Sports stars are not it because they do not exclusively intermarry, and breast implants are not heritable. Instead, I think the fear is the "uncivilized" world. If we do not do something about it, Africans and the denizens of the Third World will fork into their own species. They do not get enough food, they do not get adequate health care, HIV/AIDS is killing everyone, and there is no selection for longevity because everyone dies young. This idea is horribly racist and insensitive, yes, but that's only because we have been acting in such a racist and insensitive manner. (Do you think we would let Caucasiasn starve to death?)
Biological diversity is the keystone for evolution and the hardiness of a species. When genetic diversity of a species drops, such as through severe environmental factors or procreational bottlenecks, the entire species may become vulnerable to one selection factor. For instance, sickle cell anemia is considered to be a "disease". But if you were Africa without meds, that "disease" would save you from malaria. If you had weeded out all the guys with sickle cell and malaria came along, you'd have a lot of corpses with "perfect" DNA.
There is a special kind of satellite with a device called a "bhangmeter" that detects a specific kind of double pulse only made by nuclear bombs. A nuke has a quick initial flash from the explosion, then the intial fireball is covered by the shock wave, which is opaque. Soon, as the shock wave opens up, it starts to get brighter and brigher. The bhangmeter looks for a quick pulse, then a sustained light that builds up slowly.
Did you read the Rolling Stone article about how the exit polls in the 2004 US Presidential Election were skewed from the actual election number? Someone already beat you to the punch.
Nope. The grandparent wasn't commenting on the duality of monsters. Rather, he was saying that the Russian's love for their children and their continued existence served as a basis for MAD, as well as an unwillingness to shoot ICBMs.
First of all, I'm guessing there's a disproportionate difference between 90% similar and 50% similar. Secondly, the study of plants has yielded remedies such as tamoxifen because there are genetic similarities between plants and humans. Nerve agents that kill bugs make good chemical weapons against people.
Dude, but even the latest release of Debian cannot be fairly considered a desktop operating system for the masses. I would figure that Linux desktop has not even reached Windows XP in terms of usability. I run WinXP SP2 with all the updates and I have to say that it's: stable, simpler to use in terms of installing software and hardware, simpler to configure, a more consistent GUI, and better-supported in terms of software. I run ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite, Firefox and run my system behind a cheap SPI firewall/router and that takes care of most of the security problems.
If the Israelis were dumb enough to use particular radios and protocols for particular kinds of military units, then Hezbollah did a great job leveraging it. In other words, you seem to think that what Hezbollah did was trivial, yet this "trivial" hack enabled them to defend against a huge Israeli onslaught. I mean, everyone thought Israel would roll over Hezbollah, but Isreal had to move back.
Also, Hezbollah had the cell phone numbers of the Israeli commanders. That was a huge breach of security by Israeli forces. There had to be some translations going on, and I'll bet it was the cell phone traffic. Hezbollah had Hebrew-speaking translators and they must have translated something.
Israel is going to learn radio discipline = cell phone discipline.
Well, the real test is that you KEEP winning. All the games favor the house. A few idiots win here and there, but the chances a gambler would consistently win at the same game are slim, especially where the game is one of luck (such as roulette).
In the incident mentioned in the article, the cheating device was disguised as a cell phone. How can casinos test for this except if a couple keeps winning at roulette, where the chances of winning are 1 in 36? If you win big four times, then the odds of this happening naturally is 1/1679616.
Torture is a great tool if you just want to convict someone regardless of their innocence, but it makes a bad tool in instances where the truth matters. From a great article from The Atlantic, Mark Bowden writes that torture risks killing the subject and gets the subject to say whatever he thinks will get him out of the situation--which may not be the truth. Interrogation has a large component of mind games and social engineering involved. In a real life example, a subject in American custody is told he will be tortured unless he divulges certain facts. He believes that American law prevents the interrogators from doing anything bad to him. So the interrogators threaten to ship him to Egypt, where he will be interrogated by Israeli Mossad agents. The guy caved. Stuff like that. Microwaving people just gets them to say what they think you want them to say. FBI: "Tell us where the bomb is! Tell us you want to bomb the Pentagon!" Guy: "I want to bomb the Pentagon. Let me go!"
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The Nanopowers of Spinach
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I'm gonna get shafted by Slash admins, but if you don't like Roland Pigpile, just go to your preferences and take out the stories posted by Zonk. I dunna. Pigpile zonks Zonk or something because they love each other.
