Here are the things I've noticed that are labelled heresy, normally by modding the poster supporting the view (usually me) into oblivion.
Saying that God exists, is real, and that there is an abundance of (even non-Biblical) evidence to support this fact
(agreeing with an earlier post) Feminism has been mostly bad for America
Mentioning that there is evidence against evolution (This is the big one I thought of when reading the article.. I believe future civilizations will have a chuckle at our "we came from Monkeys/Apes/Primordial soup" ideas)
Exactly the sort of reply I knew mentioning "spanking" would evoke. Loving, in-control spanking is not child abuse. And yes, that could include a "harder spanking that did indeed hurt" (note that "hurt" is different than "bruise" or "injure").
If more parents would actually discipline their children (whether by spanking or otherwise), the 21st century would have more well mannored, polite, well-adjusted individuals. What's child abuse is to be the wishy-washy "yes, kid, you can do and have anything you want, here's a condom, go have fun" parents I encounter so often in this wonderful "21st Century".
What else would Ralsky say about this new "tough" spam law? Did anyone else ever tell their parents after a spanking, "Didn't hurt, didn't hurt!"? What was the result? After getting a harder spanking that did indeed hurt, children quickly learn to pretend to feel pain to avoid a worse punishment.
I think Ralsky is openly complaining about the slight inconveniences this law has caused in order to affirm this law as effective, hoping to avoid tougher legislation that would actually hinder his "business" practices.
. . . but computer science is about algorithms, structuring data and abstracting problems.
<off-topic rant>
You must have attended the same university I did... My main gripe with my BS in CS is that they believed that definition of computer science.. they taught courses on everything theoretical, and now we have legions of useless CS majors running around that are scared of the *nix prompt and couldn't program a tight, modularized C/C++ (heck, even Java which they were "trained" on) app if their lives depended on it!
In Education, you cannot become a College Professor in my state without having at least 2 or 3 years of real-life teaching experience in the school systems. Similarly, I would argue that a CS degree without some real-life computer skills & experience is incomplete.
I wish universities would put more focus on useful skills such as Systems Administration, medium size application development and maintenence (10000+ LOC), and even (*gasp*) a bid of hardware maintenence (Just let them quiz out of it if they've spent their lives doing tech support).
I've recently hired 4 grad students in CS (who did their undergrad in CS!) who literally couldn't tell me where the memory was on a MB, what PCI was, and when I assigned them a small coding task (< 1000 LOC, in a language they didn't yet know) they wrote it using maybe 1-2 functions & plenty of copy-paste. And don't bother asking them to modify httpd.conf... and many of my fellow students in college were this way as well.
Computer science is about more than algorithms & data structures, it's also about making computers more useful for things we need to do, and for that we have to actually know how to use them.
I know it sounds like a lot now, with 1.5 to 3 Mbps being the closer to the norm for broadband here, but if you're going to build an infrastructure for an entire country by 2010, why not build with the latest technologies? 1Gbps isn't exactly ground-breaking any more.
Although, I suppose they've thought of this, and will lay fiber capable of much faster speeds, and just get cheap equipment rated for 50 to 100 Mbps. And I suppose 1+ Gbps EQ will be mcuh cheaper in 10 years..
As I think it out, perhaps they're smarter than I thought;-)
Whenever I close my VB 6 IDE it crashes on my WinXP system, followed by this annoying Bug Report dialog.
OK, I'm giving Windows advice on Slashdot.. please don't burn me, I'm a *n[iu]x guy too!
One of the first things I do in configuring a WinXP box is:
Windows_key+Break (Gets to System Properties)
->Advanced
->Error Reporting
->Disable error reporting
It's fast, it's easy, and it will save you all that annoying "I'm making a debug report, please wait" time when an app crashes. (I'm assuming this is WinXP's normal error reporting, and not something specific to VB 6, which I don't use)
Yeah, it's a minor annoyance, but that along with a couple other bugs I can't remember and the fact that gentoo barfed in stage 3 (even without ~x86) on my NForce2 board has been enough to convince me to run Windows on that box. Ah well.
Said Vellmont: I find it rather sad that this gets posted as news on slashdot, given that slashdot is supposed to be run by geeks. I'd expect this from my local newspaper, but CowboyNeal should know better.
