Languages are placeholderes for concepts. HTML gives us the ability to mark-up plaintext into a hypertext document. Applications exist to create HTML docs without any knowlege of the language. We need a mark-up language that converts concepts into the language of your choice. Then applications can be created that let me write in my native tounge information that can be read by anyone, hopefully without any distortion.
You go in the cage, cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Mouse's in the water, our mouse!
[singing] Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies Farewell and adieu you ladies of Spain. For we received orders for to sail back to Boston And soon never more will we see you again.
To become a Certified Public Accountant you need a BA in acccounting; two years public or four years private accounting experience; and past a four-part, two day exam. Most of the CPA's that I know took the exam four times before passing. It's a real bear of an exam.
All this rigamarole and we still get bad CPA's. Really, really bad CPA's.
All that certification does is reassure your client's that you're not a complete idiot.
Years with no crops doesn't qualify as "massive"?
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I pull up/. at 5pm and what do I see, "KILLER ASTERIOD!" Boy am I faced.
My dear Wormwood it seems you take a very long post to say you don't believe any of that FUD either. Of course Tomb Raider and Virtual Pets (;P) do not cause Bad Things to happen to your kids. (But it made good copy at the time!) Also, that's a pretty fast moving gene leak to go though an entire country before dying out. Hope it doesn't get on an airplane.
Ya wouldn't believe some M$ drone if he said something negative about Linux so why believe one chicken little about genetics? Do you expect "gene leak", if it exists, to move faster than the various crop blights we already live with? We already have the tools at had to deal with these 'natural' occurances. Natutal selection _is_ a slow gentle process when compared to the lawn mover and flame-thrower.
Why do people fret about big improbable disasters instead of the pedantic everyday murderers such as cancer and heart disease? Neither of us is a geneticist so our opinion is about as informed as Richard Dawkin's opinion of vi vs. Emacs. So, how many people have to slowly die so you can feel secure that Triffids won't mug you at the ATM?
If you had only listened to your mother. If only you had lived your life right, ate the proper food, read the right books, went to church and stopped playing with yourself.
But nooooooooo... You had to play the rebel and now the whole planet has to pay for your mistakes.
Well, I hope your satisfied.
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"One of the primary goals of the GM food industry is crops you have to buy from them each year. Right now third world farmers do rather better by saving some seeds and replanting them. This is like windows licensing your crops. "
Someone should develope open source plants. Limaux or GNUorn or something.
Let's say we have a field full of 100% insect resistant crops. It leaks it insect resistant genes to the surrounding fields until half of England is covered with plants that insects can't eat. Most of the insects die, the rest move to Scotland. Ok, so who going to pollinate next years insect resistant crops? Not the insects and if crops die, no more insects resistant crops. The regular crops move back in and attract insects with the promise of a higher standard of living and good schools.
How is "A tiny accident, one gene leaking out, can have massive consequences." any different than Y2K hysteria? Natural section will eliminate the insect resistant genes. It's FUD.
Some of my favorite non-computer related FUD is: -"we're due for another killer asteriod." -"playing Tomb Raider will cause 'gender idenity crisis' in boys" -"the reset button on tomagachi's will give children an unrealistic concept of death." -"Thoose POG's are gonna poke your eye out kid!"
It caught fire FIVE times. Bet you never had a car more than two years old. Have you ever replaced your own brakes? How about spending a weekend _under_ your car, covered in grease and rust in order to past inspection?
He emails a headhunter. For experience, he lists that he likes to fool around with computers and he works in a computer store in a small hick town. Sight unseen, he gets an interview in Chicago where he installs a hard drive and fields a few questions. Then, BANG, 32K a year plus bene's.
Hey, I've installed hardware and O/S's, troubleshooted Win9* for my office, even programmed a few Perl scripts and Java apps. No biggie, I thought. What kind of job can I get by just walking off the street?
Where's the annoying tune? It needs an annoying tune.
Last week I set up the Hamster Dance as the secretaries' default IE page. Then I set the task scheduler to open IE next morning.
Unfortunatly, the secretaries spent the morning in a coffee clutch. The Hamster dance tune kept repeating over and over, causing the guy down the hall to puncture his ear drums with a letter opener.
