Nothing annoys me more than the `post as plain old text if you like, but i`ll strip out less than signs, add spaces to url`s` bug in the SlashCode....will this ever be fixed?
>He should be the first person to exercise skepticism toward his own findings.
Actually, you made me think...perhaps we could look into the brains of cynics - see if skepticism has its own part of the brain. We could alternate some stimuli between pictures of the pope, and pictures of James Randi, and watch the person explode!
Its now been 3 hours. Attempted to virtualize base methods into my new class, but got distracted by hairs on my right thumb. Also, humming from PC now becoming unbearable. Will go for a walk outside, its sunny and i can hear the birds sing. Mellow/not confusing at all, but nice visuals, especially the traces, which persist for several seconds.
"Oh, but J. Random User HATES the ad banners and popups. But guess what? Most people that are advertising on TV get WAY more exposure than they would on the Internet. And guess what, they're intrusive ads. "
(For the record, I dont hate Christians! `Some of my best friends` and all that.)
The only definition of yours which i dont agree with (from memory, i dont have a dictionary to hand) is #3, as all the others mention preconceived,beforehand etc.
You could argue, that to disagree with a group of people who believe, for example, that someone could feed thousands of people with a handful of food, or who (in some cases) believe that dinosaur bones were planted to test the faith of humans so that God would know who to chill out with, and who to burn in hell for all eternity, doesnt betray any form of irrationality at all.
But on the whole I agree with you. Its easy to make fun of Christians. Very easy.
Not sure if I have it in me to love ol' Dubya though.
What does prejudice mean? To prejudge. Hes not prejudging, hes looked at what it is to choose to be a christian, decided its stupid and it sucks, and hes slagging it off. Wheres the prejudice? Wheres the problem? Its not wrong to dislike things! Thats not prejudice! Thats having an opinion. I think thats the real PC crime. But perhaps this is the wrong forum for dissing groupthink...
You may want to make it all 3d too. It wont make the game any better, in fact it`ll make it more awkard to navigate, but it`ll boost sales of overpriced 3d cards, which will be out of date in 7 months. Along with your cpu.
"I was just discussing with my friend movies that are so "bad" that they go all the way back around into "good". "
Its a simple maths problem. When films are made, their badness goes from 0 (good) to 65535 (very bad). Ie an unsigned (16 bit) Int.
Unfortunately, the human brain stores that value in a signed Int, so any really bad film actually registers as good (ie a film with a true badness-rating of 35000 is actually considered `fairly good`).
Of course, genuinely good films get a negative rating. But then, there areny many good films, so this doesnt occur very often.
http://www.i.cz/en/pdf/openPGP_attack_ENGvktr.pd f
(A Czech information security firm has found a security flaw in the OpenPGP key format, as used by PGP, GnuPG and other PGP implemenations. The flaw makes it possible for an attacker to forge a PGP signature if he/she can get hold of your private key, even if he/she doesn't know the pass phrase.)
yeah, and if you invent something, and a big company rips it off you and f***s you up the ass, you should be grateful that your contribution has been helpful to someone - you shouldnt complain about something as petty as money!
Has anyone tried creating an account at hotmail and emailing stuff to it, but not sending it on to anyone else. Maybe illegal stuff (warez), microsoft source (or what looks like it), email addresses which havent ever been used etc etc, and see if the account mysteriously closes down, spam appears at the email addresses etc?
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>This is very very standard stuff in HTML.
Its not standard in `plain old text` mode though - at least, not around these parts! Why is this altered from the input at all?
>But getting really random data is a far-from-trivial undertaking.
Lavarand? http://lavarand.sgi.com/cgi-bin/how.cgi
Nothing annoys me more than the `post as plain old text if you like, but i`ll strip out less than signs, add spaces to url`s` bug in the SlashCode....will this ever be fixed?
>He should be the first person to exercise skepticism toward his own findings.
Actually, you made me think...perhaps we could look into the brains of cynics - see if skepticism has its own part of the brain. We could alternate some stimuli between pictures of the pope, and pictures of James Randi, and watch the person explode!
"What makes you think that the War on Drugs is nothing more than a silly game? "
Common sense.
plus they`ll have memory effect - arent ni-mh worth the extra?
