I was just going to comment on what a lot of misogynists these arm-chair evolution experts are, but you did it for me. Thank you.
Also, for all people, apparently "self discipline" and "ethics" and Dawkins-forfend "morals" (because we believe in Archons, not gods these days.) is for nothing. It's just an excuse on a platter for people to be completely self-indulgent regardless of the consequences to themselves or others. Feh!
"If you're somewhere in between on the power scale, then the strategy seems to be pretending monogamy while having at least one mistress on the side. The theory here is that you get the greater number of kids and genetic variation from having more partners, but a fallback position of the kids from your "monogamous" relationship. Hence middle-management types cheating on their wives."
Yes, the researchers and the passports were British, and I'm sorry for my self-centric nature, but at least I'm focusing on the problems of my government rather than hypocritically pointing out those in yours. But it's still cogent to the US since we've got the same *international* standard chipped passports now, or have we gone with a proprietary equivalent? Also, your information is dated: our State is Surveillance now, too. It's the latest fashion.
at no point that I'm aware of from the ancient history that I've read was Rome ever an atheist's religion-free paradise. Pretty much they enforced pantheism and then much later with Constantine, Christianity. But I'm pretty sure they'd have taken exception to anyone not paying obesience to their state religion.
As an aside, what were the great values of Rome? Compassion and mercy certainly weren't amongst them, being seen as signs of weakness. I think you are overreaching.
True enough and informative, but they're pretty pale, and as i recall, the population of natural blondes in the rest of the world is much lower than the it would seem from casual inspection.
Considering his vote for FISA amongst several other freedom-killing, totalitarian stances, I don't believe him or you.
The more power we give presidents the worse off we are in the long run. And moreover, the Democratic party is hardly the party of peace, just look back to Johnson who escalated Vietnam from 16,000 to 550,000 US military personnel.
Also, sometime or another we're going to need to elect another party's candidate (because power corrupts everyone) and unfortunately right now the only other game in town is the Republicans, so do you really want a subsequent republican president to have the same power you seem to ascribe to with the "elect-Obama-and-everything-will-be-better" perspective.
and yet it was largely fiscal policy (clipping and re-alloying coins that lead to inflation) and a need for more loyal, trained fighters that brought Rome down. It fell under the weight of its expansion and government/military spending... It seems likely that we will also. As to the motivations behind the spending, I think religion has less to do with it than good old fashioned greed and hubris.
FWIR about 1/3 of Iran's population is blonde haired and blue eyed. The Caucuses mountain range (from which we get the term Caucasian) is partly in Iran. So if Iran or part of their population (the government) is evil that whole profiling thing starts to not work real fast.
How about the government leaves us alone and sees to its actual responsibilities and, oh i don't know, obeys its own laws and attempts to embody American ideals? Just a suggestion.
you joke, but when the limit of the number of nodes that can participate in a cache-coherent, shared memory architecture is n and the number of nodes the customer bought is 10n and the customer wants to get on the top 100 list, you build the cluster, run the benchmarks, and lament the lie (to yourself and coworkers).
but that's why the gov't "needs" to destroy the 4th ammendment and any pretext at a right to privacy... so they can know who the terrorist is before even the terrorist realizes it!:p
actually i was kinda hoping for a +Funny mod, but struck a negative chord with the "overly sensitive regarding corporatism crowd"
it just seemed amusing to me that GM feels they need an energy industry of one sort or another to cuddle up with. It's also amusing to me that this transition is billed as big news: it's what they've been doing for 100 years. They've just switched partners. The only moderately interesting thing is the socio and/or economic pressure angle.
while you see roses, I look at other commodity industries that require infrastructure, like power. California in particular had a great deal of fun with regulation and subsequent gamed "deregulation". The "power" companies saw there was no good reason to own production capacity and so divested themselves of power generation stations only to be bitten by that decision later. I guarantee you that some business/marketing idiot will push the market that way and that much market turbulence followed by even more idiotic regulations will result. In the meanwhile some other idiot will use it as an excuse to ban personal ownership of user-programmable computers. (Think the Disneys of the world will allow computing trends to continue in isolation?)
but, just like other market economies, this depends on good or perfect information in the market to do anything like optimization. The purveyors of the cloud must all have the same good information on likely demand. Otherwise non-zero risk of unavailability turns into computing lines, or a zero risk of getting computing performed in anything like a timely manner.
I'd bet that many consumers will be unwilling and/unable to forecast their consumption growth and that statistical models will eventually fail.
Plus, wherever people build systems, others devise methods to game them. Expect people to intentionally be bursty in job submissions in order to throw your models.
