Well you're sadly mistaken: those comments are representative of the pulse of a large part of the nation. That's why the country needs to break apart into separate republics, so that those of us in more progressive regions can be free of the people of that ilk who live in the more backwards regions.
Um... We do have separate republics, they are called "States".
They are supposed to be separate, but the "control freaks" try to change that, regularly.
..., it assumes that masses are rational and it assumes that everyone has perfect access to the information. Both of these assumptions are demonstrably untrue.
The USA is based on the idea that the "masses" are rational, or at least as rational as the "elites" which isn't much. If you don't think that is rational, then maybe you are one of the "elites"...
Then your interpretation of the constitution leads to unrealized and hollow right. How are you going to realize your right when means of communication are censorious?
A car analogy: You buy a car, but it turns out that all roads around your house are private. Owners decide not to let you drive on their property. Sure, you can still get into your car and legally drive it to the end of your driveway, but you no longer have a way to legally use your car.
The Constitution of the USA prevents (theoretically) the government from stopping you from having (some) rights. There is nothing there stopping others from doing so, it is just about the government.
There are other laws about some things, but that is different.
Like, the government can't take you car away without good reason, but it doesn't have to build you a road.
i. e. It says "Pursuit of Happiness", not guaranteed happiness.
Scientists and other experts really hate having to say "I don't know". And they are often punished if they do say it. But it is sometimes the only scientific answer.
But pretending the things you don't know, don't exist, is not scientific either...
Just because we, here, can't see it, does not mean that it is not there. The scientists just aren't interested in it if they can't do observations of it.
As in: Closing yoiur eyes does not mean that others can't see you! 8-)
...What I said in the original article was: If the police and the courts are really that corrupt and incompetent, then you have a much deeper problem...
"Padlocks are for honest people, it helps them to stay honest. The dishonest require other methods."
There was once a common practice of forcing defendants to testify, and adding more charges if they denied guilt and then were found guilty anyways. The Fifth Amendment protects against that practice, and only that practice.
My understanding is that, over the ages, the practice of forcing the defendant to testify lead inexorably to torture. From social pressure to financial pressure to physical. And that resulted in many false confessions that clogged the courts. We already have many false confessions now, forcing the defendants to testify would just make it worse. It was a practical measure, done by people who had seen the consequences in Europe, of the time.
Randomness is a resource, you have to obtain it from somewhere. CPUs are explicitly designed to -Not- be random, in operation. To use a CPU to generate a number, is not something that should be depended upon to be random.
A real random number generally requires separate hardware, such as noise from a stressed diode.
That said, if a program wants to use a documented instruction it should be able to. If you want good crypto just don't use that instruction. It is not the job of an OS to prevent programs from running.
I used to work at the GE Power Line Carrier plant. The communications were not high bandwidth, but they were reliable. And you could find where the outages were by which lines wouldn't communicate.
There was also a newer type where the signal was automatically tuned to miss the harmonics of the noise, which was at multiples of the power frequency. Really slick and would work in bad noise.
As far as I know it is still being used a lot.
Connecting your control computers to the internet, is like connecting your drinking water lines to the sewer!... 8-}
There are times when being able to derive formulas is useful. Maybe not so much now as in the past, but still...
If you can't remember the formula, and you can't get where you can look it up, then it can be a life saver to be able to work it out. And really, that describes a lot of real problems, out in the field.
But most problems like that can be left until later, when you can look it up. So "don't panic".
Also, one can develop the formula for the area of a circle without calculus.
I'm intrigued. Please demonstrate. (I'm serious. I've never seen a non-calculus method of doing this.)
I don't remember the method, but I have seen this done many years ago. Actually, there is also another method, using numerical estimation such as engineers sometimes use, but that one is getting a bit close to Calculus.
At some point, you are building a building. You can't retrofit a foundation.
To build a building you need to be able to dig a hole. A hole doesn't need a foundation, and holes are useful for other things. When you are ready to build the building, you fill in that hole (that you used for a latrine) and dig new ones for the foundation. This is called practice. You don't need to understand masonry and roofing to learn how to dig a hole!
Just because your teacher said it, doesn't make it true...
..."You can outrun a bear!" the other yells back. "I don't need to" the first replies, "I just need to run faster than you" he says...
That joke is so old that it has whiskers ! The problem is that many bears are smarter than that. They are fully capable of disabling all of you and then coming back to dine.
