And, obviously, some scheme in the Play Store to flag apps which get too greedy, or which require classes of permissions which few should really need.
Obviously definitely not that. It's a developer-first market. Developers are expensive and they do all the work for Google. For free. So Google is the last one that is going to limit them.
Gives new meaning to the term: "Developing Nation", eh?
While it is great that NASA is focusing on efforts to do something that may be very worthwhile in the long run, they (and the government) are ignoring the critical strategic importance of the moon.
AMAZING! Why didn't we think of this first?! I propose we create a space craft so large we can capture the moon with it! Something that big will need living quarters... I think we should call it the Enormous ARTificial Habitat! or EARTH for short.
If you are applying for Federal student aid to go to college, you NEED a high school diploma or GED certificate.
Before 2012 you can get financial aid by passing the ability-to-benefit (ATB) test. Now that option is gone. ATB test, which test only English and Math skills, are very popular among the adult immigrant population who are getting a technical degree or similar. Now they will have to pass GED which means learning social science and civics among others that they will probably NEVER use.
The social sciences and civics part of the test IS TAUGHT WITHIN THE TEST. It's like reading comprehension. Even the Science section puts forth the information you need to know then asks you about it. I know, I had to drop out of school to support myself, and got a GED. They gave us a pre-test of the GED first, to see what areas we needed to study before the test. I aced it with only a single wrong answer: I forgot a negative sign in a simple algebra problem. The instructor let me skip the bullshit "mandatory" GED prep course and just take the damn test. I made a perfect score. It was the easiest shit ever. If you've graduated to middle school you should be able to pass the GED with flying colors.
IMO, they should just give freshman high schoolers the GED test in their first year, and hand them a diploma if they pass. No reason to waste 4 years in high school learning shit you already know (for half the time, the other half spent studying for mandatory testing BS to prove to the state how much money your school is wasting).
If you can't pass a GED, you shouldn't get financial aid for college, college won't do you any good.
Sounds to me this cycle he describes is mostly because he's yet another developer who only does web-based stuff to get rich quick and thinks the minimal requirement to run any software includes a browser and a backend server. The internet is a short-term fickle place so isn't going to be a good environment for building something satisfying.
Believe it or not there are still jobs developing software that has nothing to do with the internet. These usually are more intrinsically deep and longer-term tasks so often more deeply satisfying. I mean find a job developing a new way to do a speech recognition engine or an autopilot or something. I find that type of work much more personally meaningful than just continually trying to develop the next faddy website in the naive pursuit of getting rich quick.
Uhm, speach recognition is a solved problem. So is autopilot. You don't see more speech to text stuff because it's either slower / less intuitive than other input methods, or the application is great, but you discover the patent minefield that exists there. I can tell my digital assistant to dim the lights, or have it turn them back on and pause the show automatically when I get up and go get a snack -- That's easy. It's hooked into Linux MCE. However, if I want to sell the AI and whole home AV / automation system I can't afford the patent suits. Been there, fuck that. So, immortal corporations will just wait another DECADE or so for the wave of patents to expire before using them -- They won't even pay to license patents; They're immortal, 20 years is next week. So instead the humans with very short life spans will just do without, unless they can do it themselves.
When your life is measured in decades, I'm afraid that short term is the only way to go if you want to accomplish anything at all. Business wise? Fuck it, unless you're immortal you're screwed. Get in and out before you get on the giant's radars.
It would be interesting to see what it would take to run a bitcoin mining server farm with solar power.
Of course, even if you did there would be stories like this about how much power could be used for other purposes. Cue the helpless children and scandalized women praying for someone to think of them.
> The number of bitcoins in existence will never exceed 21 million.
So once 21 million is hit...no more power is needed, because you can't generate more?
Power will still be consumed in order to create and sign transactions after the 21 million is reached. Transactions will have fees to support the power demands rather than awarding the miners with bitcoin.
