Unfortunately, in the real world, 99% of email users can not or do not want to maintain a web of trust. That is why S/MIME is going to kill the PGP market. PGP/MIME is only big because it was first on the scene.
Hell, even mutt supports S/MIME. Imagine SSL with a web of trust--yuck!. PKI is the way to go...
The solution is simple: When someone creates a new object, SL can just register some digital signature or hash of the object in a central database. The SL server could then refuse to transmit any object with that signature unless the creator authorizes it.
"This may sound crazy to you, but I believe I can hold some points in midair hwere your feet were and help you."
I understand physics enough that I can confidently say there was no physical change to this person's body caused by these actions. The quack performing the act could have held invisible body parts anywhere--could have sprinkled "magic pixie dust" on them--whatever. It doesn't matter what was done, as long as the person being "treated" thought it was doing something.
There is an evil preacher on TV in the US: Benny Hinn. He hits old ladies on the head, says "praise jesus," and tells them their cancer is cured. They think it is true. This is the same shit.
Spreading this person's name around makes you an accessory to this scam artist. You should be ashamed.
And about acupuncture: It is impossible to test that scientifically as it can not be performed in a double-blind test. It is at least possible that poking people affects the nervous system in a helpful way, but it seems more likely that the same placebo effect is at play, since puncture points are chosen based on obviously-nonsensical superstition. Your story, however, is complete and total BS.
"Placebo effect" does not mean we don't understand it. It means a person's brain is causing the physical change. Whether magic pixie dust, religious whack-jobs, quacks like your person, or sugar pills are what convinced the brain to effect this change is completely irrelevant.
Western science also knows that the placebo effect is real and works for some people, and that medical-sounding gibberish and quackery is often just extra packaging to the placebo pill.
I like ads. They add artwork and entertainment to what would be dull space. National parks and nature preserves should be ad-free, but I don't mind them in cities.
The cheapest way to do that would be to send a robot up there to paint it.
Do you realize how much paint it would take? It doesn't even require any math to realize that lifting that much paint would cost more than the entire net worth of any single company.
A much better option would be to orbit a sat which unfolds into a big reflective logo so people could see it at night. That is at least feasible.
One other method would be a ginormous bank of lasers to bounce logo off the moon. If this IS possible, it would probably require its own power plant. But you could change the message at any time. Imagine the revenue of doing this before a presidential election!
If products could be packaged such that they get compiled during install, but in the background with the user being none the wiser, then it might fly.
This is called Gentoo. But it can't fly; it's a penguin.
But because Gentoo doesn't do the minor/major version thing, config files can change with any given update. This again rules it out for all but the most die-hard users.
A plus for most Americans - instantly lose 5/6 of your weight just by relocating
Huh? Oh, I get it... you are inferring that many Americans are overweight! Ha! That's so clever! And looking around the office right now, it seems you're right! There are overweight people working here! What a hoot! You should do your own comedy bit. Such a funny guy...
Some of the best advancements in technology have come out of military projects like this. I say, give the military a shot at pattern recognition (AI). Do you have any real evidence that this will cause more "accidental" deaths than land mines and meat-heads with rifles?
I have a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from Ohio State. SDLC was part of the curriculum. Any college worth its salt would include SDLC in a software engineering program.
Unfortunately, most schools only offer "Computer Science" courses, which are really nothing more than the science of algorithms--NOT software development as an engineering discipline.
I think hiring managers realize this, too. Our engineering grads make more money starting out than our CS grads.
I'm the opposite way. I want to make as much money as possible now, even if the job sucks, so that in 20 years I can live off the dividends from my investments and not have to work AT ALL.
In my opinion, if your options are to either work or starve/freeze, you are not free. If you have $1M in the bank, you can live quite comfortably in most of the country without working--just live on the 6% federal bonds will give you.
You just know some wingnut wackjob is going to latch onto this nugget of information and try and use it as "evidence" of racial superiority.
Yes, and when a genetic analysis is done on the nitwit and it shows that he lacks this "superior" european gene, he will have no choice but to hate himself and to bow down before the black-white mixed-race people who happen to posses it.
Of course, both points are absurd because the words "superior" and "sub-human" are not defined, and so completely subjective.
