"It also appears that the only lifeforms not using DNA for code storage are a few viruses like the common cold."
I was under the impression that viruses were just floating pieces of DNA that get into a cell and reprogram it to produce more of those strands of DNA. How can you say viruses are not using DNA when that is basically what they are? (or else high-school biology has taught me wrong).
If the gun were pointing at the man and kid, you would be seeing the back end of it, not the side. Guns can't shoot out of the side. Just letting you know. Neither picture has the gun pointed at anyone.
"Laser rifles are only the beginning. Be affraid when our government decides to automate the military. Can you imagine a world class superpower that doesn't listen to the UN and has an automated military under the control of President Bush and VP Chenney? I can.
We're on the verge of an explosion in robotics. I'm not talking robots the size of people. I'm talking mean little fuckers the size of a rodent packing the same firepower and efficiency of our soldiers without the emotional complications. They would seek and destroy anything we told them to and be designed for killing people."
I think you forgot to take your crazy pills. Remember, no slashdot until 30 minutes after the pills.
"all they can think about is US cellphone company's benefits?"
How do you get modded to 5 when spit out a bullshit statement like that? As an American, I can tell you that pretty much everyone here is hoping for a quick end to the war, and a postwar Iraq that is the economic and democratic success story of the middle east. Unless you are in the business of cell phones or rebuilding the country, you only care about the people of iraq and of the Allied forces. Quit trolling.
"all this money we are throwing at the military except how to kill each other more efficiently and in greater numbers"
Actually, I think the point of the military over the past 10-20 years has been to develope more efficient ways to kill in smaller numbers. Highly well-guided bombs and minimizing civilian deaths and all...
I worked for a research company in the US. We really did generate random phone numbers on the spot. We couldn't check everyone against a giant government database every time we dial the phone. It is not possible. But the idea in the research community really is that you must randomly generate the numbers. Our computers would randomly pick the last 4 digits of every number we called.
Things like this make me proud to be a United States citizen. Our founding fathers did such a great thing with the bill of rights I can't imagine what our society would be like without them.
Yes but this raises a new security threat. Say there is a remote root hole in a certain DLL. If you get the newest version, some programs will still use the old DLL, witht he hole staying behind. That could be a big problem.
That would be extortion, not coercion. Read your own link. If they have money to gain, it is extortion. If they are doing it for non-financial reasons, it is coercion.
every cis student does this at my school
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We had to write a unix shell script that replaced the rm command with one that moved the files to a.garbage directory. We also had to write an 'erase' script that removed thise files from the.garbage. Everybody in my undergrad CIS course had to write this, and it is only a few lines long. That pretty much proves the 'obviousness' of this stupid patent.
So the company that discovered it wants to profit from their discovery. Big deal. If this were a disease that was epidimic, this would be a problem, and the government might just aquire the antibiodic from them. But this disease is so rare it doesn't matter that much. How many people do you know with resistant staph?
"Dude, spend a little time in an inner city emergency room some Friday or Saturday night."
Your argument was lost to me (and most other logically minded folk) as soon as you started trying to appeal to emotion instead of make a logical argument. Thanks, try again!
"the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords..., for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright"
To me, that says if you copy software to learn it (like visual studio to learn c#), that is fair use.
A guest on Conan also said he would "google" for something. And Conan didn't act like he was surprised by the word or anything. It is clearly well a part of our language if late shows use it casually.
Exactly. Our roads and highways are government run because they have to cross private property, etc, and all work together. Our communications infrastructure, along with gas, electricity, water, should all be nationalized. That is just the only sane way to handle stuff like that.
Newton's laws are simple, definitive, and we're unlike to find anything that contradicts them--relativity deals with the shape of space, not how objects react to motion, and quantum mechanics, as far as they effect "objects", are just another force.
