(circa 1985?)I went to some summer day camp related to National Merit achievements, or PSAT scores. Something like that. It involved encouraging high school(?) kids to self-pace their way through a calculus workbook. It was taught at Mills College.
It sucked. The "instructor" was some 18 year old idiot, I got way too frustrated, and it was too far for me anyways: 2 hours by bus or something each way. Horrific. And there was no social element to it. Put me off calculus in a major way, even though I had previously been quite good at it. After that, I topped out at only 730/800 on my math SAT or something like that. Boo.
Interesting. But it still suffers from a bad public image problem.
I guess when the US pollution controls start working on all the nasty old diesel trucks and gets them off the road, then diesel will be able to be more accepted by the public here.
oh. and when the smog hovering around the los angeles area, and other major cities, stops exactly matching the color of diesel trucks' exhaust.
I think you'd be more interested in, "show me how to take my 2 ton car and turn it into a 1 ton car with same hauling and cargo and safety capacity?"
Then suddenly, the mpg mysteriously almost doubles. how about that!
Seems like they created a device that aims for "cool", but missed having targetted usefulness. Requring that you have an external USB hub to do any useful I/O, just kills the "hey, a small portable computer!" factor.
As it stands, it makes kind of a neat "Output Only" device. Plug into HDMI display, and you could have a neat animated wall decoration or something. Presuming that it can draw enough power from hdmi to actually run. Making it functionally targetted for merely non-interactive eye-candy. It cant even handle streaming video feeds or something in that mode: No wireless, or other networking onboard!
Personally, I'd find it more useful if they can make a variant that can operate in pure HDMI-powered mode, with no other external power. Somehow rig up a low-power keyboard connection for it, and/or joystick, and you then have the ultimate cheapo game platform for this generation of hardware.
Must be a new right you are referring to, that I missed:
the right to publically proclaim, "yes I killed xyz, I'm glad I did it, and I'm glad they're dead", but then change your story when "the law" catches up to you?
Personally, I dont think that should be a "right".
what I don't understand is then why haven't the US/Pakistan military been spending the last few days conducting similar operations based on this intelligence?
Apparently, you dont understand that Pakistan is a muslim terrorist supporting state yet either.
Given that the article writer comments that this stuff IS present on android... seems most likely that the google maps + built-in mobile phone pos tracker gizmo, is the culprit for this.
Sure, they're completely unrelated.
Which is why I never go to "movies" any more: i use my "tv" to watch the DVD.
"movie companies" have lost almost all their "revenue stream" from me, as a direct result of high resolution large screen tv.
Perhaps you meant "broadcast tv".
or cable.
But even there, I find a lot of "made for tv" products to be vastly more compelling than most movies.
And hey, they're **free**.
The movie companies *should* be worried about television; there's no way they can compete in the long run
That's right. they DONT make money "off of linux".
They make money from stuff they do on top of it.
Virtual no-one makes money directly from linux itself. Even Linux, got his money from people who paid him to work on linux, because of stuff there were doing **on top of it**. Not because they got direct revenue from creating the linux code and selling that without anything else.
In a perfect world people change their belief when facts show then they are wrong.
And when facts are manufactured?
Then in a perfect world, the sheeple will be perfectly compliant and controllable by those who control the manufacture of "facts".
Yeah, I dont like that world so much.
But looks like we're heading for another variant of it. Manufacturing "facts", is getting easier and easier in this day and age.
You are making the mistake of letting your dislike and disbelief in (creation, existence of God?), convince you that all religious people, have no reason.
This, is prejudice, plain and simple. It is also incorrect.
Many of the interpretations that scholars have "argued vehemently over", have had later facts come to light, that settles the argument. Whether that be the discovery of additional ancient scrolls (ie: dead sea scrolls), or archeological digs that discover, "oh, by the way, you know that biblical city you claimed never existed? In your Face, ol boy, what? ":-)
Pretty much any description can be used to fit people who "religiously" believe in anything and everything that "science" tells them.
What you have to remember, is that if there is one thin that is wonderfully repeatable about the scientific establishment.. is that it is WRONG, Over, and Over again.
"everything revolves around the earth!" This was at one point, the "scientific" belief. Thechurch later decided it liked it and wanted to hold on to it, but it WAS the accepted scientific believe for hundreds of years.