Neanderthals were just a fork in the line that created humans, monkeys, and apes. They weren't "sub" anything. And "to be superior" is just a meaningless term. There is superior strength, puzzle-solving ability, counter-strike-skillz, etc...
You vote for constant change on the assumption that a corrupt politician who has been in DC for 1 year has less ability to abuse his power than someone who has been there for 15 years.
It's called a firewall. These hack-job NAT/Router devices will be replaced with ip6 firewall/router devices. They will be more flexible and equally if not more secure than the hack NAT trash.
That in a nutshell is why democracy is ineffective, dangerous, and should be abolished.
Democracy is the worst form of government--except all the others that have been tried.
Personally, I think the best answer would be a democracy of educated people. Make the high school curriculum better. Make teaching lucrative enough that intelligent people consider it as a career option. Make economics, formal logic, philosophy, and finance mandatory high school courses.
If you don't know anything about any of the candidates, you are reduced to guessing.
That may be technically true but it is ALMOST NEVER the case in politics. At the very least, a person knows which party's general philosophies most closely match his own.
Voting based only on something like that isn't ideal. But it IS better than the masses who vote because they saw a commercial that said "Kevin Bacon voted against veterans," where the veteran issue was a rider on a bill promote the kicking of puppies.
One is voting on correct but light philosophical information. The other on downright WRONG information. A smart person never would have fallen for that stupid veteran ad, but lots of stupid people do so.
(There actually is a "Kevin Bacon" running for something in Ohio. I don't know how he feels about kicking puppies, and I don't know how many degrees of Kevin Bacon he is...)
You are incorrect (in many cases). A smart person is more likely to recognize his own ignorance, while a stupid person is likely to make decisions based on FALSE information.
Smart people can often realize when someone is trying to mislead them, while stupid people are much more likely to fall for it.
Who is more valuable (to use your term): The person who knows the extent of his own knowledge, or the person with factually incorrect "knowledge?"
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Unfortunately, in the real world, 99% of email users can not or do not want to maintain a web of trust. That is why S/MIME is going to kill the PGP market. PGP/MIME is only big because it was first on the scene.
Hell, even mutt supports S/MIME. Imagine SSL with a web of trust--yuck!. PKI is the way to go...
Well, if the signature includes a timestamp, it would be trivial to demonstrate that you ripped the shoes off. Then you are banned.
The solution is simple: When someone creates a new object, SL can just register some digital signature or hash of the object in a central database. The SL server could then refuse to transmit any object with that signature unless the creator authorizes it.
If someone could cheaply create atom-for-atom duplicates of a Picaso, then YES, it would decrease the value of the original.
Online, bit-for-bit IS atom-for-atom. A man-made diamond sparkles just as well (if not better) than a slave-mined diamond.
"This may sound crazy to you, but I believe I can hold some points in midair hwere your feet were and help you."
I understand physics enough that I can confidently say there was no physical change to this person's body caused by these actions. The quack performing the act could have held invisible body parts anywhere--could have sprinkled "magic pixie dust" on them--whatever. It doesn't matter what was done, as long as the person being "treated" thought it was doing something.
There is an evil preacher on TV in the US: Benny Hinn. He hits old ladies on the head, says "praise jesus," and tells them their cancer is cured. They think it is true. This is the same shit.
Spreading this person's name around makes you an accessory to this scam artist. You should be ashamed.
And about acupuncture: It is impossible to test that scientifically as it can not be performed in a double-blind test. It is at least possible that poking people affects the nervous system in a helpful way, but it seems more likely that the same placebo effect is at play, since puncture points are chosen based on obviously-nonsensical superstition. Your story, however, is complete and total BS.
"Placebo effect" does not mean we don't understand it. It means a person's brain is causing the physical change. Whether magic pixie dust, religious whack-jobs, quacks like your person, or sugar pills are what convinced the brain to effect this change is completely irrelevant.
http://www.vilos.com/lasers/lasers-howto.html
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That's all you need to build a fire-starting laser out of a DVDRW.
He leaves off some of the important details, though
Also, my research suggests this is illegal.
Western science also knows that the placebo effect is real and works for some people, and that medical-sounding gibberish and quackery is often just extra packaging to the placebo pill.
I like ads. They add artwork and entertainment to what would be dull space. National parks and nature preserves should be ad-free, but I don't mind them in cities.
