They cut costs 25 percent over Sun servers (presumably running solaris). It makes no mention of Windows 2003.
The windows 2003 quote is from one of the ads in the article. It was the rather large square ad at the begining of the article when I read it.
Try reloading the page?
"We are going to shove red-hot pokers up our customers' asses, but I think they will like it, because it will be far hotter than anything they've ever had up their asses."
And just how is this non-violent candidate going to collect all that money from American taxpayers for government programs, like social security or education or medicare?
By getting rid of social security. Then selling off federal government owned property to pay for the people currently with social security.
Anyway, it didn't sound like the parent was against taxes. More like against being forced to support war through taxation.
Like George Washington once said: "Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
400 years of data against a 10,000 year cycle is fairly insignificant.
That 10,000 year cycle was sustained without human pollution.
Depending on how much of an influence we are, the cycle could be modified. In that sense, those 400 years are important.
The politicians can't make informed decisions without the help of science.
The rules of chess wouldn't be programmed into the chess engine. Instead they are programmed into the parent program watching over the games. If the child makes an invalid move, the game is instantly lost and the child will remember not to do that if it wants to win. The child program's chess motives would be derived fully from previous games it has played. Like a chess-based self identity.
I havn't heard your reference. I'm refering to Beeblebrox's deceased great grandfather as he helps the guys from the trailing Vogons. That is exactly what he says when he is disapointed with what Beeblebrox has accomplished with his life. (This is after Beeblebrox crash lands on the primitive earth).
something like "We have a saying up here ya know, Life is wasted on the living"
Who used it first? I don't know. It was in the original radio BBC radio broadcast of HGTTG.
When a computer not designed to play chess beats most human grandmasters at chess.
Just let the chess engine go off and learn on it's own (a parent program would instruct good/bad of the rules of chess)
What I really like about this, is that the chess engine has the ability to cheat, though it doesn't because it knows it'll lose the game... the program has a will?
I havn't seen X-ray bursts to this level since I've been watching this graph. (past few months) There was an X level burst yesterday and another larger one a bit before noon today (thursday). It usually stays in the A-B range.
It's such a hard concept that some people might like to be funded for their contribution to your entertainment/education, isn't it?
Information isn't suited to be profited upon by boxing it up onto shelves. We try to treat it like everything else that is sold, but it is obviously different.
I believe that people should not be paid for selling information. They should be paid for creating information.
Information that hasn't been created yet has value. Like gold or diamonds, it holds it's value because it cannot be reproduced.
If someone wants me to write software that they need, they pay me to create that information.
> Making sure that your particular vote is properly counted would be impossible because of secrecy issues.
Once the election process is computerized, it is no longer "one of the most open processes in our government". How are you going to witness the bits flowing through the FSB and out onto a harddrive? My solution has a downside, I admit, but it's a small price to pay compared to what it achieves.
Whoever registers voters knows the mapping between voter_id and individual. They are the only ones you would need to fear. And they could be open to the public to make sure they vault/dispose of the mappings.
> TO verify the voter you'd need the old email me a link system....
not really. Each organization would accept a query on the voter _number_. A new number is allocated for each election. None of the databases need any information about you.
Let the results of the election be open for everyone to tally the counts. Assign a voter registration number to each voter, and allow anyone to query the system with that number to find out who they voted for. This would allow for a couple important things:
1. individuals can later make sure their vote was registered correctly. 2. organizations could step through the enumerated voter numbers and publish their own results of the election. They would back up the database in the process. 3. individuals can submit their vote to as many organizations as they want. The groups would then cross verify the votes with their databases.
What to do if someone finds out their vote isn't correct, is debatable. I wouldn't allow them to change it, but if there are enough errors then the election needs to be done over again.
There could be a simple web site that takes your vote and submits it to as many organizations as it can.
I don't know what to do about people that don't vote, nor the people that don't verify their vote. I'm sure there will be millions, and every one of them could be voted without their aproval. yikes. Damn lazy people.
None of this is really important anyway. What the fuck good does voting do when there are campaign finance laws that are only bipartisan.
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They cut costs 25 percent over Sun servers (presumably running solaris). It makes no mention of Windows 2003.
The windows 2003 quote is from one of the ads in the article. It was the rather large square ad at the begining of the article when I read it.
Try reloading the page?
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"We are going to shove red-hot pokers up our customers' asses, but I think they will like it, because it will be far hotter than anything they've ever had up their asses."
Jack Handey? Is that you?
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A quick google search shows there are 3 full Saturn V's on display.
The other two are at Kennedy (florida) and JSC (Houston).
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And just how is this non-violent candidate going to collect all that money from American taxpayers for government programs, like social security or education or medicare?
By getting rid of social security. Then selling off federal government owned property to pay for the people currently with social security.
Anyway, it didn't sound like the parent was against taxes. More like against being forced to support war through taxation.
Like George Washington once said:
"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
Libertarian Party
Harry Browne (check out the radio archives).
