The article(s) say that he is in the navy reading up on "steroids, melanin, genetic codes, &c." Melanin is a pigment present in human eyes where it adsorbes UV radiation and in skin (to varying degrees) where it does about the same thing. Steroids are often used with patients suffering from degenerate skin disorders to restore growth. Adding to this mix his interest in "genetic codes," I can only conclude that he is working feverishly in his 2'x7'x3' bunk on board some navy ship to create a gene therapy that enhances his body's quantites of melanin to protect him from further radiation and of steroidal compounds that may repair whatever physical radiation burns he may have, in addition to repairing his radiation-hammered DNA to a less mutated state. Stagin' a comeback. More power to him.
"David Hahn's early years were seemingly ordinary. The blond, gangly boy played baseball and soccer, and joined the Boy Scouts. His parents, Ken and Patty, had divorced, and David lived with his father and stepmother, Kathy, in nearby Clinton Township."
He lived in Clinton Twp. in his "early years," but the incident occured in Commerce Twp.
You are the weakest linkgoodbye.
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Hmm, let's see : 70000 light years, 75 years to return, 70000/75 ~= 933.4 times the speed of light == warp 933.4 in the Star Trek model of "physics".
The Warp Scale for measuring speed is a log scale, similar to the Richter Scale for measuring earthquake intensity. I.E.: the difference between Warp 9 and Warp 8 is significantly greater than the difference between Warp 1 (the speed of light, c) and Warp 2.
Actually, this has to be one of the worst ideas I have ever heard. According to the article, most of the top execs face penalites for their crimes, which would mean that they're probably leaving their jobs. Unless it's easy to hire a whole new executive board, this company has been (figuratively) decapitated and (essentially) executed anyhow. Not many start ups (or large companies for that matter) stay intact once it's been discovered that a large number of the company's execs have committed horrendous crimes. Calling it a "death penalty" officially would mean pork legislation to the effect which would probably contain additionaly unneccessary and dangerous stipulations that would make the whole thing worse than it already is. At first, I thought that this article didn't deserve a post on Slashdot because it is essentially insignificant, but then I recalled that Slashdot is really in to this whole anti-corporate collective manifesto. *Smacks head* How could I forget?
Can you say "no freedom of speech" in Mandarin? No? That's fine, I'm sure the fascist government will be more than happy to translate it into English for you.
"I still think this is cool stuff. People are just going to cheat online: drivers don't have all that much to do with it. And if they can't cheat, they'll DoS attack. Maybe I'm just disillusioned, but I have more fun playing with people I know and trust then strangers. Strangers cheat."
Once again, CmdrTaco grossly overestimates the abilities of the majority of people out there. This is not because of some expectation of his that everyone will be "as smart as him." Rather, he just can't fathom that not everyone is capable of doing everything and anything. He does this all the time when he talks about Linux and how easy and intuititve it is when Linux is truly far from it. This is yet another example.
Here, CmdrTaco is saying that everyone will cheat if they can. "Strangers cheat" sums that one up. CmdrTaco is going further by saying that if these "strangers" can't cheat, then they'll DoS everyone else in the came. Forgone conclusion, right Taco? Taco is implying, also, that hardware drivers for graphics cards are no more capable of facilitating cheaters than current methods (such as screen-reading aimbots, bug exploitation, and packet-interception). That's just not right. Every current method of cheating is 100% preventable. My case-in-point is Counterstrike. Just about every cheat that has come out for CS to date has been attacked by the game's programmers. (Kinda' goes with the name of the game, y'know?) Drivers, on the other hand, can not generally be changed by joe-shmo cheater. Drivers are the most basic link in the chain.
"Maybe I'm just disillusioned..."
Yes, Taco, you are. Shut up, and let someone else on the staff write these stories for Slashdot. At least they have some notion of sensibility.
But, anyhow, video card manufacturers who cater to gamers have only to lose by making it easier to cheat honest people in games. See-through "technology" is only useful for cheating. Cheating is a horrible thing and it will always destroy the game in the end. Remember Diablo I?
"Regardless, you should have tripwire or something running anyway."
I'm so glad to see that CmdrTaco is promoting the proliferation of Linux into the community of average (read: "most") computer users with such a supportive, nurturing, and positive comment such as this. The arrogant tone of the comment makes me want to advise all of my non-expert computer using friends to download Mandrake, install it with no help from a Linux expert (it's so easy you don't need one anyway), and then proceed to use and learn it without any help from anyone, since it's so easy and intuitive. And, of course they'll all know to install tripwire "or something" because it's just that obvious.
