While the author does cite a number of actual scientific reports, the text quoted here and the failure to consider the entire constellation of improvements wrought by technology over the last century render his entire report ridiculous.
Even ignoring improvements in medical technology, mean lifespan is probably the most useless single statistic I can think of. The fact of infant mortality is enough to throw that entire argument in the garbage. *facepalm*
Um, keeping data private across a wire is a solved problem: public key encryption. And if, further, you don't want someone to see where your packets are going you can use TOR.
People need to be educated about how the internet works, but there is no reason you can't communicate privately if you want to.
Not sure when this functionality was added in Debian, but all of a sudden after typing 'man [tab]' i would get options from man pages (instead of the commands in my path) and after typing 'sudo [tab]' I get options for commands requiring root which don't show up when not prefaced with sudo.
That gun is nothing. Take a look at this clip of Raytheon's latest toy. It's a pain-ray that when used properly will leave no permanent damage or marks of any kind:
I wish I could find the entire 60 Minutes segment on this technology. What is incredibly disturbing is the angle 60 Minutes chooses to take; they do not address EVEN BRIEFLY the controversial implications of the existence of a weapon like this: the potential for physical harm (trampling in crowds), the possibility of it's use as a "perfect" torture device, philosophical questions about authority, etc.
Instead they immediately side with the proponents of this technology and frame the Pain Ray as the victim of a lot of governmental bureaucracy: "the soldiers/police are dying every day while this tool sits behind a lot of red tape".
When I was a young'un we didn't have "WIND SHIELDS" in our motor cars, NO! We got wind to the face, for sure, and by golly WE LIKED IT. And when you'd get a mouthful of bugs, why, you were downright THANKFUL to get some meat in ya, what with the rationing 'n the quotas... NOW GET OFF MY LAWN.
I know this is a different issue, but I thought I would bring it up: has anyone been having issues with responding to, or receiving responses from craigslist's forwarding system? I'm highly suspicious that mail is being dropped.
And before you ask: no, I'm not trying to figure out why I haven't been getting any responses to my personals ad.
Seriously, linux has been standardized on gnome and KDE for a long time now, neither of which are functionally different from the other in any really significant way. I would say they differ from the MS windows environment in half a dozen ways at most, most notably in the use of multiple desktops.
I'm using XFCE at the moment which is in the same category, just with the kitchen sink left out.
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Even ignoring improvements in medical technology, mean lifespan is probably the most useless single statistic I can think of. The fact of infant mortality is enough to throw that entire argument in the garbage. *facepalm*
In what fantastic realm of economic theory does the Free Market provide the solution to existential threats? that is frickin' cuckoo.
because a bot already has a one-in-nine success rate by selecting a model randomly. *facepalm*
Um, keeping data private across a wire is a solved problem: public key encryption. And if, further, you don't want someone to see where your packets are going you can use TOR.
People need to be educated about how the internet works, but there is no reason you can't communicate privately if you want to.
Why update unless you have a specific reason to do so? Just change your repo to 'etch'.
It would absolutely tickle me to death if someone found and exploited a buffer overflow in any of this packet inspection software.
So the common user can install Ubuntu, and someone else can use Gentoo. What's the problem again?
Not sure when this functionality was added in Debian, but all of a sudden after typing 'man [tab]' i would get options from man pages (instead of the commands in my path) and after typing 'sudo [tab]' I get options for commands requiring root which don't show up when not prefaced with sudo.
Nah, McCain's birthdays started over again at zero about a decade ago.
$ man vibrator
No manual entry for vibrator
That gun is nothing. Take a look at this clip of Raytheon's latest toy. It's a pain-ray that when used properly will leave no permanent damage or marks of any kind:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1w4g2vr7B4
I wish I could find the entire 60 Minutes segment on this technology. What is incredibly disturbing is the angle 60 Minutes chooses to take; they do not address EVEN BRIEFLY the controversial implications of the existence of a weapon like this: the potential for physical harm (trampling in crowds), the possibility of it's use as a "perfect" torture device, philosophical questions about authority, etc.
Instead they immediately side with the proponents of this technology and frame the Pain Ray as the victim of a lot of governmental bureaucracy: "the soldiers/police are dying every day while this tool sits behind a lot of red tape".
If I'm not mistaken, what you've described is the Birthday Paradox:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_paradox/
When I was a young'un we didn't have "WIND SHIELDS" in our motor cars, NO! We got wind to the face, for sure, and by golly WE LIKED IT. And when you'd get a mouthful of bugs, why, you were downright THANKFUL to get some meat in ya, what with the rationing 'n the quotas... NOW GET OFF MY LAWN.
I know this is a different issue, but I thought I would bring it up: has anyone been having issues with responding to, or receiving responses from craigslist's forwarding system? I'm highly suspicious that mail is being dropped.
And before you ask: no, I'm not trying to figure out why I haven't been getting any responses to my personals ad.
*COUGHpiratebayCOUGH
CO2 sublimes on earth of course, and many other substances do under different conditions. Per the summary, we know it could not be frozen CO2.
Randall of XKCD had a post on his blog that first got me excited about Obama.
Here: http://blag.xkcd.com/2008/01/28/obama/
Is the chipset used in the eeepc not supported by the Madwifi drivers? Seems to be mixed:
http://madwifi.org/wiki/Compatibility/Atheros#AtherosAR5BXB63
AFAIK right now the emerging markets are places with little electricity infrastructure like rural India, but cost is still prohibitive.
We need to wake up, and start the new Manhattan Project for energy; I don't think we can wait on the Free Market for this one.
It looks like a Windows 98 clone; even that graphic with the computer and keyboard looks like it was stolen from a MS time capsule.
Maybe "someone" (*COUGHyou) shouldn't be drying their special 'shrooms at work, eh?
It's great for finding all those elusive bits of code that might be accidentally seeding a pseudo-random number generator somewhere.
Seriously, linux has been standardized on gnome and KDE for a long time now, neither of which are functionally different from the other in any really significant way. I would say they differ from the MS windows environment in half a dozen ways at most, most notably in the use of multiple desktops.
I'm using XFCE at the moment which is in the same category, just with the kitchen sink left out.