Funny, but I don't quote Bush, god forbid my words should ever echo his, even unconsciously.
No that was a translation of the original Chinese proverb with a logical(if paranoid) conclusion tacked onto the end.
If I just had that I'd be rich, I'm just bitter, I got burned when they did this a few years ago my company, other companies, and about 200 of their own all screwed the day before we went live by now though we should be thinking "Fool me once Shame on you Fool me twice Shame on me." fool me three times - that's enemy action.
strangely that's how I got over my first post college girlfriend.
It's something that may not be uniquely canadian, but very few Americans that I have met
would feel as comfortable heading out in to the deep woods (Like most of northern ontario)
for a couple of weeks to reconnect with themselves. Side note (don't drink myself) but weightwise,
pound for pound, or ounce for ounce, it's more efficient to carry a 2 week supply of pot, as opposed to a 2 week supply of booze.
Spending a couple of weeks actually fishing , chopping wood, making fire - all for real is a great way to
recover from the evils of the world, be they MUDs, or girls, or Muddy girls.
I could do some silly jurassic park quote : "Life finds a way" or something equally wise and witty, but all that's needed to be said is what's in the subject. The very concept of trying to control information on the medium of the internet is like the perpetual motion machine. Nice idea, great money sink, but utterly impossible to implement. The only way for this kinda censorship to work is for all users to agree to abide by it's rules (including correct spelling), which isn't gonna happen I think in the cases mentioned in the article. Just like file sharing, it's still possible to steal music, but most people don't bother anymore because it can be downloaded legally and as a group we generally agree to abide by that rule. Once we didn't but now we do with the existence of legal alternatives.
Canadian engineers were crucial to the early U.S. human space program. NASA hired over 30 engineers from the Avro Arrow program (mach 2 fighter) which was cancelled by the Canadian Government in 1959. These engineers were involved in Mercury, Gemini and Apollo (putting Americans into space). To be honest some of them were British, but working in Canada prior to going to the US.
What this whole issue really is about is illustrated by that anecdote about the Canadian's building the US space program, the Brain Drain. Skilled workers can be lured away by high paying jobs in the US and other countries, that's a loss to Canadian companies certainly, but it also impacts the country as a whole when these skilled workers advance their field in another country - ie: sending Americans to space with Canadian know how. Our Universities train a lot of bright people, many of them from other countries. This proposal is designed to encourage them to stay in Canada after their education is complete, and to bring in other professionals from other countries. Reversing the Brain Drain effect and encouraging the growth of many different industries in Canada.
it shows the healthy consumption of motor vehicles by our populace, a sign of a prosperous and strong economy. Putting regulations in place to require cars to have locking doors might slow the distribution and growth of cars.
Re:Backed By Microsoft Shill
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The Demise of IP?
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Here is more information on the Initiative for Software Choice. That who article reads like a clever troll, such lines as the one quoted in the summary "It reflects the currently fashionable idea that confiscatory government policy must be used to even the score (whatever that means), thrusting highly demanded, privately risked IP out of the hands of legitimate property owners and into the hands of other, favored actors to further "develop" it. Man, wowweee, what a line. 'Whatever that means' nicely derogative in reference to 'even the score', by it's nature an inflamatory phrase, which as far as I can tell was applied to this by the Initiative for Software Choice. Nice trick: imply that your opposition is Evil/mean/cruel/selfish/etc by restating their position with inflamatory language, then attack their position based on that language that you used to restate it.
Cisco has been one of the leaders in VOIP technology -their office phone systems are really quite good-, as well as their more dominant role as a networking equipment provider. I can see them anticipating the convergence of network, phone, and tv services and acting to position themselves to be the dominant hardware provider. I know here I can get phone, internet, tv services through my local cable company, just as my local telco offers TV in addition to Phone, and Internet.
It's annoying the way that Quicktime installs iTunes software on your machine, and buries it in registry so that it starts every time windows does. If you are looking to just have quicktime I would advise you to try an alternative or download the standalone from here.
Do you mean this paragraph from your linked article? Astronauts can brush their teeth much the way they do on Earth, with just a few minor changes. They can't leave the water running the way some people do, and they can't spit and rinse the toothpaste. They must either swallow it or spit it into a towel. Astronauts do have several dental aids. In weightlessness, salivation becomes more concentrated, which can lead to more tartar forming on the teeth. To prevent this, many astronauts chew gum and massage their gums to keep their mouths healthier.
