Free speech hasn't been taken away. There already are limitations on what constitutes free speech in the UK (and the US, and other countries, for that matter). Speech that is abusive or incites hatred is one of the things things that is limited. Political protest isn't limited. The press is free to insult the government. Go look up what constitutes "freedom of speech". It doesn't mean "I say whatever I like [without consequence]"
In the US? The only legal limits we have on free speech here are: 1. Speech that directly and immediately puts human lives in danger (The old, yelling fire in a crowded theater, thing.) 2. Slander... and this isn't unprotected, it's just that you can be sued for liable for making things up. And slander in the US has a much different definition here than it does in the UK. 3. Those limits imposed by society. i.e. I'm not allowed to make wiener jokes around my wife's friends. But this isn't a legal limitation, it's a "I don't want to get hit with pots and pans" limitation.
I see a lot of nonsense and talking heads on TV that talk about how the US is different and we just don't understand that the rest of the world has a different view on free speech. We do know that, we've fought wars over it. We know exactly what Europe's limits on free speech lead to, and it appears to be happening again! Seriously, pull your heads out of your asses. You've got a few douche-bags running around blowing people up. That sucks, but really the number of people getting killed is very very low. Remember WW2? Because that was a real war, and that's what restrictions on speech and the press lead to.
Man alive I'm glad that I'm too old to get drafted.
I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Fine, agree 100%, but denying the holocaust is strictly verboten in France. Another equivalent expression would be to goose-step down the Champs-Élysées singing Deutschland uber alles. All examples tasteless and repugnant, but Mohammed in homo-scenes seems to be quite acceptable.
This #'jesuischarlie thing is not very well thought-out, I'm going to give the benefit of the doubt to my French friends on the basis they are in shock, and emotions are running high. But defending unsavory freedom of speech when directed towards Arabs, but taking offence when directed against Jews, or French nationalism is far from the sophisticated, elegant and enlightened image many Europeans like to hold of themselves.
Except the Mohammed stuff is made up and a joke. The holocaust really did happen, and makes most other events in human history pale in comparison. And those that would deny that it happened are doing so for the very purpose of repeating the event. The purpose of the Mohammed cartoons was to try and get Muslims to lighten up (A good thing) The purpose of denying the holocost is to recreate it (a bad thing.)
I do not support those laws, but they're like the child molester laws of free speech. It's really hard to argue they're bad no matter how hardcore you are into free speech.
Later law automagically overrides, so a law cannot make anything permanent.
All it'll take is a new law allowing/mandating internet access taxes to make this "permanent" ban vanish.
So they have a temporary law, and they want to make it into a permanent law, and you're saying that's meaningless because they could make another law overriding it? Other events that could render this law meaningless: Civil war, Alien invasion, Meteor strike, Solar flare that destroys all electronics overnight.
Or you mean an industry wanting a new entrant in to that industry to be subject to the same regulations the rest of the industry is forced to follow, right?
Um... no.
This is a perfect example of what's wrong with government regulation. Usually regulation is introduced for a very real and justifiable reason. The problem is however that once "The law" governs how money is made, those who like money (everyone) get very interested in politics. They cajole and manipulate the regulation until it does nothing more than prevent new competition from entering the market.
I'd be willing to bet that if you reviewed the regulations in question you'd be rather surprised at how stupid they are. One example from my state is that they can't be open on Sunday. Wow, big consumer protection there... The same goes for a dozen other heavily regulated markets... Cabs, Airlines, liquor distributors (especially liquor distributors) and on and on.
Are storage spaces (such as Megaupload) responsible for their users files?
The problem is, that hasn't been decided as of yet. It would make sense to any normal person that they wouldn't be. But law enforcement isn't sure how to deal with such services so they are doing their best to kill the industry with raids, but then drop the cases before they hit court so no ruling can hurt their efforts.
Came here to say exactly this. It seems that people need to be reminded of what François Marie Arouet (it's often attributed to Voltair) said:
I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Whilst the violent reaction of fundamental muslims is disgraceful, I fully support their ability to sprout their views. If I didn't, then I couldn't support Charlie Hebdo et al to mock islam (along with judaism and christianity and everyone else). Take a positive look at it - by allowing them to air their views, we're making sure the world sees how pathetic they are, and allows us [with clear conscience] to say "they are utter disgraces as human beings".
