Occam's razor is an appropriate tool to identify elegance in scientific theory related to observed processes and phenomena without a determined theoretical explaination. For instance, water seeks its own level, not because of an attraction of the tiny water spirts to other naiads, but rather because of the constant force of gravity
Applying Occam to complex relations of desire, will, psychology, politics and covert coersion constitutes a fallacy. It's as if you tried to explain racism by means of Ohm's law.
But that's exactly what rigid theoretical training does to intelligent people - it blinds them to inputs that do not conform to the principles of repeatable observation, derived from untampered data.
But we exist in a "Skinner Suit" of controlled media and disinformation - that has the additional power of confirming our desires and flattering our intelligence and appetites. The principle media for knowing what occurs in the world are channels controlled by people who benefit from you prizing false conclusions and powerful predjudices.
How do you know what you know? You are embedded in the Matrix - and I am really not speaking metaphorically.
You must be new here. I have been around since "Chips & Dips" - when Malda was famous for writing Enlightenment DR 0.9 modules and themes. He had Window Maker themes, too.
I got my UID in the first few hours that Slashdot began the system 1997, I think. I am pretty sure I am now the lowest active UID on/. - other than the original crew of Hemos, Malda, etc. (Remember "Blockstackers"? Of course you don't.) I also snagged UID 167 for Technocrat.com - when Perens used slashcode to start that site. BTW: Bruce is a 4-Digit.
You will find my posts to be pretty stylistically consistent, and related in theme, over the years. I went dark a couple of times - even pulling down hundreds of journal entries at one point - because of an unpleasant collision of my/. writing and the meatspace.
Everybody from that time (almost everybody) buggered off to Multiply.com, in the Circular Refuge. Still, I plug away, just as I did from the floor of LinuxWorld 2000 in San Jose.
But... This eBay thing could be lucrative. How much did you say they can fetch?:-)
I'm in InfoSec - vulnerability assessment and remediation. I used to see him speak in the Clinton years, when he'd toot the f-ing horn, how he had Big Bill's ear about this. After 911 he went on a book and lecture circuit.
The "gunship" didn't "ask for permission" to engage. Some fucking hillbilly BEGGED to shoot people, and then begged the final victim to provide a nominal excuse to murder him, once he was down.
At the end, he blamed the rescuers for bringing children into combat! Yeah, they made you HAVE to kill babies, didn't they? These were conscientious people, in a fucking regular neighborhood - doing what you'd hope any one would do, if they found a dying man - drive up quickly and try to get him to help.
Babykillers.
Babykillers, Babykillers, Babykillers.
They are the same - I don't care if it's Nazis bombing Guernica, or Johnny Mainstreet ripping the heads off of nursing mothers in My Lai. Babykillers.
Fuck anyone who makes the dimmest excuse for this. Fuck 'em to hell - 'cos that's where they're going. Talk about "moral relativism".
The good news? The U.S> is headed for the same fate as the Soviets. 12 years from now, people 'round the world will squat in the rubble and say: "Remember America? It seemed like that would last forever..."
They are selling SUPPORT. The idea is to essentially kick out a RedHat subscription, at a customer ready to change the way they manage support. The MS subsidy makes this an attractive change.
SuSE runs on HyperV with native hooks - Like Server 2008 does. This is a way to ensure MS doesn't get lost in the data center - but continues to emerge as a player.
Sir Humphrey: "With Trident we could obliterate the whole of Eastern Europe."
Jim Hacker: "I don't want to obliterate the whole of Eastern Europe."
Sir Humphrey: "It's a deterrent."
Jim Hacker: "It's a bluff. I probably wouldn't use it."
Sir Humphrey: "Yes, but they don't know that you probably wouldn't."
Jim Hacker: "They probably do."
Sir Humphrey: "Yes, they probably know that you probably wouldn't. But they can't certainly know."
Jim Hacker: "They probably certainly know that I probably wouldn't."
Sir Humphrey: "Yes, but even though they probably certainly know that you probably wouldn't, they don't certainly know that, although you probably wouldn't, there is no probability that you certainly would." http://www.yes-minister.com/ypmseas1a.htm
Don't read a lot into it. It's just a bloody quip!
