If you want more school, go for a Master's degree. It's only 30 more hours. Why take another year undergrad, when you can get another degree for about the same number of hours?
It may not serve survival-interest to be happy at rest, but it DOES serve survival-interest to be happy while engaged in useful activity. "Happy" is a reward mechanism. You should feel it while hunting or building or mating or teaching children, or whatever activity benefits self and family.
It's not safe to execute native code from a website. Weeding out untrustworthy developers by signature cannot work, because the supply of untrustworthy developers is unlimited.
In a proper model, I should not have to check each author's signature. I should not have to trust web content at all. Content should operate in a controlled box. Vulnerabilities should be fixed by repairing the box. Anything less is just asking for trouble.
An interested party does not need a the cooperation of your company to take advantage of the micro-dots.
If I understand correctly, the dots alone are enough to test any document against any printer, or to determine whether two documents share the same source.
Christians often defend the pledge in a knee-jerk reaction against its atheist detractors. If we look more closely, we might see in pledge a threat to our own religious freedom.
When did it become OK to teach our children to swear oaths to man-made idols?
Weren't Christians persecuted in Rome for refusal to take part in similar rituals?
Do you really believe the depth and breadth of political thought can be reduced to a one-dimensional scale? How did such a ridiculous notion become widespread?
Is politics a solved game, like tic-tac-toe?
Is our present government REALLY the center of an imaginary line, bordered on each side by fanatical killers?
IMHO, that belief is a cancer on our democracy. It prompts intelligent people to abandon political discourse for team-loyalty.
As to the Anti-Abortion sites, it will be the ones advocating killing Abortion Doctors which are being 'hidden', anything else would be totally unacceptable here.
I'm not sure that's the case.
Consider this hidden site. While it has some rather unkind things to say, in particular about the Catholic church, I don't think it advocates violence.
The removal of nazi websites from Google's index can be safely blamed on Germany and France.
But the removal of religious websites cannot be. Neither Germany nor France have laws against such material.
If Google wishes to take a stand on religious or political issues, that is certainly their right. But it's Google's stand, and only Google is responsible for it.
The GPL gives -extra- rights to the user, while most other EULAs take rights away.
If you want to ignore the GPL, that's fine! Regular copyright law won't let you distribute copies of Gnome any more than it lets you distribute copies of Windows.
What you're looking for is the Fujitsu Lifebook B-series.   My roommate has one, and it's a great little subnote; a 3-pound celeron with a nice magnesium case.   If you're looking for a touchscreen notebook, I highly recommend it.  (IMHO, fingerpainting-with-photoshop is the coolest non-quake-related computer activity yet devised.)
Yes, they support 16-bit color. This ain't the dark ages, man...
Actually, the Compaq iPaq appears to support only 4096 colors. I believe that's a limitation of the reflective LCD screens, which can't handle 16-bit color yet. Non-reflective screens display full 16-bit color, but are nigh-unusable outdoors.
Supposedly after the McCarthy witch hunts everyone learned their lesson. So this really shouldn't be a problem.
Ahh yes. I forgot. Politically motivated violence and government corruption are things of the past. How silly of me.
In another post, I mentioned McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission. A woman was prosecuted for distributing fliers denouncing a proposed tax increase. This was in 1995.
So when I distribute my Gay Seal-Clubbers for the Legalization of Marajuana pamphlets, I think I'd better leave them unsigned...
I do not think passing pamplets and the Revolutionary war are analogous... I will not listen to those who opt instead to remain anonymous, afraid of how society will react.
Right on! Think how much better off our society would be without those creeps!
We don't benefit from the ideas of Anonymous Cowards like Alexander Hamilton! (Have you read the Federalist Papers? What a bunch of crap.)
And the American People didn't need to know about that Watergate Scandal either!
Anonymous authors have made important contributions to the abolitionist movement. If it weren't for those friggin' ACs we might not have all these free negroes runnin' around!
In all seriousness, it is not an exaggeration to say that our government and our way of life owes its very existence to Anonymous Cowards. Good men often fear societal reaction, because society is often WRONG.
Consider this excerpt from the Supreme Court ruling of McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission (1995)
The decision in favor of anonymity may be motivated by fear of economic or official retaliation, by concern about social ostracism, or merely by a desire to preserve as much of one's privacy as possible. Whatever themotivation may be, at least in the field of literary endeavor, the interest in having anonymous works enter the marketplace of ideas unquestionably outweighs any public interest in requiring disclosure as a condition of entry.