Uhm... I do no think you understand "Anonymous" They're like a super geeky version of your drunken Redneck cousin Rufus. Any semi-passable pretext to start a fight is leap upon. Then you're forced to listen to several minutes of chest puffing and threats that are usually followed by his ADD kicking in, him losing interest and you feeling embarrassed that hes related to you.
Right, but you're talking about physical rackspace and not "the cloud" so you're entirely off topic. Why would they ever guarantee the security of a rack slot?
We're talking about "The cloud" here, which is entirely different. You don't even know where the data is stored. Is it in New York? Chicago? India? All 3 places at once? To the laws of the country its stored in make the data available to local authorities without a warent? Is the vendor hiring temp workers from a country that has poor privacy laws and allowing them to remotely access your data? Just because they signed a contract stating that they wouldn't 4years ago, does that mean they still abide by that condition? Or even know that it was ever agreed to in the first place?
And when we're done with that, let's take a closer look at that Westboro Baptist Church and whether we can get rid of those loonies too while we're at it.
Quick, someone hack their website and put the cartoon up!
I'm glad karma took the quick route for once. For islamic fundamentalists to die in a kosher store and in a printing press after attacking a magazine. Can't beat that.
/bravo Time to make fun of them in every outlet I'm still allowed to post in.
Ok, so you're about to enter the room against 2 dudes that spent a while in Africa getting trained by battle hardened terrorists. They have body armor and 7.62×39mm rounds that easily pierce most body armor on the planet. Here's your dart gun... GO!
You can do some computational things on encrypted data, like create a database, which obviously adds some overhead. For example cryptdb: http://css.csail.mit.edu/crypt...
And built an application which then decrypts the data on the client when the user needs access to it, for example there is Mylar from the same research group as the database above: https://css.csail.mit.edu/myla...
I don't think you've ever used Cloud software. The entire point of it is to move development and maintenance outside your organization. Yes, I could upload encrypted data to "The cloud" and then write my own database and front end for it. But would defeat the entire point of putting it in the cloud in the first place. What you're describing is basically just an online data backup. No-one really needs that.
Lets say you're a small non-profit and you want to create a ticketing system to track donations. Buying anything at all... that you'd host locally would cost a fortune. You could get a free/open source app, but that doesn't come with any support or guartee that the product will even still be developed a year from now and you don't have the resources to continue development should you need to.
You can go get a Cloud based Saas ticketing system relatively cheap. They maintain everything for you. And if you need a special customization they have developers on staff year round ready to jump on your request. But is your data secure? You have no idea. You can write it into the contract, you can do audits, but you never really know. In fact, it's not possible to know. And being a small non-profit you don't have the clout to force a better contract on them or anyone else. All the contracts come with NDA's embedded so you can't even rely on other companies to report problems with the vendor. It's literally a black box that your data goes in an out of, and what happens inside that box is mostly a mystery to you.
It's 2015. . . who the hell puts anything on " The Cloud " without first heavily encrypting it ?
That's not going to help. I've administer a lot of these cloud products in my time. The main point is, you don't get to encrypt it yourself.
You go to the vendor and say: "Encrypt it!" Vendor: "Ok! It's done!" You: "That was awfully fast, is it really encrypted?" Vendor: "Yes!"
Demand an audit: We audited it and it meets our contract! Give us detailed information about XYZ: That's proprietary and/or security related, we can't release it! We want to put X in the contract: No, this is our standard contract and the only one we'll sign. Don't like it? Take a hike. By the way, we already have all your data and a migration would cost millions! Go to a different service: Here's the same contract that other place had and no we wont alter it. Find out its not encrypted when they said it was: Oh that was a bug or the fault of some admin we fired months ago. It's fixed now, trust us!
It's virtually impossible to "Secure" a cloud service. I had so many problems with it I finally resigned myself to assuming cloud services have at best barely passable security. So nothing goes in that I'm afraid to lose. Even in the best cases, you have their entire support staff sitting there, probably hundreds or thousands of people, with the ability to reset all your admin passwords and even more direct DB access you have. Even if it's encrypted, they'll have all the keys. Whats worse, they control the firewall and gateways so an attack could be ongoing for weeks or months and you'll have no idea.
In unrelated news....15% of passwords were set to "password" or similar....
80% of the data was of little use.
100% of the data was irrelevant to the well being and/or advancement of humanity.