Thanks again, CmdrTaco; you are a true representative of the Linux community in everything you say and do.
Wouldn't this enable spammers to better automate their evil occupation? I get a spam message on ICQ here and there, but I can imagine those turning into a message every minute if this could help spammers.
I agree with you, and I am by no means conservative or liberal. What I should have said in my original post was "borderline-anarchist liberals" instead of "borderline anarchist liberals" to clarify that as far as political philosophies go, when either of them is taken to the extreme, it smacks of anarchy and disorder. I really dispise what the Christian conservatives are doing in the United States with censorship. I blame most of it on the Baptists, a sect of Christianity which, in the United States, participates in wholesale censorship lobbying, degredation of women's roles in the world, etc. (Check out Landover Baptist and their Role of Women Bible Quiz to get an idea of how Baptists' extreme literal interpretation of Bibical verse is used to make the world a worser place.)
"Saying you think people should be held accountable for what they say is saying you support censorship, and if you support censorship you dont support free speech."
I think you misunderstand me. (I started this thread as an Anonymous Coward for effect). I am saying that anonyminity is not guaranteed by the right to speak freely. Were someone to say that they were planning to kill the president, and if they were saying it in an open forum with anonyminity, then there would be nothing law enforcement could do to squash their anarchist consipracy. (And consider that my use of the words "kill" and "president" will probably be found by Carnivore or something similar. But I'm ok with that. It's their job to keep things lawful.)
I honestly have no fucking clue how you went from talking about accountability to talking about censorship... must be some/. thing to label everything undesireable as censorship or invasion of privacy.
The other thing you'll have to keep in mind that if Napster is banned, then the students will go back to ftp and hunting for the brief MP3 websites that appear and disappear. IRC trading will increase and bandwidth will still be affected.
Absolutely not. Most of the people who use Napster are idiots when it comes to computer stuff, especially on college campuses. They bitch and moan when "my Napster" doesn't work, usually because they f*cked something up. The fact is, though, that IRC trading and FTP servers are too difficult for your average stupid-person-college student to comprehend. It's just not as simple as napster where you can download the software and execute a search query. I sincerely wish they would ban napster on every college campus. Early evening hours are really slow and I just know it's because of other students using napster. The real consequence of banning napster would be the use of IRC and FTP by smart people... which believe it or not is a minorty. (More than 50% of everyone thinks they're above average.)
I read that SA article a couple of months ago when it was in the July, 2000 magazine. Are you really so overwhelmed with story submissions to/. that you can't sort through it? IMHO, some of the stories that are making it to the front page are too obscure; much too obscure compared to this.
No disrespect to the teacher who posted the Ask Slashdot query, but the problem with high school CS courses these days is the teachers. In my experience, a CS class in high school consists of boring little assignments that require no synthesis of knowledge that can be completed in 10 minutes. The remaining hour is spent playing a game or surfing the web. Add some rigour to your courses, know the material better than your students, keep them interested, and you just might keeping them "in house" for CS classes rather than taking some at the local vo-tech or concurrently enrolling at the local university.
You're absolutely correct. Conclusions about the intent of a large corporation like Microsoft do, therefore, need to be made on their bigger actions, rather than little skirmishes like the letter to/. from their legal dept.
We got the "self install" kit from GTE for our DSL in Northern Virginia. We got it set up without any problems. It wasn't hard or anything. Am I missing something?
Of course, once done, they will have a map for one person, not everyone.
This is not correct. The privately funded Celera used DNA from several individual sources. Every normal human has the same set of genes (genes are fragments of DNA that are translated into functional proteins). Variations in this are due to mutation and can cause inherited or spontaneous disorders such as cystic fibrosis or marfans. Where we are different is in what's between the genes (composed of random junk and tandem repeats). When forensic scientists use DNA evidence to connect a suspect to a crime, they are not actually comparing the DNA base pair-for-base pair (that is to say, they're not looking at the A's, the T's, the C's, and the G's). Rather, they compare the lengths of fragmented DNA from two sources fragmented by the same enzyme(s). I digress. Basically, since the genes, though they make up a relatively small portion of the whole length of a strand of DNA, are what give us our fundamental human characteristics, and they are basically the same for everyone, the efforts of the Genome projects will produce a one size fits all product.
I saw the author of this book, Naomi Klein, on CSPAN a month or two ago. She was promoting this book at (I think) Harvard. Her presentation was great, and she covered the most important topics from the book, describing them with inspiring conviction. What she was talking about probably would have been a rant if it were being said by any other person, but Klein made it coherent and very good. Also, I must say, Naomi Klein is a very attractive woman.