The Supreme Court is often wrong, but they really hit the nail on the head with this case. Our society needs anonymity, because sometimes the ACs will tell us the truth when everyone else is afraid...
By the way, completely unrelated, why do slashdotters tend to frown upon anonymous posts..?
Because people post anonymously when they're about to express unpopular (or stupid) opinions. See above.
If I am not in breach of any laws, where is the problem?
Suppose if I want to print fliers advocating an unpopular political cause?
Suppose I want to send an anonymous tip to the police, but I don't want to be identified for fear of retribution?
Suppose my boss is involved in criminal activity and I want to report him anonymously?
The power of anonymity is necessary for true freedom of speech. Without it, people can be forced into silence by intimidation. We have a secret ballot for the same reason.
A personal watermark is a fine idea, but if it is forced on me or introduced without my knowledge, then I have been severly wronged, because I DO have a legitimate interest in anonymity.
Ectoraige's "What are you trying to hide?" argument also gets dragged out in favor of unwarranted police searches. After all, if you aren't in breach of any laws, what's the problem?
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The OpenGL extension specification deals quite nicely with this problem. Hardware vendors can add new functionality through extensions without waiting for an official update to the library. (Non-extensible libraries like Direct3D will find themselves at a disadvantage.)
As 3D chipsets multiply, software abstraction becomes increasingly important. Application developers can't be expected to keep up with the onslaught of new hardware. If manufacturers want developers to take advantage of their new hardware, they have no choice but to support standard libraries.
I certainly wouldn't go out of my way to support a particular chipset if the manufacturer didn't bother to provide proper OpenGL support...
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Evolution can stop. Just stop breeding and clone for reproduction.
Abandoning sexual reproduction would not stop evolution. Organisms would continue to change by mutation.
If you want more school, go for a Master's degree. It's only 30 more hours. Why take another year undergrad, when you can get another degree for about the same number of hours?
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It may not serve survival-interest to be happy at rest, but it DOES serve survival-interest to be happy while engaged in useful activity. "Happy" is a reward mechanism. You should feel it while hunting or building or mating or teaching children, or whatever activity benefits self and family.
No, activex is the vulnerability. Seriously.
It's not safe to execute native code from a website. Weeding out untrustworthy developers by signature cannot work, because the supply of untrustworthy developers is unlimited.
In a proper model, I should not have to check each author's signature. I should not have to trust web content at all. Content should operate in a controlled box. Vulnerabilities should be fixed by repairing the box. Anything less is just asking for trouble.
An interested party does not need a the cooperation of your company to take advantage of the micro-dots.
If I understand correctly, the dots alone are enough to test any document against any printer, or to determine whether two documents share the same source.
Christians often defend the pledge in a knee-jerk reaction against its atheist detractors. If we look more closely, we might see in pledge a threat to our own religious freedom.
When did it become OK to teach our children to swear oaths to man-made idols?
Weren't Christians persecuted in Rome for refusal to take part in similar rituals?
The computer is your friend!
Software is a written work, protected by copyright law. The strong protection of Patent law was not drafted with such works in mind.
If we held all writing to this standard, one author might patent the "murder mystery" and sue other authors for royalties.
This is a broken law, and all coders are victims. Let's not be happy now just because MS is getting burned.
Do you really believe the depth and breadth of political thought can be reduced to a one-dimensional scale? How did such a ridiculous notion become widespread?
Is politics a solved game, like tic-tac-toe?
Is our present government REALLY the center of an imaginary line, bordered on each side by fanatical killers?
IMHO, that belief is a cancer on our democracy. It prompts intelligent people to abandon political discourse for team-loyalty.
What is this "left-right scale" you speak of?
Is it something real, or is it just a way to file away ideas without actually thinking about them?
SpamGourmet.com offers free disposable email addresses for registrations and other limited-use applications.
As to the Anti-Abortion sites, it will be the ones advocating killing Abortion Doctors which are being 'hidden', anything else would be totally unacceptable here.
I'm not sure that's the case.
Consider this hidden site. While it has some rather unkind things to say, in particular about the Catholic church, I don't think it advocates violence.
The removal of nazi websites from Google's index can be safely blamed on Germany and France.
But the removal of religious websites cannot be. Neither Germany nor France have laws against such material.
If Google wishes to take a stand on religious or political issues, that is certainly their right. But it's Google's stand, and only Google is responsible for it.