...There's really no way to fix this situation, except to eliminate community moderation and switch to professional moderation: you have to hire a team of people to read all the posts and moderate them, according to the standards and policies you decide on. Of course, this is really expensive, so no one does it.
It was done, long ago. They were called Newspapers, but I don't think there are any real ones left, anymore...
Water is not that small a molecule. If it was, it would be a gas like carbon dioxide. The simple three atoms bond to others, by the thousands, so the resulting macro-molecule is quite large.
That is why water behaves so unlike other compounds, having multiple solid states and characteristics at different temperatures and pressures.
He makes it sound like none of that is possible and all of those ideas failed. Ick! When you read an idea like that, consider the scale and infrastructure of the Interstate Highway System. That is successful and works. (Even though it needs some work occasionally) And before that, the railroads were a huge infrastructure project. And they finally got built, a little at a time. To discount all of those ideas is not smart... but then, the writer is being a bit of a troll.
"The cheapest way forward may be to create an open source plan for an automated seed that could be sent to an asteroid where it would begin to grow into a space habitat. Then the habitat could duplicate itself by making more seeds..."
Releasing something like this into the galaxy might be considered Very Rude by the civilizations already living there. They might even blame you for the resulting disasters...
It is hard to prove that these things cause wrecks, because many people don't pay attention to their driving even when Not on the phone! Be careful people, it's dangerous out there...
Blood tests for lead are very sensitive these days. People eating wild game do not seem to show elevated levels of lead.
There have sometimes been elevated levels of lead for people working in indoor ranges that had steel targets and no ventilation. But that is illegal in most states nowadays. The ranges I know have special ventilation and don't use steel targets.
Apparently, the metallic lead does not give off much from it's surface. But if it is exposed to very caustic materials, it can change so it is dangerous.
Before saying "use something else", check on the dangers of whatever the alternative is...
Slashdot Mirror
A T-shirt or something...
Hey! It's better than getting sued!
(As has happened before.)
Well you're sadly mistaken: those comments are representative of the pulse of a large part of the nation. That's why the country needs to break apart into separate republics, so that those of us in more progressive regions can be free of the people of that ilk who live in the more backwards regions.
Um... We do have separate republics, they are called "States".
They are supposed to be separate, but the "control freaks" try to change that, regularly.
..., it assumes that masses are rational and it assumes that everyone has perfect access to the information. Both of these assumptions are demonstrably untrue.
The USA is based on the idea that the "masses" are rational, or at least as rational as the "elites" which isn't much. If you don't think that is rational, then maybe you are one of the "elites"...
Then your interpretation of the constitution leads to unrealized and hollow right. How are you going to realize your right when means of communication are censorious?
A car analogy: You buy a car, but it turns out that all roads around your house are private. Owners decide not to let you drive on their property. Sure, you can still get into your car and legally drive it to the end of your driveway, but you no longer have a way to legally use your car.
The Constitution of the USA prevents (theoretically) the government from stopping you from having (some) rights. There is nothing there stopping others from doing so, it is just about the government.
There are other laws about some things, but that is different.
Like, the government can't take you car away without good reason, but it doesn't have to build you a road.
i. e. It says "Pursuit of Happiness", not guaranteed happiness.
Scientists and other experts really hate having to say "I don't know". And they are often punished if they do say it. But it is sometimes the only scientific answer.
But pretending the things you don't know, don't exist, is not scientific either...
Just because we, here, can't see it, does not mean that it is not there. The scientists just aren't interested in it if they can't do observations of it.
As in: Closing yoiur eyes does not mean that others can't see you! 8-)
...What I said in the original article was: If the police and the courts are really that corrupt and incompetent, then you have a much deeper problem...
"Padlocks are for honest people, it helps them to stay honest. The dishonest require other methods."
There was once a common practice of forcing defendants to testify, and adding more charges if they denied guilt and then were found guilty anyways. The Fifth Amendment protects against that practice, and only that practice.
My understanding is that, over the ages, the practice of forcing the defendant to testify lead inexorably to torture. From social pressure to financial pressure to physical. And that resulted in many false confessions that clogged the courts.
We already have many false confessions now, forcing the defendants to testify would just make it worse. It was a practical measure, done by people who had seen the consequences in Europe, of the time.
Randomness is a resource, you have to obtain it from somewhere. CPUs are explicitly designed to -Not- be random, in operation. To use a CPU to generate a number, is not something that should be depended upon to be random.