Said CowboyNeal: Looks like an Irish firm made a deal with Laos to use the.la TLD.
I think it was fairly clear.. the submitter is the only one who used the word "officially", unless you count the headline -- and headlines are just attention-getters that are rarely factual (and usually fairly effective in their purpose).
I don't know which is more sad, that the parent didn't read the article (which devoted a whole section to different ways to get hydrogen) or the fact that there are three replies to his comment which failed to point this out.
Check out page 3, point number 4, to read his suggestion of using "steam reforming" combined with nuclear power to get the hydrogen. (Of course, read this comment to see why this might not be such a good idea...)
I don't know what they were saying exactly (so sue me, I didn't read the article either), but it's a neat idea anyway. If both computers were told to trust the mouse, I see no reason why the mouse couldn't be a go-between for the computers.
However, thinking this out, there are several reasons you wouldn't want to do this..
1) And you thought cordless optical mice were expensive now...
2) Wireless standards change quickly; do you want to replace your mouse every time the preferred wireless protocol changes more than a firmware flash can handle?
3) Security, security, security (OK, maybe in "the future" we'll have a better encryption scheme).
I'm sure I'm missing a few, but in general, the "K.I.S.S" and the UNIX way of "one tool, one job" principles would be severely violated.
Um, if you want to disprove something widely accepted as true, you'll need to do better than anonymously say so in a sentence on Slashdot.
It sounds to me like you could use some help with your Roman Numerals.. I spent a bit of time playing with this Javascript Roman Numeral Self Test and was reminded of a few things, such as what "D" and "L" stand for in Roman Numerals. Just a thought..
It's not "just because"; God exists because The Bible says he exists. For proof that The Bible is correct, see The Bible.
That's the way it appears, isn't it? However, I'm no so sure I would trust my own mind and reasoning about all of this, especially without reading the Bible itself. God is well aware of how we, the "wise", think; but consider, if God exists, what gives us the right to question His forum of revelation? Who are we to say, "OK, we see this book; prove to us that it's really Your Word."?
At some point, it becomes a matter of willful disbelief rather than, "I just need a few more facts to back it up, then I'll believe this Bible stuff." And if what we have is willful disbelief, no amount of reasoning or intellectual discussion or proof will change it.
A few interesting verses to think about are:
Luke 10:21 At that time Jesus, full of joy through the Holy Spirit, said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was your good pleasure.
Proverbs 9:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
Proverbs 16:25 There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.
The problem in my mind with all the "Prove it to me logically" crowd is the arrogance of the attitude. You're basically saying, "I have an understanding to match that of God. He should be able to explain to me His intensions and reasonings and I will be able grasp it and believe it." Or perhaps you say, "If He's so mighty, He should be able to condescend to my level and explain it to me." And to that one might answer, "He did, somewhere around 0 AD".
What makes the most sense is to close the current tab and return to the last tab viewed or, if closed, the tab that spawned the current tab.
Ugh... not at all. Can you imagine how this behavior would feel in actual use? Say you're searching ebay, and open 10 items in tabs that you want to look at.. then as you finish looking at each of them, it returns to the main search window! Ugh... so much for the usefulness of tabs if you can't cycle through the things you have open with ctrl-W.
I'm sorry, but I think your advice ignores who you are talking to. This guy made more last year than I've made in my entire (albiet short -- 24 years) life. Once you get used to living on $190K in a year, you're not going to be sleeping in a car or a $15/night youth hostel.
My guess is "living cheap" means paying less than $100/month for cable TV and shopping at Dillards instead of Jacobson's for clothing. He said he could find contract jobs at $25-$35/hour, so he's not going to be eating cereal at the local homeless shelter.
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Unless the code is just broken and doesn't know what is close to what.
Well, the zipcode search found a dealer for my area, which led me to a list of URL's:
What kind of speed can I expect?
The StarBand service can download content up to 10 times faster than the fastest dial-up service. StarBand consumers can expect Internet access with download speed up to 500 kbps and upload speed bursting up to 150 kbps. For download, the minimum speed will be 150 kbps. The average upload speed will be 50 kbps, depending on usage during peak hours.