That said, there are certain things that express and define femininity. One of them, I don't suppose, is the cosmetic management of human remains. Amy Thanatogenous, not withstanding.
If it is of any further concern, intrinsic femininity seems to be almost extinct in US and UK, as a matter of course. A pity.
wheel, admin, whatever. The function of the group is independent of it's name. What we are talking about is the way sudo and gksu work.
This Vaughan-Nichols guy gets published as a Linux expert in every rag printed - but mis-explains sudo in such a way that exposes his radical ignorance of the sensitivity of root accounts and their passwords.
In the same article he later waxes on about SuSe being the first distro from which he can now upgrade entire versions over the Internet!
I did it with RH 5.x in antiquity. Also upgraded my old Debian, around 2000, by swapping tags in sources.list and apt getting away. Ubuntu now makes this a triviality.
Well, I guess he's paid for dissing Microsoft - which he manages with the requisite contempt.
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Because, nature abbhors a hoover.
Occam's razor is an appropriate tool to identify elegance in scientific theory related to observed processes and phenomena without a determined theoretical explaination. For instance, water seeks its own level, not because of an attraction of the tiny water spirts to other naiads, but rather because of the constant force of gravity
Applying Occam to complex relations of desire, will, psychology, politics and covert coersion constitutes a fallacy. It's as if you tried to explain racism by means of Ohm's law.
But that's exactly what rigid theoretical training does to intelligent people - it blinds them to inputs that do not conform to the principles of repeatable observation, derived from untampered data.
But we exist in a "Skinner Suit" of controlled media and disinformation - that has the additional power of confirming our desires and flattering our intelligence and appetites. The principle media for knowing what occurs in the world are channels controlled by people who benefit from you prizing false conclusions and powerful predjudices.
How do you know what you know? You are embedded in the Matrix - and I am really not speaking metaphorically.
Al CIAda? Pull the other one, it's got bells on it.
You must be new here. I have been around since "Chips & Dips" - when Malda was famous for writing Enlightenment DR 0.9 modules and themes. He had Window Maker themes, too.
I got my UID in the first few hours that Slashdot began the system 1997, I think. I am pretty sure I am now the lowest active UID on /. - other than the original crew of Hemos, Malda, etc. (Remember "Blockstackers"? Of course you don't.) I also snagged UID 167 for Technocrat.com - when Perens used slashcode to start that site. BTW: Bruce is a 4-Digit.
You will find my posts to be pretty stylistically consistent, and related in theme, over the years. I went dark a couple of times - even pulling down hundreds of journal entries at one point - because of an unpleasant collision of my /. writing and the meatspace.
Everybody from that time (almost everybody) buggered off to Multiply.com, in the Circular Refuge. Still, I plug away, just as I did from the floor of LinuxWorld 2000 in San Jose.
But... This eBay thing could be lucrative. How much did you say they can fetch? :-)
Same damn tune.
I'm in InfoSec - vulnerability assessment and remediation. I used to see him speak in the Clinton years, when he'd toot the f-ing horn, how he had Big Bill's ear about this. After 911 he went on a book and lecture circuit.
Bullshit then, and now.
You make baby Jesus cry tears of blood.
Sorry. That's a side effect of your brainwashing. FNORD
The "gunship" didn't "ask for permission" to engage. Some fucking hillbilly BEGGED to shoot people, and then begged the final victim to provide a nominal excuse to murder him, once he was down.
At the end, he blamed the rescuers for bringing children into combat! Yeah, they made you HAVE to kill babies, didn't they? These were conscientious people, in a fucking regular neighborhood - doing what you'd hope any one would do, if they found a dying man - drive up quickly and try to get him to help.
Babykillers.
Babykillers, Babykillers, Babykillers.
They are the same - I don't care if it's Nazis bombing Guernica, or Johnny Mainstreet ripping the heads off of nursing mothers in My Lai. Babykillers.
