I'm in New Mexico too and I love all of the wild areas we have here - National forests, etc. But you hit the nail on the head with overpopulation being the root problem of all of this mess. My question is what logic dictates that I get tax deductions (+$600 bonus this year) for having kids which consume more public funding than if I had none.
I haven't read it (and can't even share a title - sorry), but I understand that there's a Heinlein book in which each child you have increases your tax obligation exponentially. If I recall the summary I got from a coworker correctly, the richest man in the universe could only afford 7. Makes sense to me - Kids are an expensive luxury. Not a real pretty sight to face, but much less draconian than the measures taken in China.
don't forget 'wisdom' after intelligence. So many people stop at intelligence. From what I've seen, it's not completely a progression from one to the other. I've met people who I would describe as 'knowledgeable', 'intelligent', or 'wise' without possessing either of the other attributes. Those traits are often coincidental and one can help beget another, but it's far from a hard set 'intelligent'->'knowledgeable'->'wise' progression.
Can you tell me right now *with certainty* where your trusted CA list came from and that it hans't been modified by someone hostile or by hostile code?
If you can't tell me that for sure, then you are *less* secure than someone using unsigned certs who has personally verified key signatures face-to-face. You can't even verify *with certainty* that the person you're talking with face-to-face isn't some impostor in a clever disguise who has infiltrated your org trying to provide you with a false key. But you accept an appropriate level of risk depending on what level of security is required. Is it likely that you're speaking face-to-face with an impostor? Not remotely. Therefore, that's a good enough verification for damn near everything - I'd even trust it with national security info. Is it likely that a CA list has been modified by somebody hostile? Based on their visible track record so far, no. So I trust them even with bank/medical/SSN etc.
Excessive paranoia buys you a little bit of added security, but at what cost? Very little is black and white - Your optimal solution is almost always in the grey.
Mustangs were a lot more fun once they started making them out of metal and putting gasoline engines into them! You've obviously never heard of the Mustang Ranch... Great fun to ride! And I think that would be diminished if they were gassy...
They can take our lives, but they'll never take our MySpace? They can have them both, to this day I still have not found a use for either of them. You're willing to give up MySpace and your life? I'm not really into MySpace or Facebook, but they're not so obnoxious that I've contemplated offing myself... Stay in school - You'll find a way to make your life useful.
MySpace, though, is the anti-thesis of government. It's about freedom. People don't necessarily realize that, but that's the end result from allowing people to freely communicate, gather and entertain. They can take our lives, but they'll never take our MySpace?
I've read the linked article a few times and I'm not sure where there is anything to indicate he is mad. Duh. The title: "Murdoch fumes as Facebook overtakes MySpace"
Carlin was of Irish descent and was raised in the Roman Catholic faith.[22][23][24] - Wikipedia
Anybody who mentions athiesm in a thread about a Christian's death should be modded flamebait or troll. Have a littlke respect, for God's sake.
I'm not sure whether that's just a weird joke or not, but here. From the same Wikipedia article:
Although raised in the Roman Catholic faith, Carlin often denounced the idea of God in interviews and performances, most notably with his "Invisible Man in the Sky" and "There Is No God" routines. In mockery, he invented the parody religion Frisbeetarianism for a newspaper contest. He defined it as the belief that when a person dies "his soul gets flung onto a roof, and just stays there", and cannot be retrieved.
Carlin also joked that he worshipped the Sun, because he could actually see it, but prayed to Joe Pesci (a good friend of his in real life) because "he's a good actor", and "looks like a guy who can get things done!"[40]
Carlin also introduced the "Two Commandments", a revised "pocket-sized" list of the Ten Commandments in his HBO special Complaints and Grievances, ending with the additional commandment of "Thou shalt keep thy religion to thyself."[41]
1. The serial comma is perfectly appropriate in the standard American dialect, at whatever level of discourse. It depends on the style guide you're using. Personally, I use it religiously at all times and would have bashed GGP for omitting it if he'd gone the other way =). Newspaper style guides usually omit it (to save space?) and it's uncommon to see in online news sites. I think it should be used everywhere, as it reduces ambiguity, but I don't write (or typically adhere to) style guides.
I think a better criticism, as an AC below points out, would be that I referred to it as the "Harvard comma", rather than the proper term, "Oxford comma".
First off, you are aware that one of the best ways to improve your national engineering cadre (and thus, your economy, standard of living, etc.) is to attempt things that are at the border of your capabilities, or even just a tad beyond, aren't you? Even if the only thing out there was a big brass ring that was way far away, it would pay to push your limits by constantly trying to grab it faster, or cheaper, or whatever. That sounds like the most reasonable justification. It's a weird way to further science (doing really hard stuff, even with poor justification), but it does seem fairly worth-while lacking a better system. Although DARPA-style engineering challenges seem to get more bang-for-the-buck.
Second, you realize I hope that NASA's budget is minuscule in the big scheme of things; we spend much more on things like professional sports and junk food that are even less useful. Our entire space program from 1958 to today cost less than our current misadventures in the middle east. That one I really don't like. Just because we've pissed away a huge amount of money in one place in no way justifies being loose with our spending elsewhere. That kind of reasoning could justify funding anything.