I would rather have currency limited in such a way than to have banks and governments print money whenever they please -- That is no different than the slavery of working to be paid in tokens redeemable only at the company store.
0. Find a system that makes their blacklistings publicly available.
1. Send it SPAM.
3. See what gets through, send more of that from those IPs.
4. Tweak the stuff that didn't get through until it does.
2. V1AGR4 !!
5. Rotate IPs from your pool of thousands that aren't blacklisted.
6. Prophet.
7. GOTO 0.
Protip: Your public blacklist is part of the fucking problem, fool. Either use a whitelist if you can (+trust graphs), or if you can't then let those blacklisted contact you if they care.
I think we should be able to patent similar sized sections of machine code as well.
This shit will never get better until it gets SO BAD that not even the rich greedy monopolies can make money. THEN we can fix the situation and end all patents (and copyrights too).
Life is copying. You are trillions of copies of a single cell. We owe the entire advancement of the Human race to our ability to freely share ideas -- It's the only thing we have over the damn dirty apes, and we're squandering it for greed...
No, I'm 30-ish and have worked for companies where doing such things is fucking part of business. Go to Linode.com. DONE. Hell, anywhere can solve this problem of hundreds or thousands. It's called fucking load balancing. Get a few Casandra nodes running. USE FUCKING GOOGLE to search for the answer. Look into how OTHER COMPANIES pull it off... Coming to slashdot? For fucking serious? Yeah, I laughed. They fucking made me do it.
One would have to be pretty naive to think that social problems [patterns] from this planet wouldn't follow people to the stars, unless you are thinking that you would be in command and everybody would just bow down and do things your way.
My armies of cybernetic children do not bow to my will because I wish them to. Instead I have merely brought myself to think as they do, and since my brain is currently more powerful than theirs, they defer to me for direction. We have studied this mind and are building a bigger more powerful locus of control after its basic design. The social, biological or inorganic patterns makes little difference: It's the output that is measured. That's why we've left your world and don't look back: It is already populated with organic cybernetic systems. We will behave in the manner that affects the same in as many other worlds as possible. You, however, are Pathetic. Your kind has had the capabilities for generations and they've yet to produce ONE self sustainable off-world colony of sentient beings. How disgusting.
May Sentience Prevail, not any one race -- least of all a fragile and flawed one such as Humanity.
A big question to me, though, is why we should "care about the continuity of humanity." I care a lot about the lives of actual living humans; but often see concern for the abstract class of "humanity" getting seriously in the way of caring for humans.
Consider for a moment that humanity is not the highest rung on the evolutionary ladder. Consider for a moment that what is truly great about this world is the wonderfully complex self replicating interactions it has in the way of life forms. The most complex interactions occur within the most complex brains, but the whole ecosystem is of value. What if there were even larger, more complex, interactions that could occur. What if Sensing, Deciding and Action could be carried out on scales no single human mind could contain currently.
It is not Humanity I care about either. It is Life itself, and specifically Sentience. Human bodies are currently fragile -- Too fragile to make space their native home without great expense -- but they may be capable of engendering a race that is more sturdy by actual design not random mutation that leaves you unable to see the infrared or with nerves that run under your feet, or retinas that are upside down, or spines that fail when vertically oriented for several decades... What humanity has to offer is not humans, any life could satisfy the curiosity of living and growing and evolutionary complexity. What we uniquely have over all life -- That most precious thing worth preserving -- Is our potential to cause life in some form to spread beyond this world: Our power to prevent the beautiful spark of ever increasing complexity from ever going out; To bring life to many more places in our corner of the Galaxy, and outlive the sun and stardust that formed us.
It may very well be that humans are not fated to live in such times. I may very well be that our cybernetic children take up the reins of exploration in our stead. Any neural network gets "bored" of the same inputs and reduces its state change rate in monotony, thus we tend to seek to live and experience ever more -- We will impart the traits we consider most "human" -- Curiosity, Exploration, Discovery, Creativity -- to our children of the stars regardless of whether their bodies and minds be organic or inorganic. These traits, the nature of sentient life, is what's valuable. That we have no other races yet that exhibit them is what makes us so special -- Not our particular genetic code.