Yeah. At this rate, the US will get rid of spam by dropping computer-guided bombs at servers in China and Russia. It'll be kind of ironic, actually, the computer-on-computer violence.
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"Gnome is very nice in a lot of ways, but I think in terms of decent interface design, it needs a lot of work."
It's a windowing environment whose purpose is to provide a GUI. I don't use Gnome because I want my Graphical User Interface too have a decent interface design. Otherwise, I'm better off with a command line.
Do you want to hear the best thing about all this paranoia? From the article:
"According to a source who requested anonymity because of his closeness to HP, the company objected on the grounds that when Perkins resigned at the May board meeting he didnt indicate why."
It would feel great to do something to screw that woman over, but in real life, you have to be accountable to the shareholders. A boardmember can't just shoot his mouth off and demand a resignation. Nope. They have to look around and see how everyone feels, especially the large institutional investors, who probably do not like change too much. Is CALPERS going to dump the stock if the CEO goes? Depends on the successor? Who would you prefer? Etc. Eventually, they're going to Carly this CEO as well. I am betting they are simply setting down the foundations.
Nah. The bandwidth and software support of voice-activation would be prohibitive, not to mention support for all the languages you may encounter. ("What?! Gmail doesn't support Spanish?!") If you want to introduce a delay, simply introduce a delay. You can have a page that takes time to load due to server-side waits. Now, the question of whether your users will simply close the window and go somewhere else is another one.
The towers remained standing for a long time after the attack before collapsing. Rescue workers were unable to hear radioed orders to evacuate the building since it was going to fall. A battery-operated repeater might have let them know what was about to happen.
Saying that concern is misplaced because the information is already public is akin to supporting videotaping everyone in public and broadcasting it. Sure, the information is out there, but it's a question of accessibility. Like a few people see a guy leaving a HIV clinic. Is there a difference if we then send a letter to everyone he knows saying that he was seen leaving a HIV clinic?
This facebook kerfluffle will reach an equilibrium. People will either migrate to Myspace (eeew) or simply put less information out there about themselves, learning that just because there's a space for a response doesn't mean you have to fill it in. Or facebook may make the newsfeeds optional, or eliminate them totally. That's the free-market at work, dude.
Information wants to be free, especially amongst college students. Don't forget which group is most responsible for stealing musi-- I mean, violating the intellectual property rights of music artists. If the kids don't feel bad about sharing music, they sure aren't going to care about sharing schoolwork.
If you want students to attend class, create an attendance policy. Don't try to shoehorn it into your lecture-posting policy.
>> More than just bleeding heart liberalism here, just common sense. Islam is a religion, not a race or ethnicity.
> I'm sure you think you've made a point here, but I have no idea what it is...
The point, which everyone else got except for you, is that since Islam is a religion targeting "the Muslims" on the basis of skin color is really, really stupid.
Dude. Three names: Timothy McVeigh, Theodore Kaczynski, and Richard Reed. Three terrorists who would not set off your criteria. More than just bleeding heart liberalism here, just common sense. Islam is a religion, not a race or ethnicity. You start looking for brown Muslims, and they'll start sending white ones. (Remember the white guy in the Al Qaeda video released around Election Day, 2004?) If we're going to bother to make a secure system, we might as well go through the trouble of making it work for real.
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I hope this was a hoax that the news media fell for. This does not seem to be the case, however. It is a great loss, especially for his family (especially the baby he infamously held over a croc). But for all his advocacy, Irwin forgot to teach that wild animals are wild. That stingray didn't go crazy; it went stingray. Look at the pretty animals, children, but stay away from them.
Google doesn't care whether the information is poisoned because poisoned data is part of the landscape in which its probes are calibrated. To draw a parallel, a commonly-used psychological profiling exam is created by asking many random questions of a control group of "no diagnosed mental illnesses," "diagnosed as scizophrenic," and so on. Certain questions are statistically-linked to a certain mental illness. For instance, at that point, it does not matter if schizophrenics really see the sky as green or that they lie and say the sky is green. The fact that they say the sky is green shows they have schizophrenic tendencies.
To apply that example here, if one IP keeps on kicking back weird random crap that Google can't place, Google will simply suggest that that IP buy tinfoil hats. Google wins again.
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Actually, you cannot buy spray paint from Home Depot without proof of age. They keep the spray paint in a locked display case.
