You're Preaching to the Choir bucko but it's gotten to the point that NoScript goes onto every system I put Firefox on simply because of the various problems we've seen with J-Script and Java in general over the years.
Appears as if the Choir was less-educated, at least judging by how many people believed that NoScript only blocks JavaScript.
Except that when you use Microsoft products you have to upgrade your hardware twice as often. And if you use Mac you also pay twice as much for the same hardware. There are still plenty of good reasons to use FOSSOS.
It seems that at least from my location in Northern Europe the ISOs are not downloadable due to the server having been already Slashdotted. But luckily the files are also avaialble as official.Torrents. Download speed currently 3MB/s, or the absolute maximum my DSL can handle.
In 1992 Johnston, according to Wikipedia, received the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada Medal and a honorary doctorate at the Université de Montréal. So the binary simply stands for the hex equivalent of Canada's Best, -92, spelled in binary both ways and with a 1 in middle, symbolizing "numero uno", the quality of being TEH BESTEST.
There's only so and so much that Sweden can do when a criminal charge is failed. The same laws that protect WikiLeaks' operations require that any criminal charges be investigated and an arrest warrant be served if there is "probable cause". I would be thrilled to hear what is the "probable cause" here, though.
Since both words need to be correct "solve the current CAPTCHA at an efficacy of 1%" would be closer to the truth.
Actually, that is incorrect. The other word is already positively known by the OCR, and serves as a control, while the other is the one that the OCR could not read. It will of course only check the one that it knowns, and assumes the other one is then correct as well. So, if you get one of the words correct AND this is the same word that as their OCR identified correctly (which is very likely the case), then you pass, but most of the time (99%) give a bad answer for the harder, non-OCR word. Sadly, this leads to pollution of their database in the long run.
There is no compelling reason why quantum phenomena are needed to describe conscienceness. Without a compelling reason then their theory has no use.
Uhmm, could you elaborate a bit? Try simulating consciousness on a computer e.g. a neural network model. As far as I know none of those simulations have come even close to creating an A.I., or we would have sure known about it.
Instead, many developed animals such as people are capable of many functions (like pattern recognition in vision or abstract reasoning), that are just extremely hard to program with the tools available in the normal linear computation model. As our brains are clearly able to run many parallel linear computations, a physically different and inherently asynchronous computing model, such as that proposed by quantum computing, would as a model suit the observed complexity much better.
This has necessarily nothing to do with a religion, i.e. a set of customs, values and beliefs. Something we humans experience can be very out-of-ordinary but still real. All major religions around the world describe some sort of afterlife. In the end, the core of human philosophy, an early manifestations of which the religions and world-stories in my mind are, is centered around the ever-reoccurring set of three questions: who are we, where do we come from and where are we heading to. Even the modern scientific world view is a philosophy, which aims to answer to these questions. All people eventually ponder these questions, and it depends on the culture where you are born to which views you take.
So this is entirely scientific. In the modern-day scientific worldview, there is no evidence of an afterlife as it is traditionally described, so we have to turn to the human brain itself for the answers. Human brain is still largely unknown; if you claim to know how the thought progress is really born out of a mesh of interconnected neurons, you are mistaken; it is not definitely explained even by the best cognitive neurologists, and various cognitive theories are numerous. So that's just like the deep sea or deep space – a world of unknown, but I guess also sadly a world that is pretty hard to objectively investigate, as we ourselves are both the subject who is anylyzing and the object of the study.
I guess what would be required is a real solid set of methods for cognitive studies. I'm not a neurologist (but an avid reader of popularized science), so it would be interesting to hear from someone with the scholar background about how accurately we can pinpoint for example the area where the arithmetic unit (integer calculations) is located in the brain. Or is it possible to measure accurately where a certain spoken word is associated in the brain, and to which precision. (cm? mm? one neuron?)
The question boils down to wether you like Debian or Ubuntu more. I like Debian, and now with the release of Lenny, I see it's one of the officially supported sub-architectures.