The cheapest way to do that would be to send a robot up there to paint it.
Do you realize how much paint it would take? It doesn't even require any math to realize that lifting that much paint would cost more than the entire net worth of any single company.
A much better option would be to orbit a sat which unfolds into a big reflective logo so people could see it at night. That is at least feasible.
One other method would be a ginormous bank of lasers to bounce logo off the moon. If this IS possible, it would probably require its own power plant. But you could change the message at any time. Imagine the revenue of doing this before a presidential election!
This is called Gentoo. But it can't fly; it's a penguin.
But because Gentoo doesn't do the minor/major version thing, config files can change with any given update. This again rules it out for all but the most die-hard users.
Huh? Oh, I get it... you are inferring that many Americans are overweight! Ha! That's so clever! And looking around the office right now, it seems you're right! There are overweight people working here! What a hoot! You should do your own comedy bit. Such a funny guy...
A rusty barbed wire fence would have the same issues (except the expense).
Some of the best advancements in technology have come out of military projects like this. I say, give the military a shot at pattern recognition (AI). Do you have any real evidence that this will cause more "accidental" deaths than land mines and meat-heads with rifles?
I have a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from Ohio State. SDLC was part of the curriculum. Any college worth its salt would include SDLC in a software engineering program.
Unfortunately, most schools only offer "Computer Science" courses, which are really nothing more than the science of algorithms--NOT software development as an engineering discipline.
I think hiring managers realize this, too. Our engineering grads make more money starting out than our CS grads.
Democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others that have been tried.
In non-democratic governments you often have the minority hunting the masses.
Fortunately, a constitutional democracy has a fair chance of keeping the whims of the mob in check, provided a good constitution and legal system.
I'm the opposite way. I want to make as much money as possible now, even if the job sucks, so that in 20 years I can live off the dividends from my investments and not have to work AT ALL.
In my opinion, if your options are to either work or starve/freeze, you are not free. If you have $1M in the bank, you can live quite comfortably in most of the country without working--just live on the 6% federal bonds will give you.
Early 40's retirement, here I come...
Yes, and when a genetic analysis is done on the nitwit and it shows that he lacks this "superior" european gene, he will have no choice but to hate himself and to bow down before the black-white mixed-race people who happen to posses it.
Of course, both points are absurd because the words "superior" and "sub-human" are not defined, and so completely subjective.
Neanderthals were just a fork in the line that created humans, monkeys, and apes. They weren't "sub" anything. And "to be superior" is just a meaningless term. There is superior strength, puzzle-solving ability, counter-strike-skillz, etc...
You vote for constant change on the assumption that a corrupt politician who has been in DC for 1 year has less ability to abuse his power than someone who has been there for 15 years.
It's called a firewall. These hack-job NAT/Router devices will be replaced with ip6 firewall/router devices. They will be more flexible and equally if not more secure than the hack NAT trash.
If by "right" you mean "correct," then yes, the stupid have less of it.
If by "right" you mean "correct," then yes, the stupid have less of it.
Democracy is the worst form of government--except all the others that have been tried.
Personally, I think the best answer would be a democracy of educated people. Make the high school curriculum better. Make teaching lucrative enough that intelligent people consider it as a career option. Make economics, formal logic, philosophy, and finance mandatory high school courses.
That may be technically true but it is ALMOST NEVER the case in politics. At the very least, a person knows which party's general philosophies most closely match his own.
Voting based only on something like that isn't ideal. But it IS better than the masses who vote because they saw a commercial that said "Kevin Bacon voted against veterans," where the veteran issue was a rider on a bill promote the kicking of puppies.
One is voting on correct but light philosophical information. The other on downright WRONG information. A smart person never would have fallen for that stupid veteran ad, but lots of stupid people do so.
(There actually is a "Kevin Bacon" running for something in Ohio. I don't know how he feels about kicking puppies, and I don't know how many degrees of Kevin Bacon he is...)
You are incorrect (in many cases). A smart person is more likely to recognize his own ignorance, while a stupid person is likely to make decisions based on FALSE information.
Smart people can often realize when someone is trying to mislead them, while stupid people are much more likely to fall for it.
Who is more valuable (to use your term): The person who knows the extent of his own knowledge, or the person with factually incorrect "knowledge?"