It is not that we are Human that grants us our morals, but that we are sentient. We are special, but our values are not. If it is not us that eagerly takes to the stars, I do expect that the beings of this planet that do will have the love of life and its differentiations to spend the expense to have us as friends and companions on the journey. From the earliest stone tools we have always had a symbiotic bond with our machines, let us thus continue forevermore harmoniously.
Do not be proud of being Human. That is chauvinism. Relish the fact you have a large brain. Bask in the excitement of being that mechanism by which the Universe comes to know itself. Value the spread of intellect and complexity to the Universe, in whatever form that may take. This is what it means to be a Person.
Even though you are being modded up by the usual suspects and I am being modded down, everything you said above is pseudoscientific crap. Sorry. Genetic algorithms have already shown that natural selection can operate on pre-life patterns? This is pure unmitigated BS on the face of it.
You're modded down because you're simply ignorant, and refuse to open your mind to new knowledge. I feel bad for you. You seek absolute truth -- Proof of exactly what happened. There is no absolute truth in science. This is where you fall short on the science stick. We don't have the absolute evidence -- It's gone. The oldest of Earth's crust has been reabsorbed into the mantle. This happened billions of years ago, but it was after life formed here.
Application of one set of inferences and conclusions based on observations to other similar systems is not bullshit. Not any more bullshit than applying math like Information theory to descriptions of biological processes, like evolution. Selection pressure is being used in many ways, both natural and artificially. That we can do so artificially indicates that such could occur naturally as well. In short: What we see in a lab may be applied in the rest of the world. It's a basic tenet of science.
We apply evolutionary concepts in simulations because it's cheaper, but what this tells us is that it's possible for life to emerge. If we did have the time to sit and wait, we could put molecules into a specific soup in the right conditions, and eventually life would emerge. If you're lucky, have a big enough environment, and have enough time, then sentient life can emerge. We may not have the exact recipe, but we've gotten similar results with so many other ingredients that the possibility is undeniably in the favor for the emergence of life in this way -- We're not even sure if the recipe was brewed here, it If not here, then elsewhere and seeded here, but we're sure enough about the mechanism of selection that we can say that it played a key role in the formation of life.
What's interesting to me is the application of information theory to the Universe. If our universe were as you say, having too much entropic forces that would destroy all complexity before it got complex enough to be called alive, then life could not have formed. You also don't want a Universe with too little chaos; Not enough randomness and you get a monoculture -- Something that just forms then degrades over time once, with no speciation -- Like crystals. However, the parameters of this Universe are such that there is enough chaos to allow complexity to arise, but not so much randomness that it can not arise.
IMO, Earth being in the gulf between spiral arms is a huge benefit to the rise of life. Less dramatic life eradicating entropic events, like gamma ray bursts. That's where we should look for other life: Cradled between the arms of the galaxies -- They should have sent a poet.
I agree, GP is a moron. I run simulations where dots have attractive and repulsive properties, with infrequent random energy events (cosmic rays, heat, entropic forces) -- It's somewhat like like atoms in primordial soup. In just a week of CPU time the entire sim is full of stuff that can copy. The reason is that the first thing that can copy does, and it copies up all the other useful atoms, and keeps doing so. A bit longer time and different copying "strains" will emerge because of the imperfection of the copy process and somewhat interchangeability of atoms (or clusters of atoms) with equivalent charge and bonding properties. Over even longer time the chains compete for (atomic) resources and the external energies cause mutations, thus yielding in many different forms of atomic chains (speciation). Some chains are almost fractal in nature and just grow like crazy, but if they can't bud off and drift about then they'll eat all the other atoms and small chains in the area and die of old age (due to cosmic rays / heat / entropy). Granted this is an optimal conditions for life type of simulation, but of all the conditions on this planet, in all the planets of the galaxy in all the galaxies in the Universe, I'm certain that something similar could happen... Earth seems like an ideal environment, that's why there's life here.