You have no idea how this works. "Passwords" are not going to be the problem in a hacking event on the scale of an enterprise cloud service. Even with your admin passwords there should be no way for an attacker to get in.
The vendors have assured us that their servers are secure!
You got modded funny, but that's exactly the point. The customers data is stored in my database. So I don't technically care if that data is stolen... other than the legal liability that would put me under. So I go to the Cloud service and they "assure" me that's secure and sign a contract stating as such. I'm done! It doesn't really matter if it really is secure or not. If the data's lost and the customer sues we point at the vendor.
That is why it is limit poker. Besides all games have limits acknowledged or not.
Think of the robot as the house, it might not win everytime but it always wins in the long run.
But that's exactly the point. They didn't solve anything. So it plays the cards perfectly, but that's not the game. If the human walks in and due to chance gets several great hands in a row, then gets up and walks out, the robot doesn't win. They say right in the article "Given enough hands" well that's the entire point of the game! You don't give the opponent enough hands to win. Quit while you're ahead? There are so many gambling sayings that cover this very topic, I don't think I could remember them all. There's even a damned song about it!
You've got to know when to hold 'em Know when to fold 'em Know when to walk away And know when to run You never count your money When you're sittin' at the table There'll be time enough for countin' When the dealin's done
When these "scientists" "change things" and some climate is altered, I can guarantee more than a billion people are going to complain about the change and the legal charges in the Hague against those that foisted off the plan and carried it out will be a circus.
But there will come a point in the not too distant future when "Warming" will no longer be a debate, and no one will argue with the need to cool the earth. At that point things may be so dire that some countries might get so desperate that they just start little to no planning or forethought. That's why it's good to think about these sorts of things now, so they at least have some sort of scientific frame work to start with rather than doing something rash that may very well kill us all.
You didn't get it. One world. One timeline. A human that wasn't descended from the standard strain of humanity. It's a fulfillment "paradox" in that it's a paradox only if the main character would make different choices. But the character doesn't because the character didn't and the character won't. It can be argued that the character can't make different choices any more than George Washington can make different choices about what is already set in history. Once you accept the concept of time travel and reject the concept of "many worlds", all of history throughout time is set in stone. Predestination.
Which is why I mentioned the Bootstrap paradox. He was his own mother and father. There's no way that can exist in One Timeline, at all. And, in fact it can't exist in many worlds either... because at some point he would have had to have existed prior to his having existed... Unless, travel between worlds is possible, and the him that is in this universe is the decedent of many other hims through the infinite multiverse that have some ancestor that is descended from elsewhere.
I suppose that it's possible the movies writers just don't understand causality, but there's no possible way to have a causality loop in a single world universe. There would be no way for the loop to start in the first place. If that's what they were trying to get at then it truly was the worst movie of all time.
Hallelujah! Bennett's back! My life has meaning once more.
Yea, I keep wondering why they allow him to post... is he paying them? I don't get it. Everyone hates his articles (even more than mine!) and they're rarely interesting topics to begin with... then you see Bennetts wall of text and you're like "I'm not reading that much text about this stupid of a topic"
I've no intention to insult anyones religion. I'd be more than happy to not do things that offend others, but I draw the line at threats. Threatening someones life should result in an automatic and overwhelming response from the entire world to do exactly the opposite of your demands.
If the Newspapers of the world had any backbone at all, they'd all band together and republish the cartoon front page on Monday along with pictures of the attackers with captions that say "This image is being published at the request of these 2 infidels."
Along with that they should declare that every time a reporter working for one of their papers is killed in an attempt to silence them, they will again run Muhammads image on the front page of their papers. The responsibility for the image will be the attackers and they'll burn in hell for their idolatry. Want to stay out of hell? Stop murdering people.
Having a proper cooling system is not breaking the laws of physics.:)
There is no proper cooling system that will do what they want.
You cannot get a modern high end CPU/GPU running at full capacity for any legth of time inside a laptop without them overheating. I often hear comments like yours followed by "I have a laptop and dont have problems!" only to find out later you're running WOW most of the time. Yea, you don't have a problem but your GPUs only hitting 10% load. Load up a bitcoin miner and see what happens.
Yea, I never got this... Laptops suck. The fact that you're trying to use a laptop as a workstation makes me question your competence as a developer because you seem to be valuing form over function. Get the job done on a desktop and use a cheap laptop for travel. To run a high performance computer properly you need low ambient temperature and lots of air flow. You get neither with a laptop because it's more than likely in your lap having your body heat compound the issue and you just can't fit a decent sized fan into the thing.