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It's only 28 CFU. That's not very much at all.
The article(s) say that he is in the navy reading up on "steroids, melanin, genetic codes, &c." Melanin is a pigment present in human eyes where it adsorbes UV radiation and in skin (to varying degrees) where it does about the same thing. Steroids are often used with patients suffering from degenerate skin disorders to restore growth. Adding to this mix his interest in "genetic codes," I can only conclude that he is working feverishly in his 2'x7'x3' bunk on board some navy ship to create a gene therapy that enhances his body's quantites of melanin to protect him from further radiation and of steroidal compounds that may repair whatever physical radiation burns he may have, in addition to repairing his radiation-hammered DNA to a less mutated state. Stagin' a comeback. More power to him.
"David Hahn's early years were seemingly ordinary. The blond, gangly boy played baseball and soccer, and joined the Boy Scouts. His parents, Ken and Patty, had divorced, and David lived with his father and stepmother, Kathy, in nearby Clinton Township."
He lived in Clinton Twp. in his "early years," but the incident occured in Commerce Twp.You are the weakest linkgoodbye.
The Warp Scale for measuring speed is a log scale, similar to the Richter Scale for measuring earthquake intensity. I.E.: the difference between Warp 9 and Warp 8 is significantly greater than the difference between Warp 1 (the speed of light, c) and Warp 2.
Actually, this has to be one of the worst ideas I have ever heard. According to the article, most of the top execs face penalites for their crimes, which would mean that they're probably leaving their jobs. Unless it's easy to hire a whole new executive board, this company has been (figuratively) decapitated and (essentially) executed anyhow. Not many start ups (or large companies for that matter) stay intact once it's been discovered that a large number of the company's execs have committed horrendous crimes. Calling it a "death penalty" officially would mean pork legislation to the effect which would probably contain additionaly unneccessary and dangerous stipulations that would make the whole thing worse than it already is. At first, I thought that this article didn't deserve a post on Slashdot because it is essentially insignificant, but then I recalled that Slashdot is really in to this whole anti-corporate collective manifesto. *Smacks head* How could I forget?
Can you say "no freedom of speech" in Mandarin? No? That's fine, I'm sure the fascist government will be more than happy to translate it into English for you.
Once again, CmdrTaco grossly overestimates the abilities of the majority of people out there. This is not because of some expectation of his that everyone will be "as smart as him." Rather, he just can't fathom that not everyone is capable of doing everything and anything. He does this all the time when he talks about Linux and how easy and intuititve it is when Linux is truly far from it. This is yet another example.
Here, CmdrTaco is saying that everyone will cheat if they can. "Strangers cheat" sums that one up. CmdrTaco is going further by saying that if these "strangers" can't cheat, then they'll DoS everyone else in the came. Forgone conclusion, right Taco? Taco is implying, also, that hardware drivers for graphics cards are no more capable of facilitating cheaters than current methods (such as screen-reading aimbots, bug exploitation, and packet-interception). That's just not right. Every current method of cheating is 100% preventable. My case-in-point is Counterstrike. Just about every cheat that has come out for CS to date has been attacked by the game's programmers. (Kinda' goes with the name of the game, y'know?) Drivers, on the other hand, can not generally be changed by joe-shmo cheater. Drivers are the most basic link in the chain.
"Maybe I'm just disillusioned..."
Yes, Taco, you are. Shut up, and let someone else on the staff write these stories for Slashdot. At least they have some notion of sensibility.
But, anyhow, video card manufacturers who cater to gamers have only to lose by making it easier to cheat honest people in games. See-through "technology" is only useful for cheating. Cheating is a horrible thing and it will always destroy the game in the end. Remember Diablo I?
Speed:
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Service Provider: Velocitus (Formerly RICA.net)
I'm so glad to see that CmdrTaco is promoting the proliferation of Linux into the community of average (read: "most") computer users with such a supportive, nurturing, and positive comment such as this. The arrogant tone of the comment makes me want to advise all of my non-expert computer using friends to download Mandrake, install it with no help from a Linux expert (it's so easy you don't need one anyway), and then proceed to use and learn it without any help from anyone, since it's so easy and intuitive. And, of course they'll all know to install tripwire "or something" because it's just that obvious.
Thanks again, CmdrTaco; you are a true representative of the Linux community in everything you say and do.
Wouldn't this enable spammers to better automate their evil occupation? I get a spam message on ICQ here and there, but I can imagine those turning into a message every minute if this could help spammers.
