I just can't accept that we're dumber as a nation than the US, sorry. Plus, all of north AND south America have exactly the same average IQs...? Please.
Averaged across they probably do. Remember, you're not talking about income or GDP, just IQ. And not the best and the brightest, everyone.
You've got to remember you've got all the scientists and doctors and mathematicians in South America, as well as all the carney folk and phone sterilizers in North America in the mix.
Per-capita averages are a funny thing.
If you stop and think about it, the continent with the highest per-capita IQ is Antarctica.
> You seed the fake one with all the disinformation you want them to have, and let them steal it!
Please don't. The "Taiwanese capacitor factory" incident happened more than a decade ago, and we're STILL getting new electronic goods with bad electrolytic capacitors.
That was a copy error, not deliberate disinformation.
I'm thinking you could seed stuff like: "Our top bid can be no higher than $xxx,xxx, then we'll have to go to their competitor." "Our labor costs in Vietnam will only be $xxx,xxx. Let's see if they can beat that."
They are more likely to believe it if they steal it for themselves...
Wasn't condoning... just saying: it's not surprising.
No, what you were actually doing was belittling. Was it really necessary to put the "yawn" in there?
Yes. To indicate sarcasm.
If I had written: "That's quite shocking..." statistics show that 7 out of 10/. readers would think I was actually shocked.
I'm not particularly shocked that a communications network, invented and still maintained (at key nodes) by the United States Department of Defense, that uses unique numeric locators for sending and receiving information, that has been used by criminal and terrorist organizations for evil, is monitored by the self-same United States government.
...They get enough headaches from faulty accelerators...
They could simply have the auto-drive function work like aircraft auto-pilots, where there is a human "driver-in-charge" that could take over for critical decisions.
Answered: "[The] first attempt, Samaritan I, had pushed itself overboard with great alacrity, but it had gone overboard to save anything which happened to be next to it on the raft, from seven stone of lima beans to twelve stone of wet seaweed. After many weeks of stubborn argument Macintosh had conceded that the lack of discrimination was unsatisfactory, and he had abandoned Samaritan I and developed Samaritan II, which would sacrifice itself only for an organism at least as complicated as itself.
The raft stopped, revolving slowly, a few inches above the water. "Drop it," cried Macintosh.
The raft hit the water with a sharp report. Sinson and Samaritan sat perfectly still. Gradually the raft settled in the water, until a thin tide began to wash over the top of it. At once Samaritan leaned forward and seized Sinson's head. In four neat movements it measured the size of his skull, then paused, computing. Then, with a decisive click, it rolled sideways off the raft and sank without hesitation to the bottom of the tank."
There is a rather lengthy and complicated targeting process to get authorization to fire
Flip a coin?
...more like, "DR705 to JTAC, recce complete. Request clearance to go hot on target?" "Stand by DR705. (shake, shake, shake.) Ah, 'It is decidedly so.' DR705 you are cleared hot on target, cleared to release." "Copy JTAC.Copy: cleared to go hot on target, cleared to release. Thank goodness. Last time it came back, 'Reply hazy, try again.'"
People choose to cheat. If someone is tempted it means that he or she is not getting their needs met. That is what makes the affair appealing.
Could be, but the difference is that people "not getting their needs met" can still behave honourably, get a divorce, and then look for someone who can meet those needs. Nothing excuses cheating.
That's more honorable than conducting a quite affair so you can remain happy enough to both stay and not be a jerk to your wife because you're so unhappy?
If you think your "quite [sic] affair" will never be detected, you're probably wrong. And the effects of an affair based divorce will be much, much worse for your kids than a peaceably settled divorce, or open-marriage arraignment.
If you're being "...a jerk to your wife because you're so unhappy..." then you seriously need to consider counseling or a divorce. If you're being "...a jerk to your wife..." just because you want to stick your penis in more than one vagina, you need some deep self-evaluation.
If you make a promise to someone not to have sexual contact with other people, and you violate that promise, and make an ongoing, conscious effort to continue that deception; then you've violated your word, and their trust in you.
Aside from any immediate impact, if they find out, they will never again be able to trust you. In other words, from then on, maybe you really are "working late", maybe you are "just hanging out with friends", but your partner will never have piece of mind.
People choose to cheat. If someone is tempted it means that he or she is not getting their needs met. That is what makes the affair appealing.
Could be, but the difference is that people "not getting their needs met" can still behave honourably, get a divorce, and then look for someone who can meet those needs. Nothing excuses cheating.
...have you never given in to any other temptation, when you know it's wrong on an intellectual or ethical level, but have felt a deep compulsion to do something? Never eaten or drunk too much?