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It would be nice if we could all hold hands and do research for the good of humanity, but unfortunately, human beings aren't wired that way.
In the voice of Jodie Foster:
"The world is what we make of it."
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Now that there is reliable NTFS write support, maybe we could get a kernel modification to use the pagefile.sys as a swap partition.
mkswap
swapon
What about using the windows temp directory for storage of highly used apps and libs?
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wait.. what's this image?
that's a polar projector!
Wow! It's a polar projector!
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400 years of data against a 10,000 year cycle is fairly insignificant.
That 10,000 year cycle was sustained without human pollution.
Depending on how much of an influence we are, the cycle could be modified.
In that sense, those 400 years are important.
The politicians can't make informed decisions without the help of science.
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Two chicks at the same time.
The rules of chess wouldn't be programmed into the chess engine. Instead they are programmed into the parent program watching over the games. If the child makes an invalid move, the game is instantly lost and the child will remember not to do that if it wants to win. The child program's chess motives would be derived fully from previous games it has played. Like a chess-based self identity.
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I havn't heard your reference. I'm refering
to Beeblebrox's deceased great grandfather
as he helps the guys from the trailing Vogons.
That is exactly what he says when he is
disapointed with what Beeblebrox has accomplished
with his life.
(This is after Beeblebrox crash lands on the
primitive earth).
something like "We have a saying up here ya know,
Life is wasted on the living"
Who used it first? I don't know. It was in
the original radio BBC radio broadcast of HGTTG.
It is indeed fitting. That's why I use it.
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When a computer not designed to play chess beats most human grandmasters at chess.
Just let the chess engine go off and learn on it's own (a parent program would instruct good/bad of the rules of chess)
What I really like about this, is that the chess engine has the ability to cheat, though it doesn't because it knows it'll lose the game... the program has a will?
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The famous Bill Gates crash video (1.63 MB)
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check here
That looks _higher_ than an X-Class.
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X-ray plot
I havn't seen X-ray bursts to this level since I've been watching this graph. (past few months) There was an X level burst yesterday and another larger one a bit before noon today (thursday). It usually stays in the A-B range.
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Halliburton recently bought a company here in Houston called magic earth.
They have a nice dome shaped cave for 3D oil exploration.
too bad the idiots don't have a larger picture on their website.
All that oil money buys some really cool toys.
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It's a quote of "Jack Handy" from "Saturday Night Live".
example:
"In weightlifting, I don't think sudden, uncontrolled urination should disqualify you." - Jack Handy
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It's such a hard concept that some people might like to be funded for their contribution to your entertainment/education, isn't it?
Information isn't suited to be profited upon by boxing it up onto shelves.
We try to treat it like everything else that is sold, but it is obviously different.
I believe that people should not be paid for selling information. They should be paid for creating information.
Information that hasn't been created yet has value. Like gold or diamonds, it holds it's value because it cannot be reproduced.
If someone wants me to write software that they need, they pay me to create that information.
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For others unable to listen to eigenradio because of the slashdot effect. I recommend groove salad until things calm down:
www.somafm.com
128k
56k
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The DJ, Rusty Hodge, had an interview with slashdot a while back.
enjoy
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"What a shame" wasn't meant for
your comment. It's a shame that
the open voting system won't work.
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+1 insightful.
What a shame.
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> Making sure that your particular vote is properly counted would be impossible because of secrecy issues.
Once the election process is computerized, it is no longer "one of the most open processes in our government". How are you going to witness the bits flowing through the FSB and out onto a harddrive? My solution has a downside, I admit, but it's a small price to pay compared to what it achieves.
Whoever registers voters knows the mapping between voter_id and individual. They are the only ones you would need to fear. And they could be open to the public to make sure they vault/dispose of the mappings.
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> TO verify the voter you'd need the old email me a link system....
not really. Each organization would accept a query on the voter _number_. A new number is allocated for each election. None of the databases need any information about you.
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Let the results of the election be open for everyone to tally the counts. Assign a voter registration number to each voter, and allow anyone to query the system with that number to find out who they voted for. This would allow for a couple important things:
1. individuals can later make sure their vote was registered correctly.
2. organizations could step through the enumerated voter numbers and publish their own results of the election. They would back up the database in the process.
3. individuals can submit their vote to as many organizations as they want. The groups would then cross verify the votes with their databases.
What to do if someone finds out their vote isn't correct, is debatable. I wouldn't allow them to change it, but if there are enough errors then the election needs to be done over again.
There could be a simple web site that takes your vote and submits it to as many organizations as it can.
I don't know what to do about people that don't vote, nor the people that don't verify their vote.
I'm sure there will be millions, and every one of them could be voted without their aproval. yikes. Damn lazy people.
None of this is really important anyway. What the fuck good does voting do when there are campaign finance laws that are only bipartisan.
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...in fact msot serious hacking is done by UNIX, and UNIX based systems such as Linux or C++... (Post on CNN.com)
LOL. they forgot XML.
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