Fuck anyone who makes the dimmest excuse for this. Fuck 'em to hell - 'cos that's where they're going. Talk about "moral relativism".
The good news? The U.S> is headed for the same fate as the Soviets. 12 years from now, people 'round the world will squat in the rubble and say: "Remember America? It seemed like that would last forever..."
I'm not afraid of money.
I'm afraid of some startup jokers - possibly funded by TLA's - taking my money to 'root' my servers!
Sorcerer's Apprentice at work. "I know ALL about this! I'll get it to work BETTER for ME!"
"Doesn't hate."
Dammned with faint praise...
Yes. But not supported - as the word has meaning to CIO's.
You can call SuSE tech support, and have a seamless case hand-off to Microsoft on this support.
They are selling SUPPORT. The idea is to essentially kick out a RedHat subscription, at a customer ready to change the way they manage support. The MS subsidy makes this an attractive change.
SuSE runs on HyperV with native hooks - Like Server 2008 does. This is a way to ensure MS doesn't get lost in the data center - but continues to emerge as a player.
Sig is from "Yes, Prime Minister", episode 1:
Sir Humphrey: "With Trident we could obliterate the whole of Eastern Europe."
Jim Hacker: "I don't want to obliterate the whole of Eastern Europe."
Sir Humphrey: "It's a deterrent."
Jim Hacker: "It's a bluff. I probably wouldn't use it."
Sir Humphrey: "Yes, but they don't know that you probably wouldn't."
Jim Hacker: "They probably do."
Sir Humphrey: "Yes, they probably know that you probably wouldn't. But they can't certainly know."
Jim Hacker: "They probably certainly know that I probably wouldn't."
Sir Humphrey: "Yes, but even though they probably certainly know that you probably wouldn't, they don't certainly know that, although you probably wouldn't, there is no probability that you certainly would."
http://www.yes-minister.com/ypmseas1a.htm
All on Netflix streaming, nowerdays.
These Dinos are the world's biggest Pheasants! What I wouldn't do for my shotgun!
Who fucking cares?
It's safer to fly without screening than to drive across town.
But, you'll pay for your own handcuffs - and the privilege to wear them. Now, where's my embedded microchip?
Then Buggers would ride...
Don't read a lot into it. It's just a bloody quip!
That said, there are certain things that express and define femininity. One of them, I don't suppose, is the cosmetic management of human remains. Amy Thanatogenous, not withstanding.
If it is of any further concern, intrinsic femininity seems to be almost extinct in US and UK, as a matter of course. A pity.
wheel, admin, whatever. The function of the group is independent of it's name. What we are talking about is the way sudo and gksu work.
This Vaughan-Nichols guy gets published as a Linux expert in every rag printed - but mis-explains sudo in such a way that exposes his radical ignorance of the sensitivity of root accounts and their passwords.
In the same article he later waxes on about SuSe being the first distro from which he can now upgrade entire versions over the Internet!
I did it with RH 5.x in antiquity. Also upgraded my old Debian, around 2000, by swapping tags in sources.list and apt getting away. Ubuntu now makes this a triviality.
Well, I guess he's paid for dissing Microsoft - which he manages with the requisite contempt.
SUPER CRAP!
Slashdot is now posting articles by people who don't know about the wheel group?
My Ubuntu's would be hosed, if I were to need a root password to install software! There IS NO root password.
Now, I must enter MY password - and that's deceptively different.
Mortuary science student.
That's not a "woman", in my part of England.
What is the punishment for being accessory to such a crime?
Well, the punishment consists of the police getting to do to YOU, whatever you did to HER.
H.M.?! Her Majesty?!
Well, I knew she was a bit stiff, but frozen brain?
It itches when you scroll.
It refuses to tag images of money, "evil".
I hear Apple has a multitouch brain helmet in the works! They say you'll never take it off!
So. Just in time for Xmas. The Airforce of the United States is depriving children of consoles at the peak of season?
That's 2,200 children who will wake up, sad and dissapointed - with a boxing day that brings only an electric train set, or an iPod touch.
I weep for the dead children in Afghanistan and the empty stockings of children on the American home front.