Blah blah/. sucks blah. I get so tired of it! The mod system works well... it is part of what makes the discussions so good here. Frankly I see some posts modded down unfairly, but it's not usually anything that should have been modded up or would have added much of anything to the conversation.
Now to mod you troll;)
Well, I see you were modded troll, so maybe someone else know what you are talking about... if 20% of the people on welfare are off of it in 6 months, 20% of the AFDC funding would go to them (assuming everyone is paid roughly equally). Care to explain your math?
Do some research on welfare (AFDC). ~55% of people on welfare in the US are off of it in less than 2 years: 20% are on welfare for less than 7 months. 15% are out in 7 to 12 months. 19% are off in 1 to 2 years.
That leaves 27% who are on it for 2 to 5 years, and only 20% who are on it over 5 years. The debates about this shit are so far divorced from reality anymore it is driving me crazy. THE US DOES NOT HAVE A WELFARE PROBLEM. For the most part it is working exactly as it should - helping people to become self-reliant.
Care to back this up with any kind of reference, citation, article, or... anything?
A software license is a contract people can willingly enter into which governs how the work is distributed/conveyed. Basically, you can put whatever you want into a license - it's just a damn contract an it doesn't have to mirror existing law.
It's been said before literally thousands of times - you are under no obligation to license your works under any version of the GPL or other license. You are under no obligation to distribute or convey anything licensed under GPLv3 or any other license.
Installing and running Foo from your desktop is fine. True.
Using Foo to power a dynamic website is a bit murky. Not true. This does not count as distribution.
Using Foo and extending it's functionality for your own purposes is downright thick as mud as to the effects on your patent portfolio. This also does not count as distribution as long as you are only using the code within your own company.
The key to the GPL is that the restrictions only apply when you distribute the code or a binary to another party.
I am guessing it has something to do with floating point calculations vs. integer calculations, but if I read the article, this wouldn't be Slashdot, would it? Think about it. We have GPUs to perform vector maths, flops, etc. because the CPU is not all that great at that sort of thing typically. A general purpose CPU is not necessarily going to be the fastest if your problem domain is more suited to an "inferior" chip; general purpose CPUs are not designed to be the fastest chip in every situation.
Right on, dude. That sums up exactly why the few extra keystrokes in strongly typed C-like languages are worth it - coding in those languages is a joy. Trust me. I grew up on AppleSoft BASIC. Python, et. al. just remind me too much of those nightmares.
You might try (on a test box) the security information/tools CIS (Center for Internet Security) has to offer. I have had good experience with the information for AIX (of all things). They provide automated tools for Windows and a few other OSs.
Sure, in general that is a valid concern. However,
The pollution attack... "overwrites" the P2P botnet's key, an identifier that's used to get command information to the bots. Storm generates keys to find other bots, the researchers noted. So there really isn't a risk, in this case, of executing maleficent code or overwriting large portions of anything. The Storm operators might modify the peers to self-destruct the host or something, though I doubt they will given that Storm needs the host to be at all useful.
It's not really messing with other people so much as preventing them from messing with tons of other infected hosts. Seriously, this is no moral question. "Poisoning" Storm is nothing but a good idea.
In 1811 there was a major earthquake of 7-8 on the richter scale (estimated). It actually caused the Mississippi to run backwards. Hopefully the New Madrid is not going to have another such earthquake for a long time, but who knows!
If you ask the Free Software Foundation, that would be a feature.
If you ask Apple, that would be a feature. Ah yes. At least it's only the users who lose.
There's no such thing as evidence to/against when you are dealing with an infalsifiable hypothesis. Go ahead and say they're fiction, but saying you know they're fiction makes no sense at all.
Yes, but this isn't photovoltaic energy. The article makes it clear that storage is integral to the design of this technology - and all that is needed to store the heat (which only requires insulation - not some expensive electric battery).
I am saying that anything COULD be true. That's an important part of training yourself to keep an open, scientific mind: infalsifiable arguments simply do not belong in the realm of Science. Ignore them and get on with life, you know?:)
No one has what could be considered to be even remotely a complete understanding of brain function. And in fact, there can be no free will without a person's actions being based on inputs (otherwise there is no decision). You also claim to know that a god does not exist, although that is infalsifiable. The fact is that, given quantum theory, we can longer say that the universe is deterministic. This doesn't prove that we have free will, but it leaves the possibility open.
You have free will in this non-dream world, you just don't have anything to act on. Sure, it's useless to have that capacity, but a "robotic overlord VR prison" restraining your actions doesn't have an affect on the way you make decisions, only what decisions you are presented with.
