... isn't that determining the state? The purpose of the cat experiment was to state that it is both alive and dead until observed to be one or the other.
And for that matter, opening the box does not kill the cat, it just allows you to observe its state. We know that when you open the box there is a set probability of the cat being dead.
For example, by typing "facebook" into/.'s built in search bar
That was your first mistake, you assumed that for some reason the search bar on slashdot would work. That thing hasn't worked right since... well possibly ever. It misses far more than it gets right.
I'm not the one making outrageous claims and failing to back said claims with evidence.
Just because you disagree with something does not automatically make it "outrageous".
Don't like the source I cite? Provide your own
Here's a source for you. Just keep scrolling back through the old front page stories and count 'em up. You have access to the same data I am citing, you are just choosing not to look at it.
or STFU
Wow, how very kind you are.
(or get seen as the nonsensical troll you're currently coming off as).
You are the one who is throwing labels on statements you disagree with. If you choose not to read the front page, I cannot change your choice for you.
Sadly, disproving the aforementioned theory probably took far less time than damn_registrars spent positing it.
Although it appears you don't understand the concept of a theory, either. Please hand in your geek card on your way out the door.
It appears you don't know the difference between literary and scientific definition.
Do you even know what site you are looking at, or are you just typing whatever comes to mind to see what sticks? Here's a hint - the pitch line for this site starts with "news for nerds", not "cmdrtaco's pop fiction review site". Science is discussed here often. Literature, not nearly as much.You might want to consider reading up on some middle-school level science before you go sticking your neck out and trying to correct people.
For example, by typing "facebook" into/.'s built in search bar
That was your first mistake, you assumed that for some reason the search bar on slashdot would work. That thing hasn't worked right since... well possibly ever. It misses far more than it gets right.
But you are new here, so I can give you a pass on that.
Sadly, disproving the aforementioned theory probably took far less time than damn_registrars spent positing it.
Although it appears you don't understand the concept of a theory, either. Please hand in your geek card on your way out the door.
Yea, I've been seeing that strawman pop up here pretty much daily for the last decade: "Oh, there's a bunch of posters with whom I disagree, Slashdot is falling apart, becoming a haven for the [insert group you don't like]!
Well, I cannot force to you pay attention to the front page if you don't want to.
However anyone who does pay attention can confirm:
There are at least 2 front-page stories about facebook or it's founder in any 24 hour period - and often many many more
There is at least 1 front page story in any 24 hour period that is promoting conservative principles - and often more
There is at most one article in a week that looks favorably on a liberal concerp - and often less
Don't even try to tell me this site isn't dedicated to facebook news for conservatives. It's too bad it wasn't sold to facebook, then the transformation would have been complete, I suspect facebook was smart enough not to get that deep into politics, though.
At least he recognizes that the site was in decline when it was sold. Some might criticize him for not doubling down and putting himself back in to it, but he made his choice.
Welcome to the new slashdot - facebook news for conservatives.
Being as I drive through two dead spots on my way home from work, and drop calls while sitting on my couch (where their map claims I should get two bars), I'm pretty sure the coverage can't get much worse. I laugh at people who bitch about lack of 3G/4G/29G... I can't even get a signal for a voice call.
I live 10 miles outside a city of 150,000 people and I drop calls on TMobile on a regular basis. Their map claims I should get two bars at home, some times I get none at all. In fact, their map of this area is one huge lie as I can tell you exactly where there are huge dead zones that they claim to be 1-2 bar zones, and I have confirmed this with several different phones on their network.
The situation has been this way for 7+ years now. Now as an added bonus sometimes when I am at home, if the call isn't dropped I get a delayed echo of my own voice in my ear. Not easy to deal with, when I am expecting to hear the other person and I'm hearing myself as well. I've also had several times where I can hear the other person, but suddenly and without warning they can no longer hear me.
Numerous times I have reported this to TMobile and never have they fixed it.
'cause ICANN hasn't done shit - other than find new ways to line their own pockets (while patting themselves on the back) - in a very, very, long time.
That is like suspected murder. It needs to be clearly proven or the accused needs to admit to it. Just because there is a whisper campaign alleging fraud from someone doesn't mean it is automatically the case.
An honest journalist would have separated "demonstrated fraud" from "suspected fraud".