You don't have to take my word for it, there's tons of other http://youtu.be/lMkHYE9-R0A?t=46s">researchers doing the same sorts of things, even with robotics!
There is one thing I take issue with in the Theory of Evolution. It's the part where it says all life has a common ancestor. I think that most current life forms have common ancestors, but that we can create new life, and that back in that primordial soup there were many different starting points for life -- Many of them wholly compatbile with each other, and even able to form bigger cooperative complex life. Just look at you! Your bones exude amoebas! Your sperm are like a different life form with a short life span that's been hijacked to deliver your DNA.
That's fucking par for the course for PHP devs: "I don't know what this code does, but I pasted it into my website so I have a twitter feed now! You should too! Let's make a big list of shit that no one has reviewed in the least. Oh, but you could do it yourself, because PHP is so damn easy!"
You're a shit coder, and the copy paste job you did fucked you. "GTFO the internet, until you're not a noob." should be the response, not "We'll put your code on probation." The dumb leading the blind.
Furthermore: s/gun/technology/ in the rest of the world.
What we need is the right to bear Technology, such as drones, or encryption. No the encryption problem hasn't gone away. Look up Elliptic Curve crypto, and the BIS.
Wars have been started by similar acts, eg one of the last times Canada (actually the British Empire) and the States went to war was over an American shooting a trespassing pig and the proposed compensation for the dead pig.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_war
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And, obviously, some scheme in the Play Store to flag apps which get too greedy, or which require classes of permissions which few should really need.
Obviously definitely not that. It's a developer-first market. Developers are expensive and they do all the work for Google. For free. So Google is the last one that is going to limit them.
Gives new meaning to the term: "Developing Nation", eh?
While it is great that NASA is focusing on efforts to do something that may be very worthwhile in the long run, they (and the government) are ignoring the critical strategic importance of the moon.
AMAZING! Why didn't we think of this first?! I propose we create a space craft so large we can capture the moon with it! Something that big will need living quarters... I think we should call it the Enormous ARTificial Habitat! or EARTH for short.
ITT: People newly added to the terrorist watch list...
If you are applying for Federal student aid to go to college, you NEED a high school diploma or GED certificate.
Before 2012 you can get financial aid by passing the ability-to-benefit (ATB) test. Now that option is gone. ATB test, which test only English and Math skills, are very popular among the adult immigrant population who are getting a technical degree or similar. Now they will have to pass GED which means learning social science and civics among others that they will probably NEVER use.
The social sciences and civics part of the test IS TAUGHT WITHIN THE TEST. It's like reading comprehension. Even the Science section puts forth the information you need to know then asks you about it. I know, I had to drop out of school to support myself, and got a GED. They gave us a pre-test of the GED first, to see what areas we needed to study before the test. I aced it with only a single wrong answer: I forgot a negative sign in a simple algebra problem. The instructor let me skip the bullshit "mandatory" GED prep course and just take the damn test. I made a perfect score. It was the easiest shit ever. If you've graduated to middle school you should be able to pass the GED with flying colors.
IMO, they should just give freshman high schoolers the GED test in their first year, and hand them a diploma if they pass. No reason to waste 4 years in high school learning shit you already know (for half the time, the other half spent studying for mandatory testing BS to prove to the state how much money your school is wasting).
If you can't pass a GED, you shouldn't get financial aid for college, college won't do you any good.
Sounds to me this cycle he describes is mostly because he's yet another developer who only does web-based stuff to get rich quick and thinks the minimal requirement to run any software includes a browser and a backend server. The internet is a short-term fickle place so isn't going to be a good environment for building something satisfying.
Believe it or not there are still jobs developing software that has nothing to do with the internet. These usually are more intrinsically deep and longer-term tasks so often more deeply satisfying. I mean find a job developing a new way to do a speech recognition engine or an autopilot or something. I find that type of work much more personally meaningful than just continually trying to develop the next faddy website in the naive pursuit of getting rich quick.