Take into account that these people are Swedish, and they speak English as a second language. Someone not-native introducing a new word to a language is always a hassle.
Despite, I think spectrial sounds cool. Most digital copyright violation trials are spectrials nowdays anyway - they are done in order to cause panic and disruption in the filesharing community, but have a little or no effect in the big picure. These people have known for more than 20 years exactly what they are doing, and they are doing it pretty damn well. If TPB gets knocked out, there's still an array of other trackers, private and public, and even if the Torrent-protocol is outlawed and null-routed in the Internet (which, as I see it, would be the only way to stop the.torrent "madness"), people will start using new, even more stealthier, anonymous and cencorship-resistant protocols. The only way to unplug the pirates is to destroy the Internet as it is - a free, client-to-client everyone-can-publish network - and/or make every single piece of hardware in the net black-boxed, prorpriatery and implement 100% cryptographical DRM everywhere - we all know this is impossible. Still it wouldn't stop the pirates: such would only cause a huge garage-type black market for DRM-free hardware, and those people who are interested in how their computers work would soon start building private, underground parallel networks that are co-operatively funded and backed by the local filesharer communities, and which are resistant to state and corporate control by the same constitutional rights the corporations operate in.
Exactly. The article subject is totally utterly incorect - we have known that Earth's magnetic field has two holes on each pole for decades. It's the very reason that causes Aurora Borealis or the northen lights. Here in Northern Europe, which is famous for the display of colorful northern lights, it's actually part of the school curriculum to teach children what physically causes this effect, and even my little brother can tell you that Earth's magnetic field has two huge holes around the poles. The NASA article is about the effects these sun wind particles have on Earth's biosphere.
Bone marrow transplants are very painful to both extract and put in use: someone sucking the soft stuff out of the core of your spine is not the funniest thing I know, and neither is the operation in reverse. So chances are, if the treatment should be ever commercialized, it would be expensive and the donors hard to find.
I must say, I tend to find curing youself from HIV by a bone marrow transfer somewhat analogous to curing your liver by a transplant after first carelessly consuming enough alcohol (in an extended period of time) to turn your own liver to a malfunctional pile of grease..
The thing is, that we don't really know how many people are immune to HIV. Should you be immune, chances are, you will never know it. Maybe if you have a serious reason to doubt you should have been infected by HIV, but manage to "stay negative" time after time.
My biology teacher in high school would tell us, that - for example - many committed couples continue having unprotected sex even if the other partner is found HIV positive, but many cases are knwon where the other partner still never gets the virus for some reason. Many people could be actually HIV resistant, but most will never know it. Maybe in the future you can make a few month's wage by getting yourself tested for HIV-resistance and, if lucky, donating your bone marrow.
Learn it, love it. It's very easy and you'll master it fine after just reading through the 900 lines-of-text man page. (In comparison, man bash is 4900 lines of text)
Depends a bit on how compilicated the software will be. If it's very simple and a slow interface is not a problem, WAP + server-side PHP would be nice and the customers could choose any phone that supports WAP and GPRS (or whatever 3rd generation tech is used in the US) - which is practicaly any new phone in the market.
If you want to write the bulk software to run on the phone, I'd say Nokia's Symbian S60 line on Java, C/C++ or Python is a very good choice. It seems the C++ they use is a bit non-standard, but they also support Java ME which is much easier to learn. And Python.
Nokia has a pretty clean company portfolio, their SDK is based on Eclipse and all the relevant APIs are open, seem to be well-documented and full with developers manuals and code examples. forum.nokia.com is their the developer's site. Personally I have never developed mobile software, but I know some people who do mobile game development, and at least their employers seem to prefer Nokia S60. S60 has a very extensive range of phones, including touch-screen phones, and there's also a free emulator available. Sounds good, but I have no first-hands experience what so ever.