Then the whole "impossible to go faster than the speed of sound" thing. And many, many other errors.
Calling all of this "faith" isn't quite right. It's more like "outsourcing" certain parts of your knowledge-discovery to others:...
No, it really is "faith". the fact that you dont want to use that word to describe it, merely means that you are uncomfortable with that word, not that it does not fit.
By comparison, a faith-based description remains faith-based and without evidence even at the largest level.
again, not true.
A well "grounded" faith in something, whether a full religion or less things, is based on [some amount of proof that is less than "conclusive" proof].
A rational being can say, "there is no repeatable, touchable evidence to 'prove' that X is true; nevertheless, there is sufficient evidence for me personally, to believe that it is true. I therefore take "on faith", that which is not fully proven".
This can be said about many things: The big bang *theory*, the *theory* of evolution, and plenty of other things, both scientific, and non-scientific.... None of these things are PROVED.
Yet, obviously, there are plenty of people on here who not only believe they are true, but get all "religiously" stirred up, you might say, at the notion of other people saying, "no I believe something different".
You put too much "faith" in tv shows. Short snippets of things created for *entertainment*.
You might try spending more time "with" people of intelligence, who are also religious.
May I suggest reading C.S. Lewis's "Mere Christianity". An excellent, well-reasoned book, that logically discusses and compares the belief systems of Atheists vs educated Christians.
The real proof comes from the improvements you see in your own life when you follow correct teachings
That would be merely a religion of humanism. If you judge a religion merely by its effect on a person, then you are essentially saying, all that matters, is humans.
Miracles are *THE* most important part of religion. Yes, they do "prove" a religion. The biggest problem in that area, is whether a person is content to accept proof of a miracle occurring in the past, as proof of a religion, or whether they require that they get ongoing, yearly/monthly/daily "miracles" occurring in front of them.
Problem with that is, what kind of person says to the creator of the universe, "keep me entertained, or I'll stop believing in you when I dont see miracles any more"?
I'd say, someone who is either an idiot, or who has WAAAYYY too high an opinion of their own importance.
Your faith also tells you that casting demons out into a herd of pigs is a valid way of curing mental illnesses, that you can breed striped animals by having the mother and father copulate while looking at a striped rod, that bats are a kind of bird, that souls exist, and that if you pray for something, you will get it.
Presuming you are referring to Christianity, in the "your faith" reference.. every single item you said there, is wrong.
if someone is possessed by demons, then they are not "mentally ill".
the striped rod thing, is just wierd to say, no idea where you're getting that from.
it is perfectly valid to say that "bats are a type of bird", if that fits your classification system. The prevelant KPCOFGS taxonomic classification, is not the *only* way to organize animals into groups. Just as "western music scales" is not the ONLY way to "classify" sonic vibrational pitches.
Nowhere in the set of Christian, or even Jewish, beliefs, does it say that if you pray for something, you *will* definately get it. Only shyster con-men say that.
Very secure.
Good thing it isnt possible to get a copy of the "tcpdump" from somewhere else, and copy it onto that machine and run it, eh?
Allowing users to download stuff from outside? well, good thing you turned that off first thing.
No, it wasnt. other than (you need to get from point A, to point B) and so the endpoints are fixed.
An amazing example of this, is if you try the online trials.
Just the first main training course, even.
there's an official "get gold" type of time, which is something like 1min20sec. And you think "wow, that's gonna be tough". Butyou remmeber the training, and maybe you manage to do it "just right", and get it.
But then you check out the ONLINE scores... which come with **ghost replays**.
and you see, "wow, that guy did it in 1 min flat, how's that even possible?" So you load up the ghost, and see a way you didnt even think was possible. And maybe you try that out.
But then you see there's a guy that did it in **40** seconds, and you think WTF?!?!, check out his ghost, and he did it in a way that the first guy didnt even think of...
Other than the parts where you are stuck in corridors, there *are* really many ways to get to the destination.
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(circa 1985?)I went to some summer day camp related to National Merit achievements, or PSAT scores. Something like that.
It involved encouraging high school(?) kids to self-pace their way through a calculus workbook. It was taught at Mills College.
It sucked.
The "instructor" was some 18 year old idiot, I got way too frustrated, and it was too far for me anyways: 2 hours by bus or something each way. Horrific. And there was no social element to it.