It's just a word, neither good nor bad. I didn't want to alienate a potential audience and tried to be diplomatic. No big agenda. Who knew who might read my comments? Adding or deleting nigger wouldn't change the meaning of my post, everybody knew what the n-word meant. I don't say it in general discourse, not that I haven't used it, so why write it here?
No one is upset because I didn't say "We should give ourselves a better fucking name."
I don't like to be called a geek, even by other geeks. It's similar to a black person who doesn't like the N-word, even when used by other blacks. Geek and nerd have negative connotations used by the "head up their ass" non-geek crowd. A fellow geek may use "geek" in place of "techno-literati", but it still sounds like "Spaz!" to me.
Black people don't like the name "colored" or "Negro". They didn't choose those names for themselves and they especially didn't like the way white people used them. So they picked their own name. (Now they changed it to "African American" because of the way white people says "Black". Personally, I think they should kept Black and told Whitey to go screw.)
So let's pick a name we can live with and make our own. Then, let's make up a few to call the heads up their asses crowd (and not tell them) because "head up your ass" is so unwieldy.
Poor article. It gives us a lot of fluff without any hard questions. It appeals to the authority of her father, the Math prof, as guarentee to the algo's security. It implies that speed, not government paranoia, is what's keeping cypto out of the mainstream.
How do you prove an algo is as secure as RSA with out years of cryptoanalysis by recognized experts? Actually, no cryptographic algorithm is proven secure. They just haven't found a feasible attack.
I like the caption, "The prize judges could not completely understand the "brilliant" code." But the awarded the prize anyway.
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and what would you call it?
"My, my," thought Mr. Puddle, "this hole fits me perfectly. It must have been made _especially_ for me. I must be a verrry special puddle."
Languages are placeholderes for concepts.
HTML gives us the ability to mark-up plaintext into a hypertext document. Applications exist to create HTML docs without any knowlege of the language. We need a mark-up language that converts concepts into the language of your choice. Then applications can be created that let me write in my native tounge information that can be read by anyone, hopefully without any distortion.
"Due to flagrant inaccuracies this article has been pulled and is being re-written.
Occasionally one of these slips through the editorial process. Computer Currents regrets the error.
February 11,2000 11:17:00 AM PST"
They don't understand me... and I like it that way.
You go in the cage, cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Mouse's in the water, our mouse!
[singing]
Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies
Farewell and adieu you ladies of Spain.
For we received orders for to sail back to Boston
And soon never more will we see you again.
Hopefully, they're going to react the same way my wife did upon seeing Storm in an X-Men comic.
"Oh come on, no woman can possibly twist her back into that position!"
To become a Certified Public Accountant you need a BA in acccounting; two years public or four years private accounting experience; and past a four-part, two day exam. Most of the CPA's that I know took the exam four times before passing. It's a real bear of an exam.
All this rigamarole and we still get bad CPA's.
Really, really bad CPA's.
All that certification does is reassure your client's that you're not a complete idiot.
I pull up /. at 5pm and what do I see, "KILLER ASTERIOD!" Boy am I faced.
My dear Wormwood it seems you take a very long post to say you don't believe any of that FUD either. Of course Tomb Raider and Virtual Pets (;P) do not cause Bad Things to happen to your kids. (But it made good copy at the time!) Also, that's a pretty fast moving gene leak to go though an entire country before dying out. Hope it doesn't get on an airplane.
Ya wouldn't believe some M$ drone if he said something negative about Linux so why believe one chicken little about genetics? Do you expect "gene leak", if it exists, to move faster than the various crop blights we already live with? We already have the tools at had to deal with these 'natural' occurances. Natutal selection _is_ a slow gentle process when compared to the lawn mover and flame-thrower.
Why do people fret about big improbable disasters instead of the pedantic everyday murderers such as cancer and heart disease? Neither of us is a geneticist so our opinion is about as informed as Richard Dawkin's opinion of vi vs. Emacs. So, how many people have to slowly die so you can feel secure that Triffids won't mug you at the ATM?
If you had only listened to your mother. If only you had lived your life right, ate the proper food, read the right books, went to church and stopped playing with yourself.
But nooooooooo...
You had to play the rebel and now the whole planet has to pay for your mistakes.
Well, I hope your satisfied.
"One of the primary goals of the GM food industry is crops you have to buy from them each year. Right now third world farmers do rather better by saving some seeds and replanting them. This is like windows licensing your crops. "
Someone should develope open source plants.