Because if that is where this happened before then you are really stretching your interpertation of the article. I see nothing here to indicate that the astronauts aren't just chewing normal gum because of spitty mouths. I do see something here to indicate that the astronauts brush their teeth like normal folks on Earth.
This product, if tasty enough, could really change dental care for children and others in situations where they don't have their toothbrush and clean water. It's kinda a natural evolution of gum, I'm just surprised that it's only in recent years that the whitening gums and now cleaning gums are being developed.
The timing of this article is interesting in that I was doing a google search on my disease to catch up on the latest news and went to slashdot to give myself a break. In the treatment of a medical problem most of a Doctor's focus is on the immediate present symptoms. That's the way they were trained, that's the nature of a triage based health model. The problem is that if the medical problem isn't short term in nature much of the treatment is enough to get the patient out the door, but leaves that person ill-equipped to face the future of their disease/injury/etc. Sometimes there are support groups, but monthly meetings and sometimes just the lack of local membership usually make them of limited use. The online forums and websites dedicated to various chronic conditions are now starting to fill that need for Patients. Some of them are sponsored or run by Medical Professionals, however it's the Patients who actually make the site a success. People coming together to share information about their problems and support others in their time of need. I have only physically met 4 people with my disease in 15 years, online I have tapped into a community of 1000's, 10's of 1000's.
This kind of thing is really interesting. Without the Russian space program honestly the ISS project would be dead right now. The American space program has had far more money invested in it, and while arguably more success, the success per dollar ratio may not be as good as the Russians. The real kicker is that the Russian space program has been mostly funded by the West (US & Allies) during the past decade while it has been really taking off. One area that may explain the differences in success are management and design philosophies. By being forced to operate on stricter budgets the Russians have relied on simplier designs and technologies. In effect they never had the opportunity to let a project BLOAT out of control. It's a good thing that the Russian program is recieving this investment and that this vehicle is being developed. It's likely that it will happen, unlike the myriad of plans that have come from the NASA side of the world. One can only hope that the US private industry picks up the reins from their government and keeps the US competitive with the Russians in the future space industry.
I have 10 Mb downstream in NS from the local cable company, costs me just 45$ (or 50% of my total cable bill). In 1997 I had 7Mb downstream in Halifax on DSL for 40$ a month. The tech really has been pretty much there for a long time, just now with all the music and vid downloads (Pop and Porn drives deployment) consumers actually want/need something faster then 2Mb. Besides aren't we getting the nationwide wireless network soon, that'll be at least 11Mb.
MIT's Tesseract met with disaster. Tesseract's front, left, carbon fiber tire rim broke on a tight turn causing the driver to loose control and roll over. After a few tense moments it was announced that the driver was okay, walking away with only a sprained wrist and some very rattled nerves. At the team meeting later in the day, it was mentioned that when the solar car was righted, the driver's head actually bumped the ground as the canopy had split on impact. Thankfully, MIT is one of a few teams participating in the WSC that prioritizes safety over aerodynamics, using both a roll bar and a helmet. No one doubts that the inclusion of these two safety measures assured that the driver was able to walk away today. Tesseract, on the other hand, did not fare as well as its driver. The array and top shell suffered substantial damage, but like any dedicated team, MIT is now burning the midnight oil in hopes of being on the starting line tomorrow morning
Naming Worms - Virii's pride
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To be honest I imagine it's pretty kewl to have created a nasty piece of software that takes down millions of computers and costs billions in damages. At least in a perfect world where everybody is happy, corners are round and nobody ever gets hurt. It's even cooler if the virus you create gets a name like 'code red' or 'blaster' or 'buddy the smackhappy clown' and gets all sort of media coverage and everybody recognizes the name. I maen that's pretty awesome. So I hope that this naming system the 'Common Malware Enumeration' , makes names that are as exciting as it's own. In other words, boring. Take away some of the fun that the virus writers have been enjoying from their nasty little creations.