They are trying to justify why the site becomes more conservative every month. Pretty soon samzenpus will post a story about how Romney is a screaming liberal vampire hippie kung-fu atheist mormon pacifist terrorist from Mars and we should all vote for ron paul instead.
And yes, I know I will be modded down for saying that. But that doesn't disprove it.
Look at the statistics. Most the people in the ER are fall related injuries, and very few are bicycle falls or accidents. Standing up high on something being a huge one as well as slipping and falling in the bathroom.
I don't dispute the statistics. My point is that when you are on a ladder, in a tub, or other such place where falls are common, your falling is likely your own fault. Very rarely do people fall off of ladders because they were hit from behind by a car. I'd be surprised if anyone (excluding cartoon characters) has been hit by a car while in the bathtub.
In summary - fall off a ladder, probably your fault; fall off a bicycle, might be someone else's fault. Wearing a helmet might reduce the likelihood of severe injury if that happens to you.
In other words, the helmet protects the bicyclist from other people as much as it protects him from himself.
I really have a hard time understanding how so many people fall and hit their head. Did we lose the genes we used to have where one instinctively used their arms and position in a fall to prevent head injury? Perhaps these helmet people should stop having children?
Depending on how you fall - what velocity, what angle, etc - you might not be able to brace yourself. Furthermore if there is a fall, a skid, and a stop, you might not be able to prevent the impact of the stop because your arms are already under your body.
In a lot of other places, you can bike for a long, long, time and not see other people. Generally this is not the case here. Most importantly, your odds of encountering a motor vehicle while bicycling in the US are extremely high. While most of the time bicycles and motor vehicles can share the road without incident, when that does not happen the incident rarely turns out well for the person on the bicycle.
Conversely, when I am on a ladder or in my bathtub, my chance of being hit by a car are quite small. If the US had more bicycle-only trails for people to ride on, then the accident rate would be greatly decreased. Instead they have to share the road with people who are reading and writing SMS messages on their phones, eating breakfast, putting on makeup, tuning their radio, and doing who-knows-what-else when they should be driving and focusing on the road.
Hence a helmet in the US for a bicyclist is important not to protect the bicyclist from themselves, but to protect them from the other people they are sharing the road with.
But in the USA, exit polling was smeared so bad and the public so ignorant it was outlawed in no time without much resistance. There is no reason they made such a huge and unjustified move other than current or future corruption plans. I think large enough fraud schemes were at risk of exposure and that is why it was killed.
However, if you can prevent people from voting, then the exit polls will match your expectations and help to legitimize your stolen election. Worked out well in Ohio in 2004.
I love how my original post has been moderated "troll" because it bothers the conservative base here on slashdot.
Conservative operatives already know the best way to detect fraud (hint: if you are a democratic voter living in a democratic district in a battleground state, you are committing fraud). After all, we all know that voting fraud only comes from the democrats. ,bR>
Voting suppression, on the other hand, comes from the republicans. Too bad they don't just cancel each other out.
I presume the $100 million figure comes from stock options, and not from salary or personal investment. However anyone who has been watching the facebook stock (and smart enough to not buy it) knows it has been dropping rapidly; already less than half its IPO price. Being as employees are still not allowed to sell their shares, you can't say the employees have made anything off of the stock values yet.
We'll see what its worth when employees start to cash out - or if it survives that happening.
WHOIS data has been crap for a long time now. There is no longer any incentive for registrars and ISPs to keep accurate WHOIS data as there is no penalty for providing garbage. ICANN doesn't give a shit that hte data is crap, they only give lip service to the problem and then go back to rolling in their piles of cash.
The real question is who is the idiot who told law enforcement officers that there is meaningful data in the WHOIS databases anyways. I would bet that the ICANN assertion of 29% of it being bad is a huge underestimate.
No hackers think they'll get in as root, it's just all automated
That is true, the frequency is too high (and regular) for it to be someone sitting at their PC trying root passwords. I can say, though, that the attacks are more often *nix-oriented than IIS-oriented. Root attempts are frequent, administrator attempts come very rarely. Toor is seen often, too. Even when I see white pages attacks that start with aaron and go to zelda, I see root but not administrator.
It's faster to just let the exploits fire than to wait for fingerprinting.
