based on crap product. What's described here sounds like this is the inevitable future of the company if they don't fix their software development process.
The company's troubles get worse when in the process of discovery, the plantiff attorneys find that instead of due diligence with respect to software development processes, there was no diligence.
The situation is a disaster waiting to happen. If the author has presented his concerns to top management and they've been ignored, if he's proposed to solve them himself (they probably do need somebody C-level in software development) and that fails, the guy needs to update his resume and call the headhunters.
Or become the fall guy when good enough is demonstrated to be not good enough in a court of law. CYA records of meetings and e-mails demonstrating that the writer saw a problem and tried to get it fixed to run into management non-cooperation might get the author off the hook for personal liability, but probably won't save his career.
integrated video motherboard with a Athlon 64x2/4200 ... I think that's recent enough to be supported. Nothing after 169 will produce anything but blackscreen, and I can't even reinstall 169* because it doesn't work with Xen-enabled kernels. I've gotten NO help either from the forums or Nvidia... all I got from Nvidia was a request for diagnostic outputs from their script. Which I ran, sent to them, and never heard from them since. So I'm running vesa.
I am now looking for a AMD/ATI graphics card that actually works in Linux, preferably known to work with Debian. If anyone has one, please post.
a 24/7 video link is your hat. Take it . . . and drop it over the camera when you're doing anything you don't want the viewer to see.
Go to the patent app to see it for yourself.
... never got around to telling her she's hot, my experience indicates that if one actually wants an answer to a tech question, telling someone something she already knows doesn't work well.
For practical details like whether she used a Canon IP3/4/5000 based on ease of refilling cartridges with whatever floats her boat... let's hope Ms. Kuepper writes the article for Make I just wrote her to suggest she write.
Getting the patent info and her e-mail address only took a few minutes of digging via google. Though I'll admit I
Besides, given that I mentioned slashdot, it's likely as not she'll show up on this discussion somewhere to tell us WTF she actually did.
Jerry Swinefeld is paid to think in public about Vista? I'm about to buy a copy of XP retail to live in a Sun Virtualbox VM to run legacy Windoze crap I still need to run, despite the fact that it would be a lot cheaper and easier to buy low-end Vista. Will anything Seifeld is going to say about this change my mind? Or change the collective mind of the public with respect to the perception that Vista is shit?
The Dream is said to be in compliance with Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR.
The Open Handset Alliance, a group of more than 30 technology and mobile companies, is developing Android: the first complete, open, and free mobile platform. Member list
Given the list of players (US major carriers, everyone except AT&T, in handset vendors, LG, Motorola, and Samsung, your choices may well come down to Apple/AT&T or something running an Android UI from everyone else for anything above the most basic mobile phones.
The difference between Linux WMs and the Android UI is that it's very possible that your choice about Android may be buy an Android phone or pay several times as much for an iPhone with an AT&T plan. Or Nokia may continue to supprt Symbian. We'll see. All I can say is I hope Android phones don't suck.
IOW, the difference is that Android has much more backing within the specific context of the mobile phone vendor world than Linux does.
If you'd read TFA, you wouldn't have needed to be told this. Your claimed MSc degree hasn't saved you from making a public fool of yourself.
a reply to one of my posts here indicates the speculation is correct. If you've got a good idea and want to work on it at home... you'll have to get it approved by the local authorities or risk shutdown.
"Is someone checking a barometer for a science fair project on weather banned? Is someone doing computer security research banned?"
the answer would appear to be yes in both cases based on your cite. I hope you live in MA, you seem to be comfortable with that kind of nanny-state protection... you also now know that high-tech isn't leaving your state because they don't like you, it's because of overregulation. There's a reason why garage startups are far more likely to happen outside your state.
Unless you live outside the USA or are an anti-science crazy, there really isn't anything funny about the post. The support for the nanny-state position I see here reminds me of why I don't hang out here as much as I used to.
Prove that the city government actually prohibits "scientific research" in residential neighborhoods with the relevant code citation.
Is someone checking a barometer for a science fair project on weather banned? Is someone doing computer security research banned? Which zoning laws are you discussing and how do they define "scientific research"?
You don't know, do you?
All you've done is take the word of a government employee repeated by the legacy media and assume that she knows what she's talking about, despite the fact that the article makes it apparent that she doesn't.