I watched the movie... and, to be honest, I had no idea what it was about before I started. But I'm into relativity and that sort of thing so I found it interesting.
I'll try not to give too much away but if you read on you might get some slight spoilers... so read at your own risk.
Now, when you start watching it the movie kind of harms itself in that, it doesn't explain this at all... there are no convenient scientists around to explain possible scientific ways out of what we would generally consider not possible even in science fiction. I think it would have been helped by such a device. It wasn't until after I watched it, saw the ending, and then thought on it for a couple of days that I really understood what they were trying to get across.
***More spoilers, dont read if you don't want them!*** I think that the primary characters in the film were in a "Many worlds" universe and as such I think that the dance you see has been played out infinitely in many other versions of the universe. Furthermore what I think the film suggests is that these universes can interact and that the actors are not just traveling in time, they are also traversing these realities. So the events in the film may be in a closed loop, but that loop was started by the characters arriving from other "Worlds" etc... Perhaps this world existed all along, but the paradox they created collapsed "The past", etc...
The film does not explain this well at all, and I'd not take anyone that wasn't really into hardcore scifi to see this. I barely grasped it and I read the hardest hardcore scfi available every day. As far as film goes this is about as mind bending as it gets. The acting was good... but the device revolving around the main characters gender was very very clunky. I did not like that at all, and it was Rocky Horror picture show silly in its presentation. I'm not sure how else they could have pulled that off, but they should have tried a lot harder.
Having read the dev docs for Lollipop (which include screen shots of the new interface), and looking at the new "features", I'm sticking with Kitkat. The "material" theme is kind of ugly.
If your cellphone company let you, you could change that to. This is Linux folks... you should be able to do whatever you want with it.
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Free speech hasn't been taken away. There already are limitations on what constitutes free speech in the UK (and the US, and other countries, for that matter). Speech that is abusive or incites hatred is one of the things things that is limited. Political protest isn't limited. The press is free to insult the government. Go look up what constitutes "freedom of speech". It doesn't mean "I say whatever I like [without consequence]"
In the US? The only legal limits we have on free speech here are:
1. Speech that directly and immediately puts human lives in danger (The old, yelling fire in a crowded theater, thing.)
2. Slander... and this isn't unprotected, it's just that you can be sued for liable for making things up. And slander in the US has a much different definition here than it does in the UK.
3. Those limits imposed by society. i.e. I'm not allowed to make wiener jokes around my wife's friends. But this isn't a legal limitation, it's a "I don't want to get hit with pots and pans" limitation.
I see a lot of nonsense and talking heads on TV that talk about how the US is different and we just don't understand that the rest of the world has a different view on free speech. We do know that, we've fought wars over it. We know exactly what Europe's limits on free speech lead to, and it appears to be happening again! Seriously, pull your heads out of your asses. You've got a few douche-bags running around blowing people up. That sucks, but really the number of people getting killed is very very low. Remember WW2? Because that was a real war, and that's what restrictions on speech and the press lead to.
Man alive I'm glad that I'm too old to get drafted.
I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Fine, agree 100%, but denying the holocaust is strictly verboten in France. Another equivalent expression would be to goose-step down the Champs-Élysées singing Deutschland uber alles. All examples tasteless and repugnant, but Mohammed in homo-scenes seems to be quite acceptable.
This #'jesuischarlie thing is not very well thought-out, I'm going to give the benefit of the doubt to my French friends on the basis they are in shock, and emotions are running high. But defending unsavory freedom of speech when directed towards Arabs, but taking offence when directed against Jews, or French nationalism is far from the sophisticated, elegant and enlightened image many Europeans like to hold of themselves.
Except the Mohammed stuff is made up and a joke. The holocaust really did happen, and makes most other events in human history pale in comparison. And those that would deny that it happened are doing so for the very purpose of repeating the event. The purpose of the Mohammed cartoons was to try and get Muslims to lighten up (A good thing) The purpose of denying the holocost is to recreate it (a bad thing.)
I do not support those laws, but they're like the child molester laws of free speech. It's really hard to argue they're bad no matter how hardcore you are into free speech.
Later law automagically overrides, so a law cannot make anything permanent.
All it'll take is a new law allowing/mandating internet access taxes to make this "permanent" ban vanish.