Yes they use a very simple domain name based cencorship that causes the ISPs' DNS servers to resolve cencored domain names to a machine (hosted by the ISP on the expense of the customers..) that only serves a very ugly "Cencorced by the National Bureau of Investigation" notice (screenie). It's extremely easy to bypass by editing/etc/hosts, running your own domain name server or using foreign servers like OpenDNS. It should be also noticed, that this cenorship is in its current form voluntary, but the goverment said they hope that ISPs are co-operative so they dont have to make the cencorship compulsory
And still, there are things like Tor that could be employed even if they used IP based filtering. But I hope this is not going to happen..
No you dont even have to run your own DNS server and you can stil use your ISPs DNS (it's 99% time faster than say OpenDNS). If you end up on a site with the police cencorship notice, connect to any machine (SSH) or site (WWW) that can resolve domain names without the cencorship. I think all university networks, all foreign machines and sites like http://www.dnswatch.info/ are good for this. Then just edit your/etc/hosts file and manually override the IP address for the domain on per-site basis. Add this line to your hosts:
83.145.201.47 lapsiporno.info www.lapsiporno.info
to access lapsiporno.info for example. It's that easy..
The EU can enforce compliance and override member's laws. According to Wikipedia...
EU law has direct effect within the legal systems of its Member States, and overrides national law in many areas, especially in terms of economic and social policy.
Yes, very true. European Union has more legislative power than national goverments, de jure. De facto power, many people feel, is still on the local city / country government.
Right... so its not the same as the US, but its not that far off? Something that does surprise me, though, is that the EU is already 56 years old!
First: correct in a way, but in many ways wrong. For example, there is still chance that European countries could go to war against each other and they participate in the sports competitions under their national flags rather than one "EU". And still, people in EU dont speak one common language like you do. EU is mostly a super-bureaucratic institution to stablize European politics and harmonize economical conditions, but not a confederation.
Second: EU is not 56 years old. It's only something like 15 years old. There was pan-european co-operation institutions before 1993 but with the EU things got a bit more "deep" compared to it's preceeders EC and EEC. EU is not a "cofederation" like US or Soviet Union, not a "international body" like UN, it's something different -- special union for countries that feel like being culturally seperate. It should be comapted with the state of India in all it's variety rather than US.
I must really come in here: EU is tight legislative and international body to allow free competition and larger market within the member countries, in order for the pan-european "national" economy be able to compete with those of the U.S. and Asia in human and material resources. I.e. it's there for the _ecnonomy_ in the first place, not for confederation.
Not all countries in Europe are members of EU. Some, like Switzerland and Norway, have interests in national economy that make it unwise for them to join. Some are too poor or too unstable to join, like many countries in Balkan, Belarussia, Ukraine etc.
However, EU is stritcly only there for the comapnies to feel "international" and gain better profits / be more competive. It's ridiculous to claim "Europe is a country" because EU does not have things like own militaria, common language (actually, languages varying from English to Lithuanian, from French to Basque are spoken within it's borders) or common culture. Of course many people would like to be more "uniform" here, but local cultures are still very strong in Europe.. Take a Interrail trip around the continent and you'll see. (Q: Ever think what is "the official language" of Europe that they use in the European Parliament? A: There is not one, EU has 23 official languages and translation is offered to all Members of Parliament in their own language.)
USA, on the other hand, has pretty uniform culture, one common language, strong central institutions, one foreign policy, strong militia, a president with lots of authority, some centralized media (EU has almost none centralized media), mostly common history etc. EU wont hardly be anything like US before the empire shall fall like the Rome once did, for people of the nations have too strong national, somewhat indigenous identity.
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You're Preaching to the Choir bucko but it's gotten to the point that NoScript goes onto every system I put Firefox on simply because of the various problems we've seen with J-Script and Java in general over the years.
Appears as if the Choir was less-educated, at least judging by how many people believed that NoScript only blocks JavaScript.
I feel that NoScript is doing a greater and greater work in protecting me each and every day.
Except that when you use Microsoft products you have to upgrade your hardware twice as often. And if you use Mac you also pay twice as much for the same hardware. There are still plenty of good reasons to use FOSSOS.