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Dude, that's *my* sig! :-p
Especially with the latest new security measures!
Exactly the sort of reply I knew mentioning "spanking" would evoke. Loving, in-control spanking is not child abuse. And yes, that could include a "harder spanking that did indeed hurt" (note that "hurt" is different than "bruise" or "injure").
If more parents would actually discipline their children (whether by spanking or otherwise), the 21st century would have more well mannored, polite, well-adjusted individuals. What's child abuse is to be the wishy-washy "yes, kid, you can do and have anything you want, here's a condom, go have fun" parents I encounter so often in this wonderful "21st Century".
What else would Ralsky say about this new "tough" spam law? Did anyone else ever tell their parents after a spanking, "Didn't hurt, didn't hurt!"? What was the result? After getting a harder spanking that did indeed hurt, children quickly learn to pretend to feel pain to avoid a worse punishment.
I think Ralsky is openly complaining about the slight inconveniences this law has caused in order to affirm this law as effective, hoping to avoid tougher legislation that would actually hinder his "business" practices.
. . . but computer science is about algorithms, structuring data and abstracting problems.
<off-topic rant>
You must have attended the same university I did... My main gripe with my BS in CS is that they believed that definition of computer science.. they taught courses on everything theoretical, and now we have legions of useless CS majors running around that are scared of the *nix prompt and couldn't program a tight, modularized C/C++ (heck, even Java which they were "trained" on) app if their lives depended on it!
In Education, you cannot become a College Professor in my state without having at least 2 or 3 years of real-life teaching experience in the school systems. Similarly, I would argue that a CS degree without some real-life computer skills & experience is incomplete.
I wish universities would put more focus on useful skills such as Systems Administration, medium size application development and maintenence (10000+ LOC), and even (*gasp*) a bid of hardware maintenence (Just let them quiz out of it if they've spent their lives doing tech support).
I've recently hired 4 grad students in CS (who did their undergrad in CS!) who literally couldn't tell me where the memory was on a MB, what PCI was, and when I assigned them a small coding task (< 1000 LOC, in a language they didn't yet know) they wrote it using maybe 1-2 functions & plenty of copy-paste. And don't bother asking them to modify httpd.conf... and many of my fellow students in college were this way as well.
Computer science is about more than algorithms & data structures, it's also about making computers more useful for things we need to do, and for that we have to actually know how to use them.
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I know it sounds like a lot now, with 1.5 to 3 Mbps being the closer to the norm for broadband here, but if you're going to build an infrastructure for an entire country by 2010, why not build with the latest technologies? 1Gbps isn't exactly ground-breaking any more.
;-)
Although, I suppose they've thought of this, and will lay fiber capable of much faster speeds, and just get cheap equipment rated for 50 to 100 Mbps. And I suppose 1+ Gbps EQ will be mcuh cheaper in 10 years..
As I think it out, perhaps they're smarter than I thought
It's also heartening to see every prison rape joke getting a +5, Funny. Thank you, moderators. Great way to get karma. Keep up the good work.
FYI, at least you don't get karma for "Funny" moderations.
Whenever I close my VB 6 IDE it crashes on my WinXP system, followed by this annoying Bug Report dialog.
OK, I'm giving Windows advice on Slashdot.. please don't burn me, I'm a *n[iu]x guy too!
One of the first things I do in configuring a WinXP box is:
Windows_key+Break (Gets to System Properties)
->Advanced
->Error Reporting
->Disable error reporting
It's fast, it's easy, and it will save you all that annoying "I'm making a debug report, please wait" time when an app crashes. (I'm assuming this is WinXP's normal error reporting, and not something specific to VB 6, which I don't use)
-Claar
Yeah, it's a minor annoyance, but that along with a couple other bugs I can't remember and the fact that gentoo barfed in stage 3 (even without ~x86) on my NForce2 board has been enough to convince me to run Windows on that box. Ah well.
Said Vellmont:
.la TLD.
I find it rather sad that this gets posted as news on slashdot, given that slashdot is supposed to be run by geeks. I'd expect this from my local newspaper, but CowboyNeal should know better.
Said CowboyNeal:
Looks like an Irish firm made a deal with Laos to use the
I think it was fairly clear.. the submitter is the only one who used the word "officially", unless you count the headline -- and headlines are just attention-getters that are rarely factual (and usually fairly effective in their purpose).
