actually the combustion temperature of paper is no-where near 451F. It is closer to 840F (source), which is 450C. It was gonna be "Celcius 450" but "Fahrenheit 451" sounds cooler.
Aside from switching from Konqueror to Firefox and from OO.o to LibreOffice, I don't think I have added or subtracted a single piece of software in the interim.
What are you talking about? Maybe Ubuntu is more bloat-ridden than distros a decade ago, but clean do-it-yourself linux distros like Gentoo and Archlinux still come with absolutely no bloat whatsoever, containing nothing except what you checked on a list.
Get your most closely kept personal thought: put it in the Word.doc with a password lock. Stock it deep in the.rar with extraction precluded by the ludicrous length and the strength of a reputedly dictionary-attack-proof string of characters (this, imperative to thwart all the disparagers of privacy: the NSA and Homeland S). You better PGP the.rar because so far they ain’t impressed. You better take the.pgp and print the hex of it out, scan that into a TIFF. Then, if you seek redoubt for your data, scramble up the order of the pixels with a one-time pad that describes the fun time had by the thick-soled- boot-wearing stomper who danced to produce random claptrap, all the intervals in between which, set in tandem with the stomps themselves, begat a seed of math unguessable. Ain’t no complaint about this cipher that’s redressable! Best of all, your secret: nothing extant could extract it. By 2025 a children’s Speak & Spell could crack it.
You can’t hide secrets from the future with math. You can try, but I bet that in the future they laugh at the half-assed schemes and algorithms amassed to enforce cryptographs in the past.
I (along with Munroe, I believe) feel that this is better written:
*2011 Budget for Nasa: $19 billion *U.S. consumer spending on cosmetic surgery (2009): $10.5 billion *U.S. consumer spending on cosmetics: $8 billion *U.S Military budget (2010): $663.8 billion *Iraq/Afghanistan war expenses to date: $1121 billion
>> You gotta remember that the pilgrims didn't come to the US to "practice religious freedom".
>> They got kicked out of Europe for being too puritanical.
Sorry, but every time I see this myth I feel as though I must refute it. The pilgrims were not kicked out of Europe. They spent nearly twelve years in Holland, where they were able to practice religious freedom or whatever peacefully with other religious "refugees" from England and Spain and other places until they drove themselves into the ground financially through lack of wisdom and useful skills. That is the real reason they came to America; there wouldn't be competition for jobs from more skilled groups of people if they were alone at Plymouth.
The concept of agency is important for evolutionary theory. Agents are anything with a will, needs, and wants, such as an animal. Now, a human that assumes that every stick is a snake is going to survive for a lot longer than a human that assumes every snake is a stick. In general, we vastly overestimate the amount of agency in the situation surrounding us, because we ARE hardcoded to do so.
This overestimation of agency is what led to the belief in higher powers; the wind *is* an agent because it is safer to believe that it is than not, the sun *is* an agent because it is safer to believe that it is than not, etc. That is why we seem to be hardcoded to believe in a higher power; really we are just hardcoded to believe that everything around us is a dangerous entity or caused by a dangerous entity with its own motivations.
Because **AA is hard to parse and it's rather difficult to immediately know what it means, I might recommend the term MAFIAA in the future. Sure, it might not stand for anything in specific, but it's easy to parse and everyone knows exactly what it means.
Congress retains the authority to pass new laws affecting religion (via amending the constitution). Historically, they themselves avoid doing this because the independence of the church is seen as a good thing; an independent church has greater credibility to its people in not being a front for government mind-control, and credibility is important for the religious.
So... what makes the federal reserve part of the government again?
There are many amphetamines that aren't methamphetamine. Dextroamphetamine, adderall, is an amphetamine. Methylenedioxyamphetamine, MDA, is an amphetamine. Methylenedioxymethamphetamine, MDMA, is an amphetamine. BK-MDMA, lisdexamfetamine... there are lots of amphetamines.
If we want to talk scientifically, methamphetamine (crystal meth) isn't even an amphetamine, it is a methamphetamine and though the two chemicals are related, they are entirely different classes of chemicals that happen to have similar properties. Meth is not a safe alternative to coffee, but I would say that dextroamphetamine is. If you're going to talk about drugs in such a condescending manner, please be informed.
Though I have seen the "~" sentence ender for at least 5 years, and been reading your sig for at least a year and a half (I read the comment chain of pretty much every interesting/. article), this is the first time I have ever seen you yourself use the snarky punctuation. Seeing it literally made me so startled that I spewed coffee all over my desk. This is a momentous occasion.
None of the software I use comes from tarballs either; I get it all from trusted repositories. That particular method is only one step down on the security level from inspecting all of the source of all of the applications you use personally. All of the software I use is open source and very secure; what do I have to worry about? It doesn't have anything to do with the open-source status of the software, it has to do with the distribution method. There are safe and unsafe distribution methods; downloading software from a sketchy mirror is dangerous regardless of the openness or closedness of the source. Downloading from a trusted website (such as ftp.archlinux.fr or cnet.com) is relatively safe, whether you're doing so through your package manage or your browser, whether the software is open or closed source.