Yeah I kinda had that coming. I would have bigger moniters but I invested a big chunk of money in Nintendo Virtual Boys linked into a Beowulf Cluster running linux - KDE desktop. It didn't take off like I thought it would.
While the more visual and tabbed layout may reduce mouse clicks, it eats up more screen real estate than Office 2003 does. Visually, Office 12.0 will look dramatically different, though just marginally more attractive than its predecessor. Icons and charts appear less flat, but our jaws didn't drop at first sight. I'm one of those guys with dual 19 inch moniters running at greater then 1280 by 720 resolution and I still don't have enough desktop area. It's a shame they are adding more onscreen buttons/tabs/menus to the interface, making the word processor more mouse dependant. They are also screwing with the shortcuts, messing up the Alt+ shortcuts. It is their software though, not mine, so they can do whatever they want, and I'll keep on with Open Office.
I know it's the dentist neutering your pets - or at least I am guessing that would be the one most people are comfortable with. However it's actually harder to get into Vet School then Medical or Dental school, and a Vet typically recieves training in dental work that while not human focused is general enough that they could likely do human fillings, and extractions.
The Telecommunications industry has been more stable in Canada then the US, especially recently due to different management by regulatory agencies, and the fact that it's a smaller market. One of the first DSL providers (40$/mos 7mbp downstream 1.5mbp up) in North America was located in Halifax, Nova Scotia back in the mid 90's. Because the population is small, technically literate and close packed many new technologies are trialed here before being used in larger markets like the US. In fact many places already have much of this technology in place and now it's just being linked at a larger level in terms of management and coverage.
In Canada something like 80% of the population is within 4 hours drive of the US border. Most of the population (>50%) is further concentrated in four broad urban regions: the extended Golden Horseshoe in southern Ontario; Montréal and environs; British Columbia's Lower Mainland and southern Vancouver Island; and the Calgary-Edmonton corridor. Second largest country in terms of landmass, but a population of 30 million we're about even with Tokyo city for population. And when the ICE melts we get all that land too !!! (cue madman laughing)
It was proposed by Gregory Beneford story and talked about here too (I think but couldn't find the story). These crazy sci-fi solutions may eventually be the way past this kind of mess. At some point as a society and civilization we got to the point where we were a major influence on the enviroment, generally negative, and generally accidental - chaos is always easier to create then order - now we have to develop the technologies to allow us to have more concious control of our impact on the enviroment. Relying on mother nature only works when we are subjects of her, since we started making fires when it was cold we stopped being her subjects.
I couldn't figure out how to work a reference to him, but you got it nailed. It's interesting too, what the kid did was very personal (at least the stuff to P. Hilton) but what Mitnick did was relatively random (in that he wasn't specifically targetting an individual, just goofing around with big corporations). Paris was understandable pissed but didn't hunt the kid down where he slept, whereas Tsutomu took a very hard core stance and actions against Kevin, to him it was personal.
He most certainly was not Mitnicked, that would require 4 years of imprisonment without a trial. It would require overzealous prosecution by the state and the media. This kid got a speedy trial, not imprisonment without a trial, and a relatively light sentence considering the scope of his crimes.
It's because I hit the 'reply to' at the wrong level of the tree. Consider my comment in context of a response to Hannah E. Davis, the same post you originally responded to. In the article and my top post it states "it's a real stretch" - the quote from David Goldstein. Then Hannah E. Davis responds with 'isn't much of a stretch' - it struck me that the Hannah E. Davis evaluation lacks credibility.
I actually agree with you that Evolution does not distinguish between the two (micro/macro). In fact the end result is the same so why even bother distinguishing unless trying to make loopholes in the theory.
sidenote my original GP post was trying to point out that other then seeing different forms of a gene appearing through history and population groups, no real conclusion could or should be drawn.
shame slashdot has to be a no edit enviroment so I couldn't fix that ambiguity that confused you (me replying to the wrong post).
and I think that "we see changes in gene frequency, therefore (since microevolution, by definition, is a change in gene frequencies over time), the brain appears to be evolving" isn't much of a stretch.
And I think that saying something isn't much of a stretch is funny when in the post you are responding too people with visible credentials (more visible and transparent then yours at least ) state: Another geneticist, David Goldstein of Duke University, said the new results were interesting but that "it is a real stretch to argue for example that microcephalin is under selection and that that selection must be related to brain size or cognitive function."