So they have a temporary law, and they want to make it into a permanent law, and you're saying that's meaningless because they could make another law overriding it? Other events that could render this law meaningless: Civil war, Alien invasion, Meteor strike, Solar flare that destroys all electronics overnight.
eegads, this entire endeavor is meaningless.
Or you mean an industry wanting a new entrant in to that industry to be subject to the same regulations the rest of the industry is forced to follow, right?
Um... no.
This is a perfect example of what's wrong with government regulation. Usually regulation is introduced for a very real and justifiable reason. The problem is however that once "The law" governs how money is made, those who like money (everyone) get very interested in politics. They cajole and manipulate the regulation until it does nothing more than prevent new competition from entering the market.
I'd be willing to bet that if you reviewed the regulations in question you'd be rather surprised at how stupid they are. One example from my state is that they can't be open on Sunday. Wow, big consumer protection there... The same goes for a dozen other heavily regulated markets... Cabs, Airlines, liquor distributors (especially liquor distributors) and on and on.
Are storage spaces (such as Megaupload) responsible for their users files?
The problem is, that hasn't been decided as of yet. It would make sense to any normal person that they wouldn't be. But law enforcement isn't sure how to deal with such services so they are doing their best to kill the industry with raids, but then drop the cases before they hit court so no ruling can hurt their efforts.
Came here to say exactly this. It seems that people need to be reminded of what François Marie Arouet (it's often attributed to Voltair) said:
I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Whilst the violent reaction of fundamental muslims is disgraceful, I fully support their ability to sprout their views. If I didn't, then I couldn't support Charlie Hebdo et al to mock islam (along with judaism and christianity and everyone else). Take a positive look at it - by allowing them to air their views, we're making sure the world sees how pathetic they are, and allows us [with clear conscience] to say "they are utter disgraces as human beings".
Uhm... I do no think you understand "Anonymous"
They're like a super geeky version of your drunken Redneck cousin Rufus. Any semi-passable pretext to start a fight is leap upon. Then you're forced to listen to several minutes of chest puffing and threats that are usually followed by his ADD kicking in, him losing interest and you feeling embarrassed that hes related to you.
Right, but you're talking about physical rackspace and not "the cloud" so you're entirely off topic. Why would they ever guarantee the security of a rack slot?
We're talking about "The cloud" here, which is entirely different. You don't even know where the data is stored. Is it in New York? Chicago? India? All 3 places at once? To the laws of the country its stored in make the data available to local authorities without a warent? Is the vendor hiring temp workers from a country that has poor privacy laws and allowing them to remotely access your data? Just because they signed a contract stating that they wouldn't 4years ago, does that mean they still abide by that condition? Or even know that it was ever agreed to in the first place?
Crappy vendor? They're all crappy vendors.
And when we're done with that, let's take a closer look at that Westboro Baptist Church and whether we can get rid of those loonies too while we're at it.
Quick, someone hack their website and put the cartoon up!
I'm glad karma took the quick route for once. For islamic fundamentalists to die in a kosher store and in a printing press after attacking a magazine. Can't beat that.
/bravo
Time to make fun of them in every outlet I'm still allowed to post in.
Ok, so you're about to enter the room against 2 dudes that spent a while in Africa getting trained by battle hardened terrorists. They have body armor and 7.62×39mm rounds that easily pierce most body armor on the planet. Here's your dart gun... GO!
More from the religion of peace and tolerance.
Queue up people bringing up the Holy Crusades and other things that took place a good 300 years ago
A typical myopic view of the world. ...and that's just the Christians...
You may find this enlightening: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
You can do some computational things on encrypted data, like create a database, which obviously adds some overhead. For example cryptdb:
http://css.csail.mit.edu/crypt...
And built an application which then decrypts the data on the client when the user needs access to it, for example there is Mylar from the same research group as the database above:
https://css.csail.mit.edu/myla...
I don't think you've ever used Cloud software. The entire point of it is to move development and maintenance outside your organization. Yes, I could upload encrypted data to "The cloud" and then write my own database and front end for it. But would defeat the entire point of putting it in the cloud in the first place. What you're describing is basically just an online data backup. No-one really needs that.
Lets say you're a small non-profit and you want to create a ticketing system to track donations. Buying anything at all... that you'd host locally would cost a fortune. You could get a free/open source app, but that doesn't come with any support or guartee that the product will even still be developed a year from now and you don't have the resources to continue development should you need to.