Put me off calculus in a major way, even though I had previously been quite good at it. After that, I topped out at only 730/800 on my math SAT or something like that. Boo.
Interesting. But it still suffers from a bad public image problem.
I guess when the US pollution controls start working on all the nasty old diesel trucks and gets them off the road, then diesel will be able to be more accepted by the public here.
oh. and when the smog hovering around the los angeles area, and other major cities, stops exactly matching the color of diesel trucks' exhaust.
you left out
5) diesel is a "dirty" technology; our air is bad enough from all the large trucks without having more diesel cars adding to it.
Wow! Fantastic story!
Visions of "the internet generation" meets "Wall-E" meets "Robots of Dawn" !
in 1907? !!
I think you'd be more interested in, "show me how to take my 2 ton car and turn it into a 1 ton car with same hauling and cargo and safety capacity?" Then suddenly, the mpg mysteriously almost doubles. how about that!
Seems like they created a device that aims for "cool", but missed having targetted usefulness.
Requring that you have an external USB hub to do any useful I/O, just kills the "hey, a small portable computer!" factor.
As it stands, it makes kind of a neat "Output Only" device. Plug into HDMI display, and you could have a neat animated wall decoration or something. Presuming that it can draw enough power from hdmi to actually run. Making it functionally targetted for merely non-interactive eye-candy.
It cant even handle streaming video feeds or something in that mode: No wireless, or other networking onboard!
Personally, I'd find it more useful if they can make a variant that can operate in pure HDMI-powered mode, with no other external power. Somehow rig up a low-power keyboard connection for it, and/or joystick, and you then have the ultimate cheapo game platform for this generation of hardware.
Must be a new right you are referring to, that I missed: the right to publically proclaim, "yes I killed xyz, I'm glad I did it, and I'm glad they're dead", but then change your story when "the law" catches up to you? Personally, I dont think that should be a "right".
what I don't understand is then why haven't the US/Pakistan military been spending the last few days conducting similar operations based on this intelligence?
Apparently, you dont understand that Pakistan is a muslim terrorist supporting state yet either.
Given that the article writer comments that this stuff IS present on android... seems most likely that the google maps + built-in mobile phone pos tracker gizmo, is the culprit for this.
Sure, they're completely unrelated. Which is why I never go to "movies" any more: i use my "tv" to watch the DVD. "movie companies" have lost almost all their "revenue stream" from me, as a direct result of high resolution large screen tv. Perhaps you meant "broadcast tv". or cable. But even there, I find a lot of "made for tv" products to be vastly more compelling than most movies. And hey, they're **free**. The movie companies *should* be worried about television; there's no way they can compete in the long run
That's right. they DONT make money "off of linux". They make money from stuff they do on top of it. Virtual no-one makes money directly from linux itself. Even Linux, got his money from people who paid him to work on linux, because of stuff there were doing **on top of it**. Not because they got direct revenue from creating the linux code and selling that without anything else.
In a perfect world people change their belief when facts show then they are wrong.
And when facts are manufactured? Then in a perfect world, the sheeple will be perfectly compliant and controllable by those who control the manufacture of "facts".
Yeah, I dont like that world so much. But looks like we're heading for another variant of it. Manufacturing "facts", is getting easier and easier in this day and age.
There is no evidence, no data, only opinion.
You are making the mistake of letting your dislike and disbelief in (creation, existence of God?), convince you that all religious people, have no reason.
This, is prejudice, plain and simple. It is also incorrect.
Many of the interpretations that scholars have "argued vehemently over", have had later facts come to light, that settles the argument. Whether that be the discovery of additional ancient scrolls (ie: dead sea scrolls), or archeological digs that discover, "oh, by the way, you know that biblical city you claimed never existed? In your Face, ol boy, what? " :-)
How would you define "religion" then?
Pretty much any description can be used to fit people who "religiously" believe in anything and everything that "science" tells them.
What you have to remember, is that if there is one thin that is wonderfully repeatable about the scientific establishment.. is that it is WRONG, Over, and Over again.
"everything revolves around the earth!"
This was at one point, the "scientific" belief. Thechurch later decided it liked it and wanted to hold on to it, but it WAS the accepted scientific believe for hundreds of years.
Then the whole "impossible to go faster than the speed of sound" thing.