Let's see if we can microevolve your point out of here.
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Funny, but I don't quote Bush, god forbid my words should ever echo his, even unconsciously. No that was a translation of the original Chinese proverb with a logical(if paranoid) conclusion tacked onto the end.
If I just had that I'd be rich,
I'm just bitter, I got burned when they did this a few years ago
my company, other companies, and about 200 of their own all screwed the day before we went live
by now though we should be thinking
"Fool me once
Shame on you
Fool me twice
Shame on me."
fool me three times - that's enemy action.
strangely that's how I got over my first post college girlfriend. It's something that may not be uniquely canadian, but very few Americans that I have met would feel as comfortable heading out in to the deep woods (Like most of northern ontario) for a couple of weeks to reconnect with themselves. Side note (don't drink myself) but weightwise, pound for pound, or ounce for ounce, it's more efficient to carry a 2 week supply of pot, as opposed to a 2 week supply of booze. Spending a couple of weeks actually fishing , chopping wood, making fire - all for real is a great way to recover from the evils of the world, be they MUDs, or girls, or Muddy girls.
I could do some silly jurassic park quote : "Life finds a way" or something equally wise and witty, but all that's needed to be said is what's in the subject. The very concept of trying to control information on the medium of the internet is like the perpetual motion machine. Nice idea, great money sink, but utterly impossible to implement. The only way for this kinda censorship to work is for all users to agree to abide by it's rules (including correct spelling), which isn't gonna happen I think in the cases mentioned in the article. Just like file sharing, it's still possible to steal music, but most people don't bother anymore because it can be downloaded legally and as a group we generally agree to abide by that rule. Once we didn't but now we do with the existence of legal alternatives.
Canadian engineers were crucial to the early U.S. human space program. NASA hired over 30 engineers from the Avro Arrow program (mach 2 fighter) which was cancelled by the Canadian Government in 1959. These engineers were involved in Mercury, Gemini and Apollo (putting Americans into space). To be honest some of them were British, but working in Canada prior to going to the US.
What this whole issue really is about is illustrated by that anecdote about the Canadian's building the US space program, the Brain Drain. Skilled workers can be lured away by high paying jobs in the US and other countries, that's a loss to Canadian companies certainly, but it also impacts the country as a whole when these skilled workers advance their field in another country - ie: sending Americans to space with Canadian know how. Our Universities train a lot of bright people, many of them from other countries. This proposal is designed to encourage them to stay in Canada after their education is complete, and to bring in other professionals from other countries. Reversing the Brain Drain effect and encouraging the growth of many different industries in Canada.
it shows the healthy consumption of motor vehicles by our populace, a sign of a prosperous and strong economy. Putting regulations in place to require cars to have locking doors might slow the distribution and growth of cars.
Here is more information on the Initiative for Software Choice. That who article reads like a clever troll, such lines as the one quoted in the summary
"It reflects the currently fashionable idea that confiscatory government policy must be used to even the score (whatever that means), thrusting highly demanded, privately risked IP out of the hands of legitimate property owners and into the hands of other, favored actors to further "develop" it.
Man, wowweee, what a line.
'Whatever that means' nicely derogative in reference to 'even the score', by it's nature an inflamatory phrase, which as far as I can tell was applied to this by the Initiative for Software Choice. Nice trick: imply that your opposition is Evil/mean/cruel/selfish/etc by restating their position with inflamatory language, then attack their position based on that language that you used to restate it.
Here is MSNBC coverage . Somewhat more info on the Cisco viewpoints.
Here is an alternative , I just forgot a quote so the link didn't appear above.
It's annoying the way that Quicktime installs iTunes software on your machine, and buries it in registry so that it starts every time windows does. If you are looking to just have quicktime I would advise you to try an alternative or download the standalone from here.
Do you mean this paragraph from your linked article?
Astronauts can brush their teeth much the way they do on Earth, with just a few minor changes. They can't leave the water running the way some people do, and they can't spit and rinse the toothpaste. They must either swallow it or spit it into a towel. Astronauts do have several dental aids. In weightlessness, salivation becomes more concentrated, which can lead to more tartar forming on the teeth. To prevent this, many astronauts chew gum and massage their gums to keep their mouths healthier.