Its now been 3 hours. Attempted to virtualize base methods into my new class, but got distracted by hairs on my right thumb. Also, humming from PC now becoming unbearable. Will go for a walk outside, its sunny and i can hear the birds sing. Mellow/not confusing at all, but nice visuals, especially the traces, which persist for several seconds.
"At some point the 'geeks' will realize that life holds better experiences"
Hey, dont tease them with that `life` stuff! (Besides, some of them have tried it, and its just too damn icky!)
"Oh, but J. Random User HATES the ad banners and popups. But guess what? Most people that are advertising on TV get WAY more exposure than they would on the Internet. And guess what, they're intrusive ads. "
Get a video, skip the ads. End of problem.
(For the record, I dont hate Christians! `Some of my best friends` and all that.)
The only definition of yours which i dont agree with (from memory, i dont have a dictionary to hand) is #3, as all the others mention preconceived,beforehand etc.
You could argue, that to disagree with a group of people who believe, for example, that someone could feed thousands of people with a handful of food, or who (in some cases) believe that dinosaur bones were planted to test the faith of humans so that God would know who to chill out with, and who to burn in hell for all eternity, doesnt betray any form of irrationality at all.
But on the whole I agree with you. Its easy to make fun of Christians. Very easy.
Not sure if I have it in me to love ol' Dubya though.
"Arguing for prejudice? "
Now whos the idiot/troll?
What does prejudice mean? To prejudge. Hes not prejudging, hes looked at what it is to choose to be a christian, decided its stupid and it sucks, and hes slagging it off. Wheres the prejudice? Wheres the problem? Its not wrong to dislike things! Thats not prejudice! Thats having an opinion. I think thats the real PC crime. But perhaps this is the wrong forum for dissing groupthink...
Er...the same people who moderate, meta-moderate!
There is no justice in the afterlife!
You may want to make it all 3d too. It wont make the game any better, in fact it`ll make it more awkard to navigate, but it`ll boost sales of overpriced 3d cards, which will be out of date in 7 months. Along with your cpu.
"I was just discussing with my friend movies that are so "bad" that they go all the way back around into "good". "
Its a simple maths problem. When films are made, their badness goes from 0 (good) to 65535 (very bad). Ie an unsigned (16 bit) Int.
Unfortunately, the human brain stores that value in a signed Int, so any really bad film actually registers as good (ie a film with a true badness-rating of 35000 is actually considered `fairly good`).
Of course, genuinely good films get a negative rating. But then, there areny many good films, so this doesnt occur very often.
"Why then would they release that product back to us? "
So people could check that what they did WAS secure.
"On the flip side, actually doing something useful with this hack would be very difficult"
Bet its not as hard as cracking someones pgp encrypted files though.
We need to research experiment on stem cells, but then you get a lot of stick from religious types, and other idiots, when you use aborted foetuses?
Now we can just use fat American housewifes!
Problem solved!
I dont know - makes a change from paranoia and linux.
and lets not forget:
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http://www.i.cz/en/pdf/openPGP_attack_ENGvktr.p
(A Czech information security firm has found a security flaw in the OpenPGP key format, as used by PGP, GnuPG and other PGP implemenations. The flaw makes it possible for an attacker to forge a PGP signature if he/she can get hold of your private key, even if he/she doesn't know the pass phrase.)
well, its a good passphrase because it turns something which can be defeated by dictionary attack into something which cant. so:
IReadSlashdotBecauseItsPackedWithGoodness
could become:
IReedSlashd0tBecoz_ItsPscked;WithGoodn355
ie. Some of the benefits of using a random string, but with the bonus that theres a chance you`ll remember it.
well, apart from in Europe.
Not sure about the Conservatives in the uk either - unless you`ve been talking to farmers?
"MIT is seriously overrated"
Hey, where else are you going to learn about wearable computers?
yeah, and if you invent something, and a big company rips it off you and f***s you up the ass, you should be grateful that your contribution has been helpful to someone - you shouldnt complain about something as petty as money!
I mean, jesus!
I like Slashdot's rule: "Comments are owned by the Poster." Much better.
Sounds good, but didnt Katz use a bunch of them, without permission or payment?
Has anyone tried creating an account at hotmail and emailing stuff to it, but not sending it on to anyone else. Maybe illegal stuff (warez), microsoft source (or what looks like it), email addresses which havent ever been used etc etc, and see if the account mysteriously closes down, spam appears at the email addresses etc?