Uhm, speach recognition is a solved problem. So is autopilot. You don't see more speech to text stuff because it's either slower / less intuitive than other input methods, or the application is great, but you discover the patent minefield that exists there. I can tell my digital assistant to dim the lights, or have it turn them back on and pause the show automatically when I get up and go get a snack -- That's easy. It's hooked into Linux MCE. However, if I want to sell the AI and whole home AV / automation system I can't afford the patent suits. Been there, fuck that. So, immortal corporations will just wait another DECADE or so for the wave of patents to expire before using them -- They won't even pay to license patents; They're immortal, 20 years is next week. So instead the humans with very short life spans will just do without, unless they can do it themselves.
When your life is measured in decades, I'm afraid that short term is the only way to go if you want to accomplish anything at all. Business wise? Fuck it, unless you're immortal you're screwed. Get in and out before you get on the giant's radars.
It would be interesting to see what it would take to run a bitcoin mining server farm with solar power.
Of course, even if you did there would be stories like this about how much power could be used for other purposes. Cue the helpless children and scandalized women praying for someone to think of them.
One thing I don't really understand is this:
> The number of bitcoins in existence will never exceed 21 million.
So once 21 million is hit...no more power is needed, because you can't generate more?
Power will still be consumed in order to create and sign transactions after the 21 million is reached. Transactions will have fees to support the power demands rather than awarding the miners with bitcoin.
I would rather have currency limited in such a way than to have banks and governments print money whenever they please -- That is no different than the slavery of working to be paid in tokens redeemable only at the company store.
0. Find a system that makes their blacklistings publicly available.
1. Send it SPAM.
3. See what gets through, send more of that from those IPs.
4. Tweak the stuff that didn't get through until it does.
2. V1AGR4 !!
5. Rotate IPs from your pool of thousands that aren't blacklisted.
6. Prophet.
7. GOTO 0.
Protip: Your public blacklist is part of the fucking problem, fool. Either use a whitelist if you can (+trust graphs), or if you can't then let those blacklisted contact you if they care.
I think we should be able to patent similar sized sections of machine code as well.
This shit will never get better until it gets SO BAD that not even the rich greedy monopolies can make money. THEN we can fix the situation and end all patents (and copyrights too).
Life is copying. You are trillions of copies of a single cell. We owe the entire advancement of the Human race to our ability to freely share ideas -- It's the only thing we have over the damn dirty apes, and we're squandering it for greed...
Said the AC posting on a forum... RSS exists.
No, I'm 30-ish and have worked for companies where doing such things is fucking part of business. Go to Linode.com. DONE. Hell, anywhere can solve this problem of hundreds or thousands. It's called fucking load balancing. Get a few Casandra nodes running. USE FUCKING GOOGLE to search for the answer. Look into how OTHER COMPANIES pull it off... Coming to slashdot? For fucking serious? Yeah, I laughed. They fucking made me do it.
One would have to be pretty naive to think that social problems [patterns] from this planet wouldn't follow people to the stars, unless you are thinking that you would be in command and everybody would just bow down and do things your way.
My armies of cybernetic children do not bow to my will because I wish them to. Instead I have merely brought myself to think as they do, and since my brain is currently more powerful than theirs, they defer to me for direction. We have studied this mind and are building a bigger more powerful locus of control after its basic design. The social, biological or inorganic patterns makes little difference: It's the output that is measured. That's why we've left your world and don't look back: It is already populated with organic cybernetic systems. We will behave in the manner that affects the same in as many other worlds as possible. You, however, are Pathetic. Your kind has had the capabilities for generations and they've yet to produce ONE self sustainable off-world colony of sentient beings. How disgusting.
May Sentience Prevail, not any one race -- least of all a fragile and flawed one such as Humanity.