Third, did you ever stop to think about where the vast majority of the available resources are? From energy to precious metals to useful chemical to just plain space the overwhelming majority of the resources we know about are out in space. That seems worth-while. The only problem is that we're a very long way from that being practical. The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress is a fantastic science fiction book, but short of possibly retrieving tritium from the moon, we've got a lot of progress to make before extra-terrestrial mining becomes profitable. And the research that needs to be done could largely be done much more economically here on earth.
I realize I'm the minority opinion on this topic here on/., but I do appreciate intelligent responses when they're made available - Thanks. I have a handful of mod-points - If you weren't responding to my own post, I'd share one with you.
It's tremendously interesting to discover whether there's carbon-based fragments in the water (suggesting life did or could exist) and to figure out what else is in the water. Yes - It's interesting, but is it useful? Sorry if it sounds like I'm trolling, but I just can't understand our push into space. Maybe it's the engineer in me, but if we can't exploit it (or learn something exploitable from it), why pursue it? It's not that it's not interesting (even fascinating), but not particularly useful as far as I can see. Therefore, IMAO (In My Arrogant Opinion) it's also not worthy of public funding.
Just my opinion - And sure to inflame a handful of folks out there, but it's an honest question. What do we hope to gain from what we can learn here? (Please refrain from SETI-type justifications. If they were there and wanted to talk to us, they wouldn't need us to contact them.)
Everything here eventually (or immediately) degrades to politics, religion, or inane pedantics. If that's the way things go, that's because that's the way the gods want them to be. Besides, your decision to apply the 'serial' or 'Harvard' comma before the phrase "or inane pedantics" clearly shows a lack of proper use of style guides or general sophistication. The 'serial comma' is appropriate in major publications or papers, but not in newspapers, columns or short elucidations (such as slashdot comments.)
But, I'm probably wasting my time arguing logical, on-topic points with an obvious liberal.
Are there any transparent schemes for email encryption which could be installed for the organization as a whole? Entrust works pretty well. I know of a couple of medium sized organizations (~14,000 employees) that use it. One ties it in to Eudora and the other, I believe, ties it into Outlook. Of course, if you want to exchange e-mail with customers, you'll have to make sure they have compatible software and keys (as with any encryption scheme.)
How is Nvidia able to year after year make these amazing advances in power while Intel makes (although great) only modest advances? There is more room for improvement in the graphics card/GPU arena than in the CPU arena. Since the market is so much larger surrounding CPUs, more research has been done and the chips are closer to "perfectly" using available technology and continually expanding the realm of what technology is available.
And I'll echo the_humeister's statement that graphics operations are much more easily done in parallel than generic computing. You can throw processors/cores at the problem pretty easily and continue to see improvement.
Obviously you compress first then encrypt the compressed data not the other way around. That's what they're doing now. That's why checking packet size is yielding exploitable information. Are you trying to be funny or do you really not grasp the topic here?
If you're going to go through all this trouble, you might as well start from scratch. Make a language only you and people you wish to secretly communicate with know. Ix! Gorfat blutell pragmew ig jounty crein moxin fout. Im odin reax trelli poin zor trillo daster zub? Unt jo.
Right, because no building contractor has ever deliberately used substandard materials to cut costs, even when they had to know it would end badly. Right, because no building contractor has ever been held responsible for that kind of behavior.
...a well rounded course of study in Maths, Theology/Mythology/Folklore..., Literature, The Arts, and of course Science and especially Computing, etc... OK, I've mastered math and theology/mythology/folklore. I've observed, appreciated, and internalized all available literature and art. And I've mastered the sciences, computing, etc.
I agree. The only way to win is not to play. Sometimes playing is unavoidable. But, in such situations, winning is often unfeasible. Victory just means losing less.
Not to mention that a lot of the key mathematics that broke MD5 was done by Chinese cryptographers MD5 was broken? I'm not a mathematician, but that's news to me - I thought we still had to use rainbow tables. I'm willing to accept ignorance if you're referring to some other exploitable weakness - Please fill me in if I'm missing something.
Otherwise, here's the MD5 sum of my slashdot password. Post as me as I'll accept that MD5 has been cracked. ae028ba2307f2fc0be83b9b49e859224
I for one will not be a supporter of the Olympics - China's government is not worthy to host the Olympics Let 'em have it - As long as they're not in the U.S. China may want them for PR reasons (just like any other host, but maybe a bigger deal for China than most), but the Olympics are a terrible white elephant. The tourists that come in offset some of the cost, but the Olympics are terribly expensive to host. Any time they come to the U.S., it's a boon for whatever city hosts, but only because the federal government ponies up $$$. If somebody else wants 'em, take 'em.
Part of the Chinese culture? That little tradition used to be polite behaviour in the west too. Indeed - In fact my politeness excels beyond that of nearly all others because of my great humility. I may be the most humble person I know - Which is even more impressive because I have so little to be modest about and so many great qualities that I politely refrain from boasting.