A real random number generally requires separate hardware, such as noise from a stressed diode.
That said, if a program wants to use a documented instruction it should be able to. If you want good crypto just don't use that instruction. It is not the job of an OS to prevent programs from running.
I used to work at the GE Power Line Carrier plant. The communications were not high bandwidth, but they were reliable. And you could find where the outages were by which lines wouldn't communicate.
There was also a newer type where the signal was automatically tuned to miss the harmonics of the noise, which was at multiples of the power frequency. Really slick and would work in bad noise.
As far as I know it is still being used a lot.
Connecting your control computers to the internet, is like connecting your drinking water lines to the sewer!... 8-}
There are times when being able to derive formulas is useful. Maybe not so much now as in the past, but still...
If you can't remember the formula, and you can't get where you can look it up, then it can be a life saver to be able to work it out. And really, that describes a lot of real problems, out in the field.
But most problems like that can be left until later, when you can look it up. So "don't panic".
Also, one can develop the formula for the area of a circle without calculus.
I'm intrigued. Please demonstrate. (I'm serious. I've never seen a non-calculus method of doing this.)
I don't remember the method, but I have seen this done many years ago.
Actually, there is also another method, using numerical estimation such as engineers sometimes use, but that one is getting a bit close to Calculus.
At some point, you are building a building. You can't retrofit a foundation.
To build a building you need to be able to dig a hole. A hole doesn't need a foundation, and holes are useful for other things.
When you are ready to build the building, you fill in that hole (that you used for a latrine) and dig new ones for the foundation.
This is called practice.
You don't need to understand masonry and roofing to learn how to dig a hole!
Just because your teacher said it, doesn't make it true...
..."You can outrun a bear!" the other yells back. "I don't need to" the first replies, "I just need to run faster than you" he says...
That joke is so old that it has whiskers !
The problem is that many bears are smarter than that. They are fully capable of disabling all of you and then coming back to dine.
...There's really no way to fix this situation, except to eliminate community moderation and switch to professional moderation: you have to hire a team of people to read all the posts and moderate them, according to the standards and policies you decide on. Of course, this is really expensive, so no one does it.
It was done, long ago. They were called Newspapers, but I don't think there are any real ones left, anymore...
99.9% of the time, what's said in the op-ed stays in the op-ed.
And when the Internet covers the entire world, how many does that leave? It only takes one...
Water is not that small a molecule. If it was, it would be a gas like carbon dioxide. The simple three atoms bond to others, by the thousands, so the resulting macro-molecule is quite large.
That is why water behaves so unlike other compounds, having multiple solid states and characteristics at different temperatures and pressures.
He makes it sound like none of that is possible and all of those ideas failed. Ick!
When you read an idea like that, consider the scale and infrastructure of the Interstate Highway System. That is successful and works. (Even though it needs some work occasionally)
And before that, the railroads were a huge infrastructure project. And they finally got built, a little at a time.
To discount all of those ideas is not smart... but then, the writer is being a bit of a troll.
A bit of advice: Don't piss-off the paying customers...
"The cheapest way forward may be to create an open source plan for an automated seed that could be sent to an asteroid where it would begin to grow into a space habitat. Then the habitat could duplicate itself by making more seeds..."
Releasing something like this into the galaxy might be considered Very Rude by the civilizations already living there. They might even blame you for the resulting disasters...
It's just strange that human-caused global warming is apperently causing warming on Mars, too. I don't see how the CO2 is getting that far....
What makes you think the Chinese ever upgraded out of Windows 98 ? Microsoft only knows about the ones that registered XP.
It is hard to prove that these things cause wrecks, because many people don't pay attention to their driving even when Not on the phone!
Be careful people, it's dangerous out there...
Blood tests for lead are very sensitive these days. People eating wild game do not seem to show elevated levels of lead.
There have sometimes been elevated levels of lead for people working in indoor ranges that had steel targets and no ventilation. But that is illegal in most states nowadays. The ranges I know have special ventilation and don't use steel targets.
Apparently, the metallic lead does not give off much from it's surface. But if it is exposed to very caustic materials, it can change so it is dangerous.
Before saying "use something else", check on the dangers of whatever the alternative is...
( Unless, of course, you just want to ban guns.)
... If you are with a group -- you will get group think. ...
There is a big difference between a Group and a Team. That's why I said it is a skill that needs to be learned.