You can go get a Cloud based Saas ticketing system relatively cheap. They maintain everything for you. And if you need a special customization they have developers on staff year round ready to jump on your request. But is your data secure? You have no idea. You can write it into the contract, you can do audits, but you never really know. In fact, it's not possible to know. And being a small non-profit you don't have the clout to force a better contract on them or anyone else. All the contracts come with NDA's embedded so you can't even rely on other companies to report problems with the vendor. It's literally a black box that your data goes in an out of, and what happens inside that box is mostly a mystery to you.
It's 2015. . . who the hell puts anything on " The Cloud " without first heavily encrypting it ?
That's not going to help. I've administer a lot of these cloud products in my time. The main point is, you don't get to encrypt it yourself.
You go to the vendor and say: "Encrypt it!"
Vendor: "Ok! It's done!"
You: "That was awfully fast, is it really encrypted?"
Vendor: "Yes!"
Demand an audit: We audited it and it meets our contract!
Give us detailed information about XYZ: That's proprietary and/or security related, we can't release it!
We want to put X in the contract: No, this is our standard contract and the only one we'll sign. Don't like it? Take a hike. By the way, we already have all your data and a migration would cost millions!
Go to a different service: Here's the same contract that other place had and no we wont alter it.
Find out its not encrypted when they said it was: Oh that was a bug or the fault of some admin we fired months ago. It's fixed now, trust us!
It's virtually impossible to "Secure" a cloud service. I had so many problems with it I finally resigned myself to assuming cloud services have at best barely passable security. So nothing goes in that I'm afraid to lose. Even in the best cases, you have their entire support staff sitting there, probably hundreds or thousands of people, with the ability to reset all your admin passwords and even more direct DB access you have. Even if it's encrypted, they'll have all the keys. Whats worse, they control the firewall and gateways so an attack could be ongoing for weeks or months and you'll have no idea.
I am sure it was those dastardly cloud people!
In unrelated news....15% of passwords were set to "password" or similar....
80% of the data was of little use.
100% of the data was irrelevant to the well being and/or advancement of humanity.
You have no idea how this works. "Passwords" are not going to be the problem in a hacking event on the scale of an enterprise cloud service. Even with your admin passwords there should be no way for an attacker to get in.
The vendors have assured us that their servers are secure!
You got modded funny, but that's exactly the point. The customers data is stored in my database. So I don't technically care if that data is stolen... other than the legal liability that would put me under. So I go to the Cloud service and they "assure" me that's secure and sign a contract stating as such. I'm done! It doesn't really matter if it really is secure or not. If the data's lost and the customer sues we point at the vendor.
That is why it is limit poker. Besides all games have limits acknowledged or not.
Think of the robot as the house, it might not win everytime but it always wins in the long run.
But that's exactly the point. They didn't solve anything. So it plays the cards perfectly, but that's not the game. If the human walks in and due to chance gets several great hands in a row, then gets up and walks out, the robot doesn't win. They say right in the article "Given enough hands" well that's the entire point of the game! You don't give the opponent enough hands to win. Quit while you're ahead? There are so many gambling sayings that cover this very topic, I don't think I could remember them all. There's even a damned song about it!
You've got to know when to hold 'em
Know when to fold 'em
Know when to walk away
And know when to run
You never count your money
When you're sittin' at the table
There'll be time enough for countin'
When the dealin's done
When these "scientists" "change things" and some climate is altered, I can guarantee more than a billion people are going to complain about the change and the legal charges in the Hague against those that foisted off the plan and carried it out will be a circus.
But there will come a point in the not too distant future when "Warming" will no longer be a debate, and no one will argue with the need to cool the earth. At that point things may be so dire that some countries might get so desperate that they just start little to no planning or forethought. That's why it's good to think about these sorts of things now, so they at least have some sort of scientific frame work to start with rather than doing something rash that may very well kill us all.
You didn't get it. One world. One timeline. A human that wasn't descended from the standard strain of humanity. It's a fulfillment "paradox" in that it's a paradox only if the main character would make different choices. But the character doesn't because the character didn't and the character won't. It can be argued that the character can't make different choices any more than George Washington can make different choices about what is already set in history. Once you accept the concept of time travel and reject the concept of "many worlds", all of history throughout time is set in stone. Predestination.