This incident can do nothing to hurt the reputation of the security of open-source software in the debate vs closed-source software as they both suffer from this security flaw.
The code was not compromised. Someone swapped one of the.tar.gz's with their own, but the cvs (source) was intact. This is one of the rare situations in which being open source did nothing to help security, but the exact same thing could have happened to a proprietary application.
You do not, however, own the game. The game is licensed to you, under the terms of the End User License Agreement (EULA), and I am almost positive one of the clauses in that agreement is that you cannot modify the software.
My friend, who is not a computer geek, ends each of his nights watching funny videos on youtube while consuming marijuana. He might crash in half an hour or three hours, so let's conservatively say an hour. It would be very easy to exceed the bandwidth limit just watching youtube; you wouldn't have to be downloading videos to your harddrive permanently. Don't forget that youtube in 2008 passed more data than the entire world wide web in 2000.
When speaking about climate change, please refrain from using words like "cool" to mean anything other than their literal, temperature-based definition. I had to read your post at least ten times before I could understand it haha.
Interesting. All we have to do now, therefore, is get camera makers to license h264 for commercial purposes for their cameras, something they HAVE YET TO DO.
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> If that was the case, would Wozniak's wife still work for Apple's sales department?
Hey! I hate to be a grammar nazi, but I can see that this was not a typographical error but rather a conceptual error.
In English (and most languages with origins in Latin), when we want to talk about something that didn't happen, or isn't true, we use the subjunctive case. This generally means using "were", even though the subject is singular.
As such, the famous line from the famous song from the famous musical is "If I *were* a rich man", rather than "If I *was* a rich man", because he is talking about something that isn't true.
However, in modern society, the use of this important standard has all but vanished. Clay Aiken's hit "invisible" contains the line "if I was invisible", for instance. If you are okay with the combining of the subjective and subjunctive case, then by all means, continue to make us structuralists cringe and twitch. It's a legitimate argument, that the language will evolve.
But if you wish for our communication to remain as lossless as possible, it follows that we should all adhere to standards, regardless of their arbitrarity, just for standards' sake.
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actually the combustion temperature of paper is no-where near 451F. It is closer to 840F (source), which is 450C. It was gonna be "Celcius 450" but "Fahrenheit 451" sounds cooler.
Hmm...
I ran Linux in 2001 and I run Linux today.
Aside from switching from Konqueror to Firefox and from OO.o to LibreOffice, I don't think I have added or subtracted a single piece of software in the interim.
What are you talking about? Maybe Ubuntu is more bloat-ridden than distros a decade ago, but clean do-it-yourself linux distros like Gentoo and Archlinux still come with absolutely no bloat whatsoever, containing nothing except what you checked on a list.
Get your most closely kept personal thought: .doc with a password lock. .rar with extraction precluded .rar because so far they ain’t impressed. .pgp and print the hex of it out,
put it in the Word
Stock it deep in the
by the ludicrous length and the strength of a reputedly
dictionary-attack-proof string of characters
(this, imperative to thwart all the disparagers
of privacy: the NSA and Homeland S).
You better PGP the
You better take the
scan that into a TIFF. Then, if you seek redoubt
for your data, scramble up the order of the pixels
with a one-time pad that describes the fun time had by the thick-soled-
boot-wearing stomper who danced to produce random
claptrap, all the intervals in between which, set in tandem
with the stomps themselves, begat a seed of math unguessable.
Ain’t no complaint about this cipher that’s redressable!
Best of all, your secret: nothing extant could extract it.
By 2025 a children’s Speak & Spell could crack it.
You can’t hide secrets from the future with math.
You can try, but I bet that in the future they laugh
at the half-assed schemes and algorithms amassed
to enforce cryptographs in the past.
What? He said who the somebody was. HIMSELF. If the source were released, HE WOULD BE WILLING to develop the client.
Modded offtopic? Someone isn't brushed up on their popular culture.
I (along with Munroe, I believe) feel that this is better written:
*2011 Budget for Nasa: $19 billion
*U.S. consumer spending on cosmetic surgery (2009): $10.5 billion
*U.S. consumer spending on cosmetics: $8 billion
*U.S Military budget (2010): $663.8 billion
*Iraq/Afghanistan war expenses to date: $1121 billion
malo malo malo malo
sans macrons, but has been used in latin poetry to mean "i'd rather be an apple tree than an evil man in adversity"
-5 offtopic
>> You gotta remember that the pilgrims didn't come to the US to "practice religious freedom".
>> They got kicked out of Europe for being too puritanical.
Sorry, but every time I see this myth I feel as though I must refute it. The pilgrims were not kicked out of Europe. They spent nearly twelve years in Holland, where they were able to practice religious freedom or whatever peacefully with other religious "refugees" from England and Spain and other places until they drove themselves into the ground financially through lack of wisdom and useful skills. That is the real reason they came to America; there wouldn't be competition for jobs from more skilled groups of people if they were alone at Plymouth.
The concept of agency is important for evolutionary theory. Agents are anything with a will, needs, and wants, such as an animal. Now, a human that assumes that every stick is a snake is going to survive for a lot longer than a human that assumes every snake is a stick. In general, we vastly overestimate the amount of agency in the situation surrounding us, because we ARE hardcoded to do so.