Very true. I've often wondered how they find my system as a target, though. Whether they find it first as a web sever, and then attempt ssh, or just randomly try IP addresses, I'm not sure. The latter seems more likely, supported in part by the fact that when the attacks come from a single system (rather than the common distributed attacks) the same IP doesn't show up in the web server log.
Sadly, many ISPs, mine included, simply do not like the basic idea behind the internet, and are very displeased when they discoveer people with consmer accounts hosting servers, even puny ones with essentially no traffic, like mine. Many even actively attempt to frustrate such efforts.
Fortunately, my ISP doesn't care. I run my web server at home on port 80 and ssh on 22. They've never had any issue with it, although my web server serves very few visitors. I do push a fair bit of traffic through ssh and they've never had a problem with that, either.
Although some times, my system actually denies more traffic than it receives (stupid hackers think they'll get in as root, even though I plainly state in the sshd message that it is disabled). That doesn't seem to bother my ISP either.
FWIW my ISP is the local arm of a very large cable company. I've heard it suggested that this cable company might not be so willing to overlook services run through a basic cable modem connection in other parts of the country.
I just don't put the only accessible copies of important files (even photographs and blog entries) in the hands of facebook, google, or anyone of the like. Files are on my own systems (including my own webserver). Why should I trust those other sites to act in my best interest, whether I am alive or not?
After all, they opted just to not make the latest version of Tiger Woods for the Wii at all. The last version of Tiger Woods we'll ever see for the Wii is 12 (the masters).
Hopefully when they make it for Wii U next time they'll use more of its connectivity features.
Is that a lot of CSci depts (particularly at community colleges and other places that have associate's degrees) across the country have received grant money from Microsoft itself. That will, of course, make it much more difficult for you to convince them to stop "teaching" Microsoft Office.
I would highly recommend you look into that possibility before you start writing a letter, because if that is the case at your school then you'll just be tilting at windmills.
Slashdot Mirror
... isn't that determining the state? The purpose of the cat experiment was to state that it is both alive and dead until observed to be one or the other.
And for that matter, opening the box does not kill the cat, it just allows you to observe its state. We know that when you open the box there is a set probability of the cat being dead.
For example, by typing "facebook" into /.'s built in search bar
That was your first mistake, you assumed that for some reason the search bar on slashdot would work. That thing hasn't worked right since ... well possibly ever. It misses far more than it gets right.
I'm not the one making outrageous claims and failing to back said claims with evidence.
Just because you disagree with something does not automatically make it "outrageous".
Don't like the source I cite? Provide your own
Here's a source for you. Just keep scrolling back through the old front page stories and count 'em up. You have access to the same data I am citing, you are just choosing not to look at it.
or STFU
Wow, how very kind you are.
(or get seen as the nonsensical troll you're currently coming off as).
You are the one who is throwing labels on statements you disagree with. If you choose not to read the front page, I cannot change your choice for you.
Sadly, disproving the aforementioned theory probably took far less time than damn_registrars spent positing it.
Although it appears you don't understand the concept of a theory, either. Please hand in your geek card on your way out the door.
It appears you don't know the difference between literary and scientific definition.
Do you even know what site you are looking at, or are you just typing whatever comes to mind to see what sticks? Here's a hint - the pitch line for this site starts with "news for nerds", not "cmdrtaco's pop fiction review site". Science is discussed here often. Literature, not nearly as much.You might want to consider reading up on some middle-school level science before you go sticking your neck out and trying to correct people.
Methinks you're the victim of targeted advertising, Mr. Swing-State.
The only states less likely to swing than the one I live in are Texas and Illinois - and not by much. So no, I am not in a swing state.
Man, you are such a goof. There is no 'liberal/conservative' in the advertising business.
Turn off your ad block, then count the anti-Obama ads that show up on the slashdot front page.
Then, go troll someone else. You weren't interesting the last time you trolled me.
For example, by typing "facebook" into /.'s built in search bar
That was your first mistake, you assumed that for some reason the search bar on slashdot would work. That thing hasn't worked right since ... well possibly ever. It misses far more than it gets right.
But you are new here, so I can give you a pass on that.
Sadly, disproving the aforementioned theory probably took far less time than damn_registrars spent positing it.