My most memorable day at physics class at Ohio State University was when my (nobel prize nominated) professor converted Einstien's theory into a Taylor series expansion equation, dropped off part of it (which translates into a loss of precision), and converted that into Newton's equations. You obviously don't understand relativity since you are getting special and general relativity confused. Newton was wrong. If you zoom in on a parabola enough it looks like a straight line. That's kind of what Newton did in comparison to Einstien. That is not to say there isn't something more accurate special relativity, but we don't know it yet and probably won't have tools to measure it. We do actually use special relativity. If it weren't for that our GPS system would not be nearly as accurate. This is why I moderated you as a troll. You stated a falsehood as if you were certain. Though it seems you believed what you said, there is no moderation option for "Wrong".
"It's pretty obvious you can't copyright a length 1 bit string, so how many bits do you need before you own it and I don't?"
Actually, I think that would make an excellent Ask Slashdot posting. Of course the answer will probably be "that is for the court to decide on a case-by-case basis" since the real world isn't perfect like the math-world of computers is.
How do you know they did nothing? They seem to have a lot more intelligence information now than they did before. We actually are expecting and prepared for an attack attempt this week instead of being caught totally offguard like in 2001. They say this is from surveliance... perhaps it is helping. You make broad, and very confident-sounding statemants, but you do not KNOW, you are making it up.
In the previous version of the game, there was a single player version where, as russians, you had to capture or destroy the "Pathetic Capitalist Shrine, the World Trade Center."
I bet they felt bad about that one after 9/11/2001.
The point is, these games are based on an alternative history in which Albert Enistien invents a time machine and assassinates Hitler while he was still a child. It shouldn't be seen as happening today.
"There are about 15 different games that need patching. How many of those servers will get patched after it is released? There was a patch for Slammer before it hit."
I would guess that all of the games get patched. Unlike databases, games are not compatible between versions. When game patches come out, nobody can play unless they have the same patch level. This forces everyone to upgrade or not play.
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" even worse - half the time, when you order your quantum computer and you open the box, it will be DOA."
That's about the failure rate of 7200rpm hard drives today.
You can see the ground in the picture, thus you can tell distances (unlike the Elian thing).
"It also appears that the only lifeforms not using DNA for code storage are a few viruses like the common cold."
I was under the impression that viruses were just floating pieces of DNA that get into a cell and reprogram it to produce more of those strands of DNA. How can you say viruses are not using DNA when that is basically what they are? (or else high-school biology has taught me wrong).
If the gun were pointing at the man and kid, you would be seeing the back end of it, not the side. Guns can't shoot out of the side. Just letting you know. Neither picture has the gun pointed at anyone.
"Laser rifles are only the beginning. Be affraid when our government decides to automate the military. Can you imagine a world class superpower that doesn't listen to the UN and has an automated military under the control of President Bush and VP Chenney? I can.
We're on the verge of an explosion in robotics. I'm not talking robots the size of people. I'm talking mean little fuckers the size of a rodent packing the same firepower and efficiency of our soldiers without the emotional complications. They would seek and destroy anything we told them to and be designed for killing people."
I think you forgot to take your crazy pills. Remember, no slashdot until 30 minutes after the pills.
"all they can think about is US cellphone company's benefits?"
How do you get modded to 5 when spit out a bullshit statement like that? As an American, I can tell you that pretty much everyone here is hoping for a quick end to the war, and a postwar Iraq that is the economic and democratic success story of the middle east. Unless you are in the business of cell phones or rebuilding the country, you only care about the people of iraq and of the Allied forces. Quit trolling.
"theres alternatives"
What on earth is that word? "Theres?" That's a new word to me.
"all this money we are throwing at the military except how to kill each other more efficiently and in greater numbers"
Actually, I think the point of the military over the past 10-20 years has been to develope more efficient ways to kill in smaller numbers. Highly well-guided bombs and minimizing civilian deaths and all...
I worked for a research company in the US. We really did generate random phone numbers on the spot. We couldn't check everyone against a giant government database every time we dial the phone. It is not possible. But the idea in the research community really is that you must randomly generate the numbers. Our computers would randomly pick the last 4 digits of every number we called.