Sports stars are not it because they do not exclusively intermarry, and breast implants are not heritable. Instead, I think the fear is the "uncivilized" world. If we do not do something about it, Africans and the denizens of the Third World will fork into their own species. They do not get enough food, they do not get adequate health care, HIV/AIDS is killing everyone, and there is no selection for longevity because everyone dies young. This idea is horribly racist and insensitive, yes, but that's only because we have been acting in such a racist and insensitive manner. (Do you think we would let Caucasiasn starve to death?)
Biological diversity is the keystone for evolution and the hardiness of a species. When genetic diversity of a species drops, such as through severe environmental factors or procreational bottlenecks, the entire species may become vulnerable to one selection factor. For instance, sickle cell anemia is considered to be a "disease". But if you were Africa without meds, that "disease" would save you from malaria. If you had weeded out all the guys with sickle cell and malaria came along, you'd have a lot of corpses with "perfect" DNA.
There is a special kind of satellite with a device called a "bhangmeter" that detects a specific kind of double pulse only made by nuclear bombs. A nuke has a quick initial flash from the explosion, then the intial fireball is covered by the shock wave, which is opaque. Soon, as the shock wave opens up, it starts to get brighter and brigher. The bhangmeter looks for a quick pulse, then a sustained light that builds up slowly.
Did you read the Rolling Stone article about how the exit polls in the 2004 US Presidential Election were skewed from the actual election number? Someone already beat you to the punch.
"Was the 2004 Election Stolen?"
Nope. The grandparent wasn't commenting on the duality of monsters. Rather, he was saying that the Russian's love for their children and their continued existence served as a basis for MAD, as well as an unwillingness to shoot ICBMs.
First of all, I'm guessing there's a disproportionate difference between 90% similar and 50% similar. Secondly, the study of plants has yielded remedies such as tamoxifen because there are genetic similarities between plants and humans. Nerve agents that kill bugs make good chemical weapons against people.
Dude, but even the latest release of Debian cannot be fairly considered a desktop operating system for the masses. I would figure that Linux desktop has not even reached Windows XP in terms of usability. I run WinXP SP2 with all the updates and I have to say that it's: stable, simpler to use in terms of installing software and hardware, simpler to configure, a more consistent GUI, and better-supported in terms of software. I run ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite, Firefox and run my system behind a cheap SPI firewall/router and that takes care of most of the security problems.
If the Israelis were dumb enough to use particular radios and protocols for particular kinds of military units, then Hezbollah did a great job leveraging it. In other words, you seem to think that what Hezbollah did was trivial, yet this "trivial" hack enabled them to defend against a huge Israeli onslaught. I mean, everyone thought Israel would roll over Hezbollah, but Isreal had to move back.
Also, Hezbollah had the cell phone numbers of the Israeli commanders. That was a huge breach of security by Israeli forces. There had to be some translations going on, and I'll bet it was the cell phone traffic. Hezbollah had Hebrew-speaking translators and they must have translated something.
Israel is going to learn radio discipline = cell phone discipline.
Well, the real test is that you KEEP winning. All the games favor the house. A few idiots win here and there, but the chances a gambler would consistently win at the same game are slim, especially where the game is one of luck (such as roulette).
In the incident mentioned in the article, the cheating device was disguised as a cell phone. How can casinos test for this except if a couple keeps winning at roulette, where the chances of winning are 1 in 36? If you win big four times, then the odds of this happening naturally is 1/1679616.
It seems as though the music has stopped. According to the homepage, the program has stopped working today.
"Current Status: NOT WORKING - as of 9/16/2006 the Gopher stopped working. I am working to fix it. Try back later."
Torture is a great tool if you just want to convict someone regardless of their innocence, but it makes a bad tool in instances where the truth matters. From a great article from The Atlantic , Mark Bowden writes that torture risks killing the subject and gets the subject to say whatever he thinks will get him out of the situation--which may not be the truth. Interrogation has a large component of mind games and social engineering involved. In a real life example, a subject in American custody is told he will be tortured unless he divulges certain facts. He believes that American law prevents the interrogators from doing anything bad to him. So the interrogators threaten to ship him to Egypt, where he will be interrogated by Israeli Mossad agents. The guy caved. Stuff like that. Microwaving people just gets them to say what they think you want them to say. FBI: "Tell us where the bomb is! Tell us you want to bomb the Pentagon!" Guy: "I want to bomb the Pentagon. Let me go!"