It seems that at least from my location in Northern Europe the ISOs are not downloadable due to the server having been already Slashdotted. But luckily the files are also avaialble as official .Torrents. Download speed currently 3MB/s, or the absolute maximum my DSL can handle.
the first part of the palindrome is
1100 => C
1011 => B
1001 => 9
0010 => 2
In 1992 Johnston, according to Wikipedia, received the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada Medal and a honorary doctorate at the Université de Montréal. So the binary simply stands for the hex equivalent of Canada's Best, -92, spelled in binary both ways and with a 1 in middle, symbolizing "numero uno", the quality of being TEH BESTEST.
There's only so and so much that Sweden can do when a criminal charge is failed. The same laws that protect WikiLeaks' operations require that any criminal charges be investigated and an arrest warrant be served if there is "probable cause". I would be thrilled to hear what is the "probable cause" here, though.
Since both words need to be correct "solve the current CAPTCHA at an efficacy of 1%" would be closer to the truth.
Actually, that is incorrect. The other word is already positively known by the OCR, and serves as a control, while the other is the one that the OCR could not read. It will of course only check the one that it knowns, and assumes the other one is then correct as well. So, if you get one of the words correct AND this is the same word that as their OCR identified correctly (which is very likely the case), then you pass, but most of the time (99%) give a bad answer for the harder, non-OCR word. Sadly, this leads to pollution of their database in the long run.
There is no compelling reason why quantum phenomena are needed to describe conscienceness. Without a compelling reason then their theory has no use.
Uhmm, could you elaborate a bit? Try simulating consciousness on a computer e.g. a neural network model. As far as I know none of those simulations have come even close to creating an A.I., or we would have sure known about it.
Instead, many developed animals such as people are capable of many functions (like pattern recognition in vision or abstract reasoning), that are just extremely hard to program with the tools available in the normal linear computation model. As our brains are clearly able to run many parallel linear computations, a physically different and inherently asynchronous computing model, such as that proposed by quantum computing, would as a model suit the observed complexity much better.
This has necessarily nothing to do with a religion, i.e. a set of customs, values and beliefs. Something we humans experience can be very out-of-ordinary but still real. All major religions around the world describe some sort of afterlife. In the end, the core of human philosophy, an early manifestations of which the religions and world-stories in my mind are, is centered around the ever-reoccurring set of three questions: who are we, where do we come from and where are we heading to. Even the modern scientific world view is a philosophy, which aims to answer to these questions. All people eventually ponder these questions, and it depends on the culture where you are born to which views you take.
So this is entirely scientific. In the modern-day scientific worldview, there is no evidence of an afterlife as it is traditionally described, so we have to turn to the human brain itself for the answers. Human brain is still largely unknown; if you claim to know how the thought progress is really born out of a mesh of interconnected neurons, you are mistaken; it is not definitely explained even by the best cognitive neurologists, and various cognitive theories are numerous. So that's just like the deep sea or deep space – a world of unknown, but I guess also sadly a world that is pretty hard to objectively investigate, as we ourselves are both the subject who is anylyzing and the object of the study.
I guess what would be required is a real solid set of methods for cognitive studies. I'm not a neurologist (but an avid reader of popularized science), so it would be interesting to hear from someone with the scholar background about how accurately we can pinpoint for example the area where the arithmetic unit (integer calculations) is located in the brain. Or is it possible to measure accurately where a certain spoken word is associated in the brain, and to which precision. (cm? mm? one neuron?)
