> Will the end of the universe be caused by Cmdr. Taco posting a Slashdot article
What happens, however, if the universe ends just as he was about to post it again? God would have to recall the universe on account of a dupe. Then, would the dupe ever even be posted?
I sort-of came up with this same idea on my own -- that black holes don't suck up matter to a singularity (which, despite scientific "proof," makes 0 sense to me, given 1 second of thought), but rather shoot it off into another "universe" which has less density than ours. That means these black hole universes are constantly ("constantly" in galactic scale) created and destroyed, with matter oscillating between them.
Of course, I spent too much time daydreaming to ace physics, so I might be a bit off.
> The rule about nothing can travel faster than light only applies locally (in the same frame of reference)
(I'm OT, too bad) About that whole speed-of-light thing, w/r/t the idea that we can't "move faster than" c... What if we had propulsion forcing us away from one thing, but then another force pulling us in the opposite direction (toward our destination)? Could we then conceivably move at twice almost the speed of light?
Or is it still relative to only one point regardless of direction & quantity of forces acting upon the item (space craft)?
Or, and perhaps more likely, I'm I just making up questions that I (and only I) think are interesting, when they are just stupid?
> survival-oriented species out there in spacetime will not find a means to intervene in the death of the universe?
That's a good point you have hidden in there. Wouldn't it be ironic if, despite all the gloom & doom lovers out there, that we all died because of some race even more ignorant than ourselves? Or, perhaps, even more brilliant than ourselves.
> I've managed to find on filesharing tools songs which have been forbidden to be sold because they made some politician uneasy and such
If you are an American, can you cite examples? I'm curious. If you are NOT an American, can you explain why a song makes a person uncomfortable enough for it to be made illegal?
Ignoring the fact that you are demanding money for something solely based on the fact that "I Made It," If you really came up with something interesting, you can create it and viola, you can sell it. But what if you're great at making ideas, but can't make an actual product to save your life? And you won't sell the idea? It's useless then, because no one wants to buy your shit. On the other hand, w/o copyright, someone who actually knows how to nail these two pieces together, and knows how to do it well, will be able to create a product, using your ideas with credit, of course, that is actually usable, and therefore (arguably) are helping move technology/whatever further, instead of locking us into your POS creation if we want to use an idea.
BTW, just because your idea hasn't been copyrighted by someone else doesn't mean they didn't come up with it first, or that someone else wouldn't come up with it later, independently, or even a slightly better version of it.
> Do you really want to get stuck in the Moment of death?
But you would never actually REACH that moment, you would just get REALLY close. Of course, you wouldn't get close because you would get infinitely close to mid-life. But, of course, before that you would have to get infinitely close to your twenties (but not actually get there). Before that...
... you get infinitely close to your birth, but you never seem to be born. Now THAT sucks.
I have the exact same one and the shaft and handle aren't secure enough. If I twist too hard, the handle turns but the rest doesn't. Despite that, it still works fine for not-too-tight screws.
I use the battery compartment as a place to hold screws & extra bits.
>...for things he did while in Russia, which are legal in Russia.
But what "he" (his company, really) did was to export that locally legal software to the U.S., where the software was illegal. If Elcom had made a concerted effort to make sure the software never entered the U.S., he could not have been charged, IMIO (I=Ignorant).
The point is that the customers would either go "offline" or to much cheaper dialup. Seriously, except for file sharing, most people using broadband don't need anything near that speed. When they no longer have file sharing, they'll realize they are paying way too much just for quickly-loading web pages and get rid of it. SBC and other Broadband providers know this and want to make sure that any tasks requiring high-speed internet access stay in tact, so that their business offerings are seen as needed. Also, if the RIAA gets conked on the head for this tomfoolery, other people will now have heard of MP3s & file sharing, find out that it isn't (or, as for now, shouldn't be) illegal, and say "hey, I want that broadband thing to get music too." We're in tha' money. We're in tha' money. Screw the producers, 'cuz we get free music nooooooow.
> I took moslty AP classes in high school and was very board in those that were not at that level. > In high school you are just learning who to do that.
Evidently, that didn't include AP English.;)
> There are a number of reasons why attendence rules are different in high school and university
This isn't always the case, however. The Piece-of-shit University (Wheeling Jesuit U.) I went to had a worse attendence policy than my High School. These stupid bastards required professors to Fail students (Froshes & the ones on Academic Probation) if they missed a certain number of classes, basically equivalent to two weeks. If a class meets twice a week, you could miss only 4 classes without failing. 5 & you're done.
THEN there are the fucking idiot professors who will impose this rule arbitrarily on ALL students, and sometimes not even tell you. I failed two classes my 2nd semester senior year this way, neither had stated any attendance policy on the syllabi, nor did the professors mention it during the year. My grades were good enough, but I was fucked by these incompetent assholes.
Now I am 2 classes from a degree, but since I had no warning about impending, forced failure, I went ahead and got a career, and now I'm stuck without the worthless degree from a terrible school.
To top it all off, these people have the gall to send me Alumni requests for money. ASKING ME FOR MONEY, when I gave them way too much to begin with, only to get fucked over in many, many ways.
The most evil "Catholic" school I've ever seen.
Uh... offtopic? Hmm.. Well, it's about attendance, sort of?
> e've been in need of a good encrypted filesystem for a while
Unfortunately, it isn't an encrypted filesystem. It encrypts & decrypts data directly from the drive and the filesystem you use (whatever that is) is entirely independent (and unaware) of the encryption.
This is a great idea. If only you could actually BUY one. I searched on enova's site & google and could not find a single place to buy one. I couldn't even find any reference to price, which means it's probably too much. Have you or anyone else found a place to price/purchase this type of technology?
What's this? Someone who not only read the article, but looked for answers before spouting off? Incredible. I'd say Mod parent up, but it's already at 5. Congratulations, you are proof that the "system" sometimes works!
> frankly I'd be scared if our admins tried to upgrade it to even 8
Well, when I was a Solaris admin, it was my first serious UNIX work (work as in job, not as in "playing with Linux") and I had to upgrade from 2.6 to 8 and I had almost no troubles at all -- it's easy as pie. Assuming you know what all the software does, where to download it, how to reinstall it, and how to reconfigure every damn conf file that no longer works because of version incompatibility. But really, most of it was smooth except for Apache, BIND, sendmail, and a few little programs.
Talk about a crash course in UNIX... At least I was "smart enough" to try it on an old server first.
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> If there is one, you win. (And your counterpart in the parallel universe, of course, loses.
If it's parallel, wouldn't they both win?
If it's a mirrored universe, however, winning the lotto can rack up huge debt. In that case, I must be extremely wealthy... or something.
> The next paradigm shift is that we'll stop using the phrase "paradigm shift"
pfft, that's like never hearing "think outside the box" again.
> Will the end of the universe be caused by Cmdr. Taco posting a Slashdot article
What happens, however, if the universe ends just as he was about to post it again? God would have to recall the universe on account of a dupe. Then, would the dupe ever even be posted?
I sort-of came up with this same idea on my own -- that black holes don't suck up matter to a singularity (which, despite scientific "proof," makes 0 sense to me, given 1 second of thought), but rather shoot it off into another "universe" which has less density than ours. That means these black hole universes are constantly ("constantly" in galactic scale) created and destroyed, with matter oscillating between them.
Of course, I spent too much time daydreaming to ace physics, so I might be a bit off.
> What objective evidence do you have that God does not exist?
It is the lack of ANY evidence that concerns me.
> The rule about nothing can travel faster than light only applies locally (in the same frame of reference)
(I'm OT, too bad) About that whole speed-of-light thing, w/r/t the idea that we can't "move faster than" c... What if we had propulsion forcing us away from one thing, but then another force pulling us in the opposite direction (toward our destination)? Could we then conceivably move at twice almost the speed of light?
Or is it still relative to only one point regardless of direction & quantity of forces acting upon the item (space craft)?
Or, and perhaps more likely, I'm I just making up questions that I (and only I) think are interesting, when they are just stupid?
> If the rate was slowing, yes. As it appears the rate is accelerating, we need something else.
The rest of the Universe realized how dangerous Earth is, and are slowly backing away.
> survival-oriented species out there in spacetime will not find a means to intervene in the death of the universe?
That's a good point you have hidden in there. Wouldn't it be ironic if, despite all the gloom & doom lovers out there, that we all died because of some race even more ignorant than ourselves? Or, perhaps, even more brilliant than ourselves.
> how the hell did this get a mod point of informative?
/.'ers that some other /.'ers are fscking idiots.
Because you were informing new
> but still, they come!
Damn you... the background on that is all a salmon-reddish color and after closing the page my eyes were blinded by slashdot's white BG.
> I've managed to find on filesharing tools songs which have been forbidden to be sold because they made some politician uneasy and such
If you are an American, can you cite examples? I'm curious.
If you are NOT an American, can you explain why a song makes a person uncomfortable enough for it to be made illegal?
> I made it. I should get paid for it.
Ignoring the fact that you are demanding money for something solely based on the fact that "I Made It," If you really came up with something interesting, you can create it and viola, you can sell it. But what if you're great at making ideas, but can't make an actual product to save your life? And you won't sell the idea? It's useless then, because no one wants to buy your shit. On the other hand, w/o copyright, someone who actually knows how to nail these two pieces together, and knows how to do it well, will be able to create a product, using your ideas with credit, of course, that is actually usable, and therefore (arguably) are helping move technology/whatever further, instead of locking us into your POS creation if we want to use an idea.
BTW, just because your idea hasn't been copyrighted by someone else doesn't mean they didn't come up with it first, or that someone else wouldn't come up with it later, independently, or even a slightly better version of it.
> *I* race penguins
Well, since there are no turtles to present you with a paradox, you must be the one with the One True Solution. Praise the penguins!
> Do you really want to get stuck in the Moment of death?
... you get infinitely close to your birth, but you never seem to be born. Now THAT sucks.
But you would never actually REACH that moment, you would just get REALLY close. Of course, you wouldn't get close because you would get infinitely close to mid-life. But, of course, before that you would have to get infinitely close to your twenties (but not actually get there). Before that...
> it's held up fine under plenty of torque.
I have the exact same one and the shaft and handle aren't secure enough. If I twist too hard, the handle turns but the rest doesn't. Despite that, it still works fine for not-too-tight screws.
I use the battery compartment as a place to hold screws & extra bits.
> ...for things he did while in Russia, which are legal in Russia.
But what "he" (his company, really) did was to export that locally legal software to the U.S., where the software was illegal. If Elcom had made a concerted effort to make sure the software never entered the U.S., he could not have been charged, IMIO (I=Ignorant).
> But where would the customers go?
The point is that the customers would either go "offline" or to much cheaper dialup. Seriously, except for file sharing, most people using broadband don't need anything near that speed. When they no longer have file sharing, they'll realize they are paying way too much just for quickly-loading web pages and get rid of it. SBC and other Broadband providers know this and want to make sure that any tasks requiring high-speed internet access stay in tact, so that their business offerings are seen as needed. Also, if the RIAA gets conked on the head for this tomfoolery, other people will now have heard of MP3s & file sharing, find out that it isn't (or, as for now, shouldn't be) illegal, and say "hey, I want that broadband thing to get music too." We're in tha' money. We're in tha' money. Screw the producers, 'cuz we get free music nooooooow.
> If it was THEIR internet bill perhaps.. but if they are under 18, they cant have one anyway
What? I had an internet account that I paid for and was in my name when I was 15. So yes, a child CAN have their own "internet bill"
> This all started after a bad experiance, which I would rather not talk about...
;)
Your mom found your kiddie porn, didn't she
I know all. Maybe I just think all. Maybe I just think. Or, maybe, I don't.
> Mine is in a folder called 'Hardware Monitor'
That's funny, as it's (kinda') similar to mine -- mine is under a Drivers directory, in a folder called "Monitor (KDS 5P-RN)"
> I took moslty AP classes in high school and was very board in those that were not at that level.
;)
> In high school you are just learning who to do that.
Evidently, that didn't include AP English.
> There are a number of reasons why attendence rules are different in high school and university
This isn't always the case, however. The Piece-of-shit University (Wheeling Jesuit U.) I went to had a worse attendence policy than my High School. These stupid bastards required professors to Fail students (Froshes & the ones on Academic Probation) if they missed a certain number of classes, basically equivalent to two weeks. If a class meets twice a week, you could miss only 4 classes without failing. 5 & you're done.
THEN there are the fucking idiot professors who will impose this rule arbitrarily on ALL students, and sometimes not even tell you. I failed two classes my 2nd semester senior year this way, neither had stated any attendance policy on the syllabi, nor did the professors mention it during the year. My grades were good enough, but I was fucked by these incompetent assholes.
Now I am 2 classes from a degree, but since I had no warning about impending, forced failure, I went ahead and got a career, and now I'm stuck without the worthless degree from a terrible school.
To top it all off, these people have the gall to send me Alumni requests for money. ASKING ME FOR MONEY, when I gave them way too much to begin with, only to get fucked over in many, many ways.
The most evil "Catholic" school I've ever seen.
Uh... offtopic? Hmm.. Well, it's about attendance, sort of?
> e've been in need of a good encrypted filesystem for a while
Unfortunately, it isn't an encrypted filesystem. It encrypts & decrypts data directly from the drive and the filesystem you use (whatever that is) is entirely independent (and unaware) of the encryption.
This is a great idea. If only you could actually BUY one. I searched on enova's site & google and could not find a single place to buy one. I couldn't even find any reference to price, which means it's probably too much. Have you or anyone else found a place to price/purchase this type of technology?
> a USB keychain--which has your special key
What's this? Someone who not only read the article, but looked for answers before spouting off? Incredible. I'd say Mod parent up, but it's already at 5. Congratulations, you are proof that the "system" sometimes works!
> frankly I'd be scared if our admins tried to upgrade it to even 8
Well, when I was a Solaris admin, it was my first serious UNIX work (work as in job, not as in "playing with Linux") and I had to upgrade from 2.6 to 8 and I had almost no troubles at all -- it's easy as pie. Assuming you know what all the software does, where to download it, how to reinstall it, and how to reconfigure every damn conf file that no longer works because of version incompatibility. But really, most of it was smooth except for Apache, BIND, sendmail, and a few little programs.
Talk about a crash course in UNIX... At least I was "smart enough" to try it on an old server first.