I'm gonna get shafted by Slash admins, but if you don't like Roland Pigpile, just go to your preferences and take out the stories posted by Zonk. I dunna. Pigpile zonks Zonk or something because they love each other.
Yeah. At this rate, the US will get rid of spam by dropping computer-guided bombs at servers in China and Russia. It'll be kind of ironic, actually, the computer-on-computer violence.
"Gnome is very nice in a lot of ways, but I think in terms of decent interface design, it needs a lot of work."
It's a windowing environment whose purpose is to provide a GUI. I don't use Gnome because I want my Graphical User Interface too have a decent interface design. Otherwise, I'm better off with a command line.
Do you want to hear the best thing about all this paranoia? From the article:
"According to a source who requested anonymity because of his closeness to HP, the company objected on the grounds that when Perkins resigned at the May board meeting he didnt indicate why."
Leaks. Damned leaks.
It would feel great to do something to screw that woman over, but in real life, you have to be accountable to the shareholders. A boardmember can't just shoot his mouth off and demand a resignation. Nope. They have to look around and see how everyone feels, especially the large institutional investors, who probably do not like change too much. Is CALPERS going to dump the stock if the CEO goes? Depends on the successor? Who would you prefer? Etc. Eventually, they're going to Carly this CEO as well. I am betting they are simply setting down the foundations.
Nah. The bandwidth and software support of voice-activation would be prohibitive, not to mention support for all the languages you may encounter. ("What?! Gmail doesn't support Spanish?!") If you want to introduce a delay, simply introduce a delay. You can have a page that takes time to load due to server-side waits. Now, the question of whether your users will simply close the window and go somewhere else is another one.
The towers remained standing for a long time after the attack before collapsing. Rescue workers were unable to hear radioed orders to evacuate the building since it was going to fall. A battery-operated repeater might have let them know what was about to happen.
Saying that concern is misplaced because the information is already public is akin to supporting videotaping everyone in public and broadcasting it. Sure, the information is out there, but it's a question of accessibility. Like a few people see a guy leaving a HIV clinic. Is there a difference if we then send a letter to everyone he knows saying that he was seen leaving a HIV clinic?
This facebook kerfluffle will reach an equilibrium. People will either migrate to Myspace (eeew) or simply put less information out there about themselves, learning that just because there's a space for a response doesn't mean you have to fill it in. Or facebook may make the newsfeeds optional, or eliminate them totally. That's the free-market at work, dude.
Information wants to be free, especially amongst college students. Don't forget which group is most responsible for stealing musi-- I mean, violating the intellectual property rights of music artists. If the kids don't feel bad about sharing music, they sure aren't going to care about sharing schoolwork.
If you want students to attend class, create an attendance policy. Don't try to shoehorn it into your lecture-posting policy.
>> More than just bleeding heart liberalism here, just common sense. Islam is a religion, not a race or ethnicity.
> I'm sure you think you've made a point here, but I have no idea what it is...
The point, which everyone else got except for you, is that since Islam is a religion targeting "the Muslims" on the basis of skin color is really, really stupid.
Dude. Three names: Timothy McVeigh, Theodore Kaczynski, and Richard Reed. Three terrorists who would not set off your criteria. More than just bleeding heart liberalism here, just common sense. Islam is a religion, not a race or ethnicity. You start looking for brown Muslims, and they'll start sending white ones. (Remember the white guy in the Al Qaeda video released around Election Day, 2004?) If we're going to bother to make a secure system, we might as well go through the trouble of making it work for real.
I hope this was a hoax that the news media fell for. This does not seem to be the case, however. It is a great loss, especially for his family (especially the baby he infamously held over a croc). But for all his advocacy, Irwin forgot to teach that wild animals are wild. That stingray didn't go crazy; it went stingray. Look at the pretty animals, children, but stay away from them.
Google doesn't care whether the information is poisoned because poisoned data is part of the landscape in which its probes are calibrated. To draw a parallel, a commonly-used psychological profiling exam is created by asking many random questions of a control group of "no diagnosed mental illnesses," "diagnosed as scizophrenic," and so on. Certain questions are statistically-linked to a certain mental illness. For instance, at that point, it does not matter if schizophrenics really see the sky as green or that they lie and say the sky is green. The fact that they say the sky is green shows they have schizophrenic tendencies.
To apply that example here, if one IP keeps on kicking back weird random crap that Google can't place, Google will simply suggest that that IP buy tinfoil hats. Google wins again.