To attempt to quote an old Mac Davis tune that I remember from the Muppet Show: Oh Lord it's hard to be humble when you're perfect in every way I can't wait to look in the mirror 'cause I get better lookin' each day To know me is to love me, I must be a hell of a man Oh Lord it's hard to be humble, but I'm doin' the best that I can
I don't object to those who are willing to allow the public to see their own cultural artifacts. I have a big problem with people hoarding such things away from the public. We'd all like for private collectors to share the things we'd like to see. But you've still yet to suggest any reasonable method for encouraging this. Do we force people to display their privately owned artifacts? Do we use taxes to buy everything that may be historic regardless of the price? Do we seize private property because we've decided it's museum-worthy?
I can get called any sorts of names and get modded as a troll, but my view on the subject isn't going to change. I don't see anyone calling you names but, if you're going to object to something, offer an alternative. If private collectors shouldn't be able to buy and horde these things, what should be done?
If all that you have to say is "Wouldn't it be nice if everyone shared?", then I agree. It's nice when people share. But I was hoping for something more interesting.
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I'm in New Mexico too and I love all of the wild areas we have here - National forests, etc. But you hit the nail on the head with overpopulation being the root problem of all of this mess. My question is what logic dictates that I get tax deductions (+$600 bonus this year) for having kids which consume more public funding than if I had none.
I haven't read it (and can't even share a title - sorry), but I understand that there's a Heinlein book in which each child you have increases your tax obligation exponentially. If I recall the summary I got from a coworker correctly, the richest man in the universe could only afford 7. Makes sense to me - Kids are an expensive luxury. Not a real pretty sight to face, but much less draconian than the measures taken in China.
Excessive paranoia buys you a little bit of added security, but at what cost? Very little is black and white - Your optimal solution is almost always in the grey.
Great fun to ride! And I think that would be diminished if they were gassy...
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Anybody who mentions athiesm in a thread about a Christian's death should be modded flamebait or troll. Have a littlke respect, for God's sake.
I'm not sure whether that's just a weird joke or not, but here.From the same Wikipedia article: Although raised in the Roman Catholic faith, Carlin often denounced the idea of God in interviews and performances, most notably with his "Invisible Man in the Sky" and "There Is No God" routines. In mockery, he invented the parody religion Frisbeetarianism for a newspaper contest. He defined it as the belief that when a person dies "his soul gets flung onto a roof, and just stays there", and cannot be retrieved.
Carlin also joked that he worshipped the Sun, because he could actually see it, but prayed to Joe Pesci (a good friend of his in real life) because "he's a good actor", and "looks like a guy who can get things done!"[40]
Carlin also introduced the "Two Commandments", a revised "pocket-sized" list of the Ten Commandments in his HBO special Complaints and Grievances, ending with the additional commandment of "Thou shalt keep thy religion to thyself."[41]
I think a better criticism, as an AC below points out, would be that I referred to it as the "Harvard comma", rather than the proper term, "Oxford comma".
I realize I'm the minority opinion on this topic here on /., but I do appreciate intelligent responses when they're made available - Thanks. I have a handful of mod-points - If you weren't responding to my own post, I'd share one with you.
Sorry if it sounds like I'm trolling, but I just can't understand our push into space. Maybe it's the engineer in me, but if we can't exploit it (or learn something exploitable from it), why pursue it? It's not that it's not interesting (even fascinating), but not particularly useful as far as I can see. Therefore, IMAO (In My Arrogant Opinion) it's also not worthy of public funding.
Just my opinion - And sure to inflame a handful of folks out there, but it's an honest question. What do we hope to gain from what we can learn here? (Please refrain from SETI-type justifications. If they were there and wanted to talk to us, they wouldn't need us to contact them.)
But, I'm probably wasting my time arguing logical, on-topic points with an obvious liberal.
...and a handful of good porn sites... [Citation needed]Please?
And I'll echo the_humeister's statement that graphics operations are much more easily done in parallel than generic computing. You can throw processors/cores at the problem pretty easily and continue to see improvement.
...a well rounded course of study in Maths, Theology/Mythology/Folklore..., Literature, The Arts, and of course Science and especially Computing, etc... OK, I've mastered math and theology/mythology/folklore. I've observed, appreciated, and internalized all available literature and art. And I've mastered the sciences, computing, etc.What do you recommend that I study now?
Otherwise, here's the MD5 sum of my slashdot password. Post as me as I'll accept that MD5 has been cracked.
ae028ba2307f2fc0be83b9b49e859224
To attempt to quote an old Mac Davis tune that I remember from the Muppet Show:
Oh Lord it's hard to be humble when you're perfect in every way
I can't wait to look in the mirror 'cause I get better lookin' each day
To know me is to love me, I must be a hell of a man
Oh Lord it's hard to be humble, but I'm doin' the best that I can
If all that you have to say is "Wouldn't it be nice if everyone shared?", then I agree. It's nice when people share. But I was hoping for something more interesting.