Some interesting theories and articles in the field of cognitive science:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Mind – Mind as an interconnected mesh of mindless agents.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orch-OR – A very complicated theory, based on Gödel's Incompleteness theorem, general relativity and quantum function collapse.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mind – A larger view of the quantum mind theory: "The quantum mind hypothesis proposes that classical mechanics cannot fully explain consciousness."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holonomic_brain_theory – Yet another quantum mind theory, a joint work of a psychologist and physic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_theories_of_consciousness – The simplest, and the most accepted views.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8-Circuit_Model_of_Consciousness – Timothy Leary supported this. Pretty wild, but lacking scientific reasoning in my mind.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_Consciousness – Marxist theory about the social mind, and how it enslaves us in the market economy. Not really a cognition theory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind-body_problem – The classical name given to the separation of physical body and mind by philosophers. The philosophical treatment is at least 2400 years old.
The question boils down to wether you like Debian or Ubuntu more. I like Debian, and now with the release of Lenny, I see it's one of the officially supported sub-architectures.
http://debian-eeepc.alioth.debian.org/
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC
Take into account that these people are Swedish, and they speak English as a second language. Someone not-native introducing a new word to a language is always a hassle.
Despite, I think spectrial sounds cool. Most digital copyright violation trials are spectrials nowdays anyway - they are done in order to cause panic and disruption in the filesharing community, but have a little or no effect in the big picure. These people have known for more than 20 years exactly what they are doing, and they are doing it pretty damn well. If TPB gets knocked out, there's still an array of other trackers, private and public, and even if the Torrent-protocol is outlawed and null-routed in the Internet (which, as I see it, would be the only way to stop the .torrent "madness"), people will start using new, even more stealthier, anonymous and cencorship-resistant protocols. The only way to unplug the pirates is to destroy the Internet as it is - a free, client-to-client everyone-can-publish network - and/or make every single piece of hardware in the net black-boxed, prorpriatery and implement 100% cryptographical DRM everywhere - we all know this is impossible. Still it wouldn't stop the pirates: such would only cause a huge garage-type black market for DRM-free hardware, and those people who are interested in how their computers work would soon start building private, underground parallel networks that are co-operatively funded and backed by the local filesharer communities, and which are resistant to state and corporate control by the same constitutional rights the corporations operate in.
Exactly. The article subject is totally utterly incorect - we have known that Earth's magnetic field has two holes on each pole for decades. It's the very reason that causes Aurora Borealis or the northen lights. Here in Northern Europe, which is famous for the display of colorful northern lights, it's actually part of the school curriculum to teach children what physically causes this effect, and even my little brother can tell you that Earth's magnetic field has two huge holes around the poles. The NASA article is about the effects these sun wind particles have on Earth's biosphere.
Bone marrow transplants are very painful to both extract and put in use: someone sucking the soft stuff out of the core of your spine is not the funniest thing I know, and neither is the operation in reverse. So chances are, if the treatment should be ever commercialized, it would be expensive and the donors hard to find.
I must say, I tend to find curing youself from HIV by a bone marrow transfer somewhat analogous to curing your liver by a transplant after first carelessly consuming enough alcohol (in an extended period of time) to turn your own liver to a malfunctional pile of grease..
The thing is, that we don't really know how many people are immune to HIV. Should you be immune, chances are, you will never know it. Maybe if you have a serious reason to doubt you should have been infected by HIV, but manage to "stay negative" time after time.
My biology teacher in high school would tell us, that - for example - many committed couples continue having unprotected sex even if the other partner is found HIV positive, but many cases are knwon where the other partner still never gets the virus for some reason. Many people could be actually HIV resistant, but most will never know it. Maybe in the future you can make a few month's wage by getting yourself tested for HIV-resistance and, if lucky, donating your bone marrow.
Learn it, love it. It's very easy and you'll master it fine after just reading through the 900 lines-of-text man page. (In comparison, man bash is 4900 lines of text)
Depends a bit on how compilicated the software will be. If it's very simple and a slow interface is not a problem, WAP + server-side PHP would be nice and the customers could choose any phone that supports WAP and GPRS (or whatever 3rd generation tech is used in the US) - which is practicaly any new phone in the market.
If you want to write the bulk software to run on the phone, I'd say Nokia's Symbian S60 line on Java, C/C++ or Python is a very good choice. It seems the C++ they use is a bit non-standard, but they also support Java ME which is much easier to learn. And Python.