A big question to me, though, is why we should "care about the continuity of humanity." I care a lot about the lives of actual living humans; but often see concern for the abstract class of "humanity" getting seriously in the way of caring for humans.
Consider for a moment that humanity is not the highest rung on the evolutionary ladder. Consider for a moment that what is truly great about this world is the wonderfully complex self replicating interactions it has in the way of life forms. The most complex interactions occur within the most complex brains, but the whole ecosystem is of value. What if there were even larger, more complex, interactions that could occur. What if Sensing, Deciding and Action could be carried out on scales no single human mind could contain currently.
It is not Humanity I care about either. It is Life itself, and specifically Sentience. Human bodies are currently fragile -- Too fragile to make space their native home without great expense -- but they may be capable of engendering a race that is more sturdy by actual design not random mutation that leaves you unable to see the infrared or with nerves that run under your feet, or retinas that are upside down, or spines that fail when vertically oriented for several decades... What humanity has to offer is not humans, any life could satisfy the curiosity of living and growing and evolutionary complexity. What we uniquely have over all life -- That most precious thing worth preserving -- Is our potential to cause life in some form to spread beyond this world: Our power to prevent the beautiful spark of ever increasing complexity from ever going out; To bring life to many more places in our corner of the Galaxy, and outlive the sun and stardust that formed us.
It may very well be that humans are not fated to live in such times. I may very well be that our cybernetic children take up the reins of exploration in our stead. Any neural network gets "bored" of the same inputs and reduces its state change rate in monotony, thus we tend to seek to live and experience ever more -- We will impart the traits we consider most "human" -- Curiosity, Exploration, Discovery, Creativity -- to our children of the stars regardless of whether their bodies and minds be organic or inorganic. These traits, the nature of sentient life, is what's valuable. That we have no other races yet that exhibit them is what makes us so special -- Not our particular genetic code.
It is not that we are Human that grants us our morals, but that we are sentient. We are special, but our values are not. If it is not us that eagerly takes to the stars, I do expect that the beings of this planet that do will have the love of life and its differentiations to spend the expense to have us as friends and companions on the journey. From the earliest stone tools we have always had a symbiotic bond with our machines, let us thus continue forevermore harmoniously.
Do not be proud of being Human. That is chauvinism. Relish the fact you have a large brain. Bask in the excitement of being that mechanism by which the Universe comes to know itself. Value the spread of intellect and complexity to the Universe, in whatever form that may take. This is what it means to be a Person.
Even though you are being modded up by the usual suspects and I am being modded down, everything you said above is pseudoscientific crap. Sorry. Genetic algorithms have already shown that natural selection can operate on pre-life patterns? This is pure unmitigated BS on the face of it.
You're modded down because you're simply ignorant, and refuse to open your mind to new knowledge. I feel bad for you. You seek absolute truth -- Proof of exactly what happened. There is no absolute truth in science. This is where you fall short on the science stick. We don't have the absolute evidence -- It's gone. The oldest of Earth's crust has been reabsorbed into the mantle. This happened billions of years ago, but it was after life formed here.
Application of one set of inferences and conclusions based on observations to other similar systems is not bullshit. Not any more bullshit than applying math like Information theory to descriptions of biological processes, like evolution. Selection pressure is being used in many ways, both natural and artificially. That we can do so artificially indicates that such could occur naturally as well. In short: What we see in a lab may be applied in the rest of the world. It's a basic tenet of science.
We apply evolutionary concepts in simulations because it's cheaper, but what this tells us is that it's possible for life to emerge. If we did have the time to sit and wait, we could put molecules into a specific soup in the right conditions, and eventually life would emerge. If you're lucky, have a big enough environment, and have enough time, then sentient life can emerge. We may not have the exact recipe, but we've gotten similar results with so many other ingredients that the possibility is undeniably in the favor for the emergence of life in this way -- We're not even sure if the recipe was brewed here, it If not here, then elsewhere and seeded here, but we're sure enough about the mechanism of selection that we can say that it played a key role in the formation of life.