Addressing another flaw brought up by others: security. As a minimum, and not addressing hardware level or virtualization-based "evil genius" problems some form of capability contract based computing is needed to enable mutually untrusting parties to transact the computation of one's algorithms on another's data without inapproriate disclosure. See http://www.erights.org/ for more.
some college educated people cannot program their VCRs. some cannot do calculus. some cannot speak a foreign language. some learned these things and forgot them after college. you expect too much of the common body of retained knowledge. As for me, I blame the editor who should have a firm command of the language and literary niceties.:p
you're not a fool per se. everything has deficiencies of one sort or another. but have you looked to see whether there is any configuration guidance for your particular choice?
I know NSA IAD has a security configuration guide for MacOS X. It may include a section on FileVault. If so, it ought to be at least a good place to start from and provide you with good search terms.
Expecting to be able to copy/paste a slashdot book review in your Ziff Davis publication to meet your deadline is a bad plan. The last time most of us had an english class was freshman year of college or senior year high school. You're lucky sentences complete he spoke in.
trusted computing doesn't work, will be impractical/illegal (in the case of DRM, see Sony virus CDs) to deploy effectively, and will never be impregnable.
similarly, human to human authentication is always dicey. Most times it is more so than TC, even now. People have been forging/stealing identification since the day after identifying documents were invented. Someone with five different identities (and matching DLs) gets to vote 5 times... While people are denied their right to vote arbitrarily by election judges claiming their DLs are fraudulent. And then there's the "chilling effect" of attribution of vote to individual. In my precinct there were about 70 votes in this year's primary. Combine that with the rather intrusive census data and one can formulate who voted for whom with reasonable accuracy. Not that the government's ever before used data for improper purposes while denying any such thing was happening. It's just a crackpot theory.
Besides, at the end of the day, it's easier to rig the election using the voting equipment. Spend our money and effort on that first, please.
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I was just going to comment on what a lot of misogynists these arm-chair evolution experts are, but you did it for me. Thank you.
Also, for all people, apparently "self discipline" and "ethics" and Dawkins-forfend "morals" (because we believe in Archons, not gods these days.) is for nothing. It's just an excuse on a platter for people to be completely self-indulgent regardless of the consequences to themselves or others. Feh!
"If you're somewhere in between on the power scale, then the strategy seems to be pretending monogamy while having at least one mistress on the side. The theory here is that you get the greater number of kids and genetic variation from having more partners, but a fallback position of the kids from your "monogamous" relationship. Hence middle-management types cheating on their wives."
Rationalizing your behavior? :p
Yes, the researchers and the passports were British, and I'm sorry for my self-centric nature, but at least I'm focusing on the problems of my government rather than hypocritically pointing out those in yours. But it's still cogent to the US since we've got the same *international* standard chipped passports now, or have we gone with a proprietary equivalent? Also, your information is dated: our State is Surveillance now, too. It's the latest fashion.
at no point that I'm aware of from the ancient history that I've read was Rome ever an atheist's religion-free paradise. Pretty much they enforced pantheism and then much later with Constantine, Christianity. But I'm pretty sure they'd have taken exception to anyone not paying obesience to their state religion.
As an aside, what were the great values of Rome? Compassion and mercy certainly weren't amongst them, being seen as signs of weakness. I think you are overreaching.
True enough and informative, but they're pretty pale, and as i recall, the population of natural blondes in the rest of the world is much lower than the it would seem from casual inspection.
In other words: hair dye and coloring lenses.
Considering his vote for FISA amongst several other freedom-killing, totalitarian stances, I don't believe him or you.
The more power we give presidents the worse off we are in the long run. And moreover, the Democratic party is hardly the party of peace, just look back to Johnson who escalated Vietnam from 16,000 to 550,000 US military personnel.
Also, sometime or another we're going to need to elect another party's candidate (because power corrupts everyone) and unfortunately right now the only other game in town is the Republicans, so do you really want a subsequent republican president to have the same power you seem to ascribe to with the "elect-Obama-and-everything-will-be-better" perspective.
and yet it was largely fiscal policy (clipping and re-alloying coins that lead to inflation) and a need for more loyal, trained fighters that brought Rome down. It fell under the weight of its expansion and government/military spending... It seems likely that we will also. As to the motivations behind the spending, I think religion has less to do with it than good old fashioned greed and hubris.
"God bless America. I hope religious freaks do not collapse the new Rome once again."
Conflicted much?
FWIR about 1/3 of Iran's population is blonde haired and blue eyed. The Caucuses mountain range (from which we get the term Caucasian) is partly in Iran. So if Iran or part of their population (the government) is evil that whole profiling thing starts to not work real fast.