Which is why I mentioned the Bootstrap paradox. He was his own mother and father. There's no way that can exist in One Timeline, at all. And, in fact it can't exist in many worlds either... because at some point he would have had to have existed prior to his having existed... Unless, travel between worlds is possible, and the him that is in this universe is the decedent of many other hims through the infinite multiverse that have some ancestor that is descended from elsewhere.
I suppose that it's possible the movies writers just don't understand causality, but there's no possible way to have a causality loop in a single world universe. There would be no way for the loop to start in the first place. If that's what they were trying to get at then it truly was the worst movie of all time.
Hallelujah! Bennett's back! My life has meaning once more.
Yea, I keep wondering why they allow him to post... is he paying them? I don't get it. Everyone hates his articles (even more than mine!) and they're rarely interesting topics to begin with... then you see Bennetts wall of text and you're like "I'm not reading that much text about this stupid of a topic"
Can someone please please make these stop?
I've no intention to insult anyones religion. I'd be more than happy to not do things that offend others, but I draw the line at threats. Threatening someones life should result in an automatic and overwhelming response from the entire world to do exactly the opposite of your demands.
If the Newspapers of the world had any backbone at all, they'd all band together and republish the cartoon front page on Monday along with pictures of the attackers with captions that say "This image is being published at the request of these 2 infidels."
Along with that they should declare that every time a reporter working for one of their papers is killed in an attempt to silence them, they will again run Muhammads image on the front page of their papers. The responsibility for the image will be the attackers and they'll burn in hell for their idolatry. Want to stay out of hell? Stop murdering people.
Having a proper cooling system is not breaking the laws of physics. :)
There is no proper cooling system that will do what they want.
You cannot get a modern high end CPU/GPU running at full capacity for any legth of time inside a laptop without them overheating. I often hear comments like yours followed by "I have a laptop and dont have problems!" only to find out later you're running WOW most of the time. Yea, you don't have a problem but your GPUs only hitting 10% load. Load up a bitcoin miner and see what happens.
Maybe you want desktops? Just a thought.
Yea, I never got this... Laptops suck. The fact that you're trying to use a laptop as a workstation makes me question your competence as a developer because you seem to be valuing form over function. Get the job done on a desktop and use a cheap laptop for travel. To run a high performance computer properly you need low ambient temperature and lots of air flow. You get neither with a laptop because it's more than likely in your lap having your body heat compound the issue and you just can't fit a decent sized fan into the thing.
I watched the movie... and, to be honest, I had no idea what it was about before I started. But I'm into relativity and that sort of thing so I found it interesting.
I'll try not to give too much away but if you read on you might get some slight spoilers... so read at your own risk.
The gist of it is "Time cop" meets The NSA but less lame. And the premise is that the universe follows the "May worlds" theory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
The film uses Many Worlds to try and resolve the "Boot strap paradox": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B... and/or the "Predestination Paradox": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
Now, when you start watching it the movie kind of harms itself in that, it doesn't explain this at all... there are no convenient scientists around to explain possible scientific ways out of what we would generally consider not possible even in science fiction. I think it would have been helped by such a device. It wasn't until after I watched it, saw the ending, and then thought on it for a couple of days that I really understood what they were trying to get across.
***More spoilers, dont read if you don't want them!***
I think that the primary characters in the film were in a "Many worlds" universe and as such I think that the dance you see has been played out infinitely in many other versions of the universe. Furthermore what I think the film suggests is that these universes can interact and that the actors are not just traveling in time, they are also traversing these realities. So the events in the film may be in a closed loop, but that loop was started by the characters arriving from other "Worlds" etc... Perhaps this world existed all along, but the paradox they created collapsed "The past", etc...
The film does not explain this well at all, and I'd not take anyone that wasn't really into hardcore scifi to see this. I barely grasped it and I read the hardest hardcore scfi available every day. As far as film goes this is about as mind bending as it gets. The acting was good... but the device revolving around the main characters gender was very very clunky. I did not like that at all, and it was Rocky Horror picture show silly in its presentation. I'm not sure how else they could have pulled that off, but they should have tried a lot harder.
Having read the dev docs for Lollipop (which include screen shots of the new interface), and looking at the new "features", I'm sticking with Kitkat. The "material" theme is kind of ugly.
If your cellphone company let you, you could change that to. This is Linux folks... you should be able to do whatever you want with it.