I don't know which is more sad, that the parent didn't read the article (which devoted a whole section to different ways to get hydrogen) or the fact that there are three replies to his comment which failed to point this out.
Check out page 3, point number 4, to read his suggestion of using "steam reforming" combined with nuclear power to get the hydrogen. (Of course, read this comment to see why this might not be such a good idea...)
I don't know what they were saying exactly (so sue me, I didn't read the article either), but it's a neat idea anyway. If both computers were told to trust the mouse, I see no reason why the mouse couldn't be a go-between for the computers.
However, thinking this out, there are several reasons you wouldn't want to do this..
1) And you thought cordless optical mice were expensive now...
2) Wireless standards change quickly; do you want to replace your mouse every time the preferred wireless protocol changes more than a firmware flash can handle?
3) Security, security, security (OK, maybe in "the future" we'll have a better encryption scheme).
I'm sure I'm missing a few, but in general, the "K.I.S.S" and the UNIX way of "one tool, one job" principles would be severely violated.
Um, if you want to disprove something widely accepted as true, you'll need to do better than anonymously say so in a sentence on Slashdot.
It sounds to me like you could use some help with your Roman Numerals.. I spent a bit of time playing with this Javascript Roman Numeral Self Test and was reminded of a few things, such as what "D" and "L" stand for in Roman Numerals. Just a thought..
It's not "just because"; God exists because The Bible says he exists. For proof that The Bible is correct, see The Bible.
That's the way it appears, isn't it? However, I'm no so sure I would trust my own mind and reasoning about all of this, especially without reading the Bible itself. God is well aware of how we, the "wise", think; but consider, if God exists, what gives us the right to question His forum of revelation? Who are we to say, "OK, we see this book; prove to us that it's really Your Word."?
At some point, it becomes a matter of willful disbelief rather than, "I just need a few more facts to back it up, then I'll believe this Bible stuff." And if what we have is willful disbelief, no amount of reasoning or intellectual discussion or proof will change it.
A few interesting verses to think about are:
Luke 10:21
At that time Jesus, full of joy through the Holy Spirit, said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was your good pleasure.
Proverbs 9:10
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
Proverbs 16:25
There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.
The problem in my mind with all the "Prove it to me logically" crowd is the arrogance of the attitude. You're basically saying, "I have an understanding to match that of God. He should be able to explain to me His intensions and reasonings and I will be able grasp it and believe it." Or perhaps you say, "If He's so mighty, He should be able to condescend to my level and explain it to me." And to that one might answer, "He did, somewhere around 0 AD".
What makes the most sense is to close the current tab and return to the last tab viewed or, if closed, the tab that spawned the current tab.
Ugh... not at all. Can you imagine how this behavior would feel in actual use? Say you're searching ebay, and open 10 items in tabs that you want to look at.. then as you finish looking at each of them, it returns to the main search window! Ugh... so much for the usefulness of tabs if you can't cycle through the things you have open with ctrl-W.
I can't really see any down side to this
Really? Every time your solution is proposed, people bring up the issue of those emergency personel who must be able to be contacted 24/7.
And then the other side says, "Well, they could just leave their cell phones with employees outside who would come get them if a call came in".
Then others say, "But can they trust the employ.." or various other arguments against any solution. This isn't as simple as a you might think.
On second thought, I don't think I will post my argument
Your Honor, I had a perfect argument for why the Xbox Linux Project was breaking the law, but the slashdot box was too small to contain it..
If a link has a _TOP target, new tag.
Middle click I've done.. how do you make it do a new tab with _TOP targets? I'm using RC1.
My guess is "living cheap" means paying less than $100/month for cable TV and shopping at Dillards instead of Jacobson's for clothing. He said he could find contract jobs at $25-$35/hour, so he's not going to be eating cereal at the local homeless shelter.
Well, the zipcode search found a dealer for my area, which led me to a list of URL's:
Hm.. maybe Detroit would be a good choice..
For goodness sakes, please someone either answer this or mod this up!
Funny, yes, but I would have chosen the "Insightful" moderation. That's a great explanation/allegory of what this bill introduces.