Because if that is where this happened before then you are really stretching your interpertation of the article. I see nothing here to indicate that the astronauts aren't just chewing normal gum because of spitty mouths. I do see something here to indicate that the astronauts brush their teeth like normal folks on Earth.
This product, if tasty enough, could really change dental care for children and others in situations where they don't have their toothbrush and clean water. It's kinda a natural evolution of gum, I'm just surprised that it's only in recent years that the whitening gums and now cleaning gums are being developed.
The timing of this article is interesting in that I was doing a google search on my disease to catch up on the latest news and went to slashdot to give myself a break. In the treatment of a medical problem most of a Doctor's focus is on the immediate present symptoms. That's the way they were trained, that's the nature of a triage based health model. The problem is that if the medical problem isn't short term in nature much of the treatment is enough to get the patient out the door, but leaves that person ill-equipped to face the future of their disease/injury/etc. Sometimes there are support groups, but monthly meetings and sometimes just the lack of local membership usually make them of limited use. The online forums and websites dedicated to various chronic conditions are now starting to fill that need for Patients. Some of them are sponsored or run by Medical Professionals, however it's the Patients who actually make the site a success. People coming together to share information about their problems and support others in their time of need. I have only physically met 4 people with my disease in 15 years, online I have tapped into a community of 1000's, 10's of 1000's.
This kind of thing is really interesting. Without the Russian space program honestly the ISS project would be dead right now. The American space program has had far more money invested in it, and while arguably more success, the success per dollar ratio may not be as good as the Russians. The real kicker is that the Russian space program has been mostly funded by the West (US & Allies) during the past decade while it has been really taking off. One area that may explain the differences in success are management and design philosophies. By being forced to operate on stricter budgets the Russians have relied on simplier designs and technologies. In effect they never had the opportunity to let a project BLOAT out of control. It's a good thing that the Russian program is recieving this investment and that this vehicle is being developed. It's likely that it will happen, unlike the myriad of plans that have come from the NASA side of the world. One can only hope that the US private industry picks up the reins from their government and keeps the US competitive with the Russians in the future space industry.
I have 10 Mb downstream in NS from the local cable company, costs me just 45$ (or 50% of my total cable bill). In 1997 I had 7Mb downstream in Halifax on DSL for 40$ a month. The tech really has been pretty much there for a long time, just now with all the music and vid downloads (Pop and Porn drives deployment) consumers actually want/need something faster then 2Mb. Besides aren't we getting the nationwide wireless network soon, that'll be at least 11Mb.
From the University of Calgary
MIT's Tesseract met with disaster. Tesseract's front, left, carbon fiber tire rim broke on a tight turn causing the driver to loose control and roll over. After a few tense moments it was announced that the driver was okay, walking away with only a sprained wrist and some very rattled nerves. At the team meeting later in the day, it was mentioned that when the solar car was righted, the driver's head actually bumped the ground as the canopy had split on impact. Thankfully, MIT is one of a few teams participating in the WSC that prioritizes safety over aerodynamics, using both a roll bar and a helmet. No one doubts that the inclusion of these two safety measures assured that the driver was able to walk away today. Tesseract, on the other hand, did not fare as well as its driver. The array and top shell suffered substantial damage, but like any dedicated team, MIT is now burning the midnight oil in hopes of being on the starting line tomorrow morning
To be honest I imagine it's pretty kewl to have created a nasty piece of software that takes down millions of computers and costs billions in damages. At least in a perfect world where everybody is happy, corners are round and nobody ever gets hurt. It's even cooler if the virus you create gets a name like 'code red' or 'blaster' or 'buddy the smackhappy clown' and gets all sort of media coverage and everybody recognizes the name. I maen that's pretty awesome. So I hope that this naming system the 'Common Malware Enumeration' , makes names that are as exciting as it's own. In other words, boring. Take away some of the fun that the virus writers have been enjoying from their nasty little creations.
Yeah I kinda had that coming. I would have bigger moniters but I invested a big chunk of money in Nintendo Virtual Boys linked into a Beowulf Cluster running linux - KDE desktop. It didn't take off like I thought it would.