How about the government leaves us alone and sees to its actual responsibilities and, oh i don't know, obeys its own laws and attempts to embody American ideals? Just a suggestion.
you joke, but when the limit of the number of nodes that can participate in a cache-coherent, shared memory architecture is n and the number of nodes the customer bought is 10n and the customer wants to get on the top 100 list, you build the cluster, run the benchmarks, and lament the lie (to yourself and coworkers).
but that's why the gov't "needs" to destroy the 4th ammendment and any pretext at a right to privacy... so they can know who the terrorist is before even the terrorist realizes it! :p
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uggh!
Good. While you're doing it,
loan me a gun. Two guns.
You'd use these weapons against men
and women who uphold the law?
We use these weapons
to shop for groceries, ****.
slashdot apparently is a guerrilla marketing site. Who knew?
How about some objective analysis, or a couple of links to blogs like in the first comment?
actually i was kinda hoping for a +Funny mod, but struck a negative chord with the "overly sensitive regarding corporatism crowd"
it just seemed amusing to me that GM feels they need an energy industry of one sort or another to cuddle up with. It's also amusing to me that this transition is billed as big news: it's what they've been doing for 100 years. They've just switched partners. The only moderately interesting thing is the socio and/or economic pressure angle.
well, then we ought to just let them run roughshod and decide what's best for us, then shouldn't we?
mmm... mercantilistic oligarchy
it has a program counter. it will have hacks and virii. no updates is bad mojo.
Detroit shifts gears from Big Oil to Big Electricity
Meanwhile, in other news, Big Pharma and Big Media cooperate to extend monopolies.
Obituaries: Net neutrality killed in a hit and run by Ma Bell++
while you see roses, I look at other commodity industries that require infrastructure, like power. California in particular had a great deal of fun with regulation and subsequent gamed "deregulation". The "power" companies saw there was no good reason to own production capacity and so divested themselves of power generation stations only to be bitten by that decision later. I guarantee you that some business/marketing idiot will push the market that way and that much market turbulence followed by even more idiotic regulations will result. In the meanwhile some other idiot will use it as an excuse to ban personal ownership of user-programmable computers. (Think the Disneys of the world will allow computing trends to continue in isolation?)
but, just like other market economies, this depends on good or perfect information in the market to do anything like optimization. The purveyors of the cloud must all have the same good information on likely demand. Otherwise non-zero risk of unavailability turns into computing lines, or a zero risk of getting computing performed in anything like a timely manner.
I'd bet that many consumers will be unwilling and/unable to forecast their consumption growth and that statistical models will eventually fail.
Plus, wherever people build systems, others devise methods to game them. Expect people to intentionally be bursty in job submissions in order to throw your models.
Addressing another flaw brought up by others: security. As a minimum, and not addressing hardware level or virtualization-based "evil genius" problems some form of capability contract based computing is needed to enable mutually untrusting parties to transact the computation of one's algorithms on another's data without inapproriate disclosure. See http://www.erights.org/ for more.
so we'll end up with a sub-prime computing crisis?
how can you bail out companies that fail to keep sufficient computing reserves in hand to cover their potential obligations?
some college educated people cannot program their VCRs. some cannot do calculus. some cannot speak a foreign language. some learned these things and forgot them after college. you expect too much of the common body of retained knowledge. As for me, I blame the editor who should have a firm command of the language and literary niceties. :p
you're not a fool per se. everything has deficiencies of one sort or another. but have you looked to see whether there is any configuration guidance for your particular choice?
I know NSA IAD has a security configuration guide for MacOS X. It may include a section on FileVault. If so, it ought to be at least a good place to start from and provide you with good search terms.
http://www.nsa.gov/snac/downloads_macOSX10_4Server.cfm?MenuID=scg10.3.1.1
Or judging from your tone, anything I want it to that you will denigrate should you find out about it.
http://gnuradio.org/trac
Expecting to be able to copy/paste a slashdot book review in your Ziff Davis publication to meet your deadline is a bad plan. The last time most of us had an english class was freshman year of college or senior year high school. You're lucky sentences complete he spoke in.
trusted computing doesn't work, will be impractical/illegal (in the case of DRM, see Sony virus CDs) to deploy effectively, and will never be impregnable.
similarly, human to human authentication is always dicey. Most times it is more so than TC, even now. People have been forging/stealing identification since the day after identifying documents were invented. Someone with five different identities (and matching DLs) gets to vote 5 times... While people are denied their right to vote arbitrarily by election judges claiming their DLs are fraudulent. And then there's the "chilling effect" of attribution of vote to individual. In my precinct there were about 70 votes in this year's primary. Combine that with the rather intrusive census data and one can formulate who voted for whom with reasonable accuracy. Not that the government's ever before used data for improper purposes while denying any such thing was happening. It's just a crackpot theory.
Besides, at the end of the day, it's easier to rig the election using the voting equipment. Spend our money and effort on that first, please.