The problem with your argument is that you assume we have to be able to interact with reality to have free will, when in fact the definition of free will is quite different.
The power of acting without the constraint of necessity or fate; the ability to act at one's own discretion. (OAD)
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Blah blah /. sucks blah. I get so tired of it! The mod system works well... it is part of what makes the discussions so good here. Frankly I see some posts modded down unfairly, but it's not usually anything that should have been modded up or would have added much of anything to the conversation.
Now to mod you troll ;)
Well, I see you were modded troll, so maybe someone else know what you are talking about... if 20% of the people on welfare are off of it in 6 months, 20% of the AFDC funding would go to them (assuming everyone is paid roughly equally). Care to explain your math?
Do some research on welfare (AFDC). ~55% of people on welfare in the US are off of it in less than 2 years: 20% are on welfare for less than 7 months. 15% are out in 7 to 12 months. 19% are off in 1 to 2 years.
That leaves 27% who are on it for 2 to 5 years, and only 20% who are on it over 5 years. The debates about this shit are so far divorced from reality anymore it is driving me crazy. THE US DOES NOT HAVE A WELFARE PROBLEM. For the most part it is working exactly as it should - helping people to become self-reliant.
Care to back this up with any kind of reference, citation, article, or... anything?
A software license is a contract people can willingly enter into which governs how the work is distributed/conveyed. Basically, you can put whatever you want into a license - it's just a damn contract an it doesn't have to mirror existing law.
It's been said before literally thousands of times - you are under no obligation to license your works under any version of the GPL or other license. You are under no obligation to distribute or convey anything licensed under GPLv3 or any other license.
The key to the GPL is that the restrictions only apply when you distribute the code or a binary to another party.
I am guessing it has something to do with floating point calculations vs. integer calculations, but if I read the article, this wouldn't be Slashdot, would it? Think about it. We have GPUs to perform vector maths, flops, etc. because the CPU is not all that great at that sort of thing typically. A general purpose CPU is not necessarily going to be the fastest if your problem domain is more suited to an "inferior" chip; general purpose CPUs are not designed to be the fastest chip in every situation.
Right on, dude. That sums up exactly why the few extra keystrokes in strongly typed C-like languages are worth it - coding in those languages is a joy. Trust me. I grew up on AppleSoft BASIC. Python, et. al. just remind me too much of those nightmares.
The days when you could open a phone and modify it without phear were a lot of fun. A new age of phreaking is upon us!
You might try (on a test box) the security information/tools CIS (Center for Internet Security) has to offer. I have had good experience with the information for AIX (of all things). They provide automated tools for Windows and a few other OSs.
It's not really messing with other people so much as preventing them from messing with tons of other infected hosts. Seriously, this is no moral question. "Poisoning" Storm is nothing but a good idea.
That is truly amazing tech, right there. It would be interesting to know the security implications of being able to hot-patch the kernel, however.
Dammit, Blunt. 'Round where I live we have a lot of bumper-stickered vehicles: "Blunt Trauma" is a very common motto.
Or, you know, we could revise the law so that a public company's legal responsibility is to make profit, and not to make the most profit.
And they don't get extremely sick from eating food contaminated with human feces?
In 1811 there was a major earthquake of 7-8 on the richter scale (estimated). It actually caused the Mississippi to run backwards. Hopefully the New Madrid is not going to have another such earthquake for a long time, but who knows!
If you ask Apple, that would be a feature. Ah yes. At least it's only the users who lose.
There's no such thing as evidence to/against when you are dealing with an infalsifiable hypothesis. Go ahead and say they're fiction, but saying you know they're fiction makes no sense at all.
Yes, but this isn't photovoltaic energy. The article makes it clear that storage is integral to the design of this technology - and all that is needed to store the heat (which only requires insulation - not some expensive electric battery).
I am saying that anything COULD be true. That's an important part of training yourself to keep an open, scientific mind: infalsifiable arguments simply do not belong in the realm of Science. Ignore them and get on with life, you know? :)
Right, even if everything is predetermined, what other choices would you make besides the ones you do? It's an interesting question.
No one has what could be considered to be even remotely a complete understanding of brain function. And in fact, there can be no free will without a person's actions being based on inputs (otherwise there is no decision). You also claim to know that a god does not exist, although that is infalsifiable. The fact is that, given quantum theory, we can longer say that the universe is deterministic. This doesn't prove that we have free will, but it leaves the possibility open.
You have free will in this non-dream world, you just don't have anything to act on. Sure, it's useless to have that capacity, but a "robotic overlord VR prison" restraining your actions doesn't have an affect on the way you make decisions, only what decisions you are presented with.