Nokia has a pretty clean company portfolio, their SDK is based on Eclipse and all the relevant APIs are open, seem to be well-documented and full with developers manuals and code examples. forum.nokia.com is their the developer's site. Personally I have never developed mobile software, but I know some people who do mobile game development, and at least their employers seem to prefer Nokia S60. S60 has a very extensive range of phones, including touch-screen phones, and there's also a free emulator available. Sounds good, but I have no first-hands experience what so ever.
Yes they use a very simple domain name based cencorship that causes the ISPs' DNS servers to resolve cencored domain names to a machine (hosted by the ISP on the expense of the customers..) that only serves a very ugly "Cencorced by the National Bureau of Investigation" notice (screenie). It's extremely easy to bypass by editing /etc/hosts, running your own domain name server or using foreign servers like OpenDNS. It should be also noticed, that this cenorship is in its current form voluntary, but the goverment said they hope that ISPs are co-operative so they dont have to make the cencorship compulsory
And still, there are things like Tor that could be employed even if they used IP based filtering. But I hope this is not going to happen..
No you dont even have to run your own DNS server and you can stil use your ISPs DNS (it's 99% time faster than say OpenDNS). If you end up on a site with the police cencorship notice, connect to any machine (SSH) or site (WWW) that can resolve domain names without the cencorship. I think all university networks, all foreign machines and sites like http://www.dnswatch.info/ are good for this. Then just edit your /etc/hosts file and manually override the IP address for the domain on per-site basis. Add this line to your hosts:
83.145.201.47 lapsiporno.info www.lapsiporno.info
to access lapsiporno.info for example. It's that easy..
Yes, very true. European Union has more legislative power than national goverments, de jure. De facto power, many people feel, is still on the local city / country government.
Right... so its not the same as the US, but its not that far off? Something that does surprise me, though, is that the EU is already 56 years old!First: correct in a way, but in many ways wrong. For example, there is still chance that European countries could go to war against each other and they participate in the sports competitions under their national flags rather than one "EU". And still, people in EU dont speak one common language like you do. EU is mostly a super-bureaucratic institution to stablize European politics and harmonize economical conditions, but not a confederation.
Second: EU is not 56 years old. It's only something like 15 years old. There was pan-european co-operation institutions before 1993 but with the EU things got a bit more "deep" compared to it's preceeders EC and EEC. EU is not a "cofederation" like US or Soviet Union, not a "international body" like UN, it's something different -- special union for countries that feel like being culturally seperate. It should be comapted with the state of India in all it's variety rather than US.
I must really come in here: EU is tight legislative and international body to allow free competition and larger market within the member countries, in order for the pan-european "national" economy be able to compete with those of the U.S. and Asia in human and material resources. I.e. it's there for the _ecnonomy_ in the first place, not for confederation.
Not all countries in Europe are members of EU. Some, like Switzerland and Norway, have interests in national economy that make it unwise for them to join. Some are too poor or too unstable to join, like many countries in Balkan, Belarussia, Ukraine etc.
However, EU is stritcly only there for the comapnies to feel "international" and gain better profits / be more competive. It's ridiculous to claim "Europe is a country" because EU does not have things like own militaria, common language (actually, languages varying from English to Lithuanian, from French to Basque are spoken within it's borders) or common culture. Of course many people would like to be more "uniform" here, but local cultures are still very strong in Europe.. Take a Interrail trip around the continent and you'll see. (Q: Ever think what is "the official language" of Europe that they use in the European Parliament? A: There is not one, EU has 23 official languages and translation is offered to all Members of Parliament in their own language.)
USA, on the other hand, has pretty uniform culture, one common language, strong central institutions, one foreign policy, strong militia, a president with lots of authority, some centralized media (EU has almost none centralized media), mostly common history etc. EU wont hardly be anything like US before the empire shall fall like the Rome once did, for people of the nations have too strong national, somewhat indigenous identity.