While the more visual and tabbed layout may reduce mouse clicks, it eats up more screen real estate than Office 2003 does. Visually, Office 12.0 will look dramatically different, though just marginally more attractive than its predecessor. Icons and charts appear less flat, but our jaws didn't drop at first sight.
I'm one of those guys with dual 19 inch moniters running at greater then 1280 by 720 resolution and I still don't have enough desktop area. It's a shame they are adding more onscreen buttons/tabs/menus to the interface, making the word processor more mouse dependant. They are also screwing with the shortcuts, messing up the Alt+ shortcuts. It is their software though, not mine, so they can do whatever they want, and I'll keep on with Open Office.
I know it's the dentist neutering your pets - or at least I am guessing that would be the one most people are comfortable with. However it's actually harder to get into Vet School then Medical or Dental school, and a Vet typically recieves training in dental work that while not human focused is general enough that they could likely do human fillings, and extractions.
The Telecommunications industry has been more stable in Canada then the US, especially recently due to different management by regulatory agencies, and the fact that it's a smaller market. One of the first DSL providers (40$/mos 7mbp downstream 1.5mbp up) in North America was located in Halifax, Nova Scotia back in the mid 90's. Because the population is small, technically literate and close packed many new technologies are trialed here before being used in larger markets like the US. In fact many places already have much of this technology in place and now it's just being linked at a larger level in terms of management and coverage.
In Canada something like 80% of the population is within 4 hours drive of the US border. Most of the population (>50%) is further concentrated in four broad urban regions: the extended Golden Horseshoe in southern Ontario; Montréal and environs; British Columbia's Lower Mainland and southern Vancouver Island; and the Calgary-Edmonton corridor. Second largest country in terms of landmass, but a population of 30 million we're about even with Tokyo city for population. And when the ICE melts we get all that land too !!! (cue madman laughing)
It was proposed by Gregory Beneford story and talked about here too (I think but couldn't find the story). These crazy sci-fi solutions may eventually be the way past this kind of mess. At some point as a society and civilization we got to the point where we were a major influence on the enviroment, generally negative, and generally accidental - chaos is always easier to create then order - now we have to develop the technologies to allow us to have more concious control of our impact on the enviroment. Relying on mother nature only works when we are subjects of her, since we started making fires when it was cold we stopped being her subjects.
I couldn't figure out how to work a reference to him, but you got it nailed. It's interesting too, what the kid did was very personal (at least the stuff to P. Hilton) but what Mitnick did was relatively random (in that he wasn't specifically targetting an individual, just goofing around with big corporations). Paris was understandable pissed but didn't hunt the kid down where he slept, whereas Tsutomu took a very hard core stance and actions against Kevin, to him it was personal.
He most certainly was not Mitnicked, that would require 4 years of imprisonment without a trial. It would require overzealous prosecution by the state and the media. This kid got a speedy trial, not imprisonment without a trial, and a relatively light sentence considering the scope of his crimes.
It's because I hit the 'reply to' at the wrong level of the tree. Consider my comment in context of a response to Hannah E. Davis, the same post you originally responded to. In the article and my top post it states "it's a real stretch" - the quote from David Goldstein. Then Hannah E. Davis responds with 'isn't much of a stretch' - it struck me that the Hannah E. Davis evaluation lacks credibility.
I actually agree with you that Evolution does not distinguish between the two (micro/macro). In fact the end result is the same so why even bother distinguishing unless trying to make loopholes in the theory.
sidenote my original GP post was trying to point out that other then seeing different forms of a gene appearing through history and population groups, no real conclusion could or should be drawn.
shame slashdot has to be a no edit enviroment so I couldn't fix that ambiguity that confused you (me replying to the wrong post).
and I think that "we see changes in gene frequency, therefore (since microevolution, by definition, is a change in gene frequencies over time), the brain appears to be evolving" isn't much of a stretch.
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And I think that saying something isn't much of a stretch is funny when in the post you are responding too people with visible credentials (more visible and transparent then yours at least ) state
Another geneticist, David Goldstein of Duke University, said the new results were interesting but that "it is a real stretch to argue for example that microcephalin is under selection and that that selection must be related to brain size or cognitive function."
Let's see if we can microevolve your point out of here.