Bill of Rights==Troll. What blatent, anti-american moderation.
Things like this make me proud to be a United States citizen. Our founding fathers did such a great thing with the bill of rights I can't imagine what our society would be like without them.
Yes but this raises a new security threat. Say there is a remote root hole in a certain DLL. If you get the newest version, some programs will still use the old DLL, witht he hole staying behind. That could be a big problem.
That would be extortion, not coercion. Read your own link. If they have money to gain, it is extortion. If they are doing it for non-financial reasons, it is coercion.
We had to write a unix shell script that replaced the rm command with one that moved the files to a .garbage directory. We also had to write an 'erase' script that removed thise files from the .garbage. Everybody in my undergrad CIS course had to write this, and it is only a few lines long. That pretty much proves the 'obviousness' of this stupid patent.
So the company that discovered it wants to profit from their discovery. Big deal. If this were a disease that was epidimic, this would be a problem, and the government might just aquire the antibiodic from them. But this disease is so rare it doesn't matter that much. How many people do you know with resistant staph?
"Dude, spend a little time in an inner city emergency room some Friday or Saturday night."
Your argument was lost to me (and most other logically minded folk) as soon as you started trying to appeal to emotion instead of make a logical argument. Thanks, try again!
"the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords..., for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright"
To me, that says if you copy software to learn it (like visual studio to learn c#), that is fair use.
I never bought a mod chip and never bought a bong. So, I guess you are wrong.
A guest on Conan also said he would "google" for something. And Conan didn't act like he was surprised by the word or anything. It is clearly well a part of our language if late shows use it casually.
Exactly. Our roads and highways are government run because they have to cross private property, etc, and all work together. Our communications infrastructure, along with gas, electricity, water, should all be nationalized. That is just the only sane way to handle stuff like that.
Newton's laws are simple, definitive, and we're unlike to find anything that contradicts them--relativity deals with the shape of space, not how objects react to motion, and quantum mechanics, as far as they effect "objects", are just another force.
My most memorable day at physics class at Ohio State University was when my (nobel prize nominated) professor converted Einstien's theory into a Taylor series expansion equation, dropped off part of it (which translates into a loss of precision), and converted that into Newton's equations. You obviously don't understand relativity since you are getting special and general relativity confused. Newton was wrong. If you zoom in on a parabola enough it looks like a straight line. That's kind of what Newton did in comparison to Einstien. That is not to say there isn't something more accurate special relativity, but we don't know it yet and probably won't have tools to measure it. We do actually use special relativity. If it weren't for that our GPS system would not be nearly as accurate. This is why I moderated you as a troll. You stated a falsehood as if you were certain. Though it seems you believed what you said, there is no moderation option for "Wrong".
"It's pretty obvious you can't copyright a length 1 bit string, so how many bits do you need before you own it and I don't?"
Actually, I think that would make an excellent Ask Slashdot posting. Of course the answer will probably be "that is for the court to decide on a case-by-case basis" since the real world isn't perfect like the math-world of computers is.
How do you know they did nothing? They seem to have a lot more intelligence information now than they did before. We actually are expecting and prepared for an attack attempt this week instead of being caught totally offguard like in 2001. They say this is from surveliance... perhaps it is helping. You make broad, and very confident-sounding statemants, but you do not KNOW, you are making it up.
In the previous version of the game, there was a single player version where, as russians, you had to capture or destroy the "Pathetic Capitalist Shrine, the World Trade Center."
I bet they felt bad about that one after 9/11/2001.
The point is, these games are based on an alternative history in which Albert Enistien invents a time machine and assassinates Hitler while he was still a child. It shouldn't be seen as happening today.
"There are about 15 different games that need patching. How many of those servers will get patched after it is released? There was a patch for Slammer before it hit."
I would guess that all of the games get patched. Unlike databases, games are not compatible between versions. When game patches come out, nobody can play unless they have the same patch level. This forces everyone to upgrade or not play.