What a ludicrous comparison.
Let me adjust this for you: Ethical lapse level #1: While married, have you ever glanced at someone and thought to yourself, "Wow, they're attractive!" or: have you ever eaten too much?
Ethical lapse level #243: While married, have you ever had secret sexual contact with someone not your partner, or: when hungry, broken into a grocery store stolen a few hundred dollars worth of food, then set the store on fire so you could heat the food?
...then they want to meet for coffee and you keep that secret too, and besides its just a friend... and they have feelings for you, and its kind of flattering, and you know its wrong but its kind of exciting... and then you've done something you regret...
...not to mention the barista who has to mop up after you.
Slashdot Mirror
Because Quantum Entanglement is not in the bible.
"...and god said, 'Let there be photons. And there were photons.'"
I just can't accept that we're dumber as a nation than the US, sorry. Plus, all of north AND south America have exactly the same average IQs...? Please.
Averaged across they probably do. Remember, you're not talking about income or GDP, just IQ. And not the best and the brightest, everyone.
You've got to remember you've got all the scientists and doctors and mathematicians in South America, as well as all the carney folk and phone sterilizers in North America in the mix.
Per-capita averages are a funny thing.
If you stop and think about it, the continent with the highest per-capita IQ is Antarctica.
> You seed the fake one with all the disinformation you want them to have, and let them steal it!
Please don't. The "Taiwanese capacitor factory" incident happened more than a decade ago, and we're STILL getting new electronic goods with bad electrolytic capacitors.
That was a copy error, not deliberate disinformation.
I'm thinking you could seed stuff like:
"Our top bid can be no higher than $xxx,xxx, then we'll have to go to their competitor."
"Our labor costs in Vietnam will only be $xxx,xxx. Let's see if they can beat that."
They are more likely to believe it if they steal it for themselves...
...you have now made some poor chinese persons life miserable.
Yeah, 'cause his life working for Chinese State security spying on his friends and family was a big party up 'till now.
Encryption but to be extra paranoid, don't bring a laptop.
Turn this to your advantage... bring two netbooks, the 'real' one you keep in your possession, the other you leave lying around.
You seed the fake one with all the disinformation you want them to have, and let them steal it!
We've had a large influx of Sudanese, Lebanese & several peasant Asian country...
Well, per the chart, the Asians should be driving up the curve...
...Unless you just made that map/chart up yourself...?
No, I didn't make it myself, but hey; it's on the interweb, so it must be true!! :)
Wasn't condoning... just saying: it's not surprising.
No, what you were actually doing was belittling. Was it really necessary to put the "yawn" in there?
Yes. To indicate sarcasm.
If I had written: "That's quite shocking..." statistics show that 7 out of 10 /. readers would think I was actually shocked.
I'm not particularly shocked that a communications network, invented and still maintained (at key nodes) by the United States Department of Defense, that uses unique numeric locators for sending and receiving information, that has been used by criminal and terrorist organizations for evil, is monitored by the self-same United States government.
I would be shocked if it were not monitored by same, and I am also shocked that /. readers, who have seen articles like this here almost daily
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/04/08/1850249/innocent-or-not-the-nsa-is-watching-you
would assume that it is not monitored.
Again: not saying it's right or wrong; just saying "Really? You had no idea?"
And, by the way AC, why don't you create a /. account and log-in to continue this? It's free!
I won't bother reading future AC replies...
Dimmable LED's often use PWM to do their dimming, at a frequency in the 500Hz+ range.
You won't see flicker at anything over 60Hz. Houseflys do, though...
Remember that the internet was invented for the specific military purpose of withstanding a nuclear war.
...so we could rebuild human civilization with cats playing the piano and pr0n.
Does anyone have a link to a chart of average IQs in Western countries...? :).
I'm tippin not all of them are 100
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_fA2RjSyq8L4/TMxnvR5JQLI/AAAAAAAAGyg/blddZkpRT-M/s1600/AverageIQ-Map-World.png
You are aware the US Govt has been intercepting everything that goes over the US internet for quite a while now...
What? The US Govt has been intercepting everything that goes over the US internet that was invented by the US Department of Defense?
That's quite [yawn] shocking...
I see, so if you invent something you get to control it for the rest of eternity and spy on anyone who uses it. Good to know.
Wasn't condoning... just saying: it's not surprising.
You are aware the US Govt has been intercepting everything that goes over the US internet for quite a while now...
What? The US Govt has been intercepting everything that goes over the US internet that was invented by the US Department of Defense?
That's quite [yawn] shocking...