This overestimation of agency is what led to the belief in higher powers; the wind *is* an agent because it is safer to believe that it is than not, the sun *is* an agent because it is safer to believe that it is than not, etc. That is why we seem to be hardcoded to believe in a higher power; really we are just hardcoded to believe that everything around us is a dangerous entity or caused by a dangerous entity with its own motivations.
Why is this downrated? Mod parent up insightful. Jesus, guys.
Because **AA is hard to parse and it's rather difficult to immediately know what it means, I might recommend the term MAFIAA in the future. Sure, it might not stand for anything in specific, but it's easy to parse and everyone knows exactly what it means.
Congress retains the authority to pass new laws affecting religion (via amending the constitution). Historically, they themselves avoid doing this because the independence of the church is seen as a good thing; an independent church has greater credibility to its people in not being a front for government mind-control, and credibility is important for the religious. So... what makes the federal reserve part of the government again?
There are many amphetamines that aren't methamphetamine. Dextroamphetamine, adderall, is an amphetamine. Methylenedioxyamphetamine, MDA, is an amphetamine. Methylenedioxymethamphetamine, MDMA, is an amphetamine. BK-MDMA, lisdexamfetamine... there are lots of amphetamines.
If we want to talk scientifically, methamphetamine (crystal meth) isn't even an amphetamine, it is a methamphetamine and though the two chemicals are related, they are entirely different classes of chemicals that happen to have similar properties. Meth is not a safe alternative to coffee, but I would say that dextroamphetamine is. If you're going to talk about drugs in such a condescending manner, please be informed.
Though I have seen the "~" sentence ender for at least 5 years, and been reading your sig for at least a year and a half (I read the comment chain of pretty much every interesting /. article), this is the first time I have ever seen you yourself use the snarky punctuation. Seeing it literally made me so startled that I spewed coffee all over my desk. This is a momentous occasion.
Dihydrogen monoxide? I've heard of that. Isn't it the main ingredient in most harmful pesticide sprays?
My understanding is that it has gotten into most of our lakes and rivers, and even in our drinking water.
whooooosh... :)
None of the software I use comes from tarballs either; I get it all from trusted repositories. That particular method is only one step down on the security level from inspecting all of the source of all of the applications you use personally. All of the software I use is open source and very secure; what do I have to worry about? It doesn't have anything to do with the open-source status of the software, it has to do with the distribution method. There are safe and unsafe distribution methods; downloading software from a sketchy mirror is dangerous regardless of the openness or closedness of the source. Downloading from a trusted website (such as ftp.archlinux.fr or cnet.com) is relatively safe, whether you're doing so through your package manage or your browser, whether the software is open or closed source. This incident can do nothing to hurt the reputation of the security of open-source software in the debate vs closed-source software as they both suffer from this security flaw.
The code was not compromised. Someone swapped one of the .tar.gz's with their own, but the cvs (source) was intact. This is one of the rare situations in which being open source did nothing to help security, but the exact same thing could have happened to a proprietary application.
Be like Tevye, who used the subjunctive mood properly. "If I were a rich man".
:D
Do not be like Aiken, who used the subjunctive mood improperly. "If I was invisible".
In the subjunctive mood, where we are talking about things which are not true, we use "were" instead of "was".
You do not, however, own the game. The game is licensed to you, under the terms of the End User License Agreement (EULA), and I am almost positive one of the clauses in that agreement is that you cannot modify the software.
My friend, who is not a computer geek, ends each of his nights watching funny videos on youtube while consuming marijuana. He might crash in half an hour or three hours, so let's conservatively say an hour. It would be very easy to exceed the bandwidth limit just watching youtube; you wouldn't have to be downloading videos to your harddrive permanently. Don't forget that youtube in 2008 passed more data than the entire world wide web in 2000.
When speaking about climate change, please refrain from using words like "cool" to mean anything other than their literal, temperature-based definition. I had to read your post at least ten times before I could understand it haha.
Interesting. All we have to do now, therefore, is get camera makers to license h264 for commercial purposes for their cameras, something they HAVE YET TO DO.
Mod parent up, informative
> If that was the case, would Wozniak's wife still work for Apple's sales department? Hey! I hate to be a grammar nazi, but I can see that this was not a typographical error but rather a conceptual error. In English (and most languages with origins in Latin), when we want to talk about something that didn't happen, or isn't true, we use the subjunctive case. This generally means using "were", even though the subject is singular. As such, the famous line from the famous song from the famous musical is "If I *were* a rich man", rather than "If I *was* a rich man", because he is talking about something that isn't true. However, in modern society, the use of this important standard has all but vanished. Clay Aiken's hit "invisible" contains the line "if I was invisible", for instance. If you are okay with the combining of the subjective and subjunctive case, then by all means, continue to make us structuralists cringe and twitch. It's a legitimate argument, that the language will evolve. But if you wish for our communication to remain as lossless as possible, it follows that we should all adhere to standards, regardless of their arbitrarity, just for standards' sake.