And many, many other errors.
Calling all of this "faith" isn't quite right. It's more like "outsourcing" certain parts of your knowledge-discovery to others:...
No, it really is "faith". the fact that you dont want to use that word to describe it, merely means that you are uncomfortable with that word, not that it does not fit.
By comparison, a faith-based description remains faith-based and without evidence even at the largest level.
again, not true. A well "grounded" faith in something, whether a full religion or less things, is based on [some amount of proof that is less than "conclusive" proof].
A rational being can say, "there is no repeatable, touchable evidence to 'prove' that X is true; nevertheless, there is sufficient evidence for me personally, to believe that it is true. I therefore take "on faith", that which is not fully proven".
This can be said about many things: The big bang *theory*, the *theory* of evolution, and plenty of other things, both scientific, and non-scientific.... None of these things are PROVED. Yet, obviously, there are plenty of people on here who not only believe they are true, but get all "religiously" stirred up, you might say, at the notion of other people saying, "no I believe something different".
You put too much "faith" in tv shows. Short snippets of things created for *entertainment*.
You might try spending more time "with" people of intelligence, who are also religious.
May I suggest reading C.S. Lewis's "Mere Christianity".
An excellent, well-reasoned book, that logically discusses and compares the belief systems of Atheists vs educated Christians.
The real proof comes from the improvements you see in your own life when you follow correct teachings
That would be merely a religion of humanism. If you judge a religion merely by its effect on a person, then you are essentially saying, all that matters, is humans.
Miracles are *THE* most important part of religion. Yes, they do "prove" a religion. The biggest problem in that area, is whether a person is content to accept proof of a miracle occurring in the past, as proof of a religion, or whether they require that they get ongoing, yearly/monthly/daily "miracles" occurring in front of them.
Problem with that is, what kind of person says to the creator of the universe, "keep me entertained, or I'll stop believing in you when I dont see miracles any more"?
I'd say, someone who is either an idiot, or who has WAAAYYY too high an opinion of their own importance.
Your faith also tells you that casting demons out into a herd of pigs is a valid way of curing mental illnesses, that you can breed striped animals by having the mother and father copulate while looking at a striped rod, that bats are a kind of bird, that souls exist, and that if you pray for something, you will get it.
Presuming you are referring to Christianity, in the "your faith" reference.. every single item you said there, is wrong.
It wasnt so much us trusting them. as them being willing to accept help.
They weren't willing to accept help, from what I read.
Now they have have majorly crippled their own country, out of pride.
This amount of bloat is insane.
The old joke was, {all programs will expand until they can read usenet}
Now it seems to be, {all programs will expand until they can run a browser inside them}
In both situations, the sane response is, "Quit adding bloat, and instead give me reliability, speed, and efficiency!!!"
Very secure. Good thing it isnt possible to get a copy of the "tcpdump" from somewhere else, and copy it onto that machine and run it, eh? Allowing users to download stuff from outside? well, good thing you turned that off first thing.
I think the word you are looking for, instead of "stuff".. is "color" :-}
the colour pallet was almost greyscale.
It really was a "one true path" game.
No, it wasnt. other than (you need to get from point A, to point B) and so the endpoints are fixed.
An amazing example of this, is if you try the online trials. Just the first main training course, even. there's an official "get gold" type of time, which is something like 1min20sec. And you think "wow, that's gonna be tough". Butyou remmeber the training, and maybe you manage to do it "just right", and get it. But then you check out the ONLINE scores... which come with **ghost replays**. and you see, "wow, that guy did it in 1 min flat, how's that even possible?" So you load up the ghost, and see a way you didnt even think was possible. And maybe you try that out.
But then you see there's a guy that did it in **40** seconds, and you think WTF?!?!, check out his ghost, and he did it in a way that the first guy didnt even think of... Other than the parts where you are stuck in corridors, there *are* really many ways to get to the destination.
well, there's a difference between "can have root if you chose to configure it" and "must have root".
B1 allows you to do away with root(I think) which was what the original poster seemed to be asking about.
For those who are not aware, "B2", and "B3" are
"like B1, but even more strict". So if B1 is "good enough", use B1.
Cool. So you can kill someone, and never be convicted of it, just so long as you dont leave DNA around the scene.
Gotcha.
Any other great legal ideas?