I agree with you, and I am by no means conservative or liberal. What I should have said in my original post was "borderline-anarchist liberals" instead of "borderline anarchist liberals" to clarify that as far as political philosophies go, when either of them is taken to the extreme, it smacks of anarchy and disorder. I really dispise what the Christian conservatives are doing in the United States with censorship. I blame most of it on the Baptists, a sect of Christianity which, in the United States, participates in wholesale censorship lobbying, degredation of women's roles in the world, etc. (Check out Landover Baptist and their Role of Women Bible Quiz to get an idea of how Baptists' extreme literal interpretation of Bibical verse is used to make the world a worser place.)
I think you misunderstand me. (I started this thread as an Anonymous Coward for effect). I am saying that anonyminity is not guaranteed by the right to speak freely. Were someone to say that they were planning to kill the president, and if they were saying it in an open forum with anonyminity, then there would be nothing law enforcement could do to squash their anarchist consipracy. (And consider that my use of the words "kill" and "president" will probably be found by Carnivore or something similar. But I'm ok with that. It's their job to keep things lawful.)
I honestly have no fucking clue how you went from talking about accountability to talking about censorship... must be some /. thing to label everything undesireable as censorship or invasion of privacy.
Absolutely not. Most of the people who use Napster are idiots when it comes to computer stuff, especially on college campuses. They bitch and moan when "my Napster" doesn't work, usually because they f*cked something up. The fact is, though, that IRC trading and FTP servers are too difficult for your average stupid-person-college student to comprehend. It's just not as simple as napster where you can download the software and execute a search query. I sincerely wish they would ban napster on every college campus. Early evening hours are really slow and I just know it's because of other students using napster. The real consequence of banning napster would be the use of IRC and FTP by smart people... which believe it or not is a minorty. (More than 50% of everyone thinks they're above average.)
I read that SA article a couple of months ago when it was in the July, 2000 magazine. Are you really so overwhelmed with story submissions to /. that you can't sort through it? IMHO, some of the stories that are making it to the front page are too obscure; much too obscure compared to this.
No disrespect to the teacher who posted the Ask Slashdot query, but the problem with high school CS courses these days is the teachers. In my experience, a CS class in high school consists of boring little assignments that require no synthesis of knowledge that can be completed in 10 minutes. The remaining hour is spent playing a game or surfing the web. Add some rigour to your courses, know the material better than your students, keep them interested, and you just might keeping them "in house" for CS classes rather than taking some at the local vo-tech or concurrently enrolling at the local university.
The subject says it.
You're absolutely correct. Conclusions about the intent of a large corporation like Microsoft do, therefore, need to be made on their bigger actions, rather than little skirmishes like the letter to /. from their legal dept.
I bet higher-resistance keyboards would increase the risk of developing arthritic pain or carpel tunnel syndrome. I wouldn't recommend it.
Remember how people used to worry about the blatant commericalization of the 'net? Well, here it is; embodied.
We got the "self install" kit from GTE for our DSL in Northern Virginia. We got it set up without any problems. It wasn't hard or anything. Am I missing something?
This is not correct. The privately funded Celera used DNA from several individual sources. Every normal human has the same set of genes (genes are fragments of DNA that are translated into functional proteins). Variations in this are due to mutation and can cause inherited or spontaneous disorders such as cystic fibrosis or marfans. Where we are different is in what's between the genes (composed of random junk and tandem repeats). When forensic scientists use DNA evidence to connect a suspect to a crime, they are not actually comparing the DNA base pair-for-base pair (that is to say, they're not looking at the A's, the T's, the C's, and the G's). Rather, they compare the lengths of fragmented DNA from two sources fragmented by the same enzyme(s). I digress. Basically, since the genes, though they make up a relatively small portion of the whole length of a strand of DNA, are what give us our fundamental human characteristics, and they are basically the same for everyone, the efforts of the Genome projects will produce a one size fits all product.
Yes.
http://palmgear.com/software/showsoftware.cfm?sid= 71221320000707193646&prodID=7928
Hey, I tortured and killed flies when I was little! I think I turned out pretty well (except for that dog I, uh, decapitated last week).
I saw the author of this book, Naomi Klein, on CSPAN a month or two ago. She was promoting this book at (I think) Harvard. Her presentation was great, and she covered the most important topics from the book, describing them with inspiring conviction. What she was talking about probably would have been a rant if it were being said by any other person, but Klein made it coherent and very good. Also, I must say, Naomi Klein is a very attractive woman.