Probably the most relevant verse is in the first chapter of Jeremiah:
Before I formed you in the womb I knew you;
Before you were born I consecrated you
Mckinsey dismisses the verse as ambiguous. I'm not inclined to agree. Though not yet born, Jeremiah is clearly recognized as a person.
Mckinsey also suggests that Jeremiah might be a "special case," though that argument strikes me as reaching pretty far.
The GPL gives -extra- rights to the user, while most other EULAs take rights away.
If you want to ignore the GPL, that's fine! Regular copyright law won't let you distribute copies of Gnome any more than it lets you distribute copies of Windows.
Yes, you have to inform Apple.
It's BSD compatible in that you can use BSD code in your APL-licensed project. Not the other way 'round.
Mixing APL and GPL code, on the other hand, isn't allowed at all - they are mutually exclusive.
There's a translator at http://www.tranexp.com/intertran/ which handles Finnish and other non-babelfish-supported languages.
What you're looking for is the Fujitsu Lifebook B-series.   My roommate has one, and it's a great little subnote; a 3-pound celeron with a nice magnesium case.   If you're looking for a touchscreen notebook, I highly recommend it.  (IMHO, fingerpainting-with-photoshop is the coolest non-quake-related computer activity yet devised.)
Yes, they support 16-bit color.
This ain't the dark ages, man...
Actually, the Compaq iPaq appears to support only 4096 colors.
I believe that's a limitation of the reflective LCD screens, which can't handle 16-bit color yet.
Non-reflective screens display full 16-bit color, but are nigh-unusable outdoors.
Supposedly after the McCarthy witch hunts everyone learned their lesson. So this really shouldn't be a problem.
Ahh yes. I forgot. Politically motivated violence and government corruption are things of the past. How silly of me.
In another post, I mentioned McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission. A woman was prosecuted for distributing fliers denouncing a proposed tax increase. This was in 1995.
So when I distribute my Gay Seal-Clubbers for the Legalization of Marajuana pamphlets, I think I'd better leave them unsigned...
This will make it MUCH easier for totalitarian governments to silence those annoying political dissidents!
I will not listen to those who opt instead to remain anonymous, afraid of how society will react.
Right on! Think how much better off our society would be without those creeps!
We don't benefit from the ideas of Anonymous Cowards like Alexander Hamilton! (Have you read the Federalist Papers? What a bunch of crap.)
And the American People didn't need to know about that Watergate Scandal either!
Anonymous authors have made important contributions to the abolitionist movement. If it weren't for those friggin' ACs we might not have all these free negroes runnin' around!
In all seriousness, it is not an exaggeration to say that our government and our way of life owes its very existence to Anonymous Cowards. Good men often fear societal reaction, because society is often WRONG.
Consider this excerpt from the Supreme Court ruling of McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission (1995) The Supreme Court is often wrong, but they really hit the nail on the head with this case. Our society needs anonymity, because sometimes the ACs will tell us the truth when everyone else is afraid...
By the way, completely unrelated, why do slashdotters tend to frown upon anonymous posts..?
Because people post anonymously when they're about to express unpopular (or stupid) opinions. See above.
- Suppose if I want to print fliers advocating an unpopular political cause?
- Suppose I want to send an anonymous tip to the police, but I don't want to be identified for fear of retribution?
- Suppose my boss is involved in criminal activity and I want to report him anonymously?
The power of anonymity is necessary for true freedom of speech. Without it, people can be forced into silence by intimidation. We have a secret ballot for the same reason.A personal watermark is a fine idea, but if it is forced on me or introduced without my knowledge, then I have been severly wronged, because I DO have a legitimate interest in anonymity.
Ectoraige's "What are you trying to hide?" argument also gets dragged out in favor of unwarranted police searches. After all, if you aren't in breach of any laws, what's the problem?
The OpenGL extension specification deals quite nicely with this problem. Hardware vendors can add new functionality through extensions without waiting for an official update to the library. (Non-extensible libraries like Direct3D will find themselves at a disadvantage.)
As 3D chipsets multiply, software abstraction becomes increasingly important. Application developers can't be expected to keep up with the onslaught of new hardware. If manufacturers want developers to take advantage of their new hardware, they have no choice but to support standard libraries.
I certainly wouldn't go out of my way to support a particular chipset if the manufacturer didn't bother to provide proper OpenGL support...