...Slashdot has effectively become Slashzarro, a bizarre reversed portal full of advertisements, not articles.
Slashdot has effectively become "Wired", a bizarre reversed portal full of advertisements, not articles.
FTFY
It's not DR705's fault JTAC is a dickbag.
"Signs point to yes"
...They get enough headaches from faulty accelerators...
They could simply have the auto-drive function work like aircraft auto-pilots, where there is a human "driver-in-charge" that could take over for critical decisions.
Answered:
"[The] first attempt, Samaritan I, had pushed itself overboard with great alacrity, but it had gone overboard to save anything which happened to be next to it on the raft, from seven stone of lima beans to twelve stone of wet seaweed. After many weeks of stubborn argument Macintosh had conceded that the lack of discrimination was unsatisfactory, and he had abandoned Samaritan I and developed Samaritan II, which would sacrifice itself only for an organism at least as complicated as itself.
The raft stopped, revolving slowly, a few inches above the water. "Drop it," cried Macintosh.
The raft hit the water with a sharp report. Sinson and Samaritan sat perfectly still. Gradually the raft settled in the water, until a thin tide began to wash over the top of it. At once Samaritan leaned forward and seized Sinson's head. In four neat movements it measured the size of his skull, then paused, computing. Then, with a decisive click, it rolled sideways off the raft and sank without hesitation to the bottom of the tank."
"The Tin Men"
Michael Frayn
1965
Just crank the AI up to max setting.
Oh, please don't.
You know there will just be a big stack of drones hopping up and down, all trying to get out the closed hanger door.
sadly, robots fighting robots does seem inevitable at this point, although humans are still likely to be participating.
"Sadly?" It's already in production:
James Cameron and Mark Burnett Team for Discovery's 'Robogeddon'
http://www.thewrap.com/tv/article/mark-burnett-alaska-series-others-announced-discovery-36832
There is a rather lengthy and complicated targeting process to get authorization to fire
Flip a coin?
...more like,
"DR705 to JTAC, recce complete. Request clearance to go hot on target?"
"Stand by DR705. (shake, shake, shake.) Ah, 'It is decidedly so.' DR705 you are cleared hot on target, cleared to release."
"Copy JTAC.Copy: cleared to go hot on target, cleared to release. Thank goodness. Last time it came back, 'Reply hazy, try again.'"
People choose to cheat. If someone is tempted it means that he or she is not getting their needs met. That is what makes the affair appealing.
Could be, but the difference is that people "not getting their needs met" can still behave honourably, get a divorce, and then look for someone who can meet those needs. Nothing excuses cheating.
That's more honorable than conducting a quite affair so you can remain happy enough to both stay and not be a jerk to your wife because you're so unhappy?
If you think your "quite [sic] affair" will never be detected, you're probably wrong. And the effects of an affair based divorce will be much, much worse for your kids than a peaceably settled divorce, or open-marriage arraignment.
If you're being "...a jerk to your wife because you're so unhappy..." then you seriously need to consider counseling or a divorce.
If you're being "...a jerk to your wife..." just because you want to stick your penis in more than one vagina, you need some deep self-evaluation.
Perhaps metaphors are unnecessary.
If you make a promise to someone not to have sexual contact with other people, and you violate that promise, and make an ongoing, conscious effort to continue that deception; then you've violated your word, and their trust in you.
Aside from any immediate impact, if they find out, they will never again be able to trust you. In other words, from then on, maybe you really are "working late", maybe you are "just hanging out with friends", but your partner will never have piece of mind.
People choose to cheat. If someone is tempted it means that he or she is not getting their needs met. That is what makes the affair appealing.
Could be, but the difference is that people "not getting their needs met" can still behave honourably, get a divorce, and then look for someone who can meet those needs. Nothing excuses cheating.
...have you never given in to any other temptation, when you know it's wrong on an intellectual or ethical level, but have felt a deep compulsion to do something? Never eaten or drunk too much?
What a ludicrous comparison.
Let me adjust this for you:
Ethical lapse level #1: While married, have you ever glanced at someone and thought to yourself, "Wow, they're attractive!" or: have you ever eaten too much?
Ethical lapse level #243: While married, have you ever had secret sexual contact with someone not your partner, or: when hungry, broken into a grocery store stolen a few hundred dollars worth of food, then set the store on fire so you could heat the food?
...then they want to meet for coffee and you keep that secret too, and besides its just a friend... and they have feelings for you, and its kind of flattering, and you know its wrong but its kind of exciting... and then you've done something you regret...
...not to mention the barista who has to mop up after you.
- 10 points: Failure to read article.
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