Limaux or GNUorn or something.
Let's say we have a field full of 100% insect resistant crops. It leaks it insect resistant genes to the surrounding fields until half of England is covered with plants that insects can't eat. Most of the insects die, the rest move to Scotland. Ok, so who going to pollinate next years insect resistant crops? Not the insects and if crops die, no more insects resistant crops. The regular crops move back in and attract insects with the promise of a higher standard of living and good schools.
How is "A tiny accident, one gene leaking out, can have massive consequences." any different than Y2K hysteria? Natural section will eliminate the insect resistant genes. It's FUD.
Some of my favorite non-computer related FUD is:
-"we're due for another killer asteriod."
-"playing Tomb Raider will cause 'gender idenity crisis' in boys"
-"the reset button on tomagachi's will give children an unrealistic concept of death."
-"Thoose POG's are gonna poke your eye out kid!"
- A New Jersey company is suing Eidos claiming that Tomb Raider turn their son into a girl.
- George Thorogood is the target of a class action suit brought on behalf of alcoholics
- Finally, God is being sued because life ain't fair.
It caught fire FIVE times. Bet you never had a car more than two years old. Have you ever replaced your own brakes? How about spending a weekend _under_ your car, covered in grease and rust in order to past inspection?
Let me get this straight.
He emails a headhunter. For experience, he lists that he likes to fool around with computers and he works in a computer store in a small hick town. Sight unseen, he gets an interview in Chicago where he installs a hard drive and fields a few questions. Then, BANG, 32K a year plus bene's.
Hey, I've installed hardware and O/S's, troubleshooted Win9* for my office, even programmed a few Perl scripts and Java apps. No biggie, I thought. What kind of job can I get by just walking off the street?
Aw.. you're no fun anymore.
... the Joke A Day website has been hacked. www.jokeaday.com
... they will be when a ton of hate mail floods Redmond and MS accuses them of a denial of service attack.
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It's a CONSPIRACY!
Where's the annoying tune? It needs an annoying tune.
Last week I set up the Hamster Dance as the secretaries' default IE page. Then I set the task scheduler to open IE next morning.
Unfortunatly, the secretaries spent the morning in a coffee clutch. The Hamster dance tune kept repeating over and over, causing the guy down the hall to puncture his ear drums with a letter opener.
I really have to think these things through.
>Man on viewscreen, "Come in Rocky."
Tom Servo: But I'm not in Rocky.
It's just a word, neither good nor bad. I didn't want to alienate a potential audience and tried to be diplomatic. No big agenda. Who knew who might read my comments? Adding or deleting nigger wouldn't change the meaning of my post, everybody knew what the n-word meant. I don't say it in general discourse, not that I haven't used it, so why write it here?
No one is upset because I didn't say "We should give ourselves a better fucking name."
I don't like to be called a geek, even by other geeks. It's similar to a black person who doesn't like the N-word, even when used by other blacks. Geek and nerd have negative connotations used by the "head up their ass" non-geek crowd. A fellow geek may use "geek" in place of "techno-literati", but it still sounds like "Spaz!" to me.
Black people don't like the name "colored" or "Negro". They didn't choose those names for themselves and they especially didn't like the way white people used them. So they picked their own name. (Now they changed it to "African American" because of the way white people says "Black". Personally, I think they should kept Black and told Whitey to go screw.)
So let's pick a name we can live with and make our own. Then, let's make up a few to call the heads up their asses crowd (and not tell them) because "head up your ass" is so unwieldy.
Check out the Crypt Newsletter for a few facts to throw in the face of the electronic bogeyman.
http://sun.soci.niu.edu/~crypt/
First paragraph, "Electronic Pearl Harbor" should have been your first clue that the BS was about to get deep.
Poor article. It gives us a lot of fluff without any hard questions. It appeals to the authority of her father, the Math prof, as guarentee to the algo's security. It implies that speed, not government paranoia, is what's keeping cypto out of the mainstream.
How do you prove an algo is as secure as RSA with out years of cryptoanalysis by recognized experts? Actually, no cryptographic algorithm is proven secure. They just haven't found a feasible attack.
I like the caption, "The prize judges could not completely understand the "brilliant" code." But the awarded the prize anyway.