Although it appears you don't understand the concept of a theory, either. Please hand in your geek card on your way out the door.
Yea, I've been seeing that strawman pop up here pretty much daily for the last decade: "Oh, there's a bunch of posters with whom I disagree, Slashdot is falling apart, becoming a haven for the [insert group you don't like]!
Well, I cannot force to you pay attention to the front page if you don't want to.
However anyone who does pay attention can confirm:
Don't even try to tell me this site isn't dedicated to facebook news for conservatives. It's too bad it wasn't sold to facebook, then the transformation would have been complete, I suspect facebook was smart enough not to get that deep into politics, though.
At least he recognizes that the site was in decline when it was sold. Some might criticize him for not doubling down and putting himself back in to it, but he made his choice.
Welcome to the new slashdot - facebook news for conservatives.
Being as I drive through two dead spots on my way home from work, and drop calls while sitting on my couch (where their map claims I should get two bars), I'm pretty sure the coverage can't get much worse. I laugh at people who bitch about lack of 3G/4G/29G ... I can't even get a signal for a voice call.
I live 10 miles outside a city of 150,000 people and I drop calls on TMobile on a regular basis. Their map claims I should get two bars at home, some times I get none at all. In fact, their map of this area is one huge lie as I can tell you exactly where there are huge dead zones that they claim to be 1-2 bar zones, and I have confirmed this with several different phones on their network.
The situation has been this way for 7+ years now. Now as an added bonus sometimes when I am at home, if the call isn't dropped I get a delayed echo of my own voice in my ear. Not easy to deal with, when I am expecting to hear the other person and I'm hearing myself as well. I've also had several times where I can hear the other person, but suddenly and without warning they can no longer hear me.
Numerous times I have reported this to TMobile and never have they fixed it.
'cause ICANN hasn't done shit - other than find new ways to line their own pockets (while patting themselves on the back) - in a very, very, long time.
That is like suspected murder. It needs to be clearly proven or the accused needs to admit to it. Just because there is a whisper campaign alleging fraud from someone doesn't mean it is automatically the case.
An honest journalist would have separated "demonstrated fraud" from "suspected fraud".
What does Slashdot have to do with niches?
They are trying to justify why the site becomes more conservative every month. Pretty soon samzenpus will post a story about how Romney is a screaming liberal vampire hippie kung-fu atheist mormon pacifist terrorist from Mars and we should all vote for ron paul instead.
And yes, I know I will be modded down for saying that. But that doesn't disprove it.
Look at the statistics. Most the people in the ER are fall related injuries, and very few are bicycle falls or accidents. Standing up high on something being a huge one as well as slipping and falling in the bathroom.
I don't dispute the statistics. My point is that when you are on a ladder, in a tub, or other such place where falls are common, your falling is likely your own fault. Very rarely do people fall off of ladders because they were hit from behind by a car. I'd be surprised if anyone (excluding cartoon characters) has been hit by a car while in the bathtub.
In summary - fall off a ladder, probably your fault; fall off a bicycle, might be someone else's fault. Wearing a helmet might reduce the likelihood of severe injury if that happens to you.
In other words, the helmet protects the bicyclist from other people as much as it protects him from himself.
I really have a hard time understanding how so many people fall and hit their head. Did we lose the genes we used to have where one instinctively used their arms and position in a fall to prevent head injury? Perhaps these helmet people should stop having children?
Depending on how you fall - what velocity, what angle, etc - you might not be able to brace yourself. Furthermore if there is a fall, a skid, and a stop, you might not be able to prevent the impact of the stop because your arms are already under your body.
In a lot of other places, you can bike for a long, long, time and not see other people. Generally this is not the case here. Most importantly, your odds of encountering a motor vehicle while bicycling in the US are extremely high. While most of the time bicycles and motor vehicles can share the road without incident, when that does not happen the incident rarely turns out well for the person on the bicycle.
Conversely, when I am on a ladder or in my bathtub, my chance of being hit by a car are quite small. If the US had more bicycle-only trails for people to ride on, then the accident rate would be greatly decreased. Instead they have to share the road with people who are reading and writing SMS messages on their phones, eating breakfast, putting on makeup, tuning their radio, and doing who-knows-what-else when they should be driving and focusing on the road.
Hence a helmet in the US for a bicyclist is important not to protect the bicyclist from themselves, but to protect them from the other people they are sharing the road with.
But in the USA, exit polling was smeared so bad and the public so ignorant it was outlawed in no time without much resistance. There is no reason they made such a huge and unjustified move other than current or future corruption plans. I think large enough fraud schemes were at risk of exposure and that is why it was killed.
However, if you can prevent people from voting, then the exit polls will match your expectations and help to legitimize your stolen election. Worked out well in Ohio in 2004.
I love how my original post has been moderated "troll" because it bothers the conservative base here on slashdot.
Conservative operatives already know the best way to detect fraud (hint: if you are a democratic voter living in a democratic district in a battleground state, you are committing fraud). After all, we all know that voting fraud only comes from the democrats.
,bR> Voting suppression, on the other hand, comes from the republicans. Too bad they don't just cancel each other out.
I presume the $100 million figure comes from stock options, and not from salary or personal investment. However anyone who has been watching the facebook stock (and smart enough to not buy it) knows it has been dropping rapidly; already less than half its IPO price. Being as employees are still not allowed to sell their shares, you can't say the employees have made anything off of the stock values yet.
We'll see what its worth when employees start to cash out - or if it survives that happening.
WHOIS data has been crap for a long time now. There is no longer any incentive for registrars and ISPs to keep accurate WHOIS data as there is no penalty for providing garbage. ICANN doesn't give a shit that hte data is crap, they only give lip service to the problem and then go back to rolling in their piles of cash.
The real question is who is the idiot who told law enforcement officers that there is meaningful data in the WHOIS databases anyways. I would bet that the ICANN assertion of 29% of it being bad is a huge underestimate.
No hackers think they'll get in as root, it's just all automated
That is true, the frequency is too high (and regular) for it to be someone sitting at their PC trying root passwords. I can say, though, that the attacks are more often *nix-oriented than IIS-oriented. Root attempts are frequent, administrator attempts come very rarely. Toor is seen often, too. Even when I see white pages attacks that start with aaron and go to zelda, I see root but not administrator.
It's faster to just let the exploits fire than to wait for fingerprinting.
Very true. I've often wondered how they find my system as a target, though. Whether they find it first as a web sever, and then attempt ssh, or just randomly try IP addresses, I'm not sure. The latter seems more likely, supported in part by the fact that when the attacks come from a single system (rather than the common distributed attacks) the same IP doesn't show up in the web server log.
Sadly, many ISPs, mine included, simply do not like the basic idea behind the internet, and are very displeased when they discoveer people with consmer accounts hosting servers, even puny ones with essentially no traffic, like mine. Many even actively attempt to frustrate such efforts.
Fortunately, my ISP doesn't care. I run my web server at home on port 80 and ssh on 22. They've never had any issue with it, although my web server serves very few visitors. I do push a fair bit of traffic through ssh and they've never had a problem with that, either.
Although some times, my system actually denies more traffic than it receives (stupid hackers think they'll get in as root, even though I plainly state in the sshd message that it is disabled). That doesn't seem to bother my ISP either.
FWIW my ISP is the local arm of a very large cable company. I've heard it suggested that this cable company might not be so willing to overlook services run through a basic cable modem connection in other parts of the country.
I just don't put the only accessible copies of important files (even photographs and blog entries) in the hands of facebook, google, or anyone of the like. Files are on my own systems (including my own webserver). Why should I trust those other sites to act in my best interest, whether I am alive or not?
After all, they opted just to not make the latest version of Tiger Woods for the Wii at all. The last version of Tiger Woods we'll ever see for the Wii is 12 (the masters).
Hopefully when they make it for Wii U next time they'll use more of its connectivity features.
Really, if you are in a sexual relationship, you could at least have the courtesy to ask for sex in person. SMS has all the warmth of a late postcard.
... to what Dilbert predicted back in 2004
Is that a lot of CSci depts (particularly at community colleges and other places that have associate's degrees) across the country have received grant money from Microsoft itself. That will, of course, make it much more difficult for you to convince them to stop "teaching" Microsoft Office.
I would highly recommend you look into that possibility before you start writing a letter, because if that is the case at your school then you'll just be tilting at windmills.