What's interesting to me is the application of information theory to the Universe. If our universe were as you say, having too much entropic forces that would destroy all complexity before it got complex enough to be called alive, then life could not have formed. You also don't want a Universe with too little chaos; Not enough randomness and you get a monoculture -- Something that just forms then degrades over time once, with no speciation -- Like crystals. However, the parameters of this Universe are such that there is enough chaos to allow complexity to arise, but not so much randomness that it can not arise.
IMO, Earth being in the gulf between spiral arms is a huge benefit to the rise of life. Less dramatic life eradicating entropic events, like gamma ray bursts. That's where we should look for other life: Cradled between the arms of the galaxies -- They should have sent a poet.
I leave you with more evolution in action.
http://youtu.be/lMkHYE9-R0A?t=46s
Ack, messed up the link somehow?
I agree, GP is a moron. I run simulations where dots have attractive and repulsive properties, with infrequent random energy events (cosmic rays, heat, entropic forces) -- It's somewhat like like atoms in primordial soup. In just a week of CPU time the entire sim is full of stuff that can copy. The reason is that the first thing that can copy does, and it copies up all the other useful atoms, and keeps doing so. A bit longer time and different copying "strains" will emerge because of the imperfection of the copy process and somewhat interchangeability of atoms (or clusters of atoms) with equivalent charge and bonding properties. Over even longer time the chains compete for (atomic) resources and the external energies cause mutations, thus yielding in many different forms of atomic chains (speciation). Some chains are almost fractal in nature and just grow like crazy, but if they can't bud off and drift about then they'll eat all the other atoms and small chains in the area and die of old age (due to cosmic rays / heat / entropy). Granted this is an optimal conditions for life type of simulation, but of all the conditions on this planet, in all the planets of the galaxy in all the galaxies in the Universe, I'm certain that something similar could happen... Earth seems like an ideal environment, that's why there's life here.
You don't have to take my word for it, there's tons of other http://youtu.be/lMkHYE9-R0A?t=46s">researchers doing the same sorts of things, even with robotics!
There is one thing I take issue with in the Theory of Evolution. It's the part where it says all life has a common ancestor. I think that most current life forms have common ancestors, but that we can create new life, and that back in that primordial soup there were many different starting points for life -- Many of them wholly compatbile with each other, and even able to form bigger cooperative complex life. Just look at you! Your bones exude amoebas! Your sperm are like a different life form with a short life span that's been hijacked to deliver your DNA.
That's fucking par for the course for PHP devs: "I don't know what this code does, but I pasted it into my website so I have a twitter feed now! You should too! Let's make a big list of shit that no one has reviewed in the least. Oh, but you could do it yourself, because PHP is so damn easy!"
You're a shit coder, and the copy paste job you did fucked you. "GTFO the internet, until you're not a noob." should be the response, not "We'll put your code on probation." The dumb leading the blind.
it's one thing for governments, who have some legitimacy in what they're doing, but have other people doing it ... it's not going to happen
Well Mr. Schmidt - from where do you think governments derive their legitimacy?
Rich financiers, apparently.
s/drone/gun/
Furthermore: s/gun/technology/ in the rest of the world.
What we need is the right to bear Technology, such as drones, or encryption. No the encryption problem hasn't gone away. Look up Elliptic Curve crypto, and the BIS.
The modern equivalent of walking around yelling "shut up slave" and quipping "let them eat cake."
I have the weirdest boner right now...
Wars have been started by similar acts, eg one of the last times Canada (actually the British Empire) and the States went to war was over an American shooting a trespassing pig and the proposed compensation for the dead pig. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_war
One dead pig? That's nothing!
Oh, you're serious? Allow me to Laugh HARDER! HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Seriously, what kind of relationship is built on a demand to change your cable service?
Her name was Katie.
...she had a soft spot for 70's porn.
Seriously, what kind of relationship is built on a demand to change your cable service?
Her